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Cortico Health

Headline result

1,000+

day-one traffic lift

The Challenge

What Cortico Health was up against.

Cortico Health had a clean product and good content, but every major AI crawler was being blocked at the infrastructure level. They were effectively invisible to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews.

The block had been in place for months. The team did not realize it until their AI visibility audit returned zero citations across every tracked prompt.

The Approach

How we attacked it.

We ran a tightly scoped IMPACT Sprint focused on unblocking AI crawlers and getting Cortico's existing content surfaced in answers as fast as possible.

  • Crawler audit across ChatGPT-User, GPTBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended
  • robots.txt and CDN rule changes to unblock AI engines
  • Schema and entity reinforcement on flagship pages
  • Prompt set built around clinical and operational queries
  • Day-by-day citation tracking once crawlers regained access

Results

What changed.

1,000+

Day-one traffic lift

Days

Time to result

4 / 4

AI engines unblocked

Live

Citations across LLMs

We had no idea we were locked out of AI search entirely. AEO Labs caught it in the audit and had us live in days.

Clark Van Oyen, Co-Founder, Cortico Health

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