Objective

Measure how Perplexity, ChatGPT, Gemini/AI Overviews, and Claude cite Sam Aguiar Injury Lawyers vs competitors in Louisville, Lexington, and statewide. Produce thorough report, recommendations, and immediately-deployable artifacts to win AI search.

Headline Result

• Perplexity mean visibility: 0.42 → 0.61 (+45%) in 48 hours, despite zero deployment activity on our end
• Two new transactional Louisville wins: LOU-T2 (top-rated PI Louisville) and LOU-T5 (Louisville hit-and-run) both flipped 0 → 3
• aguiarinjurylawyers.com is now #2 most-cited domain in the entire KY PI dataset (12 citations, vs Hughes & Coleman at #1 with 18)
• Sam Aguiar named in answer body 6 times vs Hughes & Coleman 13 times — H&C remains the structural threat
• Lexington remains 0.00 across every working model
• Zero of 10 prior fix-kit recommendations have shipped (verified live)

The lift is real but unattributable to firm action — it could regress on the next pass. Deployment is what locks gains in.

What Was Done

1. Re-ran the 31-query audit pipeline (scripts/run_audit.py) against Perplexity, OpenAI, Gemini, Claude
2. Diagnosed credential failures: Gemini key invalid (P0), OpenAI quota empty (since 04-28), Perplexity needed both vault files sourced
3. Patched run_audit.py to auto-source both .credentials/vault.env and .credentials/api-keys.env
4. Verified live deployment status of every 2026-04-28 recommendation against aguiarinjurylawyers.com and Wikidata — none shipped
5. Authored production-ready Kentucky statewide hub HTML for the currently-404 /kentucky-car-accident-lawyer/ slug — full schema spine inline, 8-Q FAQ, brand-voice screened
6. Authored Hughes & Coleman structural teardown — 8 specific moves they make that we don't, mapped to a 5-sprint matching plan
7. Authored credential rotation runbook for Sam (Gemini + OpenAI)
8. Authored verified deployment-status doc with reproducible curl commands
9. Updated audit README with run-history table and provider availability changes