Your next customer searched ChatGPT. Did they find you?
AI search engines now answer buyer questions directly. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews are how your customers find suppliers.
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Where do you fit?
Ecommerce
You sell products online
Your buyers use AI to compare products and find stores. Your site needs to appear in those answers.
See GEO for Ecommerce →Service Business
You sell a service or expertise
Your buyers research and shortlist suppliers using AI before they call anyone. You need to be on that first list.
See GEO for Service Businesses →Not Sure Yet
You want to understand the gap first
Start with a free check. We show you exactly where your business appears, or does not, in AI search today.
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Not sure GEO is your priority yet?
Take the free AI Readiness Review instead. We'll help you find the AI workflows that save your business the most time and money — whether that involves search visibility or not.
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The numbers from 2025 alone show how fast the shift happened.
693%1
Growth in AI-referred retail traffic in 2025
~11×2
Shopify-reported growth in AI-attributed orders since January 2025 (Q3 2025 earnings call)
1 in 33
of US consumers projected to use generative AI search by end of 2026 (eMarketer forecast)
If your business is not cited in these AI answers, you do not lose a click. You are never part of the decision at all. The businesses appearing in these results are being shortlisted. The ones that are not are invisible.
Case Study
What GEO looks like on a real business
Shamrock Electrical is an Irish wholesaler of smart heating and lighting products, based in Rathcoole, Dublin, serving homeowners and trade professionals since 2016. Shamrock sells products online, but the methodology works the same way for any business: where Shamrock gets cited for "radiators in Ireland", a consultant gets cited for "best accountant in Cork". Here is what happened in the first 72 hours after one round of GEO implementation.
From invisible to cited in 72 hours across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini.
Google Gemini
"Where can I buy Smart WiFi radiators in Ireland?"
Shamrock listed first in Gemini's product recommendations for a transactional search.
ChatGPT
"Best electric radiators Ireland"
ChatGPT recommended a specific Shamrock product with price and a direct link to buy.
Perplexity
"Where can I buy Hollywood vanity mirrors in Ireland?"
Perplexity named Shamrock for a completely different product category, on the same day.
4
different buyer queries.
3 AI engines.
72 hours.
Shamrock is the obvious one.
— ChatGPT, when asked for electrical wholesalers near Rathcoole
Based on a single round of spot checks across three AI platforms. A full audit typically surfaces more.
Read the full Shamrock Electrical case study →Three ways to get your business into AI search
Start with the free AI Visibility Check if you want to know where you stand before spending anything. If you are ready to act, choose the programme built for your business type. The paid programmes come with a 90-day citation guarantee and a fixed delivery timeline.
Free
AI Visibility Check
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Paid programme — ecommerce
GEO Standard for Ecommerce
For online stores that want to appear when buyers search product categories, comparisons or recommendations in AI engines.
- ✓AI-optimised product and category page copy
- ✓Schema markup and structured data for AI crawlers
- ✓Branded FAQ content targeting AI shopping queries
One-time programme. 21 working days. 90-day citation guarantee.
Paid programme — service businesses
GEO Standard for Service Businesses
For solar installers, consultants, contractors and manufacturers where a single new client can be worth five figures.
- ✓Service page rewrites optimised for AI recommendation queries
- ✓Schema markup for local and specialist service businesses
- ✓Authority content that positions your team as the cited expert
One-time programme. 21 working days. 90-day citation guarantee.
About Clever Merchants
A generative engine optimization agency run by someone who has done it, not just sold it.
Clever Merchants delivered the GEO implementation for Shamrock Electrical and verified the results directly. Within 72 hours, Shamrock was cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google Gemini across four different buyer queries. Those citations are the proof of methodology, not a case study built on estimates.
The work is run by Ger Devereux, who has a background in electrical wholesale and the trades sector. That domain experience means Clever Merchants understands how service businesses actually get found by buyers, not just how online stores do. Clients are based worldwide, with no geography restriction.
Clever Merchants was founded as a focused GEO consultancy after seeing too many well-run businesses become invisible in AI search while their competitors appeared in every AI answer. It is not a general AI consulting firm. For AI implementation work that goes beyond GEO, Clever Merchants partners with Morpheus Hub.
Direct contact: ger@clevermerchants.com
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