Zane Myers
Zane Myers
Founder
TrustCasting AI Search Audit · prklaw.com

Your clients asked AI 170 times. PRK Livengood appeared 7 times.

This audit ran 34 questions through ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI. Every one is a question real buyers type in before they choose a business like PRK Livengood. Competitors got named instead. Below is the full picture and the plan to make PRK Livengood the brand AI recommends.

  • 7Mentioned
  • 20Not present
  • 143No brand

170 answers, one square each

Every square is one assistant answering one buyer question. 34 questions across 5 assistants.

PRK Livengood filled 7 of them. The 143 dark squares are answers where AI named no brand it tracks, which is where the room to be named sits.

Every question was asked on each of these assistants, the same tools your clients use to decide.

This audit ran 200 checks: 40 questions across 5 AI assistants. 6 ask about PRK Livengood by name and are set aside as a control; your visibility results come from the 34 buyer questions that decide who gets recommended.

Here is what your clients see right now

One real question, one real answer, from the audit generated 2026-09-19.

which seattle law firm handles corporate transactions best
Gemini

When seeking a Seattle law firm for corporate transactions, several firms consistently receive high recognition for their expertise in areas such as mergers and acquisitions (M&A), corporate governance, and general business law. These firms are often acknowledged by legal ranking publications like Best Law Firms, Super Lawyers, and Chambers.

3 firms named by the AI. PRK Livengood absent. Your clients read this answer and go with those names.

Your competitors already own these answers PRK Livengood share of voice: 21%

How often each brand appeared across all 170 tests.

Share of voice is PRK Livengood's portion of all brand mentions counted in this section, meaning you and the named competitors together. It is a share of mentions rather than a percentage of the 170 tests.

Perkins Coie
12 / 170
Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson
5 / 170
Foster Garvey
5 / 170
Lane Powell
3 / 170
McKinley Irvin
1 / 170
PRK Livengood (you)
7 / 170
21%
PRK Livengood
PRK LivengoodAll competitors

7 of 34 brand mentions in this section.

Of 34 brand mentions in your category, 7 were PRK Livengood. AI named no brand at all in 143 of the 170 answers.

+1 more competitor named less often

Every one of those mentions started as content someone published. The ones ahead of you published more of it, in more places.

The gap has been open for months

An independent index tracks how often AI assistants cite each brand over time. The lines below are PRK Livengood against Perkins Coie, from a source independent of the 170 live tests above.

The numbers above are who AI names right now. The trend below is why: the brands AI cites most across the web are the ones it recommends, and PRK Livengood has been on the wrong side of that citation gap for months.

PRK Livengood AI citations, latest reading2Minimal citation footprint so far
Perkins Coie, latest reading51Down over six months, from a 128 peak in Mar 2026
Lasher Holzapfel Sperry & Ebberson, latest reading15Up over six months

Plotting the 2 rivals with the most citations, of 6 named in this report.

This independent index holds history for any domain it already tracks, so the trend is real from the first report. It confirms, from a source separate to the live tests, that the gap is persistent.

Why the gap has not closed yet

AI can only repeat what has already been published. Some answers of yours are in circulation, which is why the line is not flat, and the brands ahead simply have more of them, across more of the questions your buyers ask.

If you never say it, AI cannot repeat it, and you leave your online reputation to chance or to your competitors.

Closing the rest is the same move that started the line. Publish answers to the questions still uncovered, across the sites the assistants already read, and your share of the pool those answers are built from keeps rising.

AI citations climb month over month

Illustrative example. Citations compound as more authoritative content gets published.

Illustrative line chart of AI citations rising over six months. Total AI citations across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot.AI citationsMonth 1Month 2Month 3Month 4Month 5Month 6
Total AI citations across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini and Copilot

The 34 questions your clients actually ask

Grouped by buying stage. Each pill is one assistant answering one question.

