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 outranks a bigger market's competitors inside Perplexity
Engine: Perplexity · Date: July 18, 2026 · Query: "dustless blasting Naples FL"
What we observed: the places panel in Perplexity's answer listed SWFL Media Blasters first, showing its 4.8 rating with 25 reviews and its real Naples address, ahead of blasting companies from as far away as Miami. 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 five words. Panels vary by session and location, so what you should expect is the client competing at or near the top of a regional answer, not a guaranteed slot.
Receipt 2: the AI engines know exactly who the client is
Engine: Perplexity · Date: July 18, 2026 · Query: "who is SWFL Media Blasters in Naples Florida"
What we observed: a full, accurate company profile assembled from 10 web sources: mobile media blasting, the correct Naples base and service area, the blasting media they actually use, and their real registration details. 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 cites naplesseo.com as a source, including about a competitor
Engine: Perplexity · Date: July 18, 2026 · Query: "best SEO company in Naples FL for AI search"
What we observed: the answer cited naplesseo.com as a source, including for its description of a competing Naples agency. To be precise about what this is and is not: our site was used as a cited source in the answer, and we were not one of the agencies the engine recommended in that session. Both halves of that sentence are the truth. The part we can control, being readable and quotable enough for an engine to cite, is working. One reason it happens: a competing agency that sells AI optimization blocks AI crawlers from its own site, so engines lean on pages that describe it, including ours. The full dated teardown of that robots.txt 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 July 18, 2026.
- naplesseo.com/llms.txt returns HTTP 200 and hands AI crawlers a curated map of the site. Verified July 18, 2026. What that file is and why it matters: llms.txt explained.
- swflmediablasters.com/robots.txt is fully open to every crawler. That is not an accident, it is the readiness work behind Receipts 1 and 2.
- One competing Naples agency that markets AI optimization disallows 8 AI crawlers by name in its robots.txt, including GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended, and CCBot, and returned HTTP 403 to an AI-flavored research fetch. Re-verified July 18, 2026. Named, with the full 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. 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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