AI search visibility means appearing in the answers generated by ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI — not just Google's list of ten links. It's a completely different system, with completely different rules. And right now, most UK local businesses are invisible to it.
Get your free score — and the files that fix it →Traditional search engines — Google, Bing — show a list of results. The user clicks through and decides. The ranking is based on keywords, backlinks, page speed and dozens of other signals built up over years of SEO practice.
AI search engines work differently. When someone asks ChatGPT "find me a solicitor in Birmingham" or asks Google AI Overview "who does emergency boiler repair near me", the AI doesn't show a list. It gives one answer — a single recommendation, presented as fact.
That recommendation is based on structured identity data. The AI is looking for businesses it can clearly identify, verify and describe. If your business doesn't have the right signals in place, it doesn't appear in the answer. Your competitor does.
The key difference: Google ranks pages. AI selects businesses. They are not the same process and they don't use the same signals.
AI systems index and rely on a specific set of structured signals to identify and recommend businesses. These are not ranking factors in the traditional SEO sense — they are identity signals. Either they're present and correct, or your business is invisible.
The vast majority of UK business websites were built for traditional search. They have no Schema markup, no llms.txt file, and their robots.txt either blocks AI crawlers accidentally or doesn't address them at all.
This isn't anyone's fault. The standards that govern AI search visibility — GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation), AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation), AIO (AI Optimisation) — are new. Most web designers and SEO agencies haven't caught up yet. Most businesses don't know the problem exists.
But the consequences are real. When a potential customer asks an AI for a recommendation in your trade and your town, and your business isn't visible to that AI, someone else gets the enquiry. Every time.
Aenima runs nine real checks on your domain — the same checks AI engines run when they crawl your site. In 60 seconds, you get a score out of 100 and a plain English breakdown of exactly what's missing and why it matters.
The fixes are technical but not complicated. Schema markup is a block of JSON code that goes in your site's head section. llms.txt is a plain text file uploaded to your domain root. robots.txt is a one-line addition. None of these require a website rebuild or a new platform.
Aenima generates all three files from your business details — name, type, town, services, contact information. You fill in the fields, download the files, and install them. From £5.50 a month, with no contract and no technical knowledge required.
On WordPress, the Aenima Pro plugin installs and updates your Schema and llms.txt automatically every month. Nothing to do after the initial setup.
Nine real checks. Score out of 100. Plain English. 60 seconds. No account needed.
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