Patrick Robinson Consulting
I measure where your business is cited, compare it with the named competitors under the same rule, then build the evidence-led content and source surfaces the findings support. One operator, one method, no open-ended retainer and no promised placement.
The offer
The Citation Engine is productised on purpose: you know the price, the deliverable and the timeline before you pay. Async by design, a deliberate capacity cap rather than an apology.
01 · The Audit
02 · The Engine
The £1,500 Audit fee actually paid and not refunded is credited once against the first accepted Engine month. Each month has a separate written scope; there is no automatic renewal. The Audit delivery window starts after cleared payment and complete agreed inputs. Prices are in GBP. Any VAT legally due is stated before written acceptance.
Case Study Zero · Live
This public seven-query tracker uses the same evidence-first principle. The paid Audit uses its separately defined fixed scope.
0 of 28 answer slots cite this site · cited in 0 of 7 buyer queries · baseline measured
Full methodology →The evidence
The strongest evidence here is the published research: 649 classified citation appearances, frozen method, downloadable dataset. Case Study Zero is a separate seven-query experiment using the same evidence discipline on my own site. It is unresolved, and it reports whatever the rescan shows.
Original research
I analysed 649 classified citation appearances across seven AEO questions, four engines and repeated runs. Vendor-owned pages dominated; independent comparisons were rare. Full dataset and methodology downloadable.
Read the report →Case Study Zero
An open experiment: I started cited in zero of seven category buyer queries. The public tracker reports every rescan, whatever it shows. Next scheduled verdict: 17 August 2026.
See the baseline →Essays
Building-in-public writing on how AI search decides who to cite, including the one where I measured which AI SDR tools the answer engines actually recommend, and who has the citation gap.
Read the essays →Questions
When a buyer asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude or Google’s AI for a recommendation, the answer draws on a set of sources. I measure where your business appears, then build evidence-led content, source surfaces and structure designed to improve its eligibility to be cited. The engines decide what they cite, so no placement is guaranteed.
The Citation Engine starts with a fixed-scope Audit. I measure query coverage across Perplexity, ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, compare it with the named competitor set under the same rule, and ship the evidence and priorities. Optional Engine work implements an agreed month of those priorities and, where included in the accepted scope, re-measures the same baseline. Results are reported, not promised.
It is for tech-literate, funded founders who understand the AI-search shift but have no time to act on it themselves. If you have the time and skill to create the evidence-led content and source surfaces yourself, you do not need me. And if your product or your reviews are weak, fix those first. AI visibility will not paper over a real problem.
No. The Audit has a fixed delivery window, but citation outcomes do not. AI engines control their own crawling, grounding and answers, and those answers vary. I measure the baseline, implement the agreed priorities and report what changes without promising a citation rate, ranking, traffic level, lead volume or revenue result.
No. The work is low-touch and async-first by design, with no mandatory discovery calls before paid work. That is a deliberate capacity cap, not a limitation to apologise for. The contact form is the front door for everything.
The measurement is demonstrated; the outcome is reported, not promised. My published research analysed 649 classified citation appearances under a frozen, downloadable method, and the paid Audit applies the same measurement discipline to your category. I also run an open experiment on my own site, Case Study Zero, which started from a measured zero and publishes every rescan whatever it shows. Nothing on this site claims a citation outcome in advance.
Free · 60 seconds
Before you spend a penny on visibility, check whether the engines can fetch your pages at all. CDN settings hide more sites from AI search than bad content does.
Get in touch
No discovery calls before paid work. The contact form below is the right channel for everything else: press, peer questions, and audit inquiries.
