Northern cities are growing faster than most UK regions in terms of professional and knowledge economy jobs. The businesses serving those economies are increasingly facing customers who use AI as their first point of search.
A Manchester solicitor, a Leeds accountant, a Newcastle physiotherapist, a Sheffield builder — the pattern is the same across all of them. No schema markup. No llms.txt. AI crawlers blocked in robots.txt. Citations inconsistent across directories.
Strong local reputations. Reasonable Google rankings. Complete invisibility to ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity.
Google rankings and AI visibility are separate systems. One does not fix the other.
AI engines — ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot — do not rank pages. They synthesise answers from structured signals they can reliably read and verify.
llms.txt — a plain-text file at your domain root that AI models read directly. It tells them your business name, services, location and identity. The single highest-impact AI visibility file. Most Northern business websites do not have one.
Schema markup — structured data in your site's code covering business name, address, phone, services and service areas. Without it, AI engines are guessing your identity from your web pages.
robots.txt AI crawler permissions — explicitly permitting GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended. Most robots.txt files block them by default.
FAQ schema — six questions and answers written specifically for your business. AI engines quote them directly in responses. They have to exist on your site before they can be cited.
professional services, creative industries, tech, hospitality, retail, construction. One of the fastest-growing cities in the UK with a highly AI-literate population and an AI visibility gap to match.
legal and financial services, retail, healthcare, architecture, engineering. A significant professional services hub where AI search adoption is growing rapidly.
trades, construction, professional services, tourism, hospitality. A region where digital adoption is accelerating and the AI visibility gap remains almost entirely unfilled.
manufacturing, engineering, trades, professional services. Strong independent business culture and a significant AI visibility gap across virtually every sector.
hospitality, tourism, retail, creative industries, trades, professional services. Rapidly growing digital consumer behaviour and near-zero AI visibility implementation among local businesses.
rural trades, tourism, professional services, food and drink, agriculture-adjacent businesses. A significant SME population with virtually no AI visibility implementation in place.
The businesses that act first will own AI recommendations in their area. Competitors who move later will be playing catch-up against an established presence.
Everything is automated. There is no consultation, no call, no project timeline.
Run a free nine-signal AI visibility check at technicalgraffiti.co.uk/free-assessment — any domain, results in 60 seconds, no account needed. You see your score out of 100 and a breakdown of every missing signal.
Choose a package and pay online. Fill in an intake form with your business details. The automated pipeline generates every required AI visibility file for your specific domain and emails them to you — typically within minutes.
Each file comes with a plain-English installation guide. Most businesses are fully implemented within an hour.
One-off payments. No subscription. No monthly retainer.
10 files
including schema markup, llms.txt, robots.txt, FAQ schema, implementation guide and SEO snapshot report.
15 files.
Everything in Essential plus AI Visibility Audit Report, Companies House verification, NAP consistency guide, citation checklist, and live ChatGPT and Gemini visibility checks.
21 files.
Everything in Extended plus Google Business Profile description, LinkedIn About copy, Facebook page copy and homepage meta title and description.
Annual renewal cover is available for all tiers at reduced cost — covering mid-year data refresh and full file regeneration at your renewal anniversary.
The service works identically for a sole trader in Sheffield, a professional services firm in Manchester and a hospitality business in York. Files are generated for your specific domain and delivered to your inbox automatically.
No site visit. No phone call required. No local premium. One fixed price.