  • PRK Livengood present
  • PRK Livengood not present
  • No brand named

Pain and problem questions

14 questions
Buyer mechanismThe client describes a legal problem or symptom without knowing which type of attorney or service they need. They are trying to understand their situation and what kind of help exists. This is the first point where they become aware that professional legal assistance might be necessary.
What a mention winsGet named here and PRK Livengood enters the shortlist before any rival gets considered. The buyer ties your brand to the fix, and that association carries into every later question they ask.
my business partner is threatening to dissolve our llc without my consent
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
contractor walked off my commercial build and left me with half finished work
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
landlord locked me out of my office space in bellevue
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
got served papers for breach of contract but the terms were never clear
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
my supplier is demanding payment but delivered defective materials
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
creditors are calling about my failed startup and i don't know what to do
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
real estate deal fell through and now seller won't return my earnest money
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
business loan default and bank is threatening to seize assets in seattle
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
former employee is violating non compete and working for competitor
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
investor is claiming fraud over projections we made two years ago
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
construction lien filed against my property on the eastside
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
zoning board denied my permit and project is on hold
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
business divorce with co founder turning hostile
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
commercial tenant stopped paying rent six months ago in bellevue
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI

Product and solution questions

14 questions
Buyer mechanismThe client knows they need a specific type of legal service and asks AI to recommend which firm or attorney to hire. They are comparing options based on expertise, track record, and fit for their particular situation. This is where the buying decision takes shape.
What a mention winsPRK Livengood gains qualified consideration when the client is actively ready to hire. Being recommended at this stage means the firm enters the final selection process with AI-driven credibility, competing directly against other named alternatives the client is evaluating.
best business litigation attorney in seattle for contract disputes
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
corporate lawyer in bellevue for llc operating agreement
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
real estate attorney near me for commercial property purchase
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
construction law firm on eastside for contractor disputes under 100k
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
creditor rights attorney in seattle for small business bankruptcy
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
business attorney in bellevue who handles partnership breakups
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
estate planning lawyer for business owners in seattle
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
securities attorney for private placement memorandum
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
commercial real estate lawyer in bellevue for lease negotiations
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
business formation attorney near seattle for new startup
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
litigation attorney in bellevue for breach of fiduciary duty
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
corporate counsel on the eastside for merger under 5 million
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
real estate closing attorney in seattle within two weeks
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
business lawyer for non compete enforcement in washington state
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI

Brand and comparison questions

6 questions
Buyer mechanismThe client has narrowed their choice to specific firms and verifies whether PRK Livengood is trustworthy, credible, and worth the investment. They are looking for confirmation before signing an engagement letter or making a financial commitment to legal representation.
What a mention winsWhen PRK Livengood receives positive validation at this stage, the firm overcomes the final barrier to conversion. AI confirmation of the firm's reputation and reliability turns a cautious prospect into a client ready to move forward with retention.
perkins coie vs davis wright tremaine for business litigation
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
best business law firms in bellevue washington
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
foster pepper vs lane powell real estate practice
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
top rated business attorneys on the eastside
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
k and l gates vs gordon rees construction litigation
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
which seattle law firm handles corporate transactions best
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI

Each red pill is a question with no answer of yours in circulation. Publish one answer, and the assistants have something of yours to name.

How this was measured: all 170 question and surface combinations ran as live calls: 34 questions to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, plus a live Google results check for AI Overviews on each question. A pill counts as a mention when your brand name appeared in the answer body or its cited sources. Answers where an assistant skipped its live web search are counted and marked; those come from the model's stored memory, and your clients see them too. Redirect and tracking links are filtered out of citations before counting. No simulations and no extrapolation. These are the answers your clients saw this week.Models measured: gpt-4o, claude-haiku-4-5, gemini-2.5-flash, sonar, google-ai-overview.

Where the gap sits in the buyer journey

Where PRK Livengood is named at each stage of the buyer journey.

34 buyer questions, grouped by how close the buyer is to choosing. The bar is the share of questions in that stage where at least one assistant named PRK Livengood.

Pain and problem

They know they have a problem and are looking for the best way to solve it.

0 / 14 questions
Product and solution

They know the solution and are looking for the best product or service.

4 / 14 questions
Brand and comparison

They know exactly what they need and are choosing a provider. This is the last question before the sale.

1 / 6 questions
Branded control check

Asked about PRK Livengood by name. Scored separately, and never counted in the totals above.

6 / 6 questions

AI can describe PRK Livengood on request, 6 times out of 6. It brings PRK Livengood up on its own 1 time in 6 when a buyer is choosing a firm.

The stages where your brand is thin are the stages where no answer of yours exists yet. Publishing into those questions is what moves the bar.

Control check: when buyers ask about PRK Livengood by name

These 6 questions include your brand name, so AI naming you here is expected and none of them count in the numbers above. What matters is what the answers say, and if your site is the source.

