AI-citation audit · Del Mar, CA

AI-citation audit in Del Mar.

See what ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity tell a Del Mar visitor before they ever reach your front desk. Free as a self-serve tool, or hire us to close the gaps and prove the change ninety days out.

Start a brief Or email hola@xala.studio
01 · Why this, here

A Del Mar booking starts in a chatbot now, not a search bar.

The buyer headed for Del Mar is not browsing ten blue links. They are typing "best ocean-view dinner near the racetrack" or "boutique hotel walking distance to Del Mar beach" into ChatGPT and taking whatever it hands back. If the model names a competitor and skips you, you lost the table before the question finished. A four-thousand-person town that runs on horse-racing season, fine dining, and high-end real estate cannot afford to be the one the AI forgets.

The audit shows you exactly that. We run the prompts a real guest or a relocating buyer would use, against every model that matters, and hand back a flat snapshot: where you get named, where the model recommends someone in the Village instead, and where the whole category sits open with nobody owning it. No interpretation games. Just what is being said.

A note on scope. A dedicated desk here covers AI-citation work for clinics, dental practices, and real-estate brokerages, three verticals with their own playbooks. If your Del Mar business is one of those, we will hand you off cleanly. Hospitality, fine dining, private-wealth services, racing-season operators, and the rest run through us.

02 · What we build

Try the free tool first. Hire us if you don't like what it says.

  • The free tool. Run it on your own business in about thirty seconds. It uses the same AI models we use in paid work. No email required, nothing to unsubscribe from.
  • If you hire us: a bigger set of questions written for the kind of customer you actually get in Del Mar, asked of ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini. We save every answer so we can compare them later.
  • A short report showing where AI names you, where it names a competitor instead, and where nobody in your category has been named at all yet.
  • Schema, entity, and source-credibility fixes shipped directly to your site or handed off as a clean diff for your developer.
  • Day 30, 60, and 90 follow-up snapshots run on the same panel. You see what moved, in plain side-by-side English.
  • A plain-English summary you can read in five minutes and take straight into your next marketing conversation.

Free tool · paid remediation from $750 · 1 to 3 weeks · An owner-run studio.

03 · What this looks like

Three composite scenarios from this market.

A fine-dining room near the Village. Chef-owned, twelve years open, a real wine program. The free tool shows ChatGPT mentions them on "Del Mar restaurants" but goes quiet on "ocean-view tasting menu near Del Mar racetrack," the query that actually fills the room in season. We deepen the audit, find the menu lives only inside a PDF no crawler reads, ship Restaurant schema with the actual cuisine and price band, and seed two primary-source dining listings. The day-90 panel names them in two of four model answers for the tasting-menu prompt.

A luxury-hospitality operator off Camino del Mar. A small portfolio of high-end stays, invisible to Perplexity for "boutique hotel near Del Mar beach." The free tool returns a competitor every time. We run a paid engagement: a property page that names verifiable amenities and walk times instead of adjectives, LodgingBusiness schema, and a founder bio the crawlers can lift. By day 90 they surface in Claude and Perplexity for two of three target queries.

A high-end real-estate advisor working Beach Colony. Two decades of coastal transactions, no presence when a relocating wealth buyer asks Claude "who handles Del Mar oceanfront listings." We rewrite the bio around named neighborhoods and deal types, add one indexable page per service line, and land a primary-source profile the models trust. Day-60 snapshot quotes the advisor by name.

04 · Honest scope

This is an audit and a focused remediation, not a brand overhaul. We do not promise a specific citation count and we do not run paid ads. If the site has structural problems that block AI crawlers outright, we name them in the report and either fix the load-bearing pieces inside scope or quote a separate rebuild. The free tool tells you most of what you need before you pay a dollar. That is the whole point of putting it on the site.

San Diego is studio headquarters, and Del Mar is twenty minutes up the coast. We can meet in person in the Village or out at Beach Colony; most of the work runs remote, but the first conversation can be wherever is easiest for you.

This page was drafted from a structured brief and hand-edited before launch. The work itself is custom, owner-run, never templated.

Want to talk it through?

One paragraph about your business is enough. Tell us what you need → Or just email hola@xala.studio.

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