ORBT Labs
AI-citation audit · Mission Viejo, CA

AI-citation audit in Mission Viejo.

Pull a snapshot of what ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity say about your Mission Viejo business right now. Free as a self-serve tool, or hire me to fix the gaps and prove the change ninety days later.

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01 — Why this, here

South County families pick services the way they pick everything — they ask the model.

Mission Viejo is family services, retail, healthcare, education, and wellness — the everyday businesses a household chooses, and households here research before they commit. A parent asks ChatGPT for a pediatric specialist near The Lake. A family asks Claude for a swim school or a music program near Casta del Sol. Someone asks Perplexity for a physical therapist who takes their plan. If the model returns three names and yours is not among them, the family books elsewhere and you never see the inquiry. The audit closes that loop: I run the prompts a real buyer types, against every model that matters, and hand back a plain snapshot of what is said about you and what is said about your category without you in it.

There is a free self-serve version of the tool on this site. Run it on your business. Most Mission Viejo owners do it once, see one model knows them and three do not, then ask how to fix the gap. That is the paid engagement. I take the same audit, deepen the prompt set to fit a parent or a household decision-maker, file the structural fixes against your site, and re-run the panel at day 30, 60, and 90.

A note on scope. My sister studio XALA handles AI-citation work for clinics, dental practices, and real estate brokerages. If you are one of those, I hand you off. Everything else — family services, retail, education, wellness, household services — runs 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 Mission Viejo 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 children's enrichment program near The Lake. Fifteen years of swim and music classes, a waitlist most seasons, but ChatGPT names two newer franchises and skips them on "kids programs near Mission Viejo." We find the program pages are images with no readable text, rewrite them to name the classes and age ranges, ship EducationalOrganization schema, and seed two regional listings. The day-90 snapshot lands them in two of four model answers.

A family wellness studio near Casta del Sol. A loyal membership, invisible to Perplexity for "physical therapy and wellness near Mission Viejo." The free tool returns one buried mention. I rewrite the home page to lead with the verifiable services and the practitioners, add HealthAndBeautyBusiness schema, and seed two regional listings. By day 60 Perplexity quotes the studio by name.

A specialty retailer near the Coto-adjacent corridor. A destination shop with a niche inventory, ranked on Google but skipped by Claude for "where to buy [its specialty] near Mission Viejo." We rewrite the catalog pages to name the categories in plain text, add Store and Product schema, and seed two regional listings. The day-60 panel names the shop in two of three models for the category query.

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 the site has structural issues that block AI crawlers entirely, I name them in the report and either fix the load-bearing pieces inside scope or scope a separate rebuild. The free tool tells you most of what you need before you pay a dollar — that is the point.

The studio is in San Diego. Mission Viejo is about seventy-five minutes up the freeway, so the first conversation can be in person near The Lake if that is easiest. Most of the work runs remote.

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

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