# AISearch Global
https://aisearch.global

> AISearch Global is a Sydney-based Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO) and Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO) consultancy founded by Viveka Mohan Das. We help Australian businesses work on the technical and content reasons AI answer tools might skip them, across ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity, and in Google AI Overviews. Nobody can guarantee a mention in an AI answer.

AISearch Global focuses on AEO and GEO rather than traditional SEO. Our work helps brands move from ranking in blue-link results to being actively recommended by generative AI engines in response to natural language queries.

## Core Services

- [AEO Audit + DIY Fix Plan for Solo Founders](/services/aeo-audit): A one-off, $1,500 AUD checked audit for solo founders - dated AI-search observations across 5 surfaces and 10 prompts (50 observations), a prioritised DIY fix list with builder-specific instructions, and a 30-day recheck. Implementation is not included; see /sample-audit for a full worked example.
- [Sample Audit](/sample-audit): A complete worked example of one finding from a Founder Audit - the finding, evidence, plain-language explanation, exact fix, copyable builder prompt, and verification checklist.
- [Day hire](/services/#day-hire): We implement your fix list together, live on your site. Half day $1,200 AUD covers the top fixes; full day $2,000 AUD covers the whole list. Open to solopreneurs and SMBs.
- [SMB monthly plans](/services/#smb): Each month we monitor how AI describes the business, fix what we can influence and report with dated evidence. $1,500, $2,500 or $3,500 AUD a month depending on scope, 3-month minimum; the audit counts as setup.
- [Free Customer Discovery Call](/services/discovery-call): A free, no-obligation 20-minute discovery call with Viv over Google Meet, to work out what, if anything, would actually help your AI search visibility.

## Free Diagnostic Tool

- [AISearch Global AEO Score Calculator](/aeo-score-calculator): A free, instant structural scorecard. Enter your website URL, industry, and location to receive a numeric score out of 100, a letter grade (A to F), an AI recommendation likelihood score, an interpretation in simple terms, a highest-impact fix recommendation, and an industry benchmark comparison. Scores 20 signals - 17 structural AEO signals including title tag, meta description, H1, content depth, JSON-LD schema, FAQ content, About page, contact signals, review signals, location signals, industry keyword relevance, sitemap.xml, and robots.txt - plus 3 peer-reviewed Princeton GEO content signals (statistics, source citations, and quotations analysis based on peer-reviewed KDD 2024 study).

