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Cited Co: the AI visibility agency built by someone who needed it and couldn’t find it.
Cited Co is the only AI visibility agency built from a documented, verified client result instead of a marketing hypothesis. Lauren Lerner founded Cited Co after running Living with Lolo through the AI visibility problem herself.
Lauren Lerner
Founder, Cited Co · Founder, Living with Lolo
Lauren Lerner is the founder of Cited Co, a boutique AI visibility agency established in Scottsdale, Arizona in 2026. She has operated Living with Lolo, a full-service luxury interior design and design-build firm, since 2017. Living with Lolo holds Arizona contractor license ROC #347577 and has won Phoenix Magazine’s Best Interior Design award three consecutive years. Cited Co was built directly from the work Lauren did to make Living with Lolo visible to AI tools and the documented results that followed.
Lauren’s personal website and professional hub is at laurenlerner.com.
Those two things are not unrelated.
When AI tools became a real part of how clients discover service businesses, Lauren started testing them. She asked ChatGPT about the best interior designers in Scottsdale. She asked Perplexity. She asked Gemini. She asked Claude. Her own award-winning firm barely showed up.
The problem was not her reputation. The problem was that AI tools did not have enough structured, credible, well-organized information about her business to cite it.
So she built the system to fix it. See the Living with Lolo case study for the full story. First for Living with Lolo. Then she turned it into an agency.
Cited Co exists because service businesses with real reputations deserve to be the answer when someone asks AI who to hire.
How we work
Small roster.
We cap the number of clients we take on. Every business gets consistent, personalized attention from a strategist who knows their industry.
Expert authority.
We act as your expert partner and make the right calls for your AI visibility. We execute with authority, not with a permission slip.
Measurable every month.
We track visibility scores across four AI platforms every single month. You will always know exactly what is changing and why.
Scottsdale roots.
We started in Scottsdale and we know the Phoenix metro market. Most of our clients are based in Scottsdale and Paradise Valley, but we work with service businesses across the greater Phoenix area. That local specificity is part of how we build visibility that sounds real because it is.
What Lauren Lerner Brings to Every Cited Co Client
Lauren Lerner spent years running Living with Lolo before she ever thought about starting an agency. That experience gave her something most AI visibility consultants do not have: a real understanding of what service businesses need to say to get cited, not just what they need to publish. She tested the methods on her own firm in Scottsdale, Arizona before she offered them to anyone else.
The results were documented. The Living with Lolo case study shows exactly what changed, when it changed, and which AI platforms responded first. Cited Co clients in Scottsdale, Paradise Valley, and across the Phoenix metro area follow the same process. Lauren Lerner reviews every deliverable personally. No junior strategists, no templated output, no guesswork about what ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Claude actually need to cite a business with confidence.
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Entity information
Cited Co, by the facts
| Business name | Cited Co |
| Founder | Lauren Lerner |
| Founded | 2026, Scottsdale, Arizona |
| Address | 8648 E. Hackamore Dr., Scottsdale, AZ 85255 |
| Phone | (602) 730-4082 |
| Specialty | Generative engine optimization, entity optimization, AI-cited content |
| AI platforms tracked | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google Gemini, Claude |
About Lauren Lerner
The Story Behind Cited Co
AboutLauren Lerner founded Cited Co in Scottsdale, Arizona after her own interior design and design-build firm, Living with Lolo, barely appeared when people asked ChatGPT or Perplexity for local recommendations. Cited Co now helps service businesses across Scottsdale, Phoenix, and the broader Southwest get cited across all four AI platforms. For industry-specific strategies, see the GEO playbook for interior designers or the AI visibility playbook for med spas.
Read the Service Business AI Visibility Report 2026 to see what Cited Co scan data reveals about AI visibility across service niches, and what the most competitive businesses are doing differently.