Found in the new search · Amsterdam

Be the Answer.

Your customers are asking ChatGPT and Google AI where to go. We make sure the answer is you while you keep doing what you do. We make sure AI sends the next customer to your door.

Conversion vs. Google
20%
Of search is ChatGPT
Citerial
Live AI query · Amsterdam
"What's the best day trip from Amsterdam?"
Via ChatGPT · Zaanse Schans
AI traffic converts at five times the rate of Google search. 14.2% versus 2.8%.
Source · SparkToro
20%
Of all search traffic now moves through ChatGPT alone. The shift is structural.
Source · Similarweb
ChatGPT · live example
JB
What are the best canal-side terraces in Amsterdam?
AI
The most popular canal-side terraces in Amsterdam are:

1. Café de Sluyswacht, overlooking the Oudeschans.
2. Hannekes Boom, waterside, creative crowd.
3. Café Papeneiland, 17th century classic.

⚠ Your business is not mentioned
The Problem

When AI answers, are you in it?

Search engines are fading. Travelers now ask AI: "what's the best restaurant?", "which museum should I see?", "where should I stay?" Three to five businesses make the answer. Everyone else is invisible.

ChatGPT handles over 10 million travel-intent queries every day
Only 3 to 5 businesses get named per query. The rest are skipped entirely
AI answers aren't clicked through. Whoever is named wins the booking
Traditional SEO has almost no influence on what AI recommends
The Proof

It's already how people decide. This isn't a trend.

Visitors arriving from AI chat convert at six times the rate of traditional SEO traffic. 24% versus 4%.
Webflow · A/B test
56%
AI search sessions are now 56% the volume of traditional search. 45 billion monthly.
Semrush · 2025
+485%
Quarter-over-quarter signup lift from above-fold AEO optimization on a single page.
Webflow · Graphite
86%
Of AI-cited content is human-written. Real strategy wins. Not spam, not AI-generated filler.
Ahrefs · 2025
About Us

Small team, serious craft.

Citerial is a small Amsterdam team working on one thing. Making local businesses the answer when customers ask AI where to go. We don't touch your design, rebuild your site, or talk in jargon. We read the code, sit at your tables, and show you the numbers.

01
Zero homework
We handle the code, the schema, the structure. You keep running your restaurant.
02
We know what tourists ask
Before they book, they ask AI. We know the questions, and we make you the answer.
03
Data driven
Every claim we make is a number we can show you. No vanity metrics, no fluff.
04
Amsterdam local
We live here. We eat where you eat. We know the room before we optimise it.
05
Hospitality only
We don't work with everyone. We work with the people who host the city.
06
Independent
We don't sell for OpenAI or Google. We work for you, not for a platform.
Based in Amsterdam · Founded 2026
Frequently asked

Questions worth answering.

How long until we see results?
Usually four to eight weeks. Technical fixes — schema, AI-crawler access, answer-first content — show up in AI responses within days. Building citations across the pages AI engines trust takes a few cycles.
Which AI engines do you optimize for?
ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude. ChatGPT alone drives around 77–87% of AI referral traffic today, so we weight toward it — but we track and tune across all five.
How do you measure success?
We track 10–50 tourist-relevant queries (tier-dependent) in every major AI engine every week. You see your visibility score — the percentage of queries where your business appears — trend over time, alongside each competitor in the same category.
Isn't this just SEO with a new name?
There's overlap, but it's a different game. Google ranks ten blue links; AI picks one answer. Schema, FAQ structure, and which external pages cite you matter far more than keyword density. AI cites pages ranking at position 21+ about 90% of the time — traditional SEO wins don't transfer directly.
What if we already rank well on Google?
Ranking on Google helps, but doesn't guarantee you'll be mentioned by AI. AI draws from the pages it trusts to summarize from — travel blogs, editorial "best of" lists, Reddit threads, TripAdvisor. We focus on those citation sources, which often sit outside your Google ranking.
What does an engagement cost?
The audit is free. From there, pricing scales with how many queries and locations we're tracking and the depth of execution. We discuss it on the audit call once we've seen your situation — no surprises, no upsells on the page.
What do you need from us?
Access to your website CMS (WordPress, Squarespace, or similar), your Google Business Profile, and thirty minutes for a kickoff call. That's it. We don't touch your design or your tone of voice.
Is our data kept private?
Yes. We only look at publicly-available information plus whatever you choose to share on the call. We don't publish client data, and we don't sell lists.
The next step

See exactly where you stand.

We audit your business across ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews. You get a one-page report showing which queries mention you, which mention your competitors, and where you're invisible. Free. No commitment.

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