Know what AI search sees, what is missing, and what to do next.

Buyer-question and AI-search test set

Lithium selects and tests up to 10 commercially important questions a prospective customer might ask before choosing a company like yours.

You receive

• The exact questions tested
• The search and AI experiences reviewed
• A record of whether the business appeared
• Visible competitors and recurring answer language

Competitor, citation, and source baseline

The review identifies which businesses, pages, directories, articles, profiles, and other sources are supporting the current answers.

You receive

• Competitors appearing in relevant answers
• Frequently cited or repeated source types
• Obvious authority gaps
• Opportunities to create stronger public evidence

AI crawler and indexing-readiness review

Lithium checks whether the website is technically available to major search and AI discovery systems.

The review covers

• Googlebot and Bingbot access
• OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, and supported AI-search crawler directives
• robots.txt and noindex conflicts
• XML sitemap availability
• Canonical and basic indexability signals
• IndexNow and webmaster-tool readiness

Website clarity and entity findings

Lithium reviews whether the website clearly explains the company, founder, services, customers, location, expertise, proof, and reasons to trust the business.

You receive

• Messaging corrections
• Missing service or question-focused page recommendations
• Entity consistency recommendations
• Suggested FAQ and authority topics
• Priority metadata, schema, and internal-link observations

One factual press release

Lithium develops a legitimate news angle, writes the press release, obtains client approval, and distributes it through Lithium’s standard publishing process.

Included

• Headline and subheadline
• Professional press release body
• One revision round
• Company boilerplate
• Standard digital publication and distribution

Not included: premium national newswire fees, guaranteed media pickup, guaranteed links, rankings, citations, or sales.

Submission-ready page and sitemap plan

Lithium identifies which public URLs should be submitted first and how each submission should be handled.

You receive

• Priority URL list
• Google Search Console submission instructions
• Bing Webmaster Tools and IndexNow instructions
• Sitemap location and submission checklist
• Initial submission assistance when verified accounts already exist and temporary access is provided

New account creation, DNS verification, theme coding, plugin setup, or server changes are implementation work and are not included in the fixed package.

Prioritized AI Search Readiness Roadmap

The final roadmap separates urgent fixes from longer-term opportunities so the client knows where to spend time and money first.

The roadmap is organized into

• Immediate crawl and indexing actions
• Website clarity and technical changes
• Priority pages and authority content
• Profile and public-source consistency
• Press and digital publishing opportunities
• Retesting and measurement recommendations

30-minute findings and next-step call

Brent Nicholson walks the client through the evidence, answers questions, and explains which recommendations can be handled internally and which may require technical implementation.

The call also determines

• Whether a second phase is worthwhile
• Which work Lithium should quote
• What access and platform details are required
• Whether the client prefers one-time implementation or ongoing support