Search is no longer ten blue links. AI Overviews now appear in roughly 70% of B2B technology searches. When an AI answers, only about 8% of users click a traditional organic result — and the AI itself typically cites just three to four brands. Everyone else disappears. If your category is being summarized by an LLM, the only question that matters is this: are you one of the three brands being cited?

I lead Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) and AI reputation strategy at Reputation Pros, working with SaaS founders, executives, and public figures who need to be present in AI-generated answers. My approach combines a decade of SEO and online reputation management with frameworks built specifically for the AI search era. This isn't keyword stuffing. It isn't astroturfing Reddit. It's structured citation engineering — building the off-site authority and on-site signals that make AI models choose you as the source.

The ARC Method is a three-phase framework I developed for earning AI citations. ARC stands for Audit, Reddit & Reputation, and Citability. The Audit phase measures your current AI visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, and maps what's being cited instead of you. The Reddit & Reputation phase builds authority on the off-site platforms AI models actually trust — Reddit alone accounts for roughly 21% of all Google AI Overview citations, and most brands have no presence there. The Citability phase structures your on-site content so AI can quote it cleanly, through schema markup, content architecture, and cross-source consistency that turn your pages into the source LLMs reach for.

My new book, Reddit, AI Overviews & GEO: The SaaS Founder's Playbook for Winning AI Search Visibility, gives founders a 90-day implementation roadmap to earn AI citations — with weekly tasks, comment frameworks, subreddit scoring criteria, platform-by-platform source analysis, and AI visibility audit templates. No theory. Just the playbook. Available now on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/Reddit-AI-Overviews-GEO-Visibility-ebook/dp/B0GGXGT2GD.

I work with SaaS founders, startup executives, law firms, and public figures who understand that being invisible in AI search is now equivalent to being invisible online. Past clients have ranged from venture-backed startups to billion-dollar enterprises, and my work has been syndicated across Forbes, Inc., and the New York Times. Earlier in my career I served as staff editor and business development manager at Grit Daily, covering the SaaS and startup ecosystem. I studied Business Finance at the University of Wyoming. I'm fluent in English and conversational in Mandarin Chinese, and I live in Taichung, Taiwan.

Whether you're a founder trying to figure out why your competitors keep showing up in ChatGPT answers, or an executive watching your category get summarized without you — I can help.

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