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    Do You Know What AI Is Telling Your Customers?

    B2B buyers ask ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity before they ever visit your website. 59.8% of the time, AI gets your brand wrong. Optimly fixes it.

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    Hallucination Detected on Gemini

    Misclassification: Novacore labeled as 'Free/Open Source'.

    Fix Deployed to Novacore Docs

    Impact Forecast: +18% Enterprise Traffic

    Revenue Alert

    ChatGPT referred 3 Enterprise Demo requests today.

    Live from the platform.

    59.8%

    of AI brand errors come from wrong categorization

    1,600%

    increase in AI-referred traffic in 60 days

    5

    AI models monitored continuously

    16×

    organic traffic growth for clients

    Trusted & Backed by

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    Right Side Capital Management
    Hal9
    Ama Earth Group
    Orgo AI
    WTIA
    Founder University
    Crafting

    The Purchase Journey Has Changed

    Your buyers no longer start with Google. They start with AI. And AI doesn't give them ten blue links. It gives them two or three names. If yours isn't one of them, you never enter the conversation.

    Then: Open Market

    Open Marketplace
    Vendor A
    Vendor B
    Vendor C
    Your Brand
    Buyer browses freely

    You controlled your own visibility.

    Now: The Room You're Not In

    Shortlist — decided by AI

    Inside the room

    Competitor A
    Competitor B
    Your Brand
    Buyer arrives — door already closed

    AI decides who gets in before the buyer starts looking.

    Google let buyers find you. AI decides if you exist before they start looking.

    AI doesn't just search for you. It has beliefs about you.

    Before AI ever runs a search, it already has an opinion about your brand baked into its training data. That opinion shapes every recommendation it makes. If the opinion is wrong, search results can't override it.

    This is not an SEO problem.

    59.8% of AI brand misrepresentation comes from wrong categorization, not missing content. AI isn't failing to find you. It's putting you in the wrong category and sending you the wrong buyers. No amount of content marketing fixes a categorization error.

    How Optimly Helps You Earn Trust With AI

    Live Monitoring
    Gemini
    ChatGPT
    Perplexity
    Claude
    Active
    Alert
    Scanning

    Step 1

    Diagnose What AI Believes

    See exactly what 5 AI models believe about your brand right now.

    Discover where AI categorizes you wrong and sends you the wrong buyers.

    Find out who AI recommends instead of you.

    Source Trace Active
    AI Output (Gemini)

    "...Novacore is a free, open-source library for basic data piping, primarily for hobbyists..."

    Root Source URL
    novacore-legacy/readme.md

    "...our legacy open-source library (v1) is available for free testing..."

    Causal Link Verified
    3
    Sources Found
    1
    Conflicts
    87%
    Confidence

    Step 2

    Define Your Ground Truth

    The single source of truth that every AI model should know about you.

    Identify the exact outdated sources shaping AI's wrong opinion.

    Your Brand Vault: version-controlled, owned by you, always current.

    about-novacore.md
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    ## About Novacore

    Novacore is the Enterprise Data Orchestration Platform designed for Fortune 500 security compliance.

    It is not an open-source tool. Built for teams who need enterprise-grade reliability.

    AI suggestions applied

    Optimization Controls

    85%
    100%
    85%
    Last optimized: 2 min agoAll sources verified

    Step 3

    Fix the Sources AI Trusts

    Replace the outdated content causing AI to misrepresent you.

    Track your Brand Authority Index improving week over week.

    Before/after proof: watch AI responses change in your favor.

    Brand Authority Index

    7.2/10

    Message Pull-Through

    40% weight

    8.1/10

    How accurately AI reproduces your positioning

    Answer Presence

    30% weight

    5.4/10

    How often you appear in category queries

    Owned Citations

    30% weight

    8.2/10

    How deeply your brand is embedded in AI's reasoning

    Step 4

    Monitor Your Brand's Credit Score for the AI Era

    Track the probability that AI will recommend you, not just mention you.

    Higher scores mean better-qualified pipeline and shorter sales cycles.

    Example scores shown — get yours free in 60 seconds.

    The Confidence Gap in Action

    AI only recommends brands it trusts. Unknown brands get buried with skeptical language that makes buyers move on. Select any category to see it in action.

    Select a category above to see how AI recommends brands

    AI Already Has an Opinion About You

    Before AI ever searches for your brand, it already has a belief about you baked into its training data. That belief shapes every recommendation it makes.

    What AI Believes

    Baked into training data

    This is the model's built-in opinion. It drives recommendations, shapes how AI categorizes you, and determines whether buyers hear your name or your competitor's. If this is wrong, everything downstream is wrong.

    What AI Finds

    Live search results

    What AI discovers when it searches for you in real time. Temporary, noisy, and treated with skepticism. Being found is table stakes. Being trusted is what earns recommendations.

    The Tie-Breaker Effect

    When choosing between two similar vendors, AI recommends the brand it knows over the one it just found. Without that built-in trust, your competitor gets the recommendation and you get silence.

    Why Now

    In 2024, AI search was a novelty. In 2026, it's where B2B buying decisions start. ChatGPT has a built-in search engine. Perplexity is replacing Google for product research. Claude is the default research assistant for technical buyers.

