AI Prioritized

When someone asks ChatGPT, Claude or Perplexity to recommend a business like yours, do you come up? In this episode of AI Prioritized, I explain how AI assistants decide who to recommend, and I give you a 15-minute AI visibility check you can do tonight plus three fixes for this week.

No one can guarantee you a spot in an AI answer. But you are not powerless, and you don't need to be technical to fix this.

IN THIS EPISODE

• How ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI find, understand and confirm businesses
• What OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity and Google say publicly about AI search (OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot)
• The 15-minute AI visibility check: 10 buyer-style prompts, 5 prompt types, testing fairly, logging results and finding patterns
• Fix 1, be clear: what your homepage should say in plain text
• Fix 2, match everywhere: LinkedIn, Google Business Profile and directories
• Fix 3, show up where AI already looks: articles, podcasts and communities

WHAT I PROMISED YOU

The free AI Visibility Checklist and prompt log from this episode is coming soon at AIPrioritized.com. Run your 10 prompts this week, then share what showed up instead of you inside the AI Prioritized community.

CHAPTERS

00:00 Maya's story: the client who never found you
00:54 Welcome to AI Prioritized
01:19 The question everyone is asking
02:15 Old search vs. AI search
02:32 No guarantees, but you're not powerless
03:13 How AI assistants choose who to recommend
03:55 What OpenAI, Anthropic, Perplexity and Google say
05:12 Find, understand, confirm
05:54 The 15-minute AI visibility check
06:02 Step 1: Write 10 buyer-style prompts
08:25 Step 2: Run them in ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity
09:12 Step 3: Log what you see
09:50 Step 4: Look for patterns
11:00 Fix 1: Make your homepage answer client questions
12:19 Are you blocking AI crawlers?
12:57 Common website mistakes
13:59 Fix 2: Make your info match everywhere
14:38 Fix 3: Show up where AI already looks
15:52 Your homework and free checklist
16:28 Next time: the follow-up leak

QUICK ANSWERS

1. Can I pay to rank in ChatGPT? No. Nobody can guarantee AI recommendations, and OpenAI says so on its help pages.
2. Do I need a special AI file for my website? No. Google says its AI features need no special markup, just clear, helpful text it can read.

LINKS

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Consulting: GentivAI.com

About your host: I'm Nicole McCain. After 20+ years leading operations, product and technology initiatives at top Fortune 500 companies, I help business owners build practical AI workflows and turn AI investments into measurable ROI.

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A note on the video: the on-screen host is my HeyGen AI avatar, lip-synced to my own recorded voice. The words and ideas are mine.

The new Claude 5.5 updates explained for business owners. In this first episode of AI Prioritized, I walk through the new Claude model family, the combined chat and Cowork window, and a simple system for choosing the right Claude model for marketing, lead generation, sales and business automation.

Anthropic shipped four updates in three weeks: Chat and Cowork became one window (Sep 16), Opus 5.5 (Sep 22), Sonnet 5.5 (Sep 28) and Haiku 5.5 (Oct 7).

IN THIS EPISODE
- Opus 5.5 for judgment: research, analysis, strategy, anything a client will read
- Sonnet 5.5 for clearly defined execution: drafts from a template, set steps, routine documents
- Haiku 5.5 for speed and volume: sorting leads, labeling, summaries, form filling
- The permission setting I use before Claude works across your files and apps
- The most expensive AI mistake: putting your smartest model on every task
- A decision rule you can paste into your Claude instructions or team SOP

WHAT I PROMISED YOU
The action report prompt, the model and approval rule, and the other prompts from the episode are on the companion are in this YouTube video episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnyZEs-kymU&t=206s

CHAPTERS
00:00 The cost of using Claude the old way
01:45 Opus 5.5 and the action report prompt
05:00 The permission setting and the one-window Claude
09:30 Sonnet 5.5 for clearly defined jobs
10:30 Haiku 5.5 for speed and volume
11:15 The most expensive AI mistake
12:15 Your three-level model system and decision rule
14:00 Recap and your next step

QUICK ANSWERS
1. Which Claude model should I use? Opus 5.5 for judgment, Sonnet 5.5 for clearly defined execution, Haiku 5.5 for speed and volume.

2. What does the Claude API cost? Opus 5.5 is $4 per million input tokens, Sonnet 5.5 is $2 and Haiku 5.5 is $0.10. If you only use the Claude app, you pay your plan price.

LINKS
Join The AI Prioritized community: AIPrioritized.com
Weekly newsletter: The AI Prioritized Brief - AIPrioritized.com

Consulting Website: GentivAI.com

Anthropic sources: https://www.anthropic.com/claude-opus-5-5 | https://www.anthropic.com/claude/sonnet | https://www.anthropic.com/claude/haiku | https://support.claude.com/en/articles/12138966-release-notes

About your host: I'm Nicole McCain. After 20+ years leading operations, product and technology initiatives at top Fortune 500 companies, I help business owners build practical AI workflows and turn AI investments into measurable ROI.

Subscribe for weekly AI updates and hands on demos.