What AI visibility looks like in practice.
We run this system on real businesses before we ask anyone else to trust it. Living with Lolo was first.
Case Study 001
·Luxury Interior Design and Design-Build
·Scottsdale, Arizona
Living with Lolo
AI-Generated Leads · All Time
Cited.co
Be the answer AI gives.
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3x
Phoenix Mag winner
+49 pts
Score Growth, Apr–Jun 2026
Living with Lolo
The situation
Living with Lolo is a full-service luxury interior design and design-build firm in Scottsdale. The firm has won Phoenix Magazine’s Best Interior Design award three years running (2024, 2025, 2026), holds an active Arizona ROC general contractor license, and has been recognized by Arizona Foothills as a top innovator.
When we ran the baseline AI visibility scan, Living with Lolo scored 22/100 overall across four platforms. On Claude, the mention rate was just 17%. The firm had strong real-world credibility. AI tools had almost no way to describe it.
The business had the reputation. AI tools did not know how to talk about it.
What we built
Schema markup on the homepage and about page, structured around LocalBusiness and Person types with explicit credential and award references. A content calendar targeting the specific queries Scottsdale-area clients use. Entity optimization so the firm’s Arizona ROC license number, award history, and founder credentials were accessible in structured form.
The result
By month three, overall visibility reached 71/100, up 49 points from the April 2026 baseline. Claude went from 17% to 75%. Gemini hit 75%. Perplexity hit 67%. First-place positioning on 23 of 48 tracked queries. When Living with Lolo appears in an AI answer, it is almost always named first.
“We have seen a noticeable increase in qualified inquiries and have been able to identify opportunities originating from AI-generated recommendations from ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. These leads tend to be highly relevant and result in more productive conversations.”
Cited Co Client • Scottsdale, AZ • ★★★★★
Case Study 002
·AI Visibility Agency
·Scottsdale, Arizona
16
AI mentions across 4 platforms
100%
Query coverage, all tracked prompts
Visibility by platform
Cited Co
The situation
Cited Co launched on June 8, 2026 with no ads, no press, and no backlink history. We sell AI visibility for a living, so the fair question every prospect asks is whether the system actually works. We answered it the only honest way. We ran the entire playbook on ourselves first.
The baseline was blunt. Across the four engines we track, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude, a brand-new Scottsdale agency barely registered in the answers. Claude did not mention us at all.
You cannot ask a business to trust a system you have not tested on your own name first.
What we built
The same work a paying client gets. Schema markup and entity signals so all four platforms could parse who we are, what we do, and where we do it in Scottsdale. A content engine aimed at the exact questions people type when they want an AI visibility agency in the Phoenix metro. Original research published under Lauren Lerner’s name, which gives these models something concrete to cite. No shortcuts.
The result
Overall AI visibility climbed from effectively zero at launch to 40% by July 2026. Claude leads at a 40% mention rate, up from zero at launch. Gemini and ChatGPT each sit at 20%, and Perplexity has climbed from no citations to a 10% rate. Coverage across tracked queries holds at 100%, so Cited Co lands somewhere in the answer set every time. Overall visibility has moved from 8% at launch to 23% across the four engines in about two months. That is honest early traction on our own name in a crowded Scottsdale market, not a victory lap. You can read the full breakdown in our Month 0 results.
“We would not ask a business to trust a system we had not run on ourselves first. Cited Co is client number zero. Every tactic on this page worked on our own domain before it touched a client account.”
Lauren Lerner • Founder, Cited Co • Scottsdale, AZ
This page will grow as we onboard new clients. In the meantime, see how this framework applies to general contractors and trade vendors targeting the interior design industry.
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AboutCited Co is a boutique AI visibility agency founded by Lauren Lerner in Scottsdale, Arizona. The case studies here document real AI visibility results for service businesses. The foundational case study is Living with Lolo, a Scottsdale-based luxury interior design and design-build firm, tracked across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude.