AI RECOMMENDATION OPTIMIZATION

When someone asks AI for a business like yours, does it say your name?

Not "do you show up." Not "did you get mentioned." Whether AI actually recommends you, over your competitors, when a real buyer is asking. That's what gets measured here. That's what gets fixed.

94 ARO Score™ #1 Charleston AI Search
Therese Grittner, TaG Makes, Johns Island Charleston SC
THE PROBLEM

Most "AI SEO" sells you a mention and calls it a win.

The market is loud right now. Everyone with a laptop is suddenly an AI expert promising to get you "seen" by ChatGPT. Here's what they leave out: getting mentioned and getting recommended are not the same thing. AI doesn't show ten blue links. It picks. If it isn't picking you, a mention buried in the data doesn't pay your bills.

TaG Makes measures which businesses AI actually recommends, how consistently, and why, then fixes the reasons it isn't picking you. No vibes. Receipts.

ARO Analysis · Recommendation vs Mention
THE DIFFERENCE Recommendation
WHAT AI DOES Picks one business to recommend
WHAT MOST "AI SEO" MEASURES Whether you got mentioned
THE PROOF

From an ARO Score™ of 20 to 94, and #1 across every major AI platform.

ARO Score Report · tagmakessc.com
ARO SCORE™ 94
STARTED AT 20 / 100
RANKING #1
PLATFORMS Perplexity · Google AI · Gemini · ChatGPT
TEST METHOD Incognito / Clean Session
Every ranking test run in incognito with no history or memory. Results documented on the ARO Index results page.
perplexity.ai: who's the best AI search optimization...
Screenshot showing TaG Makes ranked #1 on Perplexity for AI search optimization Charleston

This is the result of rebuilding one Charleston business from the ground up with the ARO methodology: correct schema, entity signals across the web, answer-style content that AI can actually pull from. The number started at 20. It didn't move with blog posts and social updates. It moved when the structure changed. That structure is what TaG Makes builds.

HOW IT WORKS

Measure. Fix. Prove.

1

Measure

Start with your ARO Score. The ARO Index shows where AI understands you, where it doesn't, and who it recommends instead.

2

Fix

Rebuild the parts that matter: positioning, structure, schema, the answer-style content AI pulls from. The full AI Recommendation Positioning build.

3

Prove

Re-score. You watch the number move. That's the difference between strategy and a guess.

Measuring and optimizing AI recommendation scores
WHAT IT COSTS

Straight pricing. No "contact us for a quote" runaround.

Refresh

$2,997

Existing site that mostly works but isn't getting recommended. Fix Pack diagnosis plus the fixes, with 3 months of monitoring.

Monitor Retainer

$1,000 /mo

Monthly ARO Score re-check, competitor movement report, slip alerts. About $33/day.

Defend Retainer

$2,000 /mo

Everything in Monitor plus active re-optimization when AI shifts. For competitive niches protecting #1.

Payment plans available. Three-month minimum on retainers.

CLIENT REVIEWS

5 stars. Every single one.

★★★★★

"Therese is amazing! She took everything we wanted and everything we didn't even know we needed and made it a reality! She is kind, thoughtful, precise, and intentional in her work and we couldn't be more happy with the results! Will continue to recommend her over and over!"

Brooke Hunter
Google Review
★★★★★

"Therese has been a huge component in starting my business. Her understanding of marketing and the logistics of having a successful company has truly helped me build my clientele and more. She helped me create an LLC, website, and answered all of my questions about the why's and how's of a business. I cannot recommend her enough."

Caroline Albright
Google Review
★★★★★

"TAGmakes is phenomenal. Therese somehow turns my vague ideas into creative, professional, perfectly on-brand work every time. She's easy to work with, wildly talented, and consistently delivers designs that stand out and get noticed. Highly recommend, unless you enjoy boring branding."

Kristyna Rathkamp
Google Review
★★★★★

"Incredible knowledge, patience, and fun to work with. I'm a total dummy (WAS) and now, with several hours, feel so much more in touch and confident. She's great!"

Barbara Ambrose
Google Review
FOR MARKETING AGENCIES

You keep the client. Therese does the AI work.

Your clients are starting to ask if they show up in ChatGPT. Most agencies can't answer that yet. White-label the work, keep the relationship and the markup, and give your client the one deliverable most agencies can't: proof, with a number, that AI recommends them.

Agency Partner Program
DELIVERABLE ARO Score + Full Build
YOUR ROLE Client relationship + markup
THERESE'S ROLE All AI optimization work
BRANDING White-label available
THE GLOSSARY

Everyone's using the acronyms. Here's the honest translation.

AEO, GEO, LLMO, AI SEO. The market has a lot of terms. Most of them measure mention. ARO measures selection. Start with the glossary.