SEO, AEO and AI Search Visibility Built for How Search Works Now.
Search now has two audiences: the buyer typing a query and the model answering it. They reward different things, and most firms are optimised for neither.
Taylor Partners builds search and AI visibility programmes covering technical SEO foundations, answer engine optimisation, entity consistency across the web, and the third-party presence that actually drives citations in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews.
What Usually Brings This to Us
The overlap between pages ranking on Google and sources cited by AI engines has fallen from roughly 70 percent to under 20 percent. Ranking is no longer a proxy for being recommended.
Roughly 85 percent of brand mentions in AI answers originate from third-party pages rather than a company's own site. Which means the site you just rebuilt is not where most of this is won.
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Fix the Foundations First
Crawlability, render method, speed, structured data, canonical hygiene. Then the specifically modern trap: verify your CDN is not blocking AI crawlers by default. Recent configurations do this silently, and it removes you from AI answers regardless of what your robots file says.
Make the Content Extractable
Direct answers of 40 to 60 words near the top of a page, headings phrased as the questions buyers actually ask, one structured table or list per substantive page, and visible review dates. Models extract; they do not interpret a brochure.
Make the Entity Resolvable
Your name, category, location and description written identically across your site, LinkedIn, Google Business Profile, directories and every third-party mention. Inconsistent naming is why a model cannot confidently recommend you even when it has read you.
Build the Off-Site Presence
Directories, association profiles, trade publications, podcasts, guest articles and original data worth citing. This is the unglamorous majority of the work and the part most agencies quietly skip.
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- A technical audit with crawler access verified against each major AI bot
- Schema, answer blocks and heading structure implemented across the site
- An entity consistency sweep across every property that mentions you
- A prompt set and monthly citation audit across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Mode
- An off-site placement plan with named targets, not a volume commitment
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A ranking report tells you where a page sits in a list. It does not tell you whether a buyer asking a model for a recommendation hears your name.
So we define the ten to twenty prompts your buyers actually use, run them across the major engines monthly, and record whether you appear, how you are described, and who appears instead.
That number is uncomfortable at the start. Most firms begin at zero across every prompt. Recording the zero is what makes the next reading mean something.
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Inside our own operating business we built a 180-topic keyword programme and competitive white-space analysis across two web properties, with content workflows behind it, aimed at higher-value cross-border and corporate demand rather than volume at any margin.
Every figure on our evidence page is marked verified or client-reported. We do not publish numbers we cannot source.
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Taylor Partners is an operating-partner firm in Burlington, Ontario, led by Jack Taylor. Not a career consultant — someone who runs operations inside a real business with staff, customers, claims and a P&L, and who is founding and selling ventures right now rather than remembering what that was like.
We work with owner-led companies of roughly $5M to $75M in revenue. Sector-agnostic by design: the pattern we solve for is a company shape, not an industry.
How we work. We start with where you are going — the size, the shape, the markets, the amount of it that should still run through you in three years. Then we find what stands between you and there, build it, and stay until it holds.
That destination might be a new country, a new region, a second location, a sale, or simply a business that grows without consuming every hour you have. The work changes. The sequence does not.
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This is not priced separately. It runs inside the same four engagements: a diagnostic establishes whether it is the binding constraint, a sprint builds it, and the operating retainer keeps it working. Smaller companies can reach the same method through Truescale.
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Is AI Visibility Just SEO with a New Name?
The foundations overlap and good SEO still helps. The mechanics differ: prompts instead of keywords, citations and sentiment instead of positions, and a web-wide reputation instead of your own pages. A firm telling you they are unrelated is selling a new line item.
How Long Does This Take?
Technical work lands in weeks. Entity consistency takes a month or two of unglamorous cleanup. Off-site authority is measured in quarters, because it depends on other people publishing things.
Can You Guarantee We Will Be Cited?
No, and anyone who does is guessing. We can guarantee the foundations are correct, the entity is consistent, the crawlers are not blocked, and that you will know monthly exactly where you stand.
Your Next Step
Turn A Business Challenge Into A Practical Plan.
Start with a useful assessment, explore a self-directed path, or talk through the constraint with our team.
Tell Us Where You Are Trying to Get To
Thirty minutes with the founder. Where the business is going, what is standing in the way, and what it would cost to move it. If this is not actually your constraint, we will tell you what is.