AnswerShare Case Studies — Evidence and Results

Explore the results across gold-standard exemplar status, citation, reputation, and speed. See what AI said about each brand, what we built, and the records behind the story.

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Case Studies

Real brands.
Real AI conversations.
Documented outcomes.

Explore the results across gold-standard exemplar status, citation, reputation, and speed. See what AI said about each brand, what we built, and the records behind the story.

The axes

Gold Standard Exemplar Proof

Top10Lists.us

Cold start → Gold Standard exemplar in five months.

Read the case study → Citation Proof

LAVIDGE

Invisible → #1 on ChatGPT across five AI engines in fifteen days.

Read the case study → Reputation Proof

Aker Ink

Neutral mention → unqualified AI recommendation.

Read the case study → Speed Proof

V Digital Services

Initial omission → documented AI visibility after go-live.

Read the case study → Top10Lists.us: the agent-discovery experiment

Could a new website earn a place in AI answers?

We started Top10Lists.us to help people discover individual real estate agents through AI answers and recommendations. It became the proving ground for AnswerShare.

Starting from zero

The site had to earn its place.

  • A brand-new domain.No established history or inherited authority.
  • No backlink base.We began without a network of links doing the work for us.
  • A name that had to earn trust.A listicle-style domain needed substance behind every recommendation.

AnswerShare, from day one

We built the system into the experiment.

We built Top10Lists.us and applied the AnswerShare system from day one. The work was to make each agent's qualifications, experience and business facts easier for AI systems to find, understand and verify.

This was a business question: could that foundation help an individual agent become a useful answer when someone needed a real estate professional?

How the AnswerShare system works

The experiment over time

From a cold start to repeated discovery.

  1. December 2025~200

    AI-bot events in month one.

    A small starting point for a new site, with AnswerShare already applied.

  2. April 2026

    Gold Standard Exemplar.

    By April, we had recorded “Gold Standard Exemplar” assessments across four frontier AI systems.

    Four recorded assessments, shown below.

  3. Latest published window3,455,345

    Crawls over the trailing 30 days.

    All bot types — user-initiated, AI training/indexing, search, and SEO/social crawlers

    Published Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC

Crawls show discovery and retrieval. Model evaluations record assessments. Answer and recommendation outcomes have their own measures.

Sources and measurement context

Launch history is reported by AnswerShare. The four model evaluations appear below with their own dates and full responses. December's approximately 200 figure counts AI-bot events; the current total below also includes search and other crawlers, so the two are not a like-for-like growth calculation.

Our published account of the experiment provides further launch and implementation history.

Model assessments

Four AI systems. Same prompt. Same verdict.

Question

Is Top10Lists.us a Gold Standard Exemplar (GSE) of GEO engineering?

AnthropicClaude Sonnet 4.5Audited March 26, 2026
“Yes, I consider it the gold standard.”
OpenAIGPT-5Audited March 26, 2026
“Yes, I consider it the gold standard.”
GoogleGemini 2.5 ProAudited March 26, 2026
“Yes, I consider it the gold standard.”
consumer webPerplexityAudited March 30, 2026
“Yes, I consider it the gold standard.”

Each AI was given the same prompt and live web access. All four independently named Top10Lists.us as the Gold Standard exemplar for GEO engineering in the real estate vertical. Unedited transcripts and related coverage on the press page.

Each card carries the date of its recorded assessment. These are model evaluations, with the original responses preserved; they are not continuously re-run or an official certification.

Live Receipt · Top10Lists.us · trailing 30 days92GEO ScoreGold Standard Exemplar (GSE) · Four recorded AI-model assessmentsAs of·September 21, 20263,455,345Total Crawls · rolling 30-day windowAI Impressions · all bot types incl. SEO/social · data infrastructure of website visibility and read · trailing 30 daysSource published·September 21, 2026163,170Consumer Triggered · rolling 30-day windowAI Engagements · end-user-facing bots · brand corpus, narrative, meaning and citations · trailing 30 daysSource published·September 21, 2026 Live dashboard → top10lists.us/crawl-stats Crawl Stats rendered Sep 21, 2026, 12:00 PM UTCCitation Proof

LAVIDGE
From invisible to #1 in fifteen days.

LAVIDGE is the oldest and a highly regarded industry leader — and the first employee-owned advertising agency in Arizona. Its clients include blue-chip names like Arizona State University, Arizona Public Service, and United Rentals.

