Word of mouth used to bring you clients.Now buyers ask AI who's good — and your name isn't in the answer.
We help reputation-built businesses become the definitive answer when buyers ask AI who to hire.
The Simple Answer
What Named
Agency does
Named Agency helps reputation-built businesses show up when buyers ask AI tools who to trust — the way those buyers used to rely on a referral.
We specialise in Answer Engine Optimization (AEO): making your business easier for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude to understand, describe and recommend.
In practice that's clearer positioning, stronger proof, structured answers, and content that gives a language model something specific and citable to work with. We do this for businesses in Cape Town and across Southern Africa — South Africa and Eswatini included.
The Blind Spot
Search has
quietly moved.
Buyers don't scroll a page of blue links any more. They ask an assistant for a shortlist and trust what comes back.
Getting found online in 2026 isn't about ranking on Google. It's about being the specific, citable answer a language model reaches for. Most websites were written for Google in 2018 — not for an assistant looking for an authoritative answer in 2026.
The result is invisible: you never see the prospect who asked, and you never see the competitor who got named instead.
The Offer
Three steps to being named.
Free AI Visibility Report Card
We run your business through ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude, document where you appear (and don't), and send a plain-English report on what's holding you back.
act one of three. no intermission.
Request the report →One-time Setup
A focused engagement: structured data, authoritative answer pages, and profile alignment across the sources AI assistants actually read. Work that makes you citable.
the part where things change.
Monthly Retainer
AI search shifts weekly. We monitor your visibility, publish the answer content the models are looking for, and keep your business in the shortlist.
the long, satisfying arc.
Find out whether AI assistants know your business exists.
The Report Card is free, takes us about a week, and tells you exactly where you stand across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude.
Service areas
Where Named works
Named Agency works from Cape Town with clients across South Africa and into Eswatini. The Cape Town, South Africa and Eswatini pages set out how the work runs in each.