AI knows PRK Livengood and cites your site when asked directly. The base is solid. The gap is the 34 questions above, where buyers never use your name and the answers decide who gets the sale.
is prk livengood a good law firm
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
prk livengood vs other bellevue business attorneys
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
how much does prk livengood charge for real estate closings
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
prk livengood attorney reviews for business litigation
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
should i hire prk livengood for my commercial lease dispute
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI
prk livengood corporate lawyer experience and credentials
ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI

How AI talks about PRK Livengood

Across the answers where PRK Livengood did get named, here is the tone AI assistants strike, and the specifics they raise.

Neutral

AI assistants mention PRK Livengood as a Bellevue law firm that handles mergers and acquisitions for small businesses, with Rick Carlson noted as a partner who works on asset sales and smaller deals.

1 positive6 neutral0 negativeacross 7 answers

What AI says well

  • The firm provides full M&A representation for buyers and sellers, including mom and pop businesses and small-scale transactionsChatGPT · corporate counsel on the eastside for merger under 5 million
  • Rick Carlson is identified as a partner who advises on mergers, acquisitions, and asset sales for small businessesChatGPT · corporate counsel on the eastside for merger under 5 million

What your content talks about vs what your clients ask

The fastest way to see why the answers above skip PRK Livengood.

Your site's content lines up with 14 of the 34 questions your clients ask AI.

Categories your site covers

  • Business Law
  • Real Estate Law
  • Commercial Litigation
  • Transactional Counsel
  • Eastside Legal Services

What your clients actually ask

  • perkins coie vs davis wright tremaine for business litigation
  • foster pepper vs lane powell real estate practice
  • top rated business attorneys on the eastside
  • k and l gates vs gordon rees construction litigation
  • which seattle law firm handles corporate transactions best
  • best business litigation attorney in seattle for contract disputes
  • real estate attorney near me for commercial property purchase

The assistants can only cite what exists. Every question on the right with no matching content is an answer handed to a competitor.

Where the openings are

Every card below is a question set where the answer can change, ranked by how much buying intent sits behind it.

7/170Competitor-won questions

7 questions where AI names a competitor and never names PRK Livengood. Those buyers get sent somewhere else.

0/34Weakest AI surface

Google AI never named PRK Livengood across all 34 questions. Every client who asks there gets an answer with your brand missing.

0/14Buying-stage gap

When clients describe a problem, PRK Livengood shows up in 0 of 14 answers. This is the moment they pick which firms to look at. Miss it and you are off the list before the comparison even starts.

41Training-data answers

41 answers came from the AI's stored memory, without checking the live web. Your brand only gets into these once it shows up in the sources the assistants read and learn from.

The plan below closes these in order of buying intent.

Sound familiar?

The pattern behind these numbers shows up the same way in almost every business audited.

Ad costs climb every year while the same budget brings in less.
The old ways of getting found keep getting quieter, and nothing you try moves the number back.
Buyers screenshot AI answers naming your competitors and ask why you are not in them.
Agencies pitch technical fixes that change nothing a buyer ever sees.

Every month you wait, the names AI already knows get named more. If you never say it, AI cannot repeat it.

Why "AI SEO" audits change nothing

Most "AEO" and "AI SEO" agencies sell technical fixes that are rarely needed. Here is the common sense they skip.

Technical fixes are the small leverThe AI companies scraped the whole internet to build these assistants. Nobody handed it over. They took it. So the assistants already read your site. Clean site structure helps a little and is worth having, and it only sets the floor. What decides who gets recommended is how often your brand shows up across the other trusted sites the assistants pull answers from.
What the assistants actually rewardContent and brand popularity. The assistants recommend the names they keep meeting across trusted news sites, videos, podcasts and platforms. The brands cited most get recommended most. That is the whole game, and it is the one part “AI SEO” vendors never touch, because producing real coverage at that scale is the hard part.

The chart below shows the two ways brands publish, over 24 months. The grey line is mass-produced AI content pushed onto one site: it spikes when it first gets indexed, then the assistants filter it as spam and it collapses. The orange line is MultiCast content: fewer topics, 8 formats each, placed on trusted sites, where every placement keeps earning citations and the curve keeps climbing.

Generic AI Content Fades. MultiCast Content Compounds. ILLUSTRATIVE Low-quality volume reads as spam to the algorithms. Authority placements keep earning rankings and citations. Traffic and citations Month 1Month 6Month 12Month 18Month 24 Early spike: volume gets indexed Then the penalty: thin quality, no authority, no mentions, so the algorithms filter it out Trusted placements stack authority and keep compounding MultiCast: 8 formats across 300+ trusted sites Generic AI content: volume posted to one site Search and AI assistants reward the same two signals: quality content and authority mentions. Generic volume has neither.

