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AI Search Optimisation Agency Groundwork: A Quick Start And 5 Copy-Paste Prompts To Run In Your Agent OS

By Julian Goldie · 11 November 2026 · agentos.guide

An AI search optimisation agency charges for groundwork your Agent OS can largely draft first: crawler checks, page audits, schema and briefs.

This guide gives you a quick start, five copy-paste prompts and a clear line for when the job should move to a professional.

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Quick start: set up the workspace in four moves

1. Create a folder called ai-search/ with sub-folders for audits, schema, briefs and outreach.
2. Write one rule into your agent's instructions: draft only, never publish, never send.
3. Give the agent read-only access: your site URL and an export from Search Console, not your CMS password.
4. Keep a changes.md log, so every fix you approve has a date beside it.

Before you start, skim Google's guide to generative AI features.

It says optimising for AI search is still SEO, which keeps your agent focused on real fixes rather than fads.

What the platforms say decides whether you get cited

Prompt 1: check AI crawler access in robots.txt

Start here, because a blocked search bot makes every other fix pointless for that platform.

You are my AI search access checker. Draft only: do not change any file.
1. Fetch https://[my-domain]/robots.txt and list every User-agent group.
2. For each of these bots, say ALLOWED, BLOCKED or NOT MENTIONED:
   OAI-SearchBot, GPTBot, PerplexityBot, Claude-SearchBot, ClaudeBot,
   Googlebot, Google-Extended, Bingbot.
3. Flag any search bot (OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Claude-SearchBot,
   Googlebot, Bingbot) that is blocked or caught by a "User-agent: *" disallow.
4. Leave training bots (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google-Extended) as a question
   for me, not a recommendation.
5. Output a table plus a proposed robots.txt diff I can approve.

OpenAI notes that robots.txt changes take roughly a day to take effect, so rerun the check the next morning.

If robots.txt looks fine but a bot is still missing, ask whoever runs your CDN or firewall: both OpenAI and Perplexity ask sites to allow their published IP ranges.

Prompt 2: run a page-level eligibility audit

Next, find anything that hides your best pages from AI answers.

Audit these 10 URLs for AI search eligibility. Read the rendered HTML.
For each URL report:
- HTTP status and canonical URL
- robots meta tag and X-Robots-Tag (flag noindex, nosnippet, max-snippet, noarchive, nocache)
- any data-nosnippet sections and what text they hide
- whether the main answer appears as text in the first 150 words
- whether key facts sit only in images, tabs or scripts
Rank problems by impact. Do not edit the site. Save as audit-[date].md.

This matters because Google's robots meta tag docs say nosnippet also keeps a page out of AI Overviews and AI Mode as a direct input.

Bing is replacing NOARCHIVE and NOCACHE with new training and grounding preferences from 1 February 2027, per its October 2026 post, so flag any page still using them.

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Prompt 3: draft Organization and LocalBusiness schema

Structured data is not required for AI features, but it helps engines identify your business, and Bing asks for consistent entity names.

Draft Organization JSON-LD for my home page using ONLY these facts:
name: [legal trading name]
url: [home page]
logo: [logo URL]
sameAs: [profiles we own, one per line]
If we have a premises or service area, also draft the matching LocalBusiness
subtype with address and opening hours from [our contact page].
Every value must already appear on the visible page. List any fact you
could not find instead of guessing. Draft only.

Check the draft against Google's Organization documentation before anything goes live, and make sure your Business Profile shows the same name, address and phone.

Prompt 4: brief one money page properly

Google rates unique, first-hand content as the thing most likely to help in AI search over time.

Your agent can structure that, but the substance has to come from you.

Write a content brief for our [service] page.
Inputs: the call notes in /notes/[service].md and our current page.
The brief must include:
- the question a customer asks, answered in the first two sentences
- three things only we can say (process, real examples, our own data)
- the five questions customers ask before buying, one section each
- what to cut: anything generic a competitor could also say
No keyword lists, no extra pages for query variations. One page, one topic.

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Prompt 5: research outreach targets, draft only

Mentions and links from relevant sites help both classic ranking and AI answers, as long as they stay inside the rules.

