AI citations, receipts attached
Screenshots can be edited. Queries cannot. Every receipt on this page is dated, states exactly what we observed, and tells you how to reproduce it yourself in about thirty seconds.
This page is our AI-visibility proof, published the honest way: dated receipts you can reproduce instead of screenshots you have to trust. Each entry records the engine, the exact query, the date, and precisely what we observed, nothing more. We re-run these checks monthly and re-date whatever changed, in either direction.
How to read this page
Anyone can paste an AI screenshot into a pitch deck. We would rather hand you the query. Every receipt below was recorded in a fresh, signed-out session, and each one states exactly what appeared. AI answers vary by location, session, and week, which is the whole reason each receipt carries a date. If you run a query and see something different, that is real too, and it is why we re-check monthly instead of framing one good day.
Client receipts
Receipt 1: the client dropped out of this answer after leading it in July
Engine: Perplexity · Date: October 3, 2026 · Query: "dustless blasting Naples FL"
What we observed: the answer listed a different Naples blasting company first, then dustless blasting companies from elsewhere in Florida that the answer grouped under nearby areas, with a note to confirm they serve Naples, then a Better Business Bureau category page. SWFL Media Blasters did not appear in the answer or among its ten sources, and no places panel was shown. On July 18, 2026, the places panel for the same query listed SWFL Media Blasters first, with its 4.8 rating from 25 reviews and its real Naples address. This receipt got worse, and we are publishing it because this page promises to. This is the client whose local SEO work we document publicly in the SWFL Media Blasters case study.
Reproduce it: open Perplexity and ask the same four words. Answers vary by session and location, so treat this as one dated reading, not a permanent position.
Receipt 2: the AI engines know exactly who the client is
Engine: Perplexity · Date: October 3, 2026 · Query: "who is SWFL Media Blasters in Naples Florida"
What we observed: a full company profile assembled from 16 web sources, up from 10 on July 18, 2026: mobile surface preparation based in Naples, the blasting media they actually use, their Southwest Florida service area, their published phone number and hours, and their Florida business registration. We checked it against the company's own website the same minute and found nothing to correct. That is what a clean, consistent web footprint looks like to an answer engine, and building that footprint is the unglamorous half of AI search optimization.
Reproduce it: ask any answer engine who they are. An accurate profile with zero corrections needed is the pass mark.
Our own receipts
Receipt 3: Perplexity now names Naples SEO first of three Naples agencies
Engine: Perplexity · Date: October 3, 2026 · Query: "best SEO company in Naples FL for AI search"
What we observed: the answer named three Naples agencies and listed Naples SEO first, citing naplesseo.com: "Naples SEO (naplesseo.com) offers AI visibility audits and includes AI search optimization in its plans." The answer did not rank the three or call any of them the best, and we are not claiming it did. On July 18, 2026, the same query cited naplesseo.com as a source but did not name Naples SEO among the agencies it listed, so this receipt moved in our direction. The part we can control, being readable and quotable enough for an engine to cite, is the part we work on; what an engine says in a given session is not ours to promise. The dated record of the robots.txt question behind our earlier receipt lives on our comparison page.
Reproduce it: run the query and open the sources list. Citations shift session to session, which is exactly why this receipt carries a date and gets re-run monthly.
Machine-verifiable crawlability receipts
These do not depend on any engine's mood. Anyone can verify them from a terminal in under a minute, today.
- naplesseo.com/robots.txt explicitly welcomes GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ChatGPT-User, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, and Applebot-Extended by name. Verified October 3, 2026.
- naplesseo.com/llms.txt returns HTTP 200 and hands AI crawlers a curated map of the site. Verified October 3, 2026. What that file is and why it matters: llms.txt explained.
- swflmediablasters.com/robots.txt is fully open to every crawler. Verified October 3, 2026. That is not an accident; it is part of the readiness work this page tracks.
- One competing Naples agency that markets AI optimization disallowed 8 AI crawlers by name in its robots.txt on July 18, 2026. On October 3, 2026, its robots.txt welcomed GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended and other AI crawlers by name. That is the right move, and this receipt now records the change. Named, with the full dated record, only on the comparison page.
Want to know where your own site stands? Run the can-AI-read-your-site check yourself, or request a free audit and we will run it for you, baseline first, before any pitch.
The monthly re-run
AI answers move. A dated receipt from July that is quietly wrong by October is worse than no receipt, so this page gets re-run and re-dated monthly. We missed the August and September re-runs; the October 3, 2026 re-run re-dated every receipt above, including one that got worse. If a client result improves, it goes here. If one regresses, the receipt updates too. That policy is the same one behind our written-in-public case studies: we would rather show you a real baseline moving than a highlight reel standing still.
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