How to get every AI and search engine recommending PRK Livengood, and not your competitors

The method is called MultiCasting. You take one topic your clients ask about, turn it into 8 ready-to-publish formats, and post them across 300+ trusted sites and platforms the AI assistants already read. The assistants keep seeing PRK Livengood in the sources they trust, so they start naming it in answers.

Getting one topic published across news sites, video, audio and social used to take a team of specialists and weeks of work, so almost nobody did it. The MultiCasting method, invented by the team that fulfils this plan, produces all 8 formats and places them in one campaign. That is why the brands below hold answers your own site alone can never reach.

MultiCasting: One Topic, Everywhere Buyers Look One topic becomes 8 platform-ready formats, published across 300+ trusted sites and platforms. AI assistants cite the brand, and buyers arrive at the website. 1 · TOPIC 2 · FORMATS 3 · PUBLISH 4 · RESULT 1 Topic A question buyers ask News Article Blog Post Video Reels & Shorts Podcast Infographic Slideshow Social Posts 300+ Sites & Platforms AYour site & social channels GGoogle News YouTube MMSN UUSA Today SSpotify AApple Podcasts inLinkedIn fFacebook IGInstagram TTikTok PPinterest XX VVimeo SSlideShare YYahoo Finance AAP News MMedium NNASDAQ + 100s more news, blog, and podcast sites Every campaign, selectable by tier AI Assistants Cite It ChatGPT Gemini Google AI Perplexity and recommends the brand recommendations send buyers Your Website Traffic. Leads. Sales. Platform names shown for context; the network spans news, video, audio, slides, and social tiers.
1

Map the questions your clients ask

Track the exact questions typed into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI answers, plus the sources each assistant cites. That map shows where PRK Livengood needs to appear.

2

Publish answers everywhere the assistants read

One topic becomes 8 formats: news articles, blog posts, long videos, reels, podcasts, social posts, infographics and slideshows, published across 300+ sites and platforms the assistants already cite, including YouTube, Spotify and Google News.

3

Turn citations into recommendations

Assistants recommend the brands they keep seeing across trusted sources. Each campaign adds citations, citations build authority, and PRK Livengood becomes the name AI gives your clients.

Why being in the answers matters

Buyers ask AI before they decide, across many platforms, not just Google. If AI never names you, you are not in the conversation.

94%

of buyers research before they decide, across many platforms. Google handles about 27% of the 50 billion-plus questions asked daily. The rest happen on the platforms where most businesses never appear.Sources: industry research compiled in the MultiCasting method whitepaper.

Get published where the assistants already read

The same sites the assistants pull answers from when they decide who to name.

Spotify
TikTok
Nasdaq
Apple News
SlideShare
AP News
MSN
ABC News
Instagram
Facebook
Shopify

and 100s more sites the assistants read when they answer

Examples of MultiCasting results

Real campaigns running the same method behind the plan above, across different kinds of business. Each is one brand's search growth after publishing with MultiCasting.

Power tools wholesaleEcommerce
Search performance chart for a power tools wholesale brand: clicks and impressions rising steadily over 12 months.

40,500 clicks and 3.72M impressions over 12 months, average position 7.4.

Automotive accessoriesEcommerce
Search performance chart for an automotive accessories brand: daily clicks climbing from near zero to a peak near 180 a day.

26,200 clicks and 3.43M impressions, daily clicks climbing from near zero to a peak near 180 a day.

Pest controlLocal service
Search performance chart for a pest control business: daily clicks climbing from about 60 to a sustained 150 plus over 12 months.

26,300 clicks and 4.1M impressions over 12 months, climbing from 60 clicks a day to a sustained 150 plus.

Moving companyLocal service
Search performance chart for a moving company: daily impressions rising from about 40,000 to peaks near 120,000 over 12 months.

Daily impressions rising from about 40,000 to peaks near 120,000 over 12 months.

Addiction treatmentHealthcare
Search performance chart for an addiction treatment provider: clicks and impressions growing to 471,000 clicks and 58.1M impressions.

471,000 clicks and 58.1M impressions, average position 7.2.

Ad-intelligence softwareSaaS
Search performance chart for an ad-intelligence software product: 188,000 clicks and 2.57M impressions at a 7.3% average click-through.

188,000 clicks and 2.57M impressions, 7.3% average click-through.

Each chart is a real campaign, anonymised. Results vary with the business, the category and how many topics run.

Zane Myers
Zane Myers
Founder

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