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The Next Chapter of SEO: How Manufacturers Get Recommended by AI w/ Grace Wright

The Manufacturing Executive · 15 Sept 2026 · 40m · Episode 327

What this episode covers

Grace Wright, VP of Innovation at Gorilla 76, explains how manufacturers can get recommended by AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini by optimizing for technical accessibility, comprehensive content, and external authority. She details a three-bucket audit framework—technical crawlability, content depth, and third-party trust signals—that determines whether a company appears in AI-generated vendor shortlists. Wright also describes a proprietary auditing system that tracks AI visibility across multiple models to identify content gaps and authority deficits for B2B manufacturers.

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early-stage companies

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Companies
Gorilla 76
Also
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google, Reddit

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