Get found by ChatGPT and Claude in Alameda

In October 2026 we checked the websites of 37 Alameda businesses: restaurants and bakeries on Park Street and Webster Street, the makers at Alameda Point, shops, groomers, clinics and contractors. Here’s what stands between most of them and an AI answer:

• Only 2 of 37 had an llms.txt. That’s the short file that tells AI tools what a website is about. Almost nobody here has one yet.
• 4 were blocking ChatGPT or Claude. Not on purpose: a platform setting (Squarespace, Cloudflare) was turning AI crawlers away at the door.
• Most never say what they are. No structured data, or a generic block that never tells a machine it’s a bakery on Park Street that opens at seven.
• The answers live somewhere else. Menus in PDFs, bookings on OpenTable, Tock or Mindbody, tastings on a ticket site. AI answers credit the platform, not you.

• Let the AI crawlers in. We check your robots.txt and platform settings, and open the door to GPTBot, ClaudeBot and PerplexityBot when a setting has quietly shut them out.
• Say what you are, in code. Structured data that tells search engines and AI exactly what your business is, where it is, when it’s open, what it costs and what people say about it.
• Put the answers on your own pages. Menus, rates, services and hours as plain text instead of PDFs and pictures, plus an llms.txt file that tells AI tools what your site covers.
• Match your listings. Google Business Profile, Bing Places, Apple Business Connect and Yelp, all saying exactly what your website says.
• Bookings and sales on your domain. When the booking lives on a third-party site, AI answers credit the platform. We bring it home.

Every engagement starts with the free visibility check: we ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google the questions your customers ask, and show you, in writing, who they name instead of you.

We’re local, so we can meet you on Park Street or at your counter. Visibility setup starts at $1,200 one time. The Grow plan, which keeps your listings, reviews and AI answers current every month, starts at $700 a month. See every package and price.

We built and run the website and booking system for Carson River Resort, where the first paid online booking came in the day after launch and more than 1,000 payments have gone through Alpine to Stripe. We also built Eggbeater, which followed 4,468 Junior Olympics games live.