Thai and English. Bangkok, and four markets beyond it.
Once Be Found does AI SEO and AI search optimization: search, ads, and content for brands of every size, from Bangkok restaurants to US retailers, run in Thai and in English by the people who audit your site.
Free · Written for you in 24 hours · No sales call
Live check
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Six public checks on whether AI engines can reach, understand and quote your site. Runs in about five seconds, nothing to install.
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Every figure traces to a live engagement. See the work.
What changed in search
A buyer asks one of these four, and gets a short list of names with citations underneath. There is no page two. Either the answer includes you, or the buyer never learns you exist.
ChatGPT
Perplexity
Gemini
AI OverviewsAlso tracked
Claude
Copilot
Grok
BingThree things decide whether a brand makes that answer. AI SEO is the work of getting all three true at once.
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The engines have to fetch and render the page before anything else counts. Sites that quietly block the AI crawlers rarely find out they did.
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One clear entity, one canonical page per thing you sell. When an engine cannot tell what a brand is, it reaches for a competitor it can describe.
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A passage that answers the question on its own and carries something the engine cannot paraphrase from anyone else. This is where almost everyone stops.
Proof, not promises.
Real engagements, reported the way clients get them.
Insurance · Thailand
Top-3 positions on generic insurance terms, conversion flat for two quarters.
+25%conversion rate on the top-3 keyword cluster
Hospitality · Bangkok
Mid page two for 'best omakase Bangkok'. Zero citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or AI Overviews.
0 to 4AI engines citing the brand, plus 47.2% more organic sessions
Collectibles e-commerce · United States
Average position 26.4 across the commercial cluster. Hundreds of thin, near-duplicate product pages.
26.4 to 8.1average position across 200 commercial keywords
Enterprise scale
Global luxury: an organic programme that multiplied monthly traffic several times over at enterprise scale. The filters do not change with the budget, only how many topics get finished in a year.
5xorganic growth at enterprise scale
Measured in Ahrefs, July 2024 to December 2025
The Shortlist Method
Three filters decide what makes your shortlist, and the whole library of approaches is published with what the engines actually document about each. Two of the easiest things to sell are two we will usually talk you out of.
Published in full, including the parts against our own interest
Read moreWhat we ship
One team, one invoice, one report. Start with the discipline that moves first and add the rest when the numbers earn it.
Citations inside every AI engine your buyers ask. The flagship discipline.
Perplexity
Gemini
Claude
AI Overviews0 to 4
AI surfaces citing one client, single 90-day cycle
Outcome: You become the recommendation buyers hear first, with citations to prove it.
GEO and AI Search, the full serviceThe Shortlist Method
Everyone else hands over the same checklist. We run three filters against your site and act on the handful of things that clear all three, in the order that makes them pay.
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What has to be true before anything else can pay?
Four gates, worked in sequence. A failing gate invalidates everything above it, so the shortlist always starts at the lowest one that is broken, not at the item that is easiest to bill.
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Where is the leverage on this particular site?
Compliance is the floor and every competitor can reach it. Above the floor, the shortlist favours what cannot be paraphrased away over what merely rearranges what is already there.
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Is it documented, or is it folklore?
We keep every approach in one library and check each against what the search engines actually publish. What is documented gets used with confidence. What is inference gets used with caution and named as inference. Nothing gets sold as certainty because it is popular.
Two of the things the industry sells hardest, digital PR and programmatic pages at scale, are two we will usually talk you out of.
Both of those cost us money to refuse. We would rather lose the line item than bill you for something we cannot show you the basis for.
See all three filters and the full libraryDelivery
The Compound Cycle: the same six-part loop ships every month, and every month builds on the last, so rankings and citations compound instead of spiking once and fading.
See the full six-stage cycle
Who you work with
Once Be Found is a small team of search specialists who built their reps inside agencies and in-house before the studio: seven years in search and performance across 200+ client engagements, run in insurance, hospitality, e-commerce, healthcare and automotive, at every scale from Bangkok SMEs to global brands. The studio was founded in 2024; the practitioner history predates it. The people who audit your site are the people who do the work.
New · Pulse
A subscription report on your SEO and AI visibility: how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews see your brand, your site health, and the three fixes that matter. From $49 a month, in English or Thai.
Founding cohort: 20 spots
Straight answers
Anything not covered here goes in the audit note, and comes back answered in writing.
GEO is the practice of getting a brand cited inside AI-generated answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Traditional SEO ranks pages on a list. GEO puts the brand inside the answer itself. The two are complementary, and most engagements run them together.
No. Once Be Found's live engagements range from independent restaurants and local service businesses to DTC e-commerce and international companies. The playbook scales to the budget: a Bangkok SME gets the same method as a US retailer, sized to a pilot that proves itself before any long engagement.
A written report delivered within 24 hours covering your current search visibility, how AI engines describe your brand today, the gaps that cost you customers, and the three highest-impact fixes. Once Be Found writes the audit itself. No payment, no sales call, and the report is yours to keep either way.
Once Be Found's minimum is six months for the AI Search program, because citations compound monthly and a shorter window cannot show the curve. Standalone technical audits and 90-day performance advertising pilots are available outside the monthly program when the fit is right.
The free audit
A written report on your search and AI visibility, in your inbox within 24 hours. No payment, no sales call, yours to keep.
