AI is already part of buyer research. Are you part of the answer?
Your next customer may be asking AI which companies to consider before they ever reach your website. If competitors appear and you don't, they get the opportunity to make their case while you may never enter the conversation.
Authority Engine manages the strategy, content, authority-building, and ongoing optimization to strengthen your opportunity to be discovered, trusted, and considered.
Why now
Don't wait to find out your competitors got there first.
A competitor doesn't have to be the better fit to be discovered first. If buyers encounter their company throughout their research but rarely encounter yours, your advantages may never enter the comparison.
Not having an AI visibility strategy doesn't pause the competition. It leaves your company without a deliberate response to this part of the buyer journey.
Forrester, The State of Business Buying, 2026: B2B research describing generative AI as a starting point in business discovery and evaluation, alongside continued human validation."If competitors are appearing where buyers can't find you, how long would you want that to go unchecked?"
You don't need another trend to follow. You need a program someone owns.
We identify where your presence needs strengthening, coordinate the work, and keep adjusting it based on what the evidence shows.
How consideration is shaped
IllustrationA buyer researches
"Which companies should we consider for this?"
Companies enter consideration
Some appear repeatedly. Others never come up.
Authority Engine coordinates
Content, authority, community and leadership work in one program.
Your presence strengthens
More reasons for buyers to discover and consider you.
Shortlist forming
Coordinated program
One owner. One strategy. Every stream reinforcing the others.
The managed program
What we take responsibility for.
Get into the conversations that influence who gets considered.
We research the questions, comparisons, and buying situations that matter to your customers, then create and publish useful content explaining your expertise and where your offering fits.
A stronger opportunity to be discovered by relevant buyers, not content volume for its own sake.
Give buyers more reasons to take your company seriously.
We coordinate relevant external links and useful community participation around the same business priorities, so your website and external presence reinforce each other.
A broader, more consistent presence supporting the buyer's evaluation.
Turn visibility findings into ongoing action.
We monitor relevant AI visibility, competitor appearances, and available search and referral traffic. Those findings guide what we build, strengthen, and prioritize next. You also get monthly recommendations for technical visibility issues your team should address.
Measurement that drives the next round of work, not just a report.
Take the coordination off your team's plate.
Patrick leads the strategy and ongoing refinement. Authority Engine manages the program. Your team contributes expertise, approvals through an agreed workflow, and relevant access.
You are not hiring us to hand over another list of tasks. You are hiring us to manage a coordinated response.
The mechanisms, every month
The business outcome remains stronger discovery, credibility, and buyer consideration.
Working together
A practical, repeating cycle.
Establish the priorities
Understand the company, its buyers, existing strengths, and meaningful visibility gaps.
Manage the work
Coordinate content and authority-building around those priorities rather than running disconnected activities.
Review and refine
Explain what changed, what remains uncertain, and what the next round of work should address.
Who leads the work
Dr. Patrick McAvoy's Doctor of Business Administration thesis studied the impact of AI discovery systems on business perception and authority. He leads every program's strategy and refinement, backed by 16 years of demand generation and revenue marketing leadership.
1,038
leads directly attributed to LLM-generated answers
+681.8%
growth in key conversion events from AI-referred traffic
From Patrick's enterprise client work. Individual outcomes vary; not a promise of future performance.
Questions
What serious buyers ask us.
Your competitors may already have a head start. Find out where you stand.
Get your AI Visibility & Revenue Opportunity Report. See how your company compares in sampled AI-assisted buyer research, which competitors appear, what additional customers could be worth, and where Authority Engine would begin.
Free. Personalized to your business. Available online and as a downloadable PDF.
Revenue scenarios in the report are illustrative, not measured losses or promised results.