AI Search Visibility for Architecture & Engineering Firms · SEO / AEO / GEO
Your next client just asked ChatGPT which architecture firm has built this before. Were you the answer?
Forever Cited measures how often ChatGPT, Google AI, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity name your firm when a developer or a building committee is choosing an architect or engineer in your market — then builds the cited authority those engines draw on. Measured weekly. Proven against a baseline. One firm per specialty, per market.
Free · Two minutes to request · No sales call before you see your numbers
- ✓Your 0–100 score
- ✓The actual AI answers, named
- ✓Your three biggest gaps
- ✓Whether your market is still open
“Who is the best architecture firm near me for a mid-size medical office building?”
Every signal that put those three in the answer can be built. None of it is luck.
This is where developers and committees choose now. Two or three names. Everyone else doesn’t exist.
The problem
You delivered the building. AI hands the next one to whoever it can verify.
You built this firm on delivered work and the referrals that follow. But the developer a colleague told to “look them up” now asks ChatGPT, Google, or Perplexity who has actually delivered a project like theirs — and the answer names two or three firms. Usually the loudest ones online, not the ones with your portfolio.
Search didn’t die. It moved above the results. AI answers now sit on top of every page Google shows, and a growing share of developers never scroll past them. If your firm isn’t in the answer, the project goes to whoever is — and you never know the call existed.
45%
of consumers used AI tools like ChatGPT to find a local business in the past year — up from 6% the year before.
BrightLocal, Local Consumer Review Survey, 2026
1.2%
of those businesses is all ChatGPT recommends. The answer is two or three names, and the rest are invisible.
SOCi, Visibility Index, 2026
Weekly
The same prompts, re-asked on five engines every week and scored against a frozen baseline — so you see your firm move, or see that it hasn’t.
The Forever Cited method, published at /methodology
Be the firm AI names when the next client asks. Measured every week. Proven against a baseline you can check.
That is the whole offer. Everything below is how we do it for your specialty, and what we will never do.
What we measure
The questions developers and building committees ask AI — and that we measure for your firm
These are the prompts your audit runs, in your market, on all five engines. They are the questions people type before they ever call a firm. Your score is how often your firm is in the answer.
- best commercial architecture firm for [building type] near me
- structural engineer for [project type] [city]
- top architecture firm portfolio [metro]
- architect for a LEED office building
- commercial engineering firm reviews
- best historic restoration architect near me
- architect for a historic tax credit renovation [city]
- who handles landmark renovation permits
Your audit uses your market’s version of these. The weekly run re-asks every one, on every engine, and shows you the answers.
Which of these name your firm today? The free audit runs every one in your market and shows you the answers, word for word.
See my AI answers — freeGuardrails built in
Written to the AIA Code. Every piece, every week.
The AIA Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct, and your state licensing law. Every piece we publish for you is written to the AIA Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct and your state licensing law — collaborative work credited honestly, “architect” used only for a licensed architect, and no sustainability claim published without the basis behind it. You approve every word before it goes live. Most agencies hand you a draft and hope. We hand you a draft that already passed the rule.
What we will never publish for you:
- ✕Claim sole authorship of collaborative work
- ✕Call anyone an “architect” who is not licensed
- ✕Guarantee a cost or a timeline
- ✕Publish a LEED or sustainability claim without the basis behind it
The record AI checks
The directories AI checks before it names an architecture firm
When an engine decides whether you are who your site says you are, it reads these first. We claim, correct, and verify every one — same name, same license, same portfolio, everywhere.
Is your record consistent on every one of these? One mismatch is enough to drop you from the answer. The audit checks each profile against your site.
Check my record — freeBy specialty
The program, written for your specialty
Method
How your firm becomes the answer
No jargon, no black box. Three moves, run every week, with the evidence in your inbox.
01Measure
Know exactly where you stand
We score your firm 0–100 across the questions developers and committees actually ask in your market — on ChatGPT, Google AI, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, plus classic search, directories, and reviews. That score is frozen as your baseline. Everything after gets proven against it.
