Getting recommended by AI is no coincidence. It's the result of signals that most marketing tools don't measure. We map them and act on them. For marketing teams, content and PR agencies.
When someone asks ChatGPT for a supplier in your category, they get one answer. A name, sometimes two, with arguments attached. More and more often, the purchase decision is made in that conversation. The brand mentioned with conviction wins the customer. The brand that isn't mentioned doesn't count for that customer.
For you, that means: every question in your category that lands in an AI tool is a purchase moment. Being recommended by AI translates directly to revenue.
We show what it takes for AI to name you, not the competitor. Which signals AI uses to place your brand, how you score against the competition, and where the concrete opportunities are to gain ground faster. We translate those opportunities into one prioritised action plan: what to do first and what later, what your team does in-house and what an agency picks up. So AI mentions you more often, with conviction, at the moments where the customer decides.
We're a strategy agency. We work best with brands and agencies that handle execution themselves, or rely on a trusted partner for that. Our value sits in sharp diagnosis and direction, not in implementation.
Marketing teams of brands that invest structurally in visibility and recommendation. Content and PR agencies that want to help their clients get recommended in AI Search but lack the strategic layer in-house.
Four convictions that shape how we look at AI Search and why we work differently than the market.
Getting cited in an AI answer and getting recommended at the moment someone chooses are two different things. Most tools measure the first. The second decides whether you get a customer.
People have conversations with AI, not search queries. The decisive recommendation comes after several questions, in a context full of personal history that no dashboard sees. Optimising for the first prompt is optimising for the wrong moment.
AI Search doesn't replace Google. It comes on top. Discovery platforms too. Three layers, one growing market.
SEO is dead. AI takes over. Drop everything and optimise for ChatGPT.
SEO started operational and became tactical. AI Search calls for brand strategy. Stay at the old level and you optimise for the wrong signals.
Operational
AI recommends what it encounters everywhere. The more consistently a brand shows up in the places that matter, the stronger the recommendation. That plays out across three layers that feed each other.
The foundation. Technically sound, clearly structured, and readable for both search engines and AI agents. This is where Agent Optimization comes in: can an agent actually finish the task it's trying to complete on behalf of a customer on your site?
Five patterns we keep seeing in brands that aren't recommended by AI. The problem almost always sits in a combination of two or more.
Crucial information is hidden in accordions, tabs, pop-ups or images. The structure is unclear to AI models, the technical foundation isn't in order.
Our whole approach revolves around four fundamental questions. We answer them through a five-part programme. Anyone who starts an audit without that context ends up with pretty scores and no direction.
The four questions that drive the programme
01
Who are you as a brand and for whom are you the best choice? And for whom explicitly not? Is the positioning crystal clear?
02
How does the audience search? What are their pain points, what language do they use, which platforms do they orient themselves on?
“Anyone who only does prompt tracking measures the outcome and misses the problem.”
Five layers that together make the difference. The combination shows where the problem sits and where the concrete opportunities are to get recommended more often.
An analysis of the site across three planes, sitewide and per page.
The difference isn't in another dashboard. It's in where you start, who you take seriously as audience and what you optimise for.
Others track prompts and call it an AI Search strategy. We measure and optimise the signals that decide whether AI recommends your brand.
What the industry does
Practically the entire industry tracks LLM outputs and reverse-engineers from there. A set of artificial prompts, citations as fixed data points, conclusions hung on them. That sounds logical because it worked for SEO. It ignores that AI answers are probabilistic and vary per run, and that the real decision rarely lands on the first question.
Which one fits depends on what your team needs. Fixed prices, no hourly billing, no surprises afterwards. Below per format what you get, in what lead time and at what investment.
for teams that are still exploring
One to two hours on site. We show how AI is changing the search landscape and what that means for your market. Meant to start the internal conversation, not a strategy deliverable.
Price on request
for teams that want to get to work themselves
A hands-on day with your own brand, content tailored to your sector. Ahead of the workshop we run a brand scan, so the day is directly about your situation and not about generic examples. Your team gets the Think again method, concrete frameworks and an action plan to move forward with.
“Selling strategy by the hour punishes speed. We charge for what we deliver, not for how long it takes us.”
