AI Search Visibility for Historic Restoration Architects · SEO / AEO / GEO
Your next client just asked AI who gets a landmark project through SHPO. Were you the answer?
Forever Cited measures how often ChatGPT, Google AI, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity name your firm when an owner needs a restoration architect 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 historic restoration architect near me for a landmark house?”
Every signal that put those three in the answer can be built. None of it is luck.
This is where landmark owners choose now. Two or three names. Everyone else doesn’t exist.
The problem
You get the tax credit approved. AI hands the project to whoever it can verify.
You built this firm on landmark projects and the referrals that follow. But the owner a preservation board member told to “look you up” now asks ChatGPT, Google, or Perplexity who handles historic restoration in their area — and the answer names two or three firms. Usually the ones with the loudest portfolios online, not the ones who have actually gotten a project through SHPO.
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 owners 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 owners 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 owners type before they ever call an architect. Your score is how often your firm is in the answer.
- best historic restoration architect near me
- architect for a historic tax credit renovation [city]
- boutique architecture firm custom residential [metro]
- historic preservation architect reviews
- who handles landmark renovation permits
- how does the historic tax credit process work
- architect who has worked with the state historic preservation office
- cost to restore a landmark house near me
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 Standards and your SHPO’s review. Every piece, every week.
The AIA Code of Ethics, the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards, and your State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) review. Every piece we publish for you is written to the AIA Code of Ethics and the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards for Rehabilitation — and any compliance claim about a specific project is made only after your SHPO’s review confirms 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:
- ✕Promise “guaranteed historic tax credit approval”
- ✕Call a project “Standards-compliant” without SHPO review
- ✕Call anyone an “architect” who is not licensed
- ✕Claim sole authorship of collaborative work
The record AI checks
The record AI checks before it names a historic restoration architect
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 specialty, same office, 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 — freeMethod
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 owners 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 answers with real citations. We draft that authority for you — how the historic tax credit process actually works, what the Standards require, what a SHPO review looks for — grounded in the Secretary of the Interior’s Standards and carrying the review disclosures required. 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 Standards and your SHPO, respected
Nothing publishes without your approval. Compliance claims wait on SHPO review. Review requests are email-only, never gated.
⊞Your project files, untouched
We never access project files or client records. Your confidentiality 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 historic restoration architects actually ask
I get most of my work from preservation-board and word-of-mouth referrals. Why does AI matter to me?
Because referrals get verified now. The owner your colleague referred still looks you up — and increasingly asks AI first. When the answer names two or three other firms and not you, a warm referral goes cold before it ever calls. Visibility doesn’t replace your referral base; it stops it from leaking.
Historic restoration is a niche. Is there really search volume for this?
Yes — it concentrates rather than disappears. Owners of landmarked properties research obsessively before hiring, because a wrong choice can jeopardize tax credits or approvals. That makes AI’s answer disproportionately powerful: a small number of searches, each one high-stakes, each one deciding which two or three firms even get considered.
Is this compliant with the AIA Code and my state’s licensing rules?
By construction. You approve every word before publication, no compliance claim about the Standards is made without SHPO review, only licensed architects are called “architect,” collaborative work is credited honestly, and we never touch project files. Your compliance review happens before anything is public.
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 preservation questions typically compounds over 60–90 days. You see the evidence weekly from day one — including what hasn’t moved yet, measured honestly, not spun to look better than it is.
We already pay a marketing agency. 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 owners are scrolling past. We measure the answers themselves — and traditional SEO is included, not ignored.
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 owners 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 landmark owner 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.