Help buyers find your products in Google and AI search.
Buyers used to ask Google for suppliers. Now they also ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity. Plact publishes your approved product answers so all of them can read, trust and repeat what you supply.
A buyer searches for the product and application, not your company name.
Google shows a list of links. AI tools name two or three suppliers directly. Plact builds and connects the first-party answers both of them read, and checks what each search surface can actually verify about you.
What AI search means for a supplier.
- A buyer opens ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity and asks for a supplier of what you make — the same way they used to ask Google.
- The answer does not show ten links. It names two or three suppliers whose public pages it could read and check.
- If your products, specifications and proof are not published clearly, it names someone else — and you never know the enquiry existed.
Try it now: ask ChatGPT for a supplier of what you make, in your region. See whose name comes up.
What that looks like.
A buyer types a question. The assistant answers with a shortlist of suppliers it could verify, not a page of links.
Who supplies stainless steel flanges to pressure-vessel makers in Germany?
Three suppliers match that requirement:
Supplier A
flange manufacturer · EN 1092-1 · ISO 9001
Supplier B
flange manufacturer · EN 1092-1 · ISO 9001
Supplier C
flange manufacturer · EN 1092-1 · ISO 9001
Is one of them you?
What changes.
- Technical search foundation
- Crawl access, canonicals, metadata, sitemap, performance, structured data and indexable content.
- First-party answers
- Product, application, comparison, guide and FAQ pages grounded in approved business knowledge.
- Consistent company facts
- The same company, product and location details everywhere a buyer or an AI tool might check.
- Dated measurement
- Search Console, Places, SERP receipts, bounded AI-answer checks and page outcomes kept separate.
What stays traceable.
- The query, provider, source, date and sample boundary
- The crawlable first-party page or technical change released
- Search and enquiry outcomes reported separately without a blended score
Related buyer questions.
Common questions.
Is this the same as SEO?
It includes SEO and goes beyond it. SEO helped your pages rank in a list of links. AI tools now name two or three suppliers directly in their answers. Plact prepares your pages for both. Some vendors call the AI part AEO or GEO; the work is the same: clear pages, consistent facts, direct checks.
Can Plact guarantee a Google rank or AI citation?
No. Search engines and answer tools choose what they rank or cite. Plact reports the work, sources, dates, access gaps and first-party outcomes that can be verified.
Is a special AI file like llms.txt enough?
No. An optional machine-readable file can point to your pages, but it cannot replace useful crawlable pages, consistent company facts, evidence, internal links and current public information.