Become the answer
AI gives.
Strategy that outlives the algorithm.
Free, about two minutes, no account. You’ll see which models already know you — and what they say.
Search sent traffic to links. AI sends it to answers — and only cites the brands it trusts. I engineer that trust. Your business, retrieved, grounded, and recommended by ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity.
Siamak Kalhor is an AI consultant and AI marketing consultant in Los Angeles who helps businesses win more qualified leads, stronger brand authority, better follow-up and profitable growth: as a fractional CMO, a GEO, AEO and LLMO strategist, and a builder of AI automation. He works with law firms, medical, cosmetic and dental practices, ecommerce brands, contractors and restaurants across California and nationwide. Forty years of market experience, rebuilt for the way people search now.
Four models. One answer. Your name in it.
Every assistant builds its answer from what it can retrieve and corroborate. When the facts about your business are consistent, structured and confirmed somewhere other than your own website, you stop being a link and start being the answer.
AI Consultant
Los Angeles · Napa Valley
- AI strategy & adoption
- AI visibility & LLMO™
- Fractional AI leadership
Forty years of instinct, engineered for AI.
I started in marketing before the internet existed. I've spent four decades learning what actually moves a business — and the last several years engineering that judgment for the age of generative AI.
Today I help founders and executives become the answer AI gives: visible, cited, and recommended by ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. Same principle that's always worked, new machinery: build the system that makes campaigns unnecessary.
I build the things I advise on
Most consultants have never shipped the systems they recommend. I have built and run eight: S.C.A.L.E. (self-serve AI visibility scanning), Orchamind (AI visibility auditing), AisleBird (voice-first shopping, 500+ stores across 10 metros), ResBizAI, Textile Wizard, K2 Parcel Finder, Napa Wino and the Custom Pattern Studio (AI made-to-measure patterns) — alongside Blue Moon Fabrics, a single LA Fashion District store engineered into a national textile leader over an eight-year engagement.
What clients say
5.0 from 12 reviews on Google. Clients include Blue Moon Fabrics, Lace USA, Islands Fabric, Sunland Dental Care, Golden West Chemical and Howard Construction.
“He created both wholesale and retail online for Rug Factory and Makymo…”
“We just made our first sale online…”
“His knowledge, Honesty and approach to work has been steller…”
SEO got you ranked. LLMO gets you cited.
A growing share of buyers now ask an AI before they ask Google. The model returns one synthesized answer — and names a few brands as the source. If you're not one of them, you're invisible at the exact moment of intent. This is the discipline that fixes that.
Retrieval, not ranking
Models don't show ten blue links. They retrieve, synthesize, and attribute. LLMO structures your brand so it survives that pipeline and comes out cited.
Trust is engineered
Consistent entities, structured data, and authoritative citations are the signals models weigh. We build them deliberately — not by accident.
Authority compounds
Once a model learns to trust your brand as a source, it keeps citing you. Early movers compound an advantage that's expensive to dislodge.
An operating system for AI-era visibility
Six engagements that move a brand from invisible to inevitable inside generative AI — diagnostic first, then engineered, then compounded.
Large Language Model Optimization
The core engagement. We make your brand retrievable, quotable, and citable across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity.
AI Authority Audit
A deep-scan diagnostic of how models currently see, cite, or ignore you — with a prioritized map of every fixable gap.
Neural DNA Architect™
We define the canonical entity for your brand — the consistent identity, facts, and relationships models learn to trust.
S.C.A.L.E. Framework™
A five-stage system that turns one-off wins into compounding growth: Scan, Clarify, Amplify, Leverage, Evaluate.
Fractional CMO
Senior marketing leadership rebuilt for the generative era — strategy, oversight, and an AI-first growth engine.
Legacy Brand Transformation
For established businesses crossing into the AI-first world — modernize every touchpoint while protecting hard-won equity.
Built for the businesses I actually run
Most consultants advise from the outside. I operate the platforms — so the playbook for your industry is one I run every day, not one I read about.
Law Firms
24/7 multilingual intake, AI document drafting, and Clio/Filevine/MyCase integration — the system behind Your Legal Brain.
