Answer Engine Optimization for small business

AI is already answering your customers. Is it recommending you?

Onomaris.AI measures how accurately ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI search understand your business—then closes the gaps that keep them from sending customers your way.

The Shift

Search stopped being a list of links

Traditional SEO optimizes for ranking. AI optimizes for confidence. If an assistant is not certain what you do, where you do it, and whether you can be trusted, it recommends someone it is certain about.

1 answer
not ten blue links

AI assistants return a single recommendation. Being on page one of Google no longer guarantees you are in the answer.

50%+
of buyers now start with AI

Customers ask ChatGPT and Perplexity who to hire before they ever open a search results page.

20-40
typical starting score

Most small businesses have never been optimized for AI retrieval, so AI hedges instead of recommending them.

The Metric

The Authority Index™ — a credit score for AI visibility

One number from 0 to 100 that says how confidently AI platforms can recommend you. Like a credit score, it is measurable, comparable, and improvable.

0-40
Poor
41-60
Fair
61-80
Good
81-100
Excellent
What We Measure

Seven factors, one score

Every point in your Authority Index™ comes from one of these. The weights are published, so nothing about your score is a mystery.

  • 1
    Citation Consistency20%
  • 2
    Schema Markup15%
  • 3
    FAQ Optimization15%
  • 4
    Authority Signals15%
  • 5
    Content Quality15%
  • 6
    Lead Capture Infrastructure10%
  • 7
    Chatbot Engagement10%
The Engagement

Measure, fix, track

No retainers for work you cannot see. Every engagement starts with a number and is judged by whether that number moves.

Step 1

Measure

We audit your citations, structured data, content, and authority signals, then score them as one Authority Index™ number out of 100.

Step 2

Fix

You get the gaps ranked by how many points each one is worth, so the cheapest high-impact work happens first.

Step 3

Track

We re-score monthly and watch how AI platforms actually answer questions in your category, so progress is visible.

“A Buffalo real estate agent went from 23 to 67 in 90 days — three extra qualified buyer leads a month from AI search, worth $30K-45K in potential commission.”

The work was not exotic: consistent citations, real structured data, and answers written for the questions buyers actually ask.

Find out what AI says about you

The AI Visibility Snapshot is free, takes two business days, and comes with no obligation. You will know your score and exactly what is holding it down.