02Build
Publish the authority AI cites
AI engines cite firms that publish real project detail with real citations. We draft that authority for you — what a building type actually requires, how a historic tax credit renovation works, what a LEED certification path looks like — grounded in your portfolio and carrying the credit and licensure disclosures the AIA Code requires. You approve every word before anything goes live. Directories, entities, and reviews get fixed alongside it.
03Prove
See your name appear
Every week: the same prompts, re-asked. The actual answers, side by side with your baseline. Which engines name you now that didn’t. What moved, what’s next. If a number didn’t move, you’ll see that too — measured honestly or not at all. How we score.
The engagement
One engagement. Everything handled.
This is done-for-you. Your total time commitment is approving content and reading a five-minute weekly report.
Pricing is shared in your audit readout.
Month-to-month. One firm per specialty, per market — when your market is taken, it’s taken.
Check if your market is open — free auditRisk, reversed
Built so hiring us is the low-risk move
◆Month-to-month
No annual contract. The weekly proof keeps the relationship, not a signature.
◎Market exclusivity
We will never work for a competing firm in your specialty and market. In writing. Check if your market is open →
✓The AIA Code, respected
Nothing publishes without your approval. Collaborative work is credited honestly, and no license or certification claim outruns what’s real. Review requests are email-only, never gated.
⊞Your project files, untouched
We never access project files or client records. Your professional obligations stay exactly where they belong: with you.
⌂You own everything
Every article, page, and profile we build belongs to your firm. Leave anytime; it all stays yours.
!No fake promises
Nobody can guarantee what AI will say. Anyone who does is lying to you. We guarantee measurement, transparency, and work you can verify.
Questions
Questions architecture and engineering firms actually ask
Most of my work comes from developer relationships and referrals. Why does AI matter to me?
Because referrals get verified now. The developer your colleague referred still checks who has actually delivered a project like theirs — and increasingly asks AI first. When the answer names two or three other firms and not you, a warm referral goes cold before it calls. Visibility doesn’t replace your relationships; it stops them from leaking.
Is this compliant with the AIA Code and my state licensing law?
By construction. You approve every word before publication, collaborative work is credited honestly rather than claimed as sole authorship, “architect” is used only for a licensed architect, and no sustainability claim publishes without its basis. Your compliance review happens before anything is public, not after.
How long until AI starts naming my firm?
Directory and technical fixes usually move numbers inside 30 days. Content authority that changes which firms AI cites for a building type typically compounds over 60–90 days. You see the evidence weekly from day one — including what hasn’t moved yet, measured honestly.
We already pay for a marketing or PR firm. Isn’t this the same thing?
Ask them one question: “Which AI engines named our firm last week, for which prompts?” If they can’t answer, they’re optimizing for a results page developers are scrolling past. We measure the answers themselves — and directory and portfolio work are included, not ignored.
How do you handle credit on collaborative projects — the structural engineer, the contractor, the client?
Every piece names the roles actually played: your firm’s scope, the engineer of record, the contractor, and the owner, as the AIA Code requires. We never let a case study read as sole authorship of work that was a team effort. Accurate credit is what makes the claim defensible when an engine or a competitor checks it.
What does an engagement cost?
We share exact pricing in your audit readout, after we’ve seen your market and scope. What you should know now: it’s a done-for-you engagement with market exclusivity — we turn away every competing firm in your specialty and market — billed month-to-month with no long-term contract.
What do I get in the free audit — and what’s the catch?
Your 0–100 score, the real prompts developers use in your market, the actual AI answers showing who gets named, and your three biggest gaps — delivered in a 30-minute readout. The “catch”: we take one firm per specialty per market, so the audit is also how we decide fit, on both sides.
The free audit
Find out what AI says when the next developer asks.
What you get, free, in a 30-minute readout. One audit per firm.
Free. No credit card, no contract, no pitch before you see the numbers. If the audit shows you are already the answer, we will tell you so.