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We don’t have office hours. We have phones.
No forms. No “book a call” calendar. If you want this fixed, call.
(813) 784-5211Your $2 million buyer is asking AI who to call.
Right now.
Is it handing him your name — or your competitor’s?
Your buyers stopped scrolling Google and started asking AI a question — then trusting the answer. When the AI answers, it can’t read your beautiful photographs. It reads structure, specifics, and proof. If your site doesn’t give it those, it cites someone else. I fix that. I know I can, because I did it for my own business first.
Here’s what that looks like.
This is a real business that was invisible to AI search — and now isn’t. Same queries a buyer would actually type. Every result dated, every citation live.
Named. Query: “glazed enamel countertops florida.” Google’s AI doesn’t just cite the business — it recommends it by name, above a century-old European incumbent. When the answer engine names one company, there is no second place.
11 of 11. Query: “glass bar tops Florida.” Every citation across the entire result — the main answer and the sidebar — traces back to the same business. Not a share of the category. All of it. Air dominance.
Weeks from a cold start. That’s the method. It’s repeatable.
Why you’re invisible — and it’s fixable
The traffic moved. The overlap between top Google links and the sources AI actually cites has fallen below 20% — so ranking on Google no longer means getting found by AI. They’re two different games now, and almost nobody is playing the second one on purpose.
AI answer engines cite structured, specific, verifiable content. A gorgeous site built on photographs and glowing testimonials gives them nothing extractable. The work exists — the machine just can’t read it. That’s not a flaw in your business. It’s a format problem, and format problems are fixable fast.
What I build for you
Citation-engineered project pages and blogs — your real work, your real client stories, restructured so AI answer engines can find, trust, and quote them. FAQ schema, named entities, verifiable proof, clean markup. I deliver finished files to your inbox; your team publishes them. I never touch your website.
Old projects, newly published, rank beautifully. You may already have everything we need — it just needs to be built to be cited.
See the offerings & pricing →Who builds this
I’m Jeff Downing. Before I spent 25 years as the sole craftsman behind a luxury architectural glass studio — with work in the homes of Palmer Luckey, Prince Aga Khan IV, and the CEOs of Taiwan Semiconductor and Norwegian Cruise Lines — I spent two decades as a top enterprise-technology closer for Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Philips, winning against GE and Siemens. Chemistry degree, University of Pittsburgh.
That combination — enterprise sales discipline, a chemist’s rigor, and a working craftsman’s first-hand voice — is exactly what AI citation engines reward and what generic agencies can’t fake. Built to Cite is the same method that took my own business from zero AI citations to category dominance, applied to yours.
Questions people actually ask
Why isn’t my business showing up when AI engines answer buyer questions?
The overlap between top Google search results and the sources AI engines actually cite has fallen below 20%. Ranking on Google no longer means getting found by AI — they are two different games. AI answer engines cite structured, specific, verifiable content, and a site built mainly on photographs and testimonials gives them nothing extractable. The work isn’t the problem; the format is, and format problems are fixable fast.
What does Built to Cite actually build?
Citation-engineered project pages and blog posts built from a business’s real work and real client stories, restructured so AI answer engines can find, trust, and quote them. This includes FAQ schema, named entities, verifiable proof, and clean markup. Finished files are delivered to the client’s inbox for their team to publish; Built to Cite never touches the client’s website directly.
Who builds this?
Jeff Downing, founder of Built to Cite. Before this, he spent 25 years as the sole craftsman behind a luxury architectural glass studio, with work placed in the homes of high-profile clients, and two decades before that as a top enterprise-technology sales executive for Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and Philips. He holds a chemistry degree from the University of Pittsburgh.
How fast does AI citation optimization work?
In Built to Cite’s own case study, a business went from zero AI citations to owning its category in Google AI Overviews and AI Mode within four weeks of a cold start. The method is repeatable across other businesses’ existing project work.
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