ORBT Labs
AI-citation audit · Corona, CA

AI-citation audit in Corona.

Get a clear snapshot of what ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity say about your Corona business today. Free as a self-serve tool, or hire me to close the gaps and prove the change ninety days later.

Start a brief Or email hello@orbtlabs.com
01 — Why this, here

Corona's distribution and B2B base gets sourced through AI now.

Corona is a logistics and industry town — distribution centers, manufacturers, the trades, and the family businesses and retail that grew up alongside them. Sitting at the freeway crossroads of the Inland Empire, a lot of Corona's commerce is business-to-business: someone needs a supplier, a distributor, a fabricator, a service contractor. That sourcing has moved. A buyer now asks an AI model for "a distribution partner near Corona" or "a metal fabricator in the Inland Empire" and works from the names the model can verify.

The audit shows you what the buyer sees. I run the prompts a real purchasing contact would use, against every model that matters, and hand back a black-and-white snapshot: where you get cited, where a competitor gets cited in your place, and where your category has a gap nobody is filling. For a distribution or manufacturing business, being absent from the AI answer is the same as not being on the bid list.

One disclosure. ORBT Labs is one person, working from San Diego. My sister studio XALA covers clinics, dental, and real estate — if that is your field, I will hand you off. Distribution, manufacturing, trades, family business, and retail in Corona run through me.

02 — What we build

Free tool first. Paid engagement when the answer is ugly.

  • The free tool — run the audit yourself in about thirty seconds. Same model panel we use in client work; no email gate, no upsell prompt.
  • Paid engagement: a deepened prompt set tuned to your Corona buyer, run against ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini, with answers archived and diffed.
  • A gap report — where the models cite you, where they cite a competitor instead, and where the category has a vacuum nobody owns yet.
  • Schema, entity, and source-credibility fixes shipped directly to your site or handed off as a clean diff for your developer.
  • Day 30, 60, and 90 follow-up snapshots run on the same panel — you see what moved, in plain side-by-side English.
  • A short readout written for a non-technical owner, so the conversation with your marketing person stops being theater.

From Free tool, $1,500 paid engagement · 1 to 3 weeks · Owner-operated.

03 — What this looks like

Three composite scenarios from this market.

A distribution and warehousing operator off the freeway corridor. Reliable regional player, invisible when a shipper asks ChatGPT for "third-party logistics near Corona." The owner runs the free tool and gets nothing back. I do a paid engagement: a services rewrite that names coverage area, capacity, and the verticals they handle, Service schema for each offering, and one credible trade-directory listing. By day 90 they appear in Claude and Perplexity for two of three target query shapes.

A manufacturer near Sierra Del Oro. Strong shop, weak digital footprint, every model recommends a larger competitor. The free tool confirms the blind spot. We ship Organization and Service schema, rewrite the product pages to name materials and run sizes a model can lift, and seed two industry listings. The day-90 panel puts them in the answer set for their core capability prompt.

A family business serving the local trades. Decades of word-of-mouth work, never cited when a contractor asks Perplexity for a supplier in Corona. We rewrite the pages around what they actually stock and serve, add LocalBusiness and Service schema, and earn one local listing. Day-90 snapshot lands them in two of four model answers for their category.

04 — Honest scope

This is an audit and a focused remediation, not a brand overhaul. I do not promise a specific citation count and I do not run paid ads. If structural issues are blocking AI crawlers entirely, I name them in the report and either fix the load-bearing pieces in scope or quote a separate rebuild. The free tool tells you most of what you need to know before you pay a dollar — which is exactly why it is free.

San Diego is studio headquarters. Corona sits up in the Inland Empire, roughly two hours out, so the work runs mostly remote. The first conversation can be a call or in person if it earns its place; the audit is the same either way.

This page was drafted from a structured brief and hand-reviewed before launch. The work itself is custom, owner-operated, never templated.

Have a project in mind?

One paragraph is enough. Start a brief →

Related

Same service · different city

Carlsbad

The same work, in another city we cover.

Different service · same city

AI-native website in Corona

When the audit becomes an ongoing engagement — monthly snapshots, content suggestions, re-audits as models update.