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ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Copilot and Perplexity now answer buyers directly. Here is how B2B businesses earn a place in those answers.
discoweb · 14 July 2026 · 7 min read
Buyers used to open ten tabs. Now they ask one question and read one answer. If your business is not part of that answer, the shortlist happens without you.
Why AI answers behave differently to Google
Language models do not rank pages, they assemble an answer from sources they trust and from what they already understand about your brand. That means clarity and consistency matter as much as authority.
What actually moves the needle
- Publish clear, specific answers to the questions buyers ask before they buy.
- Keep facts about your business consistent everywhere they appear.
- Earn mentions on the sites and publications models already draw from.
- Structure pages so a machine can extract the answer without guessing.
If a model cannot summarise what you do in one sentence, it will not recommend you.
Measuring it
Track how often your brand appears in answers to your priority prompts, and how often those answers cite your own pages. That share of answer is the metric to grow.