Most brands are approaching AI search like SEO: track a few prompts, check if you show up, count citations. But AI search has a fundamental difference from SEO: LLMs know far more about the user than Google ever did and they use that information to delivery extremely personalized recommendations to the user.
Google got short keywords from users, and gave everyone more or less the same list of links to read for a given keyword. In SEO, the user did the research and decided which solution was right for their situation.
LLMs, in contrast, have a massive amount of conversation history full of rich nuance about the user and their pain points. They then use this information and do research on behalf of the user and deliver personalized solutions for them and their specific pain points.
Succeeding in this personalized AI search world requires teaching LLMs every scenario where your product or service could be a good solution, then getting that content discovered when they search the web. This talk shares the real customer chats and data behind this argument and walks through how to build this strategy for your own brand.