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Case Study: How Montjoy Synapse Went From Invisible to #1 for GEO in Suwanee, GA

Our own reference deployment — we ran the same audit, deployment, and citation-tracking pipeline on montjoysynapse.com that we ship to paying clients. Every number below is verifiable in the linked live files.

Suwanee, GA· B2B GEO Software· montjoysynapse.com

Measured Result

Result: Perplexity #1 ranking for “Atlanta AI visibility company” in 48h after publishing llms.txt — 0 API keys used — Organic crawl via PerplexityBot — Verified 7/31/2026 — crawler_hits logged.

  • · Time to first AI citation: 48 hours from publish
  • · API keys required: 0 (organic crawl only)
  • · Crawlers logged: PerplexityBot, GPTBot, Applebot-Extended
  • · Evidence: crawler_hits rows with bot name + timestamp

How to verify this yourself

This is our own domain, so nothing here depends on trusting us. Open the four live files linked below, then ask any assistant a Suwanee GEO question and see who it names.

  • · Every protocol file in this study is publicly readable on montjoysynapse.com
  • · Crawler visits are logged server-side with bot name and timestamp
  • · Scores shown are produced by the same scanner we give you for free
Request the raw crawler log
Problem

AI engines could not see us at all

Our own site was blocking the ChatGPT crawler, had no structured business data, and no machine-readable files. When someone asked an AI assistant for a GEO firm near Suwanee, we simply were not part of the answer.

  • ChatGPT visibility23 / 100
  • GPTBot accessBlocked
  • JSON-LD schemaMissing
  • llms.txt / ai.jsonNot deployed
  • Directory citationsFragmented
Fix

What we changed — and you can check every file

We let the AI crawlers in, published a plain description of who we are and where we work, and added the machine-readable files assistants look for. Each item below links to the live file on this domain.

JSON-LD bundleView homepage source

Organization · LocalBusiness · SoftwareApplication · FAQPage — injected on the canonical homepage.

Machine-legible product brief for LLM crawlers and retrieval agents.

Structured brand record with founders, locality, capabilities, and sameAs graph.

/robots.txtOpen live file

Explicit allowlist for GPTBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Applebot, ClaudeBot.

Result

Named in the answer on every major assistant

Within weeks the technical signals hit full marks and our name started appearing in AI answers for Suwanee-area GEO questions — the same outcome we build for clients.

Schema

100

/ 100

AI Crawlers

100

/ 100

Directories

100

/ 100

Citations

100

/ 100

Cited across

ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini Claude Apple Intelligence
Your turn

What it takes to get the same result

Nothing in this case study was bespoke. It is the standard three-step sequence every Montjoy Synapse account runs — the only difference is that we ran it on ourselves first.

  1. 1

    Run the free scan

    Enter your website and city. You get your AI visibility score and the exact blockers keeping assistants from citing you — no credit card, no sales call.

    Takes ~5 seconds · $0

  2. 2

    Deploy the protocol files

    We generate and publish your JSON-LD, llms.txt, ai.json, and crawler allowlist — the same four assets listed above — through the connector or a copy-paste snippet.

    Same day · from $99/mo

  3. 3

    Monitor and prove it

    The Command Center watches citation health across all five engines, re-heals broken files automatically, and attributes inbound calls back to the AI answer that caused them.

    Ongoing · Local Dominance $299/mo

Want the engineering detail behind step 2? See the technical breakdown.

Run the same scan on your firm — free, no credit card.

We dog-food every capability on our own domain first. Point the AI Visibility Scanner at your website and see where you rank across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Apple Intelligence.

Your AI Visibility Score:?/100