AI Search Visibility for Cape Town Businesses, Get Cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity & Google AI
ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews are how your customers find answers. Is your business in those answers? Smart AI Solutions is a Cape Town–based GEO agency optimising businesses across Cape Town and South Africa for the AI search era.
ChatGPT & Perplexity Visibility Experts in Cape Town
Smart AI Solutions is a Cape Town–based AI search visibility (GEO) agency. We help Cape Town businesses get found and cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. the AI engines your customers now ask instead of scrolling Google. From a free AI search visibility audit to ongoing Perplexity and ChatGPT ranking optimisation, we serve Cape Town, the metro and all of South Africa.
What is Generative Engine Optimization?
GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is the practice of making your website discoverable and citable by AI search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. the tools your customers increasingly use to find trusted recommendations.
Traditional SEO gets you ranked in Google's blue links. GEO gets you cited in the AI-generated answers that appear before those links. The two are complementary: but most businesses have invested nothing in GEO.
Only 23% of marketers currently invest in GEO. In South Africa, the number is even lower. This is the early-mover window.
Traditional SEO
Ranks in blue-link results
GEO
Cited in AI-generated answers
Keyword rankings
Main SEO metric
AI citation frequency
Main GEO metric
What We Deliver
Six focused deliverables that move your business from AI-invisible to AI-cited.
AI Crawler Optimization
We configure your robots.txt to allow ChatGPT, Perplexity, ClaudeBot, and other AI crawlers. We also create and maintain your llms.txt. the emerging standard that tells AI models exactly what your business does and which pages matter most.
Structured Data Enhancement
JSON-LD Schema markup is the language AI search engines understand natively. We implement and expand Organization, Service, FAQPage, Article, and BreadcrumbList schema across your site so AI can extract precise, citable facts about your business.
Content Citability Optimization
AI engines favor content formatted as authoritative answers. We restructure your key pages with answer-block formatting, expertise signals (E-E-A-T), and clear entity definitions: making your content the source AI chooses to cite.
Brand Authority Building
Entity recognition matters. We strengthen your brand's presence across cross-platform mentions, industry directories, and high-authority citations so AI models consistently associate your name with your category.
AI Platform Strategy
ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews each have distinct citation behaviors. We develop a platform-specific strategy for each, ensuring your content surfaces in the AI answers your target customers actually see.
Ongoing Monitoring & Reporting
Monthly AI visibility reports track your GEO score progress, citation frequency, and competitive positioning. You always know where you stand and what's moving the needle.
Why South African Businesses Choose Us
We don't just advise on GEO. We built and maintain our own 100/100 GEO score before advising clients.
100/100
Our GEO baseline score
We achieve full marks on our own audit before asking clients to trust us.
500M+
Perplexity queries/month
AI search is not emerging: it is already how your customers find answers.
73%
SA businesses invisible to AI
Most South African websites have no AI crawler access configured at all.
Early mover
advantage available now
GEO competition in SA is minimal. Your window to own the space is open.
GEO Optimization Investment
One GEO product with two clearly labelled prices. Every engagement starts with a free GEO audit to establish your baseline.
GEO Growth
Bundled with Local SEO
Standalone
No setup fee · month-to-month
One GEO product, two ways to buy it: add it to Local SEO and pay less, or run it on its own.
- AI citation tracking across 5+ platforms
- AI-extractable content formatting
- Schema & entity updates
- Monthly AI visibility dashboard
All prices exclude VAT.
Frequently Asked Questions
Ready to Appear in AI Search?
Start with a free audit to see exactly where you stand, then decide if you want expert help to move the needle.