AI-citation audit · Fullerton, CA

AI-citation audit in Fullerton.

Pull a snapshot of what ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity say about your Fullerton business right now. Free as a self-serve tool, or hire us to fix the gaps and prove the change ninety days later.

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01 · Why this, here

Fullerton's makers and family firms are invisible to the models that matter.

Fullerton mixes education, manufacturing, family business, and a Downtown food scene that draws the whole north county, and most of those operators have no AI footprint at all. A buyer asks Claude for a contract manufacturer near Fullerton that handles short runs. A parent asks ChatGPT for an after-school program near Sunny Hills. A group asks Perplexity where to eat Downtown that is not a chain. The relationships and the reputation are real; the model just cannot see them. The audit closes that loop: we run the prompts a real buyer types, against every model that matters, and hand back a plain snapshot of what is said about you and what is said about your category without you in it.

There is a free self-serve version of the tool on this site. Run it on your company or shop. Most Fullerton owners do it once, see one model knows them and three do not, then ask how to fix the gap. That is the paid engagement. We take the same audit, deepen the prompt set to fit your real buyer (a B2B manufacturing buyer reads nothing like a parent picking a program), file the structural fixes against your site, and re-run the panel at day 30, 60, and 90.

A note on scope. A dedicated desk here handles AI-citation work for clinics, dental practices, and real estate brokerages. If you are one of those, we hand you off. Everything else (manufacturing, education, family business, food service, retail) runs 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 Fullerton, 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 contract manufacturer near Downtown. Thirty years of short-run fabrication for local brands, total silence from Perplexity on the supplier-search queries that drive their pipeline. The free tool returns nothing. We write a capability page per process, add Service schema that names the materials and run sizes, and seed a primary-source supplier directory. By day 90 the shop shows up in Claude and Perplexity for two of three target query shapes.

An education provider near Sunny Hills. Two decades of enrichment programs, ranked nowhere AI reads, skipped by ChatGPT on "after-school programs near Fullerton." We rewrite the program pages to name the subjects and verifiable outcomes, add EducationalOrganization schema, and seed two regional listings. The day-60 panel names them in two of four models for the program query.

A family restaurant Downtown. A north-county staple, strong reviews, but the free tool shows it appears only inside a longer list, never as a recommendation. We rewrite the home page to lead with verifiable cuisine and the room, add Restaurant schema, and land it on two regional dining guides. By day 60 Perplexity quotes it by name for "best Downtown Fullerton restaurants."

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 issues that block AI crawlers entirely, we name them in the report and either fix the load-bearing pieces inside scope or scope a separate rebuild. The free tool tells you most of what you need before you pay a dollar. That is the point.

The studio is in San Diego. Fullerton is roughly two hours north, so most of the work runs remote, but we can come up for the kickoff near Downtown or Sunny Hills when it makes sense.

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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