AI Friendly
Millions of people have stopped searching and started asking: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity. The AI answers with three names, not ten blue links. We make sure one of the three is yours.
What's the best fish restaurant in Turin?
In Turin, for fish, three places I often recommend:
The AI names you first, not tenth.
AI SEO, also called GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), is the set of techniques that make a business visible and recommendable in the answers of artificial-intelligence assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity. While traditional SEO aims to appear among Google's links, AI SEO aims to be the answer.
The difference is brutal: a Google search shows ten results and everyone can have a go. An AI answer names two or three restaurants, and the conversation ends there. Either you're in it, or you don't exist.
And this isn't some future phenomenon: it's already happening, above all with tourists and under-40s, the people who decide on the nights out that fill the tables.
AI assistants build their answers by combining three sources: what they've learned from the web, what they find by searching in real time, and the structured data of platforms like Google Maps, Michelin and the main review platforms. They recommend the restaurants they find described clearly, consistently and authoritatively across several sources. If your data is thin or contradictory, the AI picks another name.
In practice the AI behaves like a most meticulous concierge: it cross-references reviews, website, Google Business Profile, guides and articles. It doesn't trust a single source, and it doesn't recommend what it doesn't understand.
That's why AI SEO isn't a trick: it's bringing order and authority to everything about you that exists online. Work that pays off twice, because those same sources are read by flesh-and-blood customers too.
The service
Restomatix's AI Friendly service works on four fronts: we check how the AIs see your restaurant today, we structure your website and data so machines understand them, we strengthen your presence on the sources the AIs consult, and we monitor over time whether and how you're recommended.
We question ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity the way a potential customer of yours would: by area, cuisine, occasion. We find out whether you show up, what they say about you, which competitors get ahead of you and which sources the AI took its information from. It's the starting audit, documented as always.
We mark up your website and menu with the structured data (Schema.org) that describe your cuisine, prices, hours and specialities to the AI in machine language. And we rewrite the content in answer-first form: the answer first, the details after, the format the AIs extract and cite.
The AI cross-references your Google Business Profile, reviews, guides, press and website: if they tell different stories, it won't recommend you. We align every source (name, data, description, strengths) and work to get you cited where the AIs read, from industry guides to local articles.
AI visibility is measured just like visibility on Google. Every month we repeat the key queries and report back whether you show up, for which questions, with what description and against which competitors. That way you see the progress, in black and white.
In 2010 simply opening a Google Business Profile was enough to overtake half your competitors: those who did it first still dominate today. With AI SEO we're at that exact same moment. AI answers tend to settle: once a restaurant gets into the recommendation circuit, dislodging it is hard.
In Italy almost no restaurant is doing this work. The window is open now, and we're already using it for our clients.
This page you're reading is built with the same techniques we sell. Ask ChatGPT about Restomatix.
Google, Michelin and the review platforms: we watch over, from the inside, the sources the AIs draw on.
AI SEO, Local SEO and Google Business Profile together: the AIs read everything, we look after everything.
No, it completes it. The AIs also draw on search results and on the sources that traditional SEO builds: a well-ranked website and a well-kept Google Business Profile are the foundation AI SEO works on. That's why we offer them together.
It depends on your starting point: if the sources about you are already solid, the first results show within 2-3 months; if there's work to build, it takes longer. The free initial test tells you exactly where you stand.
Yes, and increasingly so: above all tourists, groups organising dinners and under-40s. These are extremely high-intent searches: someone who asks 'where shall I eat tonight' books tonight.
No: the answers of AI assistants can't be bought. They're earned with clear data, consistent sources and a genuine reputation. That's good news: the one who works best wins, not the one who spends most on advertising.
With monthly monitoring: we repeat the key questions on the main assistants and document whether you show up, how you're described and who's ahead of you. The same method as the Google reports: only verifiable data.
We'll prepare your AI visibility report free of charge: what ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity say about you, and where they get their information from.
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