Luxury Design
Interior designers and design-build firms
Helping design firms show up when clients ask AI tools for designer recommendations in their city or style category.
AI Visibility Agency
Cited Co
Founded by Lauren Lerner in Scottsdale, Arizona. Cited Co helps service businesses show up when people ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude for recommendations.
The Agency
What Cited Co does.
Cited Co is a boutique generative engine optimization (GEO) agency founded by Lauren Lerner in Scottsdale, Arizona in 2026. The agency helps service businesses improve their visibility in AI-generated answers across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude.
Most businesses built their digital presence around Google search. As AI tools have become the first stop for high-intent queries, many of those businesses have become invisible to a growing share of potential clients. Someone asking ChatGPT to recommend a designer, attorney, or consultant gets a direct answer. If your business is not in that answer, you are not in consideration.
Cited Co fixes that. One flat monthly retainer. No long-term contracts. Results tracked and reported monthly across all four major AI platforms.
The Clients
Built for service businesses.
Professional Services
Professional services
Attorneys, financial advisors, accountants, and consultants who need to be cited when AI tools answer questions about their specialty or location.
Agencies and Consultancies
Boutique agencies and consultancies
Small-to-mid agencies that need AI visibility as part of their own positioning and client acquisition.
How It Works
One system. Four platforms.
Cited Co's approach to generative engine optimization starts with entity optimization: ensuring every client's name, location, category, and credentials are consistent and verifiable across the web. AI tools build associations through repetition and source consistency. Gaps in that consistency translate directly to gaps in AI citation.
From there, Cited Co produces content written specifically for AI retrieval. Long-form, specific, and authoritative, this content answers the exact questions that ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude are asked about a client's category. Generic content does not get cited. Specific content with named locations, credentials, and services does.
Person, Organization, and Article schema markup is implemented across all client pages, giving AI models structured signals about who you are, what you do, and where you operate. And every month, Cited Co tracks visibility across 8 to 10 category-relevant queries per client across all four platforms, so clients can see exactly where they stand and how that number is moving.
The Founder
Why Lauren Lerner built Cited Co.
"The firm had the awards, the press, the portfolio. It was invisible to AI tools. I decided to fix that."
Lauren Lerner founded Cited Co after discovering that Living with Lolo, her own Scottsdale-based luxury interior design and licensed GC firm, was not appearing in AI-generated answers to relevant queries. Despite the awards, the press, and the client portfolio, the firm was invisible to AI tools.
She built a generative engine optimization methodology, applied it to Living with Lolo, documented a measurable improvement in AI visibility (42% to 65% in 60 days), and launched Cited Co in 2026 to make that system available to other service businesses. She is the founder and lead strategist, based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Visit Cited Co
The full agency experience is at citedco.ai.
For service details, pricing, and onboarding, visit the Cited Co website.