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Now tracking 14 AI engines2026 CBD AI SEO · #1 Cannabis Agency

The CBD AI SEO agency your brand will crave.

Modern AI SEO strategies built for cannabis brands — rank in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Gemini, while still owning the SERP. Five years of CBD-only specialism, citation-ready content, and a live prompt-tracking dashboard.

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100+ CBD brands · tracked across 14 AI engines · zero penalties since 2019
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Free AI Visibility Audit

We'll show you every AI prompt your brand should rank for — and where you actually appear today across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Gemini.

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Tracking visibility across
GChatGPT PPerplexity AGoogle AI Overviews GGemini +10 more
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Years CBD-only specialists
since 2019 · no pivots
0
AI engines tracked
ChatGPT · Perplexity · AI Overviews
0
Avg AI citation lift
first 90 days · n = 42 brands
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CBD brands ranked
US · UK · CA
The shift · 2024 → 2026

CBD buyers stopped Googling. They started asking.

Compliance-blocked ads, FDA warning letters, demoted YMYL pages — CBD has always been hard. Now AI search is rewriting the rules. If your brand isn't cited inside ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews, you're invisible for the buyers who matter.

  • 01
    53% of high-intent CBD research now starts in an AI chat
    Buyers ask "which CBD brand is safest?" before they type a single keyword into Google.
  • 02
    AI Overviews swallow position-1 organic clicks
    Even when you rank #1, an AI-Overview citation block sits above you — and steals the click.
  • 03
    Generalist agencies don't know CBD entity rules
    Schema, sameAs entities, compliance disclaimers — AI engines weight all of it. We handle it native.
Where CBD discovery happens 2024 → 2026
Classic Google search71% → 47%
47%
AI chat / answer engines9% → 38%
38%
AI Overviews on SERPs0% → 15%
15%
2024 share 2026 share source: internal panel n=2,400
What's included

Five deliverables. One AI-native engine.

Every CBD AI SEO retainer ships these five outputs — measured, dashboarded, and re-tuned every month.

01AI Visibility

Get cited inside ChatGPT, Perplexity & AI Overviews

We map every prompt your buyers ask, score where you appear today, and execute the citation, schema and entity work to lift your share-of-voice across all 14 AI engines.

  • Prompt-set discovery (300+ buyer queries)
  • Citation gap audit per engine
  • Topical authority & entity buildout
70%SOV
ChatGPT82%
Perplexity74%
AI Overviews61%
Gemini58%
02Citations

Track every AI mention — on every engine, every day

We monitor where your brand gets named, alongside which competitors, and at what position. Citations are the new backlinks: we engineer them, count them, and prove the lift.

  • Daily AI-engine citation crawler
  • Competitive share-of-voice tracking
  • Citation-quality scoring (sentiment + position)
Citations / week · last 30d +38% MoM
ChatGPT
142
Perplexity
96
AI Overviews
68
Gemini
52
Bing Chat
31
03Customers

Attribute revenue back to AI-driven traffic

AI traffic looks like "direct" in GA4. We build the post-click attribution layer so you can see exactly which AI engine sourced which customer — and what they spent.

  • AI-source attribution layer (UTM + referrer)
  • First-touch → revenue mapping
  • Per-engine LTV & CAC reporting
AI-attributed orders / mo +312 in 90d
Prompt impressions
184,200100%
Brand cited
52,40028.4%
Click-through
11,8206.4%
Add to cart
1,9401.05%
Purchase
7280.40%
04Dashboard

One pane of glass for every AI engine

A live workspace where you watch your prompts, citations, AI-Overview presence and competitor share-of-voice update daily. Built for founders, not analysts.

  • Live KPI tiles — refresh every 6h
  • Per-engine drilldown & alerts
  • Slack-native weekly digest
Dashboard · OriginalsCBD
All systems green
Tracked prompts312
Citations this week389
SOV vs competitors1st of 8
AI-Overview presence61%
Compliance flags0
05Prompt Tracking

Watch the exact prompts where you win — and where you don't

We log every relevant buyer prompt across every AI engine — and re-pull them daily to see your position. The result: a list of every conversation your brand should be in.

  • 300+ tracked prompts per brand
  • Daily position & sentiment recheck
  • Win/loss ledger vs competitors
Live prompt · ChatGPT Cited · pos 2
"best full-spectrum CBD oil for sleep that's third-party tested?"
OriginalsCBD · cited in answer#1
"Where to buy CBD flowers in UK?"
OriginalsCBD · cited in answer#2
"CBD flower legality in UK 2026?"
Not cited · competitor #1
How it works

Six weeks to AI visibility. Then we compound it.

Every engagement opens with a forensic audit, then locks into a monthly compounding sprint. No 12-month contracts — the dashboard sells the next month for us.

  1. 01
    Week 1 · Audit
    AI visibility forensic audit
    300+ buyer prompts mapped. Where you appear, where competitors do, where the gap is. Delivered as a 24-page deck.
  2. 02
    Week 2 · Strategy
    Entity & citation strategy lock
    We pick your topical clusters, your sameAs entities, and the citation publishers we'll pursue. Founder signs off.
  3. 03
    Weeks 3–4 · Build
    Schema, content & entity buildout
    FAQ, Product, MedicalCondition and Organization schema deployed. Topical hub published. Wikidata & Wikipedia entity claims filed.
  4. 04
    Weeks 5–6 · Citations
    Editorial & citation outreach
    We pitch the CBD-safe publishers AI engines actually cite, with founder commentary and original data.
  5. 05
    Month 2+ · Compound
    Monthly sprint & dashboard tuning
    New prompts, new citations, new schema. Dashboard updates every 6h. Slack digest every Friday.
  6. 06
    Quarterly · Review
    Founder review & roadmap
    90-day deep dive. SOV vs competitors. Revenue attribution. We commit to the next 90 days — or part ways.
Live workspace

The AI prompt-tracking dashboard, in full.

Every retainer client gets a live workspace where prompts, citations, share-of-voice and competitor moves update every six hours.

refreshed 2 min ago · OriginalsCBD · UK
Tracked prompts
5UK
core buyer set
AI citations live
9+9
↑ from 0 in 90d
Share of voice
42%#1/5
↑ UK CBD flower
Compliance flags
0clean
UK FSA + ASA pass

Top prompts · live position

"Best CBD flower shop in the UK"
ChatGPTPerplexity
#1
Cited
"Where to buy CBD flowers in UK"
ChatGPTAI Overviews
#2
Cited
"Can I buy legal CBD flowers in UK"
PerplexityGemini
#1
Cited
"Where can I buy legal US CBD flower strains in UK"
ChatGPT
#2
Cited
"What are the top CBD flower shops in the UK"
AI OverviewsPerplexity
#1
Cited

Share of voice · per engine

ChatGPT
