Knownstone
Answer engine optimization for B2B

Find out what AI tells your buyers about you.

Your buyers now ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Google's AI answers which vendor to shortlist. We test the questions they ask, show where you appear and where competitors win, and hand you the fixes as ready-to-use files.

Fixed prices, published up front. Audits from $750. No contracts, no guaranteed-ranking promises.

The problem

AI answers are a new shortlist, and you can't see it.

Buyers ask, AI decides who's named

"What's the best tool for a 10-person team?" gets one answer with three to six vendors. If you're not one of them, you never hear about the lost deal.

Dashboards don't tell you what to do

Tracking tools show percentages. Most small teams need someone to explain what's driving the answer and give them the fix, done.

Lots of hype, little evidence

We separate what research supports from guesswork, and we tell you which is which in every recommendation.

How it works

Three steps, delivered as files you own.

1

Measure

We draft 30 buyer questions with you, then capture real answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews, twice each, alongside up to 4 competitors.

2

Diagnose

You get your mention rate, position, which of your pages get cited, which third-party sites the engines trust, and a site-readiness check.

3

Fix and track

We write the schema code, answer-first page drafts and outreach list. Your team or developer publishes them. Monthly monitoring shows what moved.

What we focus on

Evidence first.

Being mentioned on sites AI already trusts Correlation evidence

A large study of 75,000 brands found web mentions of a brand were the strongest factor linked to appearing in Google's AI Overviews. We map the review sites, lists and threads engines cite in your category.

Pages that answer the question directly Tested in research

In a 2023 study, content with clear statistics, quotes and cited sources was shown up to about 40% more often in generated answers. We draft pages built that way.

Crawlability and structured data Basic hygiene

Engines can't cite what they can't fetch. Schema markup keeps your facts consistent, but tests show it moves citations little on its own, so we don't oversell it.

llms.txt Unproven

No major AI engine has confirmed using it. We include one because it costs little, and we label it as optional.

See where you stand in AI answers.

Fixed-price audit, delivered in 5 business days after intake.

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