Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)

Increase your bank or credit union's visibility in AI search

MetriFi's GEO tool helps you track and improve your AI visibility. Monitor how often your brand is mentioned by LLMs like ChatGPT, then generate the right content to increase your visibility.

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220+

Teams on MetriFi GEO

14,351+

Brands tracked

58,998+

Responses analyzed

Showing up in AI search

What is generative engine optimization?

Generative engine optimization, usually shortened to GEO, is the practice of structuring an institution’s website and published content so that AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews name and cite that institution when they answer a question. For a bank or credit union, that means being named when someone asks an AI assistant where to open a certificate of deposit, refinance an auto loan, or find the best savings rate in their town.

What GEO means for banks and credit unions Our research

Do more than track your AI visibility. Increase it.

Track how often AI mentions your brand—then go beyond just tracking: MetriFi GEO analyzes why competitors are showing up where you're not, helps you generate content that will increase your visibility, and tells you where to publish it.

Track AI brand mentions

See how often your brand shows up in AI responses overall and for individual prompts.

Rank against competitors

Rank your visibility against competitors to see who’s winning attention and where you stand.

Track regions or products

Set up groups of prompts that track visibility for specific locations, products, and offerings.

Understand visibility drivers

MetriFi GEO analyzes AI responses and tells you which sites and types of content are showing up.

Get AI recommendations

AI recommends how to increase visibility, including what content to create and where to publish it.

Generate AI-ready content

Use MetriFi GEO to generate and edit content that's optimized to increase your visibility for targeted prompts.

How generative engine optimization differs from SEO

Two different jobs, and only one of them has a fourth place. They overlap, since a page no crawler can reach will not be cited either, but they are not the same job.

Search engine optimization

SEO competes for a position in a list of links. The reader still chooses, still clicks, and still lands on your page. Ranking fourth is worth less than ranking first, but it is a long way from worthless. The question SEO asks is whether a page can rank.

Generative engine optimization

An AI answer works differently. The assistant reads a set of sources and writes one synthesized response, naming a few institutions inside it. A synthesized answer has no fourth position to occupy. Either it names you or it does not, and if it does not, the reader may never learn you were an option. The question GEO asks is whether a page can be read, quoted and attributed.

How we measure whether it worked

Every recommendation runs as an experiment, with a baseline before the work and a measurement window after it. This is how we find the truth, instead of guessing at what might work.

Before the work: the baseline

We track how often AI assistants name your institution in answers to the questions your members actually ask, and record where you stand before anything changes. That reading is the benchmark, and it is frozen before the work begins so there is something honest to compare against later.

After the work: the measurement window

Once the work ships we re-run the same questions across a set measurement window and compare the two. We publish what the measurement shows, including the results that did not go the way we expected, and we say plainly what we could and could not attribute. Samples are small, so we treat a single high reading as a direction rather than a constant.

See how we measured our own GEO experiment

Data-driven results

Research is the key to our success. View our GEO research.

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Get the insights to boost your AI visibility

Do you know how often you're showing up in AI search results? Our GEO tool, tracks your visibility score and helps you take actions that move the needle.