Field notes on search, AI, and growth.
Long form thinking from our founder and team. New writing on SEO, AI search, content strategy, digital measurement, and the work we do for brands across Indonesia and the region.
How to Get Your Brand Cited in ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity
To get your brand cited in ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, you need to publish clearly structured, factually specific, and credibly authored content that these engines can extract and trust. Citations are not bought and they are not random. They are earned by being the easiest reliable source for the model to quote.
What Is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)? The Complete 2026 Guide
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the practice of structuring your content and brand presence so that generative AI engines like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews cite, quote and recommend you inside their answers. Where traditional SEO competes for a ranking position on a results page, GEO competes for a sentence inside an AI-generated answer.
AI Does Not Need a Markdown Copy of Your Website
You do not need a Markdown version of your website for AI to read it. The advice telling you to build one has the diagnosis backwards, and acting on it burns enterprise engineering time on a problem you do not actually have.
What 20+ Search Leaders Make of Google I/O 2026 and the AI Search Shift
Google I/O 2026 turned AI into the default layer of Search rather than a feature sitting on top of it. The reactions came fast, and most of them landed on LinkedIn before they landed anywhere else. We read through the breakdowns, the newsletters, the videos, and the published analyses from the people the industry actually listens to, and pulled the signal into one place. More than twenty SEO and GEO leaders, what they agree on, where they split, and the throughline an enterprise team should act on.
Search Intent Classification That Survives Google Updates
A core update rarely changes your rankings at random. More often it re-reads what people want from a query and rewards the pages that match the revised reading. Teams that treat search intent as a label they assigned once, stored in a spreadsheet, and never revisited are the ones who watch positions evaporate and call it volatility. It was not volatility. The intent moved, and their classification did not.
The AI Search Playbook for Staying Visible in AI Search
AI search optimization is how you get your brand named in the answers that ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews give, instead of being a link nobody clicks. Search is moving from ten blue links to one synthesized answer, and the brands that get cited are the ones that win. Our free AI Search Playbook shows you exactly how to be one of them.
Google's AI Already Answers 88% of Indonesia's Child Nutrition Searches
We took 50 of the highest-intent questions parents ask about feeding and raising young children, then checked what Google actually shows. Nine in ten now return an AI Overview, and the category's most visible brand is cited in only half of them. Here is what that means for anyone selling to parents.
Samsung Owns 64% of What Google's AI Says About Phones in Indonesia
We put 266 real buying questions to Google AI Mode in Indonesia and counted every brand it named. Samsung took almost two thirds of the mentions and Apple barely a sixth. Here is how Google's AI already picked a winner, and what the rest of the market can do about it.
When Ranking #1 Stops Being Enough in the Age of AI Search
A leading prenatal nutrition brand was pulling close to 48 million search impressions a month and still watching its traffic slip. Here is what its data taught us about doing SEO in the age of AI Overviews, and what it means for your strategy in 2026.
Google I/O 2026: The 90-Day Playbook for the New AI Search Era
The brands that publish original, structured, machine-actionable content and treat each major AI engine as its own optimization problem will own the next 12 months. The brands that depend on summarizable middle-funnel content and treat Google's guide as the universal map will quietly disappear from the new front door.
Microsoft AI Search Guide That Google Couldn't Write
Microsoft published the AI search guide nine days before Google, and the SEO industry only paid attention to Google's. One is a marketing document. The other is a technical paper from the company that powers ChatGPT. Here is why that matters.
Screaming Frog Finally Speaks Claude
Screaming Frog rolled out SEO Spider version 24.0, and buried under the usual quality of life updates is the feature most of the SEO community has been quietly waiting for. A native Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.
Google's New AI Optimization Guide Tells You How Google Works. It Does Not Tell You About AI Search.
Google's AI Optimization Guide is being read as the playbook for the entire AI search landscape. It is not. Here is what the data actually says, and why SEOs who follow Google's word as gospel keep losing visibility on the engines that matter.
How We Grew a Global Hospitality Brand's AI Search Audience by 450% in a Single Quarter
In one quarter, a global serviced residence and extended-stay hospitality client went from being a quiet challenger inside ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode, and Perplexity to a brand that AI engines actively recommend.
AEO, GEO, and the Real B2B Value in AI Search
The digital marketing industry has a habit of minting new acronyms faster than most founders can evaluate them. AI-powered search, Answer Engine Optimisation (AEO), Generative Engine Optimisation (GEO): each promises to reshape how B2B companies compete for visibility.