## Insights

- [What Is AEO? Answer Engine Optimisation Explained](/insights/what-is-aeo-answer-engine-optimisation): A foundational guide to Answer Engine Optimisation - what it is, how it differs from SEO, and why it matters for businesses as AI-generated answers replace traditional search results. Published 24 May 2026.
- [How AI Decides Which Businesses to Recommend](/insights/how-ai-decides-which-businesses-to-recommend): An explanation of the signals, data sources, and trust factors that determine whether an AI engine recommends your business in a response. Published 30 May 2026.
- [The AEO Traction Stack](/insights/aeo-traction-stack): AISearch Global's proprietary four-layer framework - Entity Clarity, Schema Markup, Answer-Format Content, Citation Consistency - for building durable AI search visibility. Published 7 Jun 2026.
- [Princeton GEO Paper Explained](/insights/princeton-geo-paper-explained): A breakdown in simple terms of the peer-reviewed Princeton/Georgia Tech KDD 2024 study on Generative Engine Optimisation and what it means for Australian businesses. Published 14 Jun 2026.
- [AEO & GEO Results Timeline](/insights/aeo-geo-results-timeline): A realistic phase-by-phase timeline for how long AEO and GEO take to show results - what changes at 3, 6, and 12 months, and what success actually looks like. Published 1 Jul 2026.
- [The Two-Clock Model: Why Your AEO Score and AI Perception Move at Different Speeds](/insights/two-clock-model): Explains why a business's structural AEO score (the clock you control) and its AI perception (the clock AI platforms control) run at different speeds, and why the gap between them is normal, not a failure. Published 3 Jul 2026.
- [What Happens When Customers Ask AI a Question](/insights/what-happens-when-customers-ask-ai): A practical guide for Australian small business owners on the shift from keyword search (SEO) to AI answers (AEO). Covers what actually happens in the seconds after a customer asks (the read → search → build → decide → cite chain behind every AI answer), why an AI answer only has room to name one or two businesses unlike Google's list of ten links, why decision fatigue pushes customers toward one clear answer, why AEO is not just SEO with a new label, and six simple steps (Google Business Profile, one-sentence test, specific reviews, consistency, everyday value, the 30-second check) that make AI more likely to name your business. Published 19 Jul 2026.
- [I Couldn't Find the Research on the Perception Gap. So I Ran It.](/insights/two-clock-model-research): An open-data working-paper study of 50 technology entities measuring the AEO perception gap end to end - a universal 63.6-point "birth gap" between structural score and AI perception, bimodal citation precision, and citation activity that precedes AI perception by a median of 83 days. Open data, open code. Published 24 Jul 2026.
- [The Digital Duty of Care Bill in Simple Terms: A Solo Founder's Guide](/insights/digital-duty-of-care-bill-explained): A guide in simple terms for solo founders to Australia's draft Online Safety Amendment (Digital Duty of Care) Bill 2026, exposure draft released 8 Sep 2026, consultation closed 22 Sep 2026. Not law yet and not legal advice. Explains the duty of care and its penalty (60,000 penalty units, $21.84m for an individual and up to $109.2m for a body corporate), why the author wrote an abstract after the close, and the three gaps raised: a 72-hour incident notification duty, whether AI answer engines are covered, and a narrow duty for AI systems that act on their own. Both the abstract and the longer Annexure A background paper are downloadable as PDFs. Downloads: [Abstract, four pages plus cover (PDF)](/assets/downloads/Digital-Duty-of-Care-Abstract-Viveka-Mohan-Das.pdf); [Annexure A: Background Paper, five pages plus cover (PDF)](/assets/downloads/Digital-Duty-of-Care-Annexure-A-Viveka-Mohan-Das.pdf). Published 9 Oct 2026.
- [AI Search Optimisation for Solopreneurs: A Checklist in Simple Terms](/insights/ai-search-optimisation-checklist-solopreneurs): A seven-step checklist to make your site easy for ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok and Perplexity to find, read and quote, with a free tool for each step.

## Case Studies

- [Case Study: An Academic's AI Visibility Score, 3 to 62](/case-studies/academic-web-presence-case-study): AISearch Global's first client engagement - an AEO audit and remediation on a UK academic researcher and published author's personal website. Covers intake findings (missing attribution, no HTTPS, no schema, scattered publications), the remediation performed (entity and FAQPage schema, canonical consolidation, citation-friendly rewrite), and the result: AI Visibility Score up from 3 to 62 (Grade C - Moderate AI Visibility). Anonymised, with client testimonial. Published 1 Sep 2026.
- [Client Zero Update: 100/100 Structural, 16% Visible](/case-studies/client-zero-update-august-2026): AISearch Global's own structural AEO score reached 100/100. Continuous monitoring shows 16% AI visibility, with every unbranded prompt tracked still returning zero. Published 3 Aug 2026.
- [AISearch Global: Client Zero - From 19 to 91, and What AI Still Doesn't Know](/case-studies/aisearch-global-client-zero): How AISearch Global used its own brand as Client Zero - tracking a structural AEO score climb from 19 to 91 in about a month while measuring what ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, and Google AI Overviews actually say about the brand today. Includes a link to the interactive AI Visibility Console. Published 21 Jun 2026.
- [We Scored Australia's Biggest Plumbers on AI Visibility. Here's What We Found](/case-studies/australian-plumbers-ai-visibility-study): A study scoring 88 of Australia's largest plumbing companies on AI visibility - average AEO score 68.8/100, 89% with no on-page statistics, 83% with no quotations. Includes the free Hard-Water Scale Impact Visualizer that came out of the research. Published 1 Aug 2026.

## News - Daily AI News

- [News](/news): AISearch Global's daily AI news publication. Each edition covers AI news, AI law and regulation, human-AI research, and AEO-relevant developments, with an Australian focus. A new edition is published every day; each edition is archived at a dated URL (/news/YYYY-MM-DD) with every story linking back to its original source. RSS feed at /news/rss.xml.

