A fixed-scope diagnostic that tests 25 real buyer prompts across four AI engines, benchmarks your citation share against the consultancies that do get named, and fixes the entity and schema gaps in 14 days.
Anonymised result from a UAE study abroad consultancy, 5–50 staff. Your report uses this same format.
A parent in Dubai used to open Google and compare ten links. Now they ask ChatGPT, and it names three or four firms. Everything below the fourth name is invisible.
A search results page had room for everyone. An AI answer has room for three or four consultancies. There is no second page to be on.
Rank trackers report Google positions. They do not tell you whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews or Claude named your consultancy when a parent asked which one to trust.
Every citation a competitor earns makes the next one more likely. The gap widens on its own, and it widens fastest in the months before anyone notices it opened.
Your citation share across 25 buyer prompts and four AI engines, with the rank position and the exact prompts where you were named and where you were not.
The same measurement run against the competitors you name, so you can see who the engines are recommending in your place and how far ahead they are.
The structured data, entity definitions and crawler access that let an engine identify your consultancy and quote it. Done on your site within the sprint, not handed over as a list of recommendations.
What to publish, where to be mentioned and what to measure next, in the order that moves citation share fastest. Written so your team can execute it without me.
The first measurement of which overseas education consultancies AI assistants actually recommend in the UAE and the wider Gulf. Twenty-five firms, four engines, one ranked table — with the methodology and the limitations published in full.
Stated plainly, because a diagnostic bought by the wrong firm wastes your money and my calendar.
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Fourteen years in higher-education and edtech marketing — ISB, Ashoka University, Amity Online and iSchoolConnect — now spent entirely on one question: whether AI assistants name your consultancy when a parent asks.
GrowthCLiQ is one person, not a faceless team. You will speak to me on the call, and I will do the work.
AI assistants recommend a study abroad consultancy when three conditions are met: the business exists as a clearly defined entity the model can identify, its expertise is described in structured, machine-readable text on its own website, and it is mentioned consistently across the third-party sources those engines draw on. Conventional SEO addresses none of these directly. GrowthCLiQ tests 25 real buyer prompts across four AI engines to establish which of the three is failing, then fixes the entity definitions and schema markup that produce citations.
A company usually fails to appear in AI search results for one of four reasons: the AI engine cannot resolve the business as a distinct entity, the website has no structured data describing what the business does and where, competitors are cited more often in the sources the engine trusts, or the site blocks the AI crawlers that build those answers. The reason differs by business, which is why the diagnostic measures before it recommends anything.
Generative engine optimization, also called GEO or answer engine optimization, is the practice of getting a business named and cited inside AI-generated answers from assistants such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Claude. It matters for a business whose buyers research before they buy and choose from a shortlist. A study abroad consultancy in the UAE fits that description exactly: a parent asking an AI assistant which consultancy to trust receives a list of three or four names, not ten links.
Ask each AI assistant the questions your buyers actually ask, repeat each prompt several times because answers vary between runs, and record how often your brand is named and in what position. Doing this credibly requires a fixed prompt set, multiple engines and a scoring method applied consistently. The GrowthCLiQ diagnostic runs 25 prompts across four engines and reports your citation share as a percentage alongside a named competitor set.
Thirty minutes. I will tell you what the diagnostic would measure for your consultancy, and whether it is worth running at all.