AI Search Visibility for Corporate & IP Firms · SEO / AEO / GEO
A founder just asked ChatGPT which patent attorney to call. Were you the answer?
Forever Cited measures how often ChatGPT, Google AI, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity name your firm for patent, trademark, and corporate work in your market — then builds the cited authority those engines draw on. Measured weekly. Proven against a baseline. One firm per practice area, per market — and for firms that compete nationally, the market is the segment you compete in.
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 patent attorney near me for a software patent?”
Every signal that put those three in the answer can be built. None of it is luck.
This is where a founder or general counsel chooses now. Two or three names. Everyone else doesn’t exist.
The problem
You built the deal history. AI never read the deal history.
You built this practice on cited work and on being the firm other lawyers refer up to. But the founder filing a patent, or the GC hiring for a deal, doesn’t start with a referral network — they ask ChatGPT which firm to call. The answer names two or three firms, and if you aren’t one of them, the engagement never even considers you.
Search didn’t die. It moved above the results. AI answers now sit on top of every page Google shows, and engines cite firms with published, cited explainers — not firms with a client list nobody can read. If your firm isn’t publishing, the deal goes to whoever is.
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
41.9%
of U.S. adults would use ChatGPT to research who to hire for a serious legal matter — up from 28.1% in one year.
iLawyer Marketing, 2026
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 practice area, and what we will never do.
What we measure
The questions founders and GCs 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 a founder or general counsel types before they ever call outside counsel. Your score is how often your firm is in the answer.
- best patent attorney near me for a software patent
- trademark lawyer for a startup brand
- m&a attorney for a mid-size business sale [region]
- how much does a patent application cost
- ip litigation firm reviews
- corporate lawyer for a series a funding round
- trademark vs patent vs copyright which do i need
- top-rated ip law firm [region]
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.
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Written to your bar’s rules. Every piece, every week.
ABA Model Rules 7.1 and 7.4, plus USPTO 37 CFR Part 11 for registered practitioners. Every piece we publish for you is written to Rule 7.1 (no false or misleading communication) and Rule 7.4 (no specialization claim without the certifying body named) — and, for registered practitioners, to USPTO 37 CFR Part 11’s conduct rules for patent and trademark practice. 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 a guaranteed patent grant
- ✕Claim to be “USPTO-endorsed”
- ✕Claim an unsupported specialization
- ✕Call you a “top IP firm” or use any superlative you can’t substantiate
The record AI checks
The directories AI checks before it names a corporate or IP 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 practice area, 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 founders and GCs 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 with published, cited explainers. We draft that authority for you — how patent costs actually break down, trademark versus copyright, what a mid-market deal timeline looks like — carrying the disclaimers your bar and the USPTO require. 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 practice area, 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 practice area and market. In writing. Check if your market is open →
✓Your bar rules, respected
Nothing publishes without your approval. Every piece carries required disclaimers. Review requests are email-only, never gated.
⊞Your confidences, untouched
We never access case files, matter data, or client records. Your Rule 1.6 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 corporate and IP firms actually ask
We compete regionally to nationally. Does “per market” even apply to us?
Yes, with the market defined the way you compete. One firm per practice area, per market — and for firms that compete nationally, the market is the segment you compete in, not a radius on a map. You tell us the segment; we put it in writing and turn away everyone else in it.
Most of our work comes from other attorneys and repeat clients. Why does AI matter?
Because the founder or GC on the other end of that introduction still checks first. They ask ChatGPT which firm to call for a patent or a deal before they take the meeting. When the answer names three other firms and not you, that introduction gets weaker. Visibility doesn’t replace referrals — it keeps them from leaking.
Is this compliant with bar advertising rules and USPTO practice rules?
By construction. You approve every word before publication, Rule 7.1 and 7.4 language is built into every piece, USPTO 37 CFR Part 11 conduct rules govern anything touching patent or trademark practice, review requests are email-only with no gating, and we never touch case files.
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 patent, trademark, and corporate work typically compounds over 60–90 days. You see the evidence weekly from day one, including what hasn’t moved yet.
We already pay an SEO agency. Isn’t this the same thing?
Ask them which AI engines named your firm last week, for which prompts. Most can’t answer — they optimize for a results page a founder or GC is scrolling past. We measure the actual answers those buyers are shown, 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 exclusivity — one firm per practice area, per market, the market being the segment you compete in — 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 founders and GCs 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 practice area, per market — for national firms, per segment — so the audit also decides fit, on both sides.
The free audit
Find out what AI says when the next founder asks who to call.
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.