## Interactive Tools

- [Client Zero AI Visibility Console](/insights/client-zero-visibility-dashboard): Interactive dashboard presenting AISearch Global's full AI Visibility Audit across 11 scored metrics - AEO Score, Brand Recognition, Share of Voice, Brand Sentiment, Presence Quality, GEO Visibility, Narrative Themes, Source Analysis, Site Performance, Technical Foundation, and Analysis Summary. Scored independently by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Data as of 20 Jun 2026. Living case study and product demonstration.
- [Client Zero AI Monitoring Console](/insights/client-zero-monitoring-dashboard): Live AI search monitoring console tracking AISearch Global's own visibility, prompt-level gaps, third-party coverage, and outstanding tests. Monitored 24 Jul – 2 Aug 2026.

## Free AEO Toolkit & Resources

- [AI Visibility Toolkit](/ai-toolkit): A guided diagnostic running the AEO Score Calculator and eight free, no-signup technical tools on one URL - [Schema / JSON-LD Generator](/schema-generator), [AI Crawler Checker](/ai-crawler-checker), [Existing Schema Detector](/schema-detector), [Robots.txt Checker](/robots-txt-checker), [llms.txt Checker](/llms-txt-checker), [Meta & Technical Checker](/meta-tag-checker), [Canonical URL Checker](/canonical-checker), and [Open Graph Checker](/open-graph-checker). Enter a URL once, step through nine checks one at a time, and finish on one summary with your score and fix list; each tool also has its own page. The AEO Score Calculator is Australia-optimised, the other eight work on any public website worldwide. These tools check and help build the technical structure AI systems need to find and cite a site - they do not query AI models to check current mentions. Full detail at /llms-full.txt.
- [AEO Knowledge & References](/resources/): Reference hub for AEO vocabulary and deeper reading - the AEO Glossary and The AI Search Dictionary. Free tools live separately at /ai-toolkit.
- [The AI Search Dictionary: AEO, GEO & AI Visibility Terms Explained in Plain English](https://a.co/d/0fvTsI4V): Book by Viveka Mohan Das. 368 key terms across AEO, GEO, AI visibility, entity optimisation, structured data, prompt testing, and citation share - explained in simple terms. Includes a bonus 80/20 AI visibility checklist and action templates for small business. Available on Amazon (ASIN B0H69QZ9RZ).
- [Hard-Water Scale Impact Visualizer](https://vivekamohandas.com/hard-water-calculator): A free tool that emerged as a by-product of the Australian plumbers AI-visibility study - enter an Australian postcode and see how hard-water scale narrows a pipe's bore over the years, the maths behind a plumber's quote. Hosted on vivekamohandas.com; the research behind it is documented at [Hard Water Calculator: The Research](https://vivekamohandas.com/hard-water-calculator-research).

## Reference Pages

- [Best AEO Consultancy in Australia (2026 Buyer's Guide)](/best-aeo-consultancy-australia): Disambiguates "AEO consultancy" from "AI search software" (Algolia, Elasticsearch, Coveo, Bloomreach, Yext) - different categories, not competitors. Covers what to look for in an AEO/GEO consultancy and how AISearch Global compares, including the honest caveat that a 100/100 structural score does not guarantee AI visibility on hard, unbranded queries.
- [FAQ - 64 AEO Questions Answered](/faq): 64 frequently asked questions about Answer Engine Optimisation, AI search visibility, schema markup, and working with AISearch Global.
- [Founder Audit](/#contact): Book the paid Founder Audit via the homepage contact form. This is the entry point for the service.
- [Contact](/contact/): Standalone contact page with the same Founder Audit enquiry form as the homepage - for direct links, ads, and off-site references.
- [About AISearch Global](/about/): Background on the consultancy, the founder, and the approach to AEO and GEO.

## Corporate Identity

- Business type: AEO and GEO consultancy
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Market focus: Australian businesses seeking AI search visibility
- Contact: hello@aisearch.global

## Crawl Guidance

This file lists key pages and their purpose for AI crawler context.
Full reference: https://aisearch.global/llms-full.txt