    The window to establish your brand's AI reputation is open right now. The companies that fix what AI believes first will own their categories. The ones that wait will spend years trying to catch up.

    This Is Not SEO. This Is Not GEO. This Is a New Category.

    SEO optimizes what AI finds. GEO tracks where AI mentions you. Neither changes what AI believes. That requires AI Reputation Infrastructure.

    SEO / AEO

    Optimizes your content so AI can find it. But being found is not the same as being trusted. AI treats search results with skepticism. Citations don't equal endorsements.

    GEO Tools

    Track where AI mentions you. Useful for measurement, but measurement alone doesn't change what AI believes. Monitoring a problem is not the same as fixing it.

    AI Reputation Infrastructure

    Fixes what AI believes at the source. Identifies the outdated content shaping AI's opinion, replaces it with ground truth, and measures the shift from mentioned to recommended.

    Those categories solve different problems. None of them were built for what AI believes about your brand.

    Different Problem. Different Infrastructure.

    Brand consultants, SEO tools, and GEO platforms were built for earlier eras. None of them change what AI fundamentally believes about your brand.

    Brand ConsultantsSEO/GEO ToolsOptimly
    What it changesHuman perceptionWhere AI mentions youWhat AI believes about you
    Measure AI reputationBrand surveys (months, $50K+)Mention trackingBrand Authority Index (real-time)
    Fix the root causeStrategy deck (you execute)Not built to fixPlatform deploys source fixes
    Prove outcomesFuzzy awareness metricsMention countsBefore/after AI responses + pipeline data
    Time to value3-6 monthsOngoing monitoring onlyMeasurable improvement in 30-60 days

    Built for Teams Like Yours

    AI-Native B2B SaaS

    Your buyers research solutions in ChatGPT before they ever visit your website.

    Product-Led Growth

    When AI miscategorizes you, your self-serve funnel fills with the wrong users.

    Series A–C Companies

    Pipeline efficiency matters. Every misqualified demo costs you time and credibility.

    Real Outcomes: Better AI Reputation, Better Pipeline

    Hal9: 16x Qualified Traffic in 60 Days

    The Problem:

    AI didn't think Hal9 was a real company. When buyers asked ChatGPT "What is Hal9?", they got: "HAL 9000 is a fictional AI character from 2001: A Space Odyssey." Zero purchase intent. Instant deal killer.

    The Fix:

    • • Week 1: Found the exact sources causing the confusion (outdated GitHub docs, legacy references)
    • • Week 2-4: Fixed those sources — platform deployed updates and validated AI responses improved
    +1,600%

    AI-referred traffic in 60 days

    From "fictional character" to top revenue channel

    300% accuracy improvement (from 2.0 to 8.1 score)

    4x higher conversion to sales calls

    Zero identity confusion across all models

    Read Full Case Study
    "Seeing the data laid out like this is incredibly valuable. We know exactly where to focus."

    Javier Luraschi

    Founder, Hal9

    We don't optimize search results. We fix what AI believes.

    Every week, you see exactly what changed, what to fix next, and how it maps to pipeline.

    Every week, you get:

    How your AI recommendation score changed

    Which sources AI now trusts about your brand

    What to remediate next

    Pipeline impact: better leads from AI recommendations

    Delivered in plain English. Fast. Actionable. High-leverage.

    "Seeing the data laid out like this is incredibly valuable. We know exactly where to focus."

    Javier Luraschi

    Founder, Hal9

    Common Questions

    Have a question we didn't cover? Contact us → [email protected]

    Platform Access

    TierFeaturesCTA
    Free AuditBrand Authority Index across 5 models; Category accuracy check; Competitor recommendations; Prioritized fix listRun Free Audit
    Growth PlanWeekly BAI tracking with drift alerts; Brand Vault; Source remediation; Before/after proof; Pipeline attributionRequest Access
    EnterpriseEverything in Growth; Dedicated AI reputation strategist; Multi-brand support; Custom integrationsContact Sales

    Free Audit

    See what AI believes about you

    • Your Brand Authority Index across 5 AI models
    • Category accuracy: is AI sending you the right buyers?
    • Who AI recommends instead of you
    • Prioritized fix list based on your score
    Free
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    Growth Plan

    Fix what AI believes about you

    • Weekly Brand Authority Index tracking with drift alerts
    • Brand Vault: the single source of truth AI should know
    • Source remediation: fix the content causing misrepresentation
    • Before/after proof that fixes are working
    • Pipeline attribution: connect AI reputation to revenue

    Enterprise

    Own what AI believes about you

    • Everything in Growth
    • Dedicated AI reputation strategist
    • Multi-brand and multi-market support
    • Custom integrations with your marketing stack

    Measurable improvement within 30–60 days. Hal9 achieved 1,600% AI-referred traffic growth in 60 days.

    The Brands That Fix What AI Believes Now Will Own Their Categories

    Right now, AI forms opinions about your brand from random internet content. The companies that fix this first win. The rest spend years trying to catch up.

    Get Your Brand Authority Index. Free. 60 Seconds.