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Your customer just asked AI who to hire. You got skipped.

It named three businesses. You weren't one of them. The search box moved, and nobody sent a memo — buying questions now get answered inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI, built from somebody's content. The only question is whether it's yours or your competitor's.

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The story

A small studio kept beating giants — inside AI answers.

Italo Campilii founded Acromatico, a brand studio, and watched small brands get cited by AI over far bigger competitors — because clarity beats size and specificity beats spend. The engines aren't loyal to the biggest budget. They're loyal to the clearest, most credible, most extractable source on the live web right now.

"AI answers are a genuinely fairer arena than the old link-and-ad arms race. A small studio that's clearer, more specific, more trustworthy, and better-structured than a giant competitor can win the citation — and I've watched it happen." — Get Found by AI, Conclusion

That system — the one the studio actually uses — became this book. Written for anyone who wants to be found.

The truth nobody's saying

You're optimizing a list of links your customers stopped reading.

Most businesses are still tuning blue links while the moments their customers actually decide who to trust get assembled from sources that aren't them. In AI search, the answer is the destination. Your win condition isn't a click anymore — it's being named, quoted, or cited inside someone else's sentence.

"The unit is the passage, not the page. You're not optimizing a page to rank tenth. You're writing extractable, self-contained chunks that an AI can lift cleanly and trust." — Chapter 1: How AI Search Actually Works
Micro-lesson · Open the hood

The retrieval pipeline: five moments you win or lose.

Every time an AI answers a buying question live, this happens. Knowing each step tells you exactly where to intervene.

01
Interpret

The query gets rewritten.

"Who can make my coffee brand look good" becomes "branding studio for coffee companies." Survive the rewrite by covering the many ways your customers phrase the question.

02
Search

A live search runs.

The AI hits a search index — sometimes its own, often Bing or Google — and pulls back candidate URLs. If you're not indexed, you're not in the room.

03
Fetch

Pages get fetched and read.

If your page is slow, blocked to AI crawlers, or buried in JavaScript a bot can't render, you're already out. Be retrievable.

04
Extract

Passages get selected.

The model pulls the chunks most relevant and trustworthy. This is the moment your extractable writing wins or loses. Be extractable.

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Cite

The answer gets written — with citations.

Get selected here and you're named in front of the buyer. Be trustworthy. That's the whole game.

Micro-lesson · The one-sentence test

Could a machine lift one sentence from your site and quote it?

For any important claim, ask: could an AI drop this sentence into an answer and have it stand completely on its own — clear, correct, and useful — with zero surrounding context? Most web copy fails badly. Straight from Chapter 2:

Skipped · Uncitable

"We've helped tons of brands stand out, and our process really works."

// no liftable fact detected — passage rejected
Cited · Liftable

"Acromatico is a brand studio that builds complete visual identities — strategy, logo, packaging, and photography — for early-stage consumer brands, typically delivering a full brand system in four to six weeks."

// self-contained · specific · quotable verbatim ✓

Numbers, names, dates, and concrete nouns make a passage feel like a fact an AI can safely repeat. Write like a reference, not a billboard. That shift — plus four more like it — is exactly what the free course walks you through.

Free · The Signal Course

Five transmissions. One goal: show up in the answer.

A free 5-lesson mini-course pulled directly from the book. Each lesson ends with something you can do the same day — starting with watching yourself get skipped, and ending with a 30-day sprint plan.

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How AI search actually works (and why it's not SEO)

The two answer modes, the retrieval pipeline, and your first scoreboard.

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The citability mindset

The one-sentence test, answer-first writing, and the rewrite drill.

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Become an entity machines recognize

Entity facts, relentless consistency, and the schema that anchors it.

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Trust signals + pages machines can read

E-E-A-T for the AI era and the full page audit checklist.

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Your 30-day AI visibility sprint

The day-by-day plan, plus how to measure whether it's working.

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The field guide
Cover of Get Found by AI: The 2026 Playbook to Show Up in ChatGPT, Perplexity & Google AI

Get Found by AI

The 2026 playbook to show up in ChatGPT, Perplexity & Google AI — how to get cited and recommended by the AI search engines your customers now use. GEO and AEO, stripped of jargon and turned into steps you can actually do. No coding. No black-box hand-waving.

  • How AI search actually works — the retrieval pipeline, step by step, and exactly where you can intervene
  • The citability mindset — sentences a machine can lift, quote, and trust, with full before-and-after rewrites
  • Entity SEO, schema, and E-E-A-T for the AI era — become the trusted source
  • Winning each engine — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, with a cheat sheet
  • A complete 30-day AI visibility sprint — day by day, start to finish

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