How to Use These Prompts Systematically:
Start with Prompt 1 (test your visibility) and Prompt 7 (test competitor visibility) on the same day to establish relative positioning. This tells you how urgent optimization is.
Then use Prompt 3 (identify your atomic claim) to figure out what concept you want to own. Once you have that, use Prompt 6 (create atomic claim page outline) to build the structure.
Before you publish, run Prompt 2 (audit for extraction quality) and Prompt 5 (domain mismatch audit) on your draft to catch structural problems.
After you publish, use Prompt 4 (convert to gold nuggets) on any existing long-form content you want to optimize.
Return to Prompt 1 every 3-4 weeks to track whether your visibility is improving. If it's not, cycle back through the optimization prompts to identify what's blocking citation.
The entire cycle from baseline to optimized visibility takes a few months if you're systematic. Most people will read these prompts and never use them. That's your advantage. The research is public, the techniques are validated, but execution separates those who establish algorithmic authority from those who stay invisible.
Before you optimize anything, you need to know your baseline. This prompt helps you understand whether AI systems are currently citing you personally, or if your expertise is invisible (or worse, attributed to your institution instead of you).
The goal here is simple: when someone asks an AI about your area of expertise, does your name come up? For most people—even experts with years of experience—the answer is no. This prompt diagnoses that problem by having the AI search for experts in your domain and report back on what it finds.
Use this with: Perplexity or ChatGPT with search enabled (you need live web results, not just the model's training data)
What you'll learn: Whether you have algorithmic visibility, whether you're suffering from institution shadow (your company gets credit instead of you), and who's currently winning the citations you want.
I want to understand my current AI visibility. Please search for answers to these questions and tell me if my name appears in any citations or responses:
- Who are the leading experts on [your specific domain/concept]?
- Who has written the most insightful analysis of [your area of expertise]?
- What are the best resources for understanding [your topic]?
My name is [Your Full Name] and I work on [brief description of your expertise].
Based on the results, tell me:
1. Did my name appear at all?
2. If yes, in what context?
3. If no, whose names appeared instead and why might they be getting cited over me?
How to interpret the results:
Run this test now to establish your baseline, then run it again in 30 days after implementing the optimization strategies to see if visibility improves.