Lately a big chunk of my week (4–7 hrs) goes into getting clients mentioned in ChatGPT / Perplexity / AI Overviews answers. Mostly it’s finding the pages the AI keeps citing and getting the brand added there.

The painful part is outreach. Half the time email gets ignored, so I end up hunting for the owner’s WhatsApp or calling them. Plenty want payment too. And honestly I rarely check whether the AI answer actually changed afterwards.

Curious how others do it:

Is there a smarter way I’m missing?