Everything owners ask before working with SummitCited — pricing, timelines, methods, and the questions most agencies answer sideways. If yours isn't here, email admin@summitcited.com and ask it directly.
When a customer asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Google AI who to call, the engine names two or three businesses instead of returning ten links. Generative engine optimization is the work of becoming one of those names, by fixing the inputs the engines actually read: your Google Business Profile, your reviews, the directories and best-of lists they quote, your site structure, and your structured data.
SEO earns a spot in a list of links; generative engine optimization (GEO) earns a spot in the answer itself. The inputs overlap — reviews, citations, site structure — but GEO puts more weight on being quotable: direct answers to real buyer questions, structured data machines can read, and presence on the specific lists engines cite. Good GEO work strengthens SEO as a side effect.
The audit is $99 and is delivered within five business days. You get twelve real buyer questions from your trade run live across four AI engines with screenshots, a results grid showing who was recommended and where you were absent, an explanation of why the winners win, and a prioritized fix list. The full $99 is credited toward any SummitCited package within 30 days.
Four: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Each of the twelve buyer questions is run live in each engine the way a customer would ask it, and every answer is screenshotted the moment it appears, because AI answers change from run to run.
No. The audit is run entirely from the outside, the same way your customers see you — no logins, no website access, no Google Business Profile access. All we need is your business name, trade, and service area.
No, and no one legitimately can. AI answers vary from run to run and no engine sells placement. SummitCited sells verified snapshots of where you stand, consistent execution against the inputs the engines read, and monthly reports showing movement. Anyone promising a guaranteed AI ranking is not telling the truth.
Expect movement in months, not days. Review velocity and Google Business Profile changes commonly show effects within four to eight weeks, while directory placements and site restructuring compound over a quarter. That is why a monthly monitor report is built into every package rather than sold as an extra.
Found First is $5,000 setup plus $250 per month for trade services, and $10,000–$15,000 setup plus $750 per month for compliance-heavy industries, because the citation and directory work differs by industry. Some industries we decline outright, and fit is confirmed on the strategy call before anyone pays. There is no long-term contract, and any audit or playbook you already bought is credited in full toward the setup fee.
Yes. Some industries we decline outright — the ones where the honest version of this work cannot be done, or where the claims a business needs to make cannot be substantiated. Fit is confirmed on the free strategy call, before anyone pays for anything. If we are not the right fit, we say so on that call rather than after the invoice.
No. Found First is month to month after setup. The monthly monitor report is how we earn the next month — if the movement isn't there, you can see it in your own report and leave with everything we built, which stays yours.
Because the methods are not the hard part; the 40-plus hours of unfamiliar execution is. Owners with time save thousands doing the work themselves from the $2,000 Capability Deck, and owners without time learn exactly what they would be paying for. The $2,000 is credited toward implementation within 60 days either way.
Because we don't have client reviews yet, and we will not invent them. SummitCited is a young firm whose entire product is exposing thin and fabricated digital records — publishing fake proof would make us the thing we audit. The proof we publish instead is a real, screenshotted audit finding, anonymized to protect the business. When client results are publishable, they will appear here held to the same standard.
SummitCited serves Utah County, Utah, including Provo, Orem, Lehi, American Fork, Pleasant Grove, Spanish Fork, Springville, Payson, Saratoga Springs, Eagle Mountain, Vineyard, Lindon, Highland, Alpine, and Mapleton. Audits are run remotely, so businesses outside Utah County can be served as well.