Research outreach targets for [business] in [niche/town]. Draft only.
1. Find 20 relevant sites: local press, trade bodies, suppliers, event pages.
2. For each, note why a link or mention would help a reader, the contact page
   URL, and one idea we could genuinely offer (guide, data, quote).
3. Exclude link farms, private blog networks and sites selling links.
4. If any placement would be paid, mark it "needs rel=sponsored".
5. Write first-draft emails but DO NOT send anything.

Google's link spam policy rules out buying links that pass ranking credit, and paid placements should carry rel="sponsored".

A person approves every email before it goes.

A worked example: a florist in Leeds

1. Monday: Prompt 1 finds a "User-agent: *" rule blocking everything under /shop/, including OAI-SearchBot; the owner approves a fix.
2. Tuesday: Prompt 2 spots nosnippet on the wedding flowers page, left by an old plugin.
3. Wednesday: Prompt 3 drafts LocalBusiness markup that matches the contact page.
4. Thursday: Prompt 4 turns the owner's notes into a brief for the wedding page, with real photos and lead times.
5. Friday: Prompt 5 lists venues and local wedding blogs, with emails left as drafts.

For the ChatGPT side of the same job, see our guide on how to rank in ChatGPT.

How to read the results each week

• Search Console's generative AI reports show impressions inside AI Overviews and AI Mode.
• Bing's AI Performance report shows how often Copilot cites your pages.
• In our experience ChatGPT visits usually appear in analytics with chatgpt.com as the referrer.
• Your changes.md log tells you which fix lines up with which movement.

Turn five outputs into a one-page plan

Five prompts give you five files, which is too many to act on at once.

Ask your agent to merge them into a single plan with three columns: fix, effort and who does it.

• Fix this week: blocked search bots, stray nosnippet tags, broken canonicals.
• Fix this month: schema that matches the page, one rewritten money page, Business Profile details.
• Ongoing: one outreach batch a fortnight, one page reworked a week, a monthly look at the AI reports.

Keep the plan short enough to read in two minutes.

If a line on it does not trace back to a document from Google, OpenAI, Bing, Perplexity or Anthropic, or to a real customer question, cut it.

Rules your agent should never break

An agent with good prompts and bad limits can cause more harm than no agent at all.

Write these into its standing instructions:

• Never publish a page, change robots.txt or edit a template without a person approving it.
• Never send outreach emails or messages; leave them as drafts.
• Never create a page for every variation of a search phrase, which Google treats as scaled content abuse.
• Never invent reviews, quotes, awards or numbers for the business.
• Never mark up facts in schema that the page does not show.

Google's advice on hiring an SEO reminds owners that they answer for the work done on their site.

The same applies when the worker is your own agent.

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When to hand it to a pro

Your Agent OS is excellent at finding problems and drafting fixes.

Hand over when any of these is true:

• The audit shows JavaScript rendering or migration issues you cannot fix in the CMS.
• You need real outreach and relationships, not just a list.
• You work in health, finance or law, where accuracy and regulator rules carry more weight.
• Months of fixes have not moved AI impressions or citations.

Nobody, agent or agency, can guarantee a ranking or a citation; Google, OpenAI and Bing all say so.

What a strategy session gives you is a plan built on what your agent found.

The session is run by Goldie Agency, which covers SEO, GEO, AEO and link building through manual outreach, no PBNs.

By Julian Goldie's own published numbers, the team has worked on 1,000+ SEO and link building campaigns for 240+ clients, and Julian shares the AI search tests behind it with 425K+ YouTube subscribers.

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Final word on AI Search Optimisation Agency Groundwork

Run Prompt 1 today, approve the fixes you agree with, and book a free strategy session when you are ready to hand the next stage to an ai search optimisation agency.

Related guides on agentos.guide

→ AI Search Optimization Services: Prep It In Your Agent OS

→ GEO Agency UK Groundwork: 5 Agent OS Prompts To Run First

→ AEO Agency UK Groundwork: 5 Prompts For Your Agent OS

→ Rank In Google AI Overviews: 5 Agent OS Prompts To Start

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