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Get found and chosen, on Google and in AI answers.

Your customers now see paid results, an AI-written answer, and a short list of recommended businesses on the same screen. Twenty years of hands-on paid search, now pointed at both halves of that screen. You work directly with JoLyn Laney, not an account team.

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AI visibility report showing visibility score, platform presence, citation sources, and competitor benchmark.

20 years

in paid search and local search

Since 2012

running Avante Interactive, Las Vegas

120 queries

our own published AI search study

Anthropic

AI Fluency certified, verifiable

One Search. Two Ways to Win It.

Someone types "best dentist near me." Google returns an AI-written answer that names a few practices, with paid results around it. Those are two different systems with two different sets of rules, and most businesses are only playing one of them. We work on both, and we will tell you honestly which one your money belongs in first.

Google Ads

Capture demand now

Twenty years of running real accounts, not a dashboard subscription. Campaign structure, bidding, creative, landing pages, and conversion tracking that actually reports booked work instead of clicks. You own the account and the data, always.

Measured in qualified calls, bookings, and cost per acquisition.

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AI Visibility

Become the recommended option

We test the questions your customers actually ask across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Claude, record what comes back, and fix the entity, content, schema, and authority signals deciding whether you get named.

Measured in mention rate, accuracy, and competitor share.

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Our Research

AI Is Not Reading Your Website. It Is Reading Reddit.

In July 2026 we ran 120 live AI queries across 6 industries and 10 US metros and logged every source the engines cited. Across all 1,128 citations, the most-cited domain was reddit.com with 81 citations, ahead of Yelp with 75. Community threads, directories, and review platforms are the raw material. A business website on its own rarely earns the recommendation, which is why most "fix your schema" advice quietly fails.

#1 Reddit

most-cited source across 1,128 citations, ahead of Yelp

12%

of local businesses appear in AI's top-5 recommendations

Published

full methodology and raw per-industry data, free to read

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Watch · July 2026

Google Just Confirmed AI Search Is No Longer Experimental

Consumers have already changed how they search. Most businesses have not changed how they measure visibility. Here is what the latest Google and McKinsey numbers actually say, and why the gap between the two is the opportunity.

1 billion
monthly active users on Google AI ModeGoogle Q2 2026 earnings call, July 22, 2026
~50%
of U.S. consumers intentionally use AI-powered searchMcKinsey AI Discovery Survey, 1,927 U.S. consumers
16%
of Fortune 500 consumer brands systematically track AI searchMcKinsey survey of ~30 Fortune 500 consumer-brand CMOs

1:32 · JoLyn Laney, Avante Visibility

Read the full transcript

Google's CEO just confirmed that AI search is no longer an experiment.

On July 22, Google announced that AI Mode had surpassed one billion monthly active users. Google also said AI Mode and AI Overview are becoming part of a seamless experience.

That means AI search is not coming. It is already here.

And here is the part that businesses need to be paying attention to. According to McKinsey, about half of U.S. consumers intentionally use AI-powered search. But in a separate McKinsey survey, only 16% of Fortune 500 consumer brands said they systematically track their performance in AI search.

Think about that. Consumers have already changed how they search. Most businesses have not changed how they measure visibility.

And that is why getting started now matters. AI visibility is not something you build overnight. It takes time to improve your content, your reviews, your authority, your business information, and third-party mentions.

The companies measuring now can find their gaps and begin building AI signals that the AI can use when they decide who to recommend. The businesses that wait will not realize they have a problem until they realize that AI recommends our competitors.

So the question is no longer: do I rank in Google? The new question is: does AI recommend my business when someone asks?

Every Other AI Visibility Firm Is Built for Enterprise. We Are Not.

While researching this market we read 24 published roundups of AI visibility agencies. Twenty-three of them sorted firms by who they serve, and the categories repeated: enterprise, mid-market, B2B SaaS, growth-stage startups, financial services. Not one had a slot for local service businesses. So we measured that segment ourselves. Here is how invisible each industry is in AI's top-5 recommendations.

How We Work Together

No sales sequence. You can stop after step one, and plenty of people do.

01

Measure where you stand

Run the free score. It queries real AI platforms about your business and returns a number in about a minute, no call and no card. If it comes back healthy, you genuinely do not need us right now and we will say so.

02

Fix the gaps that matter

Fifteen minutes with JoLyn to read the result together, then a scoped engagement if one makes sense. Sometimes the honest answer is that reviews or a directory footprint come first, or that your budget belongs in ads this quarter instead.

03

Track what actually moved

For ads, that is qualified calls and cost per booking. For AI visibility, we re-run your exact question panel at 90 days and show you the before and after. Same questions, same engines, no moving the goalposts.

Proof, Not Promises

A Named Engagement, Published in Full

Most firms show you anonymous testimonials. We published an entire engagement instead. SellerMockups.com is our own e-commerce property, which is exactly why we can show every number: the before and after scores, the GA4 property ID, the AI citation results, and the screenshots behind each claim.

5 to 52

schema integrity score, out of 100

159

pages given structured data, from zero

92/100

llms.txt AI discoverability score

80%

branded AI citation rate after the work

Selected Work

A small number of engagements at a time, on purpose. That is the reason there are not fifty logos on this page.