We share our thinking openly, and with opinion. Read how we look at AI Search.
The questions we hear most often from marketing teams considering working with us.

Co-founder
Peter has worked in search since 2008. What started with SEA and SEO grew with the field: through Facebook marketing and YouTube strategy into a broader focus on findability beyond the beaten paths of Google. What stayed is the fascination with how platforms work, and how they keep changing.
That fascination has only grown now that AI is fundamentally changing the landscape: not just how people search, but how we as marketers do our work.

Co-founder
Erik has worked in marketing since 2012. What started as an all-round marketer moved through brand activations, into YouTube and then social media, advertising, into an ever broader fascination with how platforms work and how they keep changing.
With the arrival of AI the field is shifting again. Not just the way people orient themselves through AI search, but also how you as a marketer do smarter work with the right use of AI.


Tell us where your team stands. We advise which step yields the most. No commitment, no sales pitch.
Peter: 06-52717644 · peter@thinkagain.nl
Freelancers and small businesses without marketing capacity, for whom our programmes are too heavy. Parties that only want to buy prompt tracking, because that's a thermometer, not a strategy. SEO agencies looking to subcontract us for execution, because we don't outsource strategy to client contact without context.
Google stays big. Discovery stays big. AI Search comes on top as a new layer. Total search volume grows. Optimise for just one layer and you lose presence in the other two.
AI recommends from two sources: the awareness and associations it has built about your brand, and what it pulls live from the web the moment a question is asked. Two fundamentally different positions, with two fundamentally different strategies. Most GEO approaches don't even see this distinction, and end up solving the wrong problem.
Google search volume stays stable. AI Search and Discovery come on top as incremental channels. Total volume grows.
Most parties optimise for one layer. We build a strategy that connects all three layers, so every action reinforces the others.
Tactical
Strategic
YouTube, Reddit, LinkedIn, trade media, podcasts, forums, reviews. This is where your brand is discovered, discussed and recommended by real users. And it's where AI models pull the evidence they use in their answers.
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, AI Overviews. The recommendation lands here, but the material comes from the two layers below. AI surfaces what shows up most often and most consistently across website and discovery platforms.
The website remains the foundation. AI has to be able to read it, agents have to be able to complete tasks on it, and the positioning has to be right. But the website alone doesn't convince AI that you're worth recommending. The material AI uses to back up that recommendation comes largely from places outside your own site. What YouTubers say, what gets discussed on Reddit, how trade media positions you, which podcasts mention you. That's where the bulk of the work sits, and where most brands aren't yet structurally present.
Each layer feeds the next. A strong brand starts with a strong website, gets reinforced by valuable presence on discovery platforms, and ends up recommended by AI.
No comparisons, no scenario-specific content, no concrete cases. So AI has no arguments to recommend you for specific situations.
Not present where the target audience orients itself. Or present, but with contributions that don't substantively reinforce the positioning.
No independent confirmation. Lack of reviews, mentions in trade media, podcast appearances or third-party analyses that position you within the category.
Gap between identity and reputation. Too many target groups or no clear category. Sharp positioning is missing, so AI can't place you anywhere with conviction.
Our solution
We map where it gets stuck for your brand, all five in context, and translate that into one prioritised action plan. Aimed at the patterns that make the difference for the purchase.
03
How does AI see you right now? Which associations has it built up? Where is the gap between your identity and the reputation AI has made of it?
04
When are you recommended, when not? What's your spot in the landscape, and what can be learned from those who are winning it?
In the intake we capture your own perspective on these questions. In the four analyses that follow we test that perspective against what we measure externally: what the market searches for, how AI sees you, how well your site delivers that evidence, and where you're mentioned outside your own site.
The programme in five parts
We immerse ourselves fully in your brand. Deep interviews with the team and a thorough analysis of all existing material: positioning, brand guide, content plans, priorities, earlier research. After the intake we have your own perspective on the four questions in view as the basis for the analyses that follow.
We map what your market talks and searches about. Topics are ranked on strategic value for your brand. Per topic we measure your visibility and score, statistically grounded, against the competition. So we see where the gaps sit and where the opportunities are to gain ground fast. The deliverable is a topic list with scores that doubles as the basis for your content strategy.
For ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini we map how they see your brand: which words and associations they use, whether you get recommended per topic, where you lose to competitors and why. The difference between how you see yourself and how AI describes you is an eye-opener for most brands.
An analysis of the site across three planes, sitewide and per page. SEO: the technical foundation for search engines and crawlers. Content: quality, clarity and distinctiveness, weighed against your positioning. Agents: how well AI models can read, understand and correctly cite your pages. Each page type gets its own criteria, because a homepage works differently than a product page or a blog post.
An analysis of your presence outside your own site: on trade media, YouTube, Reddit, LinkedIn, podcasts, forums and review platforms. That's where your brand is discussed and that's where AI pulls the evidence that feeds the recommendation and reputation. We map per platform where you're mentioned, in what tone and context, and how that compares to your core competitors. The deliverable is a prioritised list of platforms and publication formats where targeted effort yields the most for AI recommendation.
The deliverable for the entire programme is one prioritised action plan, ranked on impact versus effort, that your team or agency can execute directly.
This is what AI models actually know about you and what meaning they've attached to your brand. Which words and concepts does the model link to your name? In which category do they see you? Ask ChatGPT about Coca-Cola and you get a rich answer immediately, built from years of mentions and context. Ask it about an unknown brand and the model has to start searching first to say anything meaningful. Those are two different starting positions, each requiring its own approach. We test this with multiple models, without letting the model look up live, so we see what's actually in the model's knowledge. And where the gap sits between your own positioning and what AI has made of it over the years.
YouTube, Reddit, LinkedIn, trade media, podcasts, forums, reviews. These are the places where AI builds its picture of your brand. We measure per platform how often you're mentioned, in what context, how that compares to the competition, and where the gaps are. Not as a stand-alone sentiment score, but as a signal for what AI will say about you in its answers. This is the slow, stubborn layer of AI Search, and at the same time the layer with the biggest leverage.
The topic universe is the playing field where AI ultimately makes recommendations. We map every topic discussed in your category, not just what shows up in your own content. Per topic we measure strategic weight and competitive intensity, and we see where you stand against the most important competitors. That immediately surfaces the topics where coverage is still low, and where you can win ground faster than on the heavily contested ones. This forms the basis of the content strategy and decides which topics we actively monitor in the layer below.
This is what the market now calls prompt tracking, and here we do it materially differently. Most tools ask a prompt once and present that one measurement as the truth. AI answers are variable, so that's the same as rolling a die once and thinking you know the distribution. We ask every question as often as needed to say what the signal is with statistical confidence, and we tune that number to the variance in the answers. Every metric gets a confidence label: robust, adequate or minimal. No noise sold as advice.
Our own measurement platform, built because no existing tool measures these five layers together. Four modules that don't just show where it goes wrong, but especially where the opportunities sit to get recommended more often. Together they form the input for our strategic programmes.
What we do
Language models work on probability distributions over tokens. Answers vary per run. There is no fixed ranking to look up. AI platforms recommend brands they understand and trust. We steer on the signals that build that preference, not on the shadow they cast.
€ 3,000
for teams that need direction
A full strategic programme with intake, four analyses and a prioritised action plan your team or agency can execute directly.
€ 10,000
for teams that want to keep adjusting
The full strategy programme plus a year of guidance: quarterly sessions, monthly monitoring, adjustments based on new data and market shifts.
€ 22,000 per year
Strategy programme + € 1,000 per month of guidance
| Inspiration session | Workshop | Strategy | Strategy + Year programme | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Investment | On request | € 3,000 | € 10,000 | € 22,000 / year |
| Lead time | 1 to 2 hours | 1 day | 4 to 6 weeks | 12 months + programme |
| Format | Content session | Hands-on workshop | Strategic programme | Programme + guidance |
| Own analysis on your brand | No | Brand scan upfront | Full | Full + updates |
| Concrete action plan | No | Brief | Prioritised, complete | Same + adjustments |
| Ongoing adjustment | No | No | No | Yes, quarterly rhythm |
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