AI Search Visibility for Tax Professionals · SEO / AEO / GEO
A taxpayer with an IRS notice just asked AI who can help. Was it you?
Forever Cited measures how often ChatGPT, Google AI, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity name your firm when taxpayers ask for resolution, planning, and representation — 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
“I just got a CP504 notice and I owe more than I can pay. Who near me actually handles this?”
Every signal that put those three in the answer can be built. None of it is luck.
Taxpayers in a panic don’t compare ten links. They call the first name they trust in the answer.
The problem
Tax demand arrives in spikes. Visibility decides who absorbs them.
Your business doesn’t flow evenly — it surges. Filing season. The notice waves that follow IRS processing cycles. Quarterly deadlines. And when the surge hits, taxpayers don’t browse. They type the whole problem into ChatGPT or Google — best tax preparer for a small business, who can help with an IRS audit letter, enrolled agent or CPA for back taxes — and call whoever the answer names.
The cruelty of the spike is that you can’t catch up inside it. The firms named in February’s answers were the ones who built their authority in October. If your firm isn’t in the answer, the season goes to whoever is — and you never even 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 taxpayers 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 tax professional. Your score is how often your firm is in the answer.
- best tax preparer near me for a small business
- tax professional for an irs audit letter
- enrolled agent vs cpa for back taxes
- tax planning advisor for self-employed [city]
- how to respond to an irs notice
- best tax preparer reviews [city]
- tax advisor for a small business s-corp election
- who can represent me in front of the irs
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 Circular 230. Every piece, every week.
Treasury Circular 230 §10.30, plus your state’s rules. Every piece we publish for you is written to Circular 230 §10.30 — no false, fraudulent, coercive, or misleading solicitation — and to the additions your state has made. 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 refund
- ✕Imply government affiliation
- ✕Promise “pennies on the dollar”
- ✕Create false urgency
The record AI checks
The directories AI checks before it names a tax professional
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 — 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 real taxpayers ask in your specialty and market — resolution, planning, international, sales and use — 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 systems cite practitioners who explain the process honestly — what a CP504 means, how an offer in compromise actually qualifies, when an installment agreement beats a levy fight. We draft that authority with your credentials front and center, free of outcome promises, and you approve every word before it publishes. 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 →
✓Circular 230, respected
No false, fraudulent, or misleading claims — no “pennies on the dollar” promises. Nothing publishes without your approval, and designations are used exactly as prescribed.
⊞Taxpayer data, untouched
We never access returns, transcripts, or taxpayer 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 tax professionals actually ask
What exactly is AEO and GEO, in plain English?
SEO ranks you in the list of links. AEO — Answer Engine Optimization — gets you named in the answer AI gives instead of the list. GEO — Generative Engine Optimization — gets you cited as a source those engines trust. A taxpayer with a levy notice reads one answer, not ten links, so being the answer is the whole game.
My work is seasonal. When is the right time to start?
Before the spike, not during it. Authority that changes AI answers compounds over 60–90 days, so the firms named in filing-season answers built their footprint in the fall. Starting in the off-season means the surge arrives while your name is already in the answer — and it keeps working every season after.
Is this compliant with Circular 230’s advertising rules?
By construction. §10.30 prohibits false, fraudulent, or deceptive claims, so nothing we draft promises refunds, guarantees outcomes, or overstates credentials. You approve every word before publication, and enrolled agent designations follow the prescribed wording. Your compliance review happens before anything is public.
I’m up against national tax-relief advertisers. Can a local firm actually compete?
In AI answers, yes — often better. Engines increasingly weigh verifiable credentials, local presence, substantive published expertise, and corroborating reviews over ad spend. A credentialed local firm that publishes honest, specific answers is exactly what these systems are built to surface.
Do you need access to client returns or IRS transcripts?
Never. We work entirely from public information — your website, directories, review profiles, and what AI engines say about your market. Returns, transcripts, and taxpayer records stay inside your firm.
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 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 taxpayers use for your specialty and market, the actual AI answers showing which firms get 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 notice lands.
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.