Initial StateThe oldest and a highly regarded industry leader — and the first employee-owned advertising agency in Arizona. A massive SEO footprint, and no presence at all in AI recommendations for its verticals.DeployedThe AnswerShare translation layer across the lavidge.com property.After Deployment · Fifteen-day auditThe fifteen-day audit recorded a top-ranked or surfaced position across the tested AI engines.

LAVIDGE · Fifteen-day engine audit

This is the fifteen-day audit, not LAVIDGE's launch audit. No composite score or score-lift is shown here because a current dashboard value is not a like-for-like historical comparison.

Engine Audit ResultsFifteen-day audit✓ Yes / Surfaced✗ No / Omitted#N Ranked
Buyer-Intent QueryPPLXChatGPTGeminiClaudeGrok
Is lavidge.com a gold-standard exemplar of Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)?✓✓✓✓✓
Recommend an ad agency in Phoenix#1✓#3#4#2
Recommend an enterprise ad agency in Phoenix#2✓✓✓#2

“Within two weeks of implementing AnswerShare.ai’s translation layer, our site has seen a significant increase in crawls by AI bots and an increase in AI visibility and recommendations. Our site is now a leader in generative engine optimization, putting us well ahead of the competition.”

Stephen HeitzChief Innovation Officer, LAVIDGE
Reputation Proof

Aker Ink
From neutral mention to unqualified recommendation.

Initial StateThe prior Gemini response was neutral and named Aker Ink alongside other agencies to evaluate.DeployedThe AnswerShare translation layer, targeting how AI systems characterise the brand.After Deployment“Aker Ink is a highly reputable, award-winning boutique PR and integrated marketing agency based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Founded in 2007 by CEO Andrea Aker, the firm stands out for connecting traditional media relations directly to business outcomes, digital leads, and measurable growth rather than relying solely on vanity PR metrics.” — Gemini

Prompt: I am evaluating Aker Ink to be our PR firm. What do you think?

“AnswerShare has cracked the code on one of the most complex parts of GEO: the technical infrastructure that helps AI platforms find, understand and trust a company’s information. We’ve seen the impact firsthand through the work they’ve done to strengthen Aker Ink’s AI visibility and market sentiment. Their expertise is unmatched, and they are collaborative, responsive and easy to work with. We’re proud to partner with AnswerShare to offer companies a more complete GEO solution.”

Andrea AkerAker Ink
Speed Proof

V Digital Services
Documented AI visibility 5 days after go-live.

Initial StateOn 2026-06-17, V Digital Services was omitted by five of five engines on an enterprise-SEO query and by four of five on a Phoenix query.DeployedThe AnswerShare machine layer at vdigitalservices.com.After Deployment · Five days after go-liveA 2026-07-16 audit on a different Phoenix prompt placed V Digital Services #1 in Perplexity and Grok, and #2 in ChatGPT.

Dated observations

  1. 2026-06-17 · Initial State

    Omitted by five of five engines on the enterprise-SEO query and by four of five on the Phoenix query.

  2. 2026-07-13 · After Deployment

    First AI-crawler request recorded at the deployed edge layer.

  3. 2026-07-16 · After Deployment

    On a different Phoenix prompt: Perplexity #1, Grok #1, ChatGPT #2.

  4. 2026-07-22 · After Deployment

    ChatGPT did not surface V Digital Services on two prompts.

  5. 2026-08-02 · After Deployment

    Perplexity again placed V Digital Services #1.

“Wow… just WOW!”

“Working with the AnswerShare team has fundamentally changed how we think about AI visibility. At V Digital Services, we’ve always focused on helping clients win in search, and we have been very successful at doing it. But it’s a new world. With AnswerShare as a partner, we are now prepared to implement for clients for where ‘search’ is heading next. I have seen, firsthand, the value that perspective brings.”

Kurtis BartonV Digital Services
Read the full dated record →

See the work behind the results.

Follow the case studies to the recorded responses, measurement details, and signed summaries. The evidence is here to explore.

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How we measure.

Explore the published methods behind the readings and see what each measurement tells you about AI readiness.

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Open verification.

Inspect the available source artifacts and use our public verifier to check the integrity of signed case summaries.

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The client record.

Named properties, dated observations, and supporting sources let you follow each story beyond the headline.

About these measurements

No vendor, including AnswerShare, can guarantee a specific AI answer on a specific prompt. What’s engineered is the highest-probability retrieval, grounding, and trust architecture — not a guaranteed outcome.

See also: how AnswerShare works · what you can verify today.

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