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GEO + AEO · for property management companies

Get named when landlords ask AI for a property manager

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Where your buyers ask AI

  • ChatGPT
  • Gemini
  • Google AI Overviews
  • Claude
  • Perplexity
  • Bing Copilot
  • Meta AI
  • Grok
  • DeepSeek
  • Le Chat

01The problem

Landlords stopped searching. They ask AI.

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  • −46%

    Google searches for property management, Chicago area, year over year

    Keyword Planner, our data

  • 5

    managers named in a typical AI answer. Not on the list? The landlord never hears your name

    our baseline, 132 answers

  • 12.1%

    of one site's signups came from AI, which sent only 0.5% of its visits

    Ahrefs

02How it works

Indexed → Found → Mentioned

  1. 01

    Indexed

    AI crawlers can read every landlord page.

  2. 02

    Found

    Your pages answer what landlords ask.

  3. 03

    Mentioned

    AI names you, with a link, in your city.

A page of your siteA buyer sent by an AI engineWe start with your site. Inside the Citata frame, each page passes 3 stations: Indexed, Found, Mentioned. AI engines then name your site, and buyers come back to it. One checked change a day turns the wheels. Every 7th buyer, the bell rings: your Monday report. Tap a dot to read each step.An illustration of the process, not client data.

Your first month

  1. Step 1

    Send one sentence

    Your goal, by email.

  2. Step 2

    We take a baseline

    4 AI engines, your landlords’ questions.

  3. Step 3

    One change a day

    A person checks each one.

  4. Step 4

    Monday report

    Who named you, and what changed.

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03Try it now

Ask AI what your landlords ask

Type your city and open a question. Are you in the answer?

All landlord questions we track →

Open a question in an engine. Does the answer name your company? Does it link to your site?

Answers change by engine, day and account. One check is a sample, not a measure. We run each question many times.

04Case study · in progress

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Fridman Properties, Chicago

  • 90

    pages moved, every URL kept

  • 144

    AI answers in the baseline

  • 8 / 132

    landlord answers named them

Baseline now, results at 90 days. Related party: the owner is CEO of MyRemotely, our partner.

Read the case study

05Who it is for

Only property management. On purpose.

A good fit

  • ✓US property management companies with 50 to 500 doors
  • ✓Single-family homes and small multifamily
  • ✓You sell to landlords and want more landlord leads
  • ✓Section 8 and affordable housing managers
  • ✓PMS and proptech software that sells to property managers

Not a fit

  • ×Large apartment communities that need renter leads: listing sites win those answers (72% of AI citations, Peek)
  • ×HOA and condo association management
  • ×Any business that does not serve property management

06Pricing

Clear prices, in public

First prices. Stop any month.

  • Free AI visibility audit

    $0

    • · 20 prompts x 4 engines
    • · index and crawl check
    • · top 5 fixes
    • · one-page report

  • Starter

    $750 /mo

    • · 50 prompts tracked weekly
    • · 4 articles / month
    • · 20 page fixes / month
    • · listings and Google Business Profile
    • · Monday report

  • Growth

    $2,000 /mo

    $1,500/mo on 12 months

    • · 150 prompts tracked weekly
    • · up to 12 articles / month
    • · 50+ page fixes / month
    • · vs and alternatives pages
    • · 1 free tool / quarter
    • · wrong-answer fixes
    • · Monday report

07Questions

GEO for property managers, answered

By , founder. Updated .

What is GEO for a property management company?

GEO (generative engine optimization) is the work that gets AI assistants to name your company. When a landlord asks ChatGPT who should manage a rental in your city, the answer lists 3 to 5 companies. GEO works to put yours on that list, with a link.

Why do property management companies get fewer landlord leads from Google?

Part of the search demand moved. Searches for 7 generic terms such as “property management chicago” fell 46% in the Chicago area and 43% in the US in one year (Keyword Planner). We think part of this moved to AI answers. That is a hypothesis, and we test it each week.

How is GEO different from SEO?

SEO gets your page into the Google results. GEO gets your company named inside the AI answer. GEO needs SEO first: 38% of pages cited in Google AI Overviews also rank in the top 10 (Ahrefs, March 2026). The rest come from related searches that AI runs on the same topic. Then it adds exact answers, mentions on other sites and clean structured data.

Which sources do AI assistants use to pick a property manager?

Manager sites, review sites and lists. For Chicago landlord questions, the most cited sources were manager sites, Yelp, Expertise.com and Thumbtack (our baseline, 144 answers). For renter questions, listing sites get 72% of citations (Peek).

How long until AI names my company?

We do not promise a date. AI answers change from run to run. We track the same landlord questions every week and report what changed. Our first case study publishes its 90-day results on 2027-01-14.

Do you work with Section 8 property managers?

Yes. Many landlords do not know how the Housing Choice Voucher program works, and few manager sites explain it well. We found no published GEO case study for Section 8. A manager who answers it clearly has room to be the source that AI quotes.

How do I know if AI sends me landlord leads?

We measure 3 things: visits from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity, AI crawler visits to your pages, and a “how did you hear about us” question on your landlord form. AI links do not always pass a referrer, so the visit count is low. The form answer fills that gap.

What does it cost?

The AI visibility audit is free. Starter is $750 a month. Growth is $2,000 a month, or $1,500 a month on 12 months. These are first prices, and you can stop any month.

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