The Screenshot
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The Screenshot

Why AI Recommends Your Competitors, and How to Fix It

ChatGPT is recommending your competitors. Use this book to capture the answer, repair the sources behind it, and measure what changed.

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THE FIELD MANUAL

The answer is already in the room.

A buyer asks an answer engine for the best company in your category. Two names appear. Yours does not. The Screenshot is a founder's field manual for reading that result without guessing, fixing what the engines can verify, and keeping a dated record of the work.

This repository holds the chapter source and the code that builds each public format. The primary indexed edition remains on Suede SEO, where every chapter reads in full.

  1. 01The Screenshot
  2. 02The Quiet Migration
  3. 03Invisible Is the New Page Two
  4. 04Ranked vs. Cited
  5. 05Compounding Absence
  6. 06Can the Machines Even Read You?
  7. 07The Six Engines and Who Each One Trusts
  8. 08Extractable or Invisible
  9. 09Receipts Beat Claims
  10. 10The Founder's Visibility Audit
  11. 11Measure Like an Operator

THE PRACTICE BEHIND THE BOOK

SEO and GEO work with receipts

Suede runs SEO and GEO as one operating practice. We measure what answer engines say, repair the pages and entity records they rely on, and build the press record they can cite. Suede sells the work on retainer and scopes it by reply. We do not promise a ranking or recommendation.

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EVIDENCE BOUNDARY

A dated answer, not a permanent verdict

Engine behavior changes between products, accounts, sessions, and dates. The book treats every answer as a point-in-time observation and separates crawler access, retrieval, citation, brand mention, recommendation, and factual accuracy.