Everything owners ask before working with SummitCited — pricing, timelines, methods, and the questions most agencies answer sideways. If yours isn't here, email admin@summitcited.com and ask it directly.
When a customer asks ChatGPT, Gemini, or Google AI who to call, the engine names two or three businesses instead of returning ten links. Generative engine optimization is the work of becoming one of those names, by fixing the inputs the engines actually read: your Google Business Profile, your reviews, the directories and best-of lists they quote, your site structure, and your structured data.
SEO earns a spot in a list of links; generative engine optimization (GEO) earns a spot in the answer itself. The inputs overlap — reviews, citations, site structure — but GEO puts more weight on being quotable: direct answers to real buyer questions, structured data machines can read, and presence on the specific lists engines cite. Good GEO work strengthens SEO as a side effect.
The audit is $99 and is delivered within five business days. You get twelve real buyer questions from your trade run live across three AI engines with every answer kept on file, a results grid showing who was recommended and where you were absent, an explanation of why the winners win, and a prioritized fix list. The full $99 is credited toward any SummitCited package within 30 days.
Three: ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Each of the twelve buyer questions is run live in each engine the way a customer would ask it, and every answer is saved the moment it appears, because AI answers change from run to run. When Google serves no AI Overview for a question, the report records that rather than leaving a blank. Perplexity can be added on request.
No. The audit is run entirely from the outside, the same way your customers see you — no logins, no website access, no Google Business Profile access. All we need is your business name, trade, and service area.
No, and no one legitimately can. AI answers vary from run to run and no engine sells placement. SummitCited sells verified snapshots of where you stand, consistent execution against the inputs the engines read, and — on the monitor add-on — monthly reports showing movement. Anyone promising a guaranteed AI ranking is not telling the truth.
Expect movement in months, not days. Review velocity and Google Business Profile changes commonly show effects within four to eight weeks, while directory placements and site restructuring compound over a quarter. That is why the monthly monitor exists as an add-on — measurement over time is the only way to see a change that slow.
Found First is $5,000 one-time for trade services, and $10,000–$15,000 one-time for compliance-heavy industries, because the citation and directory work differs by industry. That is the whole package price — there is no retainer. It covers five of the seven visibility levers: your Google Business Profile, directories and citations, site structure, structured data, and content. The other two only work by repetition and are sold as monthly add-ons you can start or stop: the review engine at $500 setup plus $250 a month, and the visibility monitor at $250 a month. Taking both puts you at $5,500 setup and $500 a month. Monitoring bought on its own is $250 a month and covers the measurement only. Some industries we decline outright, and fit is confirmed on the strategy call before anyone pays. There is no long-term contract, and the $99 audit and the $1,500 Answer-Ready Website are both credited in full toward the setup fee — the audit within 30 days of payment, the retrofit within 60.
Yes. Some industries we decline outright — the ones where the honest version of this work cannot be done, or where the claims a business needs to make cannot be substantiated. Fit is confirmed on the free strategy call, before anyone pays for anything. If we are not the right fit, we say so on that call rather than after the invoice.
No, and there is no retainer either. Found First is a one-time fee and you own the build outright when it is finished. The two add-ons — the review engine and the monthly monitor — are month to month, so the only recurring money is the part you can stop any month.
Because we don't have client reviews yet, and we will not invent them. SummitCited is a young firm whose entire product is exposing thin and fabricated digital records — publishing fake proof would make us the thing we audit. The proof we publish instead is a real audit finding, kept on file, anonymized to protect the business. When client results are publishable, they will appear here held to the same standard.
SummitCited works with service businesses across the United States. The twelve buyer questions in every audit are written for your trade and your market, so the engine results reflect the town you actually sell in. Audits, monitoring, and implementation all run remotely, so the whole engagement works without a site visit.