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