Get your security company recommended by AI.

It's the work that gets your business named when somebody asks Google or ChatGPT a question like 'who installs security cameras near me?' or 'best alarm company near me?' Regular SEO is about showing up in the blue links on a Google results page. AI Search Optimization is about being the business the AI mentions BY NAME when it gives a one-paragraph answer. We structure your site, your schema, and your content so both Google and ChatGPT have what they need to recommend you.

Regular SEO gets you ranked on Google's blue-link results page — one of ten spots a customer still has to scroll through and choose from. AI Search Optimization gets you cited in the actual AI-generated answer. When somebody asks Google or ChatGPT 'what's the best alarm company near me?', the AI hands back one recommendation, not ten links. If your security company isn't the one it names, you're invisible to a fast-growing portion of buyers. You still want traditional SEO running — but AI search is a separate game your competitors aren't playing yet.

It's real, and it's moving fast. About 40% of people under 35 now use AI assistants like ChatGPT instead of Google to find local services, and that share grows every year. Google itself now writes an AI answer at the top of a big share of searches. For a security company, that means a homeowner or facility manager can ask an AI 'who installs security cameras near me?' or 'best access control company in [city]?' and get a direct recommendation — without ever scrolling a results page. The buyers are already there.

Traditional Google search shows ten results and lets the customer pick. AI search doesn't work that way — when someone asks ChatGPT or Google AI who the best alarm, CCTV, or fire company is, the AI usually names one business. There's no page two and no runner-up. That's what 'winner-take-all' means: the security company the AI trusts and recommends gets the call, and everyone else is invisible for that question. It's a much bigger prize than ranking sixth on a Google page.

Two reasons. First, less than 1% of security companies are optimizing for AI search today — so the field is wide open in a way local Google SEO hasn't been in fifteen years. Second, AI favors established authority: the longer your structured data, citations, and content have been building, the more the AI trusts you. Move first and you can lock in a two-to-three-year head start before your competitors even realize this is happening. Search has shifted before — Yellow Pages to websites, websites to Google, Google to mobile — and the businesses that moved early won each time. This is the next shift.

It's a build, not a quick trick — most security companies see meaningful movement on a 90-to-120-day timeline as structured data indexes, authority signals accumulate, and citation-ready content lands. Some local markets move faster (low-competition areas), and competitive markets like commercial security take longer. Because AI rewards established authority, the work compounds: the earlier you start, the stronger your position gets. The dashboard shows the trend so you can watch your AI visibility climb week over week.

Two answers. The free 60-second AI search audit at aisecurityedge.com/audit costs $0, no signup — that's a one-time grade you can run on any website. The full AI Search Visibility Dashboard (weekly scans of Google and ChatGPT, competitor benchmarking, opportunity-prompt detection, the auto-fix loop that writes the fixes back into your site every Monday, plus the weekly digest email) is bundled into BOTH Smart Website ($297/mo) AND Smart Site + Voice ($497/mo). The $97 Launch Website tier is brochure-only and does not include the dashboard. HubSpot charges $50/mo for the measurement layer alone — we bundle measurement PLUS the production work that actually lifts the score.

Each week we run 12 to 25 niche-specific prompts — the actual questions your customers ask Google and ChatGPT (things like 'best security company near me' or 'how much does a security system cost') — and we check whether your business name or website shows up in the answer. We count mentions, measure how early in the answer you appear, and roll it up into an overall AI Search Visibility Score from 0 to 100. The dashboard shows the trend over time, the score per engine, and which prompts are winning or losing for your business.

The big two everybody uses: Google (Google AI Overviews — the AI-written summaries that now appear at the top of Google searches) and ChatGPT. We also track Perplexity and Gemini under the hood so the score isn't dependent on a single engine, but Google and ChatGPT are where the vast majority of small-business search traffic ends up today.

A 0 to 100 number that combines three signals — did your brand appear in the AI's answer (50 points), how early in the answer did it appear (30 points), and how many times was it mentioned (20 points). We compute one score per engine plus an overall score. Letter grades: A+ (90+), A (80-89), B (70-79), C (60-69), D (50-59), F (under 50).

Yes. Add up to 3 competitor brand names from the dashboard, click 'Scan competitors', and we run the same prompt set against each one. The dashboard shows a ranked leaderboard — your score vs. each competitor — plus prompt-by-prompt breakdown so you can see exactly which questions they're winning that you aren't.

HubSpot's AEO is a measurement and analytics tool — it tells you how visible you are. Ours does the same measurement plus the production work that lifts the score: schema markup, FAQ blocks, structured data, citation-ready content, and weekly AI-written content fixes targeting your opportunity prompts. They tell you what's broken at $50/mo. We tell you AND fix it, bundled into a $297/mo Smart Website.

Most customers see their first measurable lift within 4 to 6 weeks of going live. The Visibility Score climbs as fresh content lands, schema indexes, and the opportunity-prompt fixes accumulate. Some niches are faster (low-competition local markets) and some slower (competitive markets like commercial security). The dashboard shows the trend so you see it happening.

No. Once you sign up for Smart Site + Voice ($497/mo) or buy the Self-Improving AI Search Optimization agent standalone ($247/mo), the auto-fix loop is on automatically. The agent ships the schema, FAQ blocks, structured data, meta descriptions, and OG images already in place — and writes new fixes back into the site every week. Opportunity prompts auto-route to your Content Creator agent, so new blog posts and schema additions land the following week without your input. You just check the dashboard occasionally to see your score climb.

Yes. The free audit at /audit is a one-time, point-in-time grade — anyone can run it on any URL with no signup or card. It tells you what's broken right now. The AEO Visibility Dashboard is the ongoing tracking + auto-fix product — included with Smart Site + Voice ($497/mo), or as a $247/mo standalone agent for anyone already on a website. It runs weekly, tracks score changes, benchmarks competitors, and feeds opportunity prompts to your Content Creator agent so the score actually improves over time. Free audit = lead magnet. Paid dashboard = self-improving website.