Kowalski Restoration

Website, Google Ads, and AI visibility

Visit Pahrump

Destination marketing and paid media

Picacho Peak RV Resort

Site launch, local search, and AI citations

SellerMockups

GEO program, published in full as a public case study

JoLyn Laney, founder of Avante Visibility, Las Vegas.

Who You Will Actually Work With

Senior Strategy Without the Agency Handoff

JoLyn Laney has spent twenty years in digital marketing and paid search, running Avante Interactive out of Las Vegas since 2012. Avante Visibility started in 2024 to answer a question clients kept asking: why does AI recommend my competitor and not me?

She built the AI Visibility Index to answer it with data instead of opinion. The person who diagnoses your account is the person who does the work. There is no junior handoff because there is no junior.

AI Fluency certified by Anthropic, verify the credentialMore about JoLyn →

Who This Is For

A good fit

  • Local and regional service businesses where one new client is worth real money
  • Owners who want to talk to the practitioner, not an account manager
  • Businesses already getting demand who keep losing it to a recommended competitor
  • Anyone who wants to see the actual queries and evidence, not a score with no method

Not a good fit

  • National ecommerce or enterprise brands with in-house marketing teams
  • Anyone wanting every marketing channel from one vendor
  • Businesses looking for the cheapest possible bulk content
  • Anyone who needs a guaranteed AI ranking, which nobody can honestly sell

How Engagements Work

Every engagement is scoped and quoted to your business, because a single-location practice and a five-location group are not the same job. What you get is a flat fee for a defined scope, agreed before anything starts. No retainers on the audits, no contracts, and no number that moves later.

Start here

AI Visibility Score

Free

About a minute, no call

Live queries against your business and a score you can act on or ignore.

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AI Visibility Snapshot

Quoted

A focused read

Where you appear, where competitors appear instead, and the signals holding you back.

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GEO Audit

Quoted

Flat fee, about 10 business days

Every buying question tested repeatedly across 5 engines with confidence ranges, a 27-factor scorecard, a 3-competitor benchmark, execution-ready fix tickets, a 60 minute walkthrough, and a 90-day re-measure. One flat fee, no retainer, no contract.

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After the audit, if you want help executing

  • GEO Sprint: a done-for-you 30-day implementation of the fixes, if you would rather not hand the tickets to your own team. Audit clients get a credit toward it.
  • Ongoing monitoring: your question panel re-run on a schedule so you can see movement instead of guessing.
  • Neither is required. The fix tickets are written so your own developer or marketer can execute them without us.

Google Ads management is quoted against your account size and spend after a free account review. See the full catalog of services.

Questions People Ask Before Booking

There is real overlap, and anyone who tells you otherwise is selling. The honest difference is the mechanic. Traditional SEO competes for a position in a ranked list of links. AI visibility deals with a system that reads a set of sources, synthesizes them, and names two or three businesses. Our own study found the sources those systems lean on are often not business websites at all. Across 1,128 citations we recorded, the most-cited domain was reddit.com, ahead of Yelp. A technically perfect website can still never get named, and that is the gap we measure.

No, and be skeptical of anyone who does. Nobody outside OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, and Perplexity controls what those systems say, and the models change constantly. What we do guarantee is the measurement: a documented baseline, a specific list of what is holding you back, and a re-measure of your exact question panel at 90 days so you can see what actually moved. A promised ranking in a system the vendor does not operate is a sales pitch, not a method.

Yes for the AI visibility side, with one honest caveat on the advertising side. Google does not currently place ads inside AI Overviews for sensitive categories, which includes healthcare. Conventional ad placements above and below the AI answer still run normally, and the organic side of AI visibility, whether the assistant names your practice in its recommendation, works the same as any other vertical. We will tell you which levers actually apply to your category before you spend anything.

Fair question, and the answer should be concrete rather than reassuring. You own every account: your Google Ads account, your analytics, your website, your data. Nothing is held in an agency container you cannot access. Work is documented so another competent practitioner can pick it up. Standard response time is one business day. And we cap how many active engagements run at once, because the entire value here is that the person who diagnoses your account is the person who does the work.

Often just one, and we will say so. They solve different problems. Google Ads generates qualified calls and bookings now, this month, and it is the right answer when you need lead volume immediately. AI visibility is slower and compounding: it changes whether an assistant names you when someone asks for a recommendation. If your phone is not ringing today, ads come first. If you have steady demand but keep hearing that a competitor got recommended, that is the visibility problem.

Start free. The AI Visibility Score on this site runs live queries against your business and returns a number in about a minute with no call and no card. From there, every engagement is scoped and quoted to your business: the number of locations, how competitive your market is, and how much of the work you want us to execute rather than hand to your own team. Google Ads management is quoted against your account size and spend after a free account review. Whatever we quote you is a real price, not a starting point that moves once you get on a call.

Yes, and the reports are built expecting it. Depending on the finding, verification may involve PageSpeed Insights, schema validation tools, robots.txt and sitemap checks, and manually re-running a subset of the AI prompts from the audit. We do not present our scoring as a secret platform formula. It is a structured, defensible way to prioritize the fixes most likely to move your visibility.

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Get your free AI visibility score and find out which competitors are being recommended instead of you. About a minute, no card, no follow-up sequence.

Prefer to talk it through? Book 15 minutes with JoLyn or email jolyn@avantevisibility.com.