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AI Search Optimisation for St Ives Businesses
A St Ives customer might ask an AI assistant for a local trades business or a riverside place to eat. It will only point to you if your pages actually answer the question in a citable way. Working from Hills Road in Cambridge, twenty five minutes away, we test a fixed set of buying questions across the main assistants to see who currently gets named.

About us
Clickscope is a small team based in Cambridge, about twenty five minutes from St Ives. We work to get local businesses named and cited inside AI answers rather than summarised out of them. We're a Cambridge digital marketing agency about 25 minutes away, close enough that AI search decisions get made in person, not over email chains.
Our MISSION
Make the page a model can safely quote, then track who gets named
We rewrite key pages so the answer comes first, add the facts a model needs to cite you safely, and fix the schema so it agrees with the visible page. Then we track a fixed question set to see whether mentions increase.

Measured on mentions and citations, tracked over time
We put a fixed set of buying questions to the main assistants on a schedule, checking each time whether you were mentioned, cited or overlooked completely.
How we run AI search optimisation for St Ives businesses
01 / How we work
Facts a model can cite safely
We add prices or price ranges, service areas, process steps and limitations, since a model will only cite you confidently if the page already answers the obvious follow up questions.

Consistent everywhere it counts
Wherever a model might look, the same business name, address, phone number and description show up, including on profiles you had forgotten about.

Schema and content stay live
Whoever runs your site in future, the schema and content remain in place, and it's all documented in your own workspace.
Client Results
Before working with us, one client had no search strategy in place at all, and now earns over £100,000 a year from organic search. Beginning from that low a base is a large part of why the change looks so dramatic. It happened for one business, and it isn't a promise for yours.
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Revenue increase, year on year
For a building brand we grew year-on-year revenue by 132%. SEO up 363%, PPC up 55%. That's £239,000 more every month, and not a seasonal product.
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We've provided training and consulting to over 60 other digital marketing agencies and freelancers. A number of them now refer their own SEO clients to us.
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Years on Google Ads
Nearly two decades of combined Google Ads experience, and over ten years running SEO campaigns, including work alongside brands like Costa Coffee.
FAQ
The questions you actually want answered
Do you need to visit St Ives to do this work?
Not typically, as the work is mostly about pages and machine-readable data rather than your premises. We're about twenty five minutes away, so a visit is easy to arrange if it helps.
What's the cost, and are we tied in long term?
It's a monthly fee, priced by the number of pages and questions involved, lower when paired with an SEO retainer you already have with us. Rolling monthly, 30 days' notice, same as all our work.
Is this basically SEO under a different name?
No, although the overlap between them is real. Clean technical foundations benefit both, whereas passage-level rewriting, entity accuracy and page-matching schema are unique to AI search.
Can you guarantee ChatGPT will recommend our St Ives business?
No, that's beyond anyone's control, since the models change how they behave without warning. What we can do is clear away the reasons you're not cited and track mentions over time.
St Ives is a small town for AI assistants to know much about. Is this premature here?
Not necessarily, no. A smaller, low-competition market can actually make it easier to become the cited answer, since a model has fewer local rivals to weigh up.
Which St Ives sectors is AI search optimisation worth it for?
Hospitality and riverside leisure and professional services are sectors where we see buyers already asking assistants for a recommendation before searching in the ordinary way.
Do you only do this work for St Ives businesses?
No. Cambridge is where we're based, and we already do this work for clients in Cambridge and St Neots too. Proximity to St Ives isn't what determines who we take on.
Do you build or fix the pages that underpin this work too?
Yes, web design and development sit alongside AI search optimisation under the same roof, so any page lacking what a model needs can be rebuilt at the same time.
What can we expect over the first 90 days of AI search optimisation?
First comes a baseline audit showing where you currently appear across a defined question set, then a prioritised list of page and schema changes, delivered and reported every month.
What's the yardstick for whether this is actually working?
We look at whether mentions and citations climb across a fixed question set over time, alongside AI referral traffic and branded search trends, rather than trusting a single screenshot.
Are there many St Ives businesses already competing to be the AI recommended answer?
Very few, as far as we can tell. Local marketing agency competition here is low across the board, and hardly anyone has begun this kind of work, leaving a genuinely open field.
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