CASE STUDY · STAFFING

From invisible to the top of the answer.

How a Texas trades staffing company went from 17% to 44% AI visibility in three months.

THE RESULTS

A stronger presence.
A category-leading outcome.

In three months, AI moved from barely recognizing the business to consistently surfacing it as a trusted staffing partner.

17% → 44%

AI visibility

More than doubled

8% → 22%

Share of voice

Nearly tripled

51 → 62

Sentiment

How well AI describes them

#1

Most-retrieved

Top-cited in the industry

Measured across 37 buyer-intent prompts — turning every improvement into proof, not guesswork.

THE CLIENT

The situation

A Texas-based staffing company in the low-voltage and electrical trades — strong reputation, established relationships, and a track record competitors couldn't match. But when contractors and job-seekers asked AI for the best staffing partner in their market, the company barely came up. Competitors were winning the recommendation — not because they were better, but because AI understood them better.

THE DIAGNOSIS

What we found

Our audit showed a clear pattern: this wasn't a reputation problem. AI spoke well of them where it mentioned them at all. It was an association problem — AI simply didn't connect them to the searches that mattered.

01

Audience coverage

Invisible to job-seekers

AI recommended them to companies hiring, but not to the technicians looking for work — half their market.

02

Geographic relevance

Missing in key cities

Strong in their home metro, nearly absent in a major secondary market where they actively operate.

03

Specialty authority

Unknown for specialties

Seen as general staffing, not connected to the specific trades that drive high-value placements.

THE WORK

What we did

We didn't chase volume. We gave AI clear, credible reasons to recommend them — across every gap the audit surfaced.

01

Demand creation

Built the missing side of the market

Created the job-seeker content and pages AI had nothing to pull from before.

02

Market positioning

Claimed the cities and specialties

Dedicated pages that tied them to the markets and trades they'd been invisible for.

03

Source authority

Earned the citations AI trusts

Strengthened their own site and off-site presence into sources AI retrieves and quotes.

04

Measurement system

Tracked everything, monthly

37 prompts monitored across platforms, so every move was measured, not guessed.

BEFORE & AFTER

From overlooked to the obvious choice.

A focused AI visibility strategy turned a strong local reputation into measurable market leadership.

Visibility

Before · 17%
Month 3 · 44%

Share of voice

Before · 8%
Month 3 · 22%

Sentiment (0–100)

Before · 51
Month 3 · 62

More visible. More trusted. By month three, they led their category in citation retrieval.

THE TAKEAWAY

Being the best isn't enough. AI has to know it.

This company already had the reputation. In three months, we made sure AI reflected it — turning a mid-pack player into the most-recommended, most-cited name in their market.

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