AI Trust Signals
Built for business owners, not search experts

People still buy from businesses they trust. Now they ask AI first.

When a buyer asks ChatGPT who to call, AI gives one answer, not ten links. AI Trust Signals shows you why AI recommends some businesses and skips others, then we help you become the one it picks.

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10,000+ businesses checkedCo-founded by Marcus SheridanChecksPlans start at $25 a month

Don’t take our word for it. Ask AI.

Pick your industry. Pick your town. We’ll show you who AI is recommending there right now, next to the Google rankings you’ve spent years earning.

Most owners find their competitors on the list. Not themselves.

The way people find you changed.

Google gave buyers ten links.

For twenty years the game was rank high and get the click. You know that game. You’ve probably paid people to play it.

AI gives them one answer.

Now buyers ask ChatGPT and Gemini who to trust. AI hands back a name or two. There is no page two.

If it’s not you, you never know.

The buyer never sees your site and never calls. You lose jobs to a list you didn’t know existed.

Showing up in AI and getting recommended are two different things.

Being cited is not the same as being trusted.

AI doesn’t recommend the business that shows up the most. It recommends the one it trusts the most, because the person asking is about to spend real money. And trust runs on things you can actually build: whether AI can read your site, whether you’ve answered the questions real buyers ask, whether your reviews and proof are easy to find, and whether your good name shows up beyond your own website.

Almost nobody works on these things. That’s your opening.

Your opening is knowing, and nailing, the proof points that AI prefers.

ChatGPT
Weak AI Trust Signals
1. Summit Heating and AirConsistent info across the web
2. Beacon Home ServicesAnswers the questions buyers ask
Your business: not in the answer.
ChatGPT
Strong AI Trust Signals
1. Your businessClear info, strong proof, easy to read
2. Summit Heating and AirAlso well reviewed
Your business: the first name AI gives.
Same question. Same town. Trust decides the answer.

Three steps. You pick the speed.

1

See it. Free.

Type in your industry and your town. Watch who AI actually recommends. No signup, no card, no sales call.

2

Fix it. $25 a month.

Your AI Trust Signals report shows why AI skips you. The Workbench walks you through the fixes, in order, with plain instructions at every step. Try everything free for 10 days.

3

Or we fix it for you. $5,000 one time.

See the plan and want it handled? Our software does the heavy lifting and our people handle the judgment calls. Done in weeks.

Plain words. Real answers. One score.

Your AI Trust Signals Score

One number that tells you where you stand, built from 19 signals AI checks before it recommends anyone. Click any signal and see, in the AI’s own words, how you earned your score.

The gatekeeper changed. The buyer didn’t.

Marcus Sheridan spent twenty years teaching businesses one thing: answer your buyers’ real questions honestly, and they’ll trust you with their money. That advice built thousands of businesses back when Google was the gatekeeper. Now AI is the gatekeeper, and it rewards exactly what Marcus has taught all along.

He isn’t chasing AI. AI caught up to him.

New York Times article about Marcus Sheridan: A Revolutionary Marketing Strategy, Answer Customers’ Questions
The New York Times on Marcus, 2013

From owners like you

"Loving the Marcus AI via AI Trust Signals. It's informative, to the point and quite funny at times."

Jason Stowell
Jason Stowell
Marketing professional and graphic designer

"As a solopreneur, I'm anticipating this to make my life SO MUCH EASIER because it will tell me where I'm doing well and where to improve so I can work WITH AI instead of feeling so far behind."

Sandra B.
Sandra B.
Solopreneur

"I loved being an earlier adopter of They Ask, and I now feel I can have the same level of confidence that the results will continue to improve with AI. The reassurance that this information is coming from such a source that I know and trust is huge."

Phil Coleman
Phil Coleman
Business owner

"Your work on AI Trust Signals gives leaders a measurable way to see where they stand and where they are vulnerable. I will be running our own score, and I will be encouraging my clients to do the same."

Paul Wallis
Paul Wallis
Managing Director, Hantec Systems
Quotes verbatim from LinkedIn and community posts

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