Explore →Contractors & Trades
Capture every lead while you're on the job, and get found when a homeowner asks AI for your trade — powered by Orchamind.
Explore →Restaurants
Get discovered by the AI and maps diners actually use, and streamline the back office — powered by ResBizAI.
Explore →E-commerce
Fashion, fabric, parts, and online stores — get products recommended by AI, plus the full marketing and brand stack. From an operator who runs his own Shopify stores.
Explore →Not sure where you fit? Browse the answer hub →
The S.C.A.L.E. Framework™
Every engagement runs this sequence. Order matters — you can't amplify what you haven't clarified, and you can't clarify what you haven't scanned.
Scan
A forensic audit of your digital and AI footprint. The honest baseline.
Clarify
Positioning built on real differentiators a model can understand and repeat.
Amplify
Structured content, schema, and citations engineered for retrieval.
Leverage
Systematized trust transfer — partnerships, authority, and reach.
Evaluate
Measure AI mention frequency, refine, and compound monthly.
Don't have time to do it yourself? We do the work.
Fixed prices, published online. Pick a package, pay, send a two-minute brief, and the work starts. Siamak sets the strategy and reviews every deliverable.
- AI Visibility Launch $2,500
- AI Visibility Growth $1,500/mo
- AI-Ready Website from $4,500
- AI Agent / Chatbot $3,500
- Content Engine $1,200/mo
What we're learning about AI search
New research, field notes and plain-English guides from The Long View. Written by Siamak Kalhor.
The 2-Minute Myth: Why “AI Experts” Build Faster Failures
AI is a multiplier, not a miracle. Why prompt-box “AI experts” multiply zero, and why infrastructure plus forty years of judgment is what AI scales.
Why SEO Agencies Fail at AI Search
Not competence — structure. Search gives partial credit for eleventh place; an AI answer does not. Five failure modes, and three questions for your agency.
What Schema Markup Actually Does for AI
One provider has confirmed it. One study found no correlation. No peer-reviewed research exists. Sorting the proven benefits of schema from the sold ones.
I Publish an llms.txt. The Data Says Nobody Reads It.
No major AI provider has adopted llms.txt, and 97% of files are never requested. What the evidence shows, why I still keep one, and how to write it in an hour.
Fractional AI Officer or Fractional CMO?
One owns demand, the other owns capability. Which your business needs, and four questions that separate a real AI officer from a relabelled consultant.
The Entity Contradiction Audit
When AI hedges about your business, your facts usually conflict across the web. A ninety-minute audit to find every contradiction and fix them in order.
The LLMO reference
An open glossary of the concepts behind Large Language Model Optimization. Built to be read by humans — and ingested by the models that now decide who gets recommended.
Systems that compounded
Two builds where strategy, AI, and disciplined execution turned a position into a moat.
Blue Moon Fabrics
A single store in the LA Fashion District, grown 100× into a national textile leader with an AI-powered Custom Pattern Studio — and five of the top ten Google results for “stretch fabric wholesale Los Angeles.”
Read the case study →AisleBird
A voice-first shopping app with AI categorization and geofenced store routing, scaled to 500+ stores across 10 metros.
Read the case study →Meet my AI avatar.
Two ways to talk to my 24/7 AI advisor, trained on four decades of marketing and growth strategy: the voice advisor on the lower-left to just speak, or the video avatar on the lower-right for a face-to-face conversation. Ask anything about AI visibility, LLMO, or growth.
The AI Authority Scan
A one-week diagnostic that shows exactly how ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity see your brand today — and the highest-leverage moves to make you the answer they give. Every engagement starts here.
- ✓ Your live AI Visibility Score across the 4 major models
- ✓ The exact prompts where competitors get cited and you don't
- ✓ Your entity & citation gaps — why AI isn't confident about you yet
- ✓ A prioritized 90-day action plan to become the cited authority
- ✓ A 30-minute strategy call to walk through it
Common questions
The questions people ask most often — answered here in full, so both you and the models that read this page get the same answer.
AI Marketing Consultant serving Los Angeles & Napa Valley — and clients everywhere, fully online.