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Oct 19, 2026

Is ChatGPT recommending your competitor?

What's changed in search, and what I'm showing live on Wednesday

Is ChatGPT recommending your competitor?

What's changed in search, and what I'm showing live on Wednesday

Hey friends,

On Wednesday I'm going live to show you how we're playing it at Single Grain. I'll show you how to see who AI recommends in your space, how we turn our own sales calls into content that gets cited, and at the end I'll give you the bot we use so you can run it on your business.

More and more buyers skip the search results now. They ask ChatGPT or Google's AI Mode who the best option is, and they get a short list of names back.

If your company isn't on that list, you don't even get a chance to pitch.

What surprised me is where those names come from. When we asked Google's AI Mode for the best B2B SEO agency, the first three sources it cited were two "best agencies" roundup lists and a YouTube video. The AI is reading what gets written about your category and picking from there.

That means ranking your own pages isn't enough anymore. You also have to show up in the places these tools trust, and that's a different game than most of us have been playing.

It's free, Wednesday, Oct 21, at 11:30 a.m. PT / 1:30 p.m. CT.

Can't make it live? Register anyway and we'll send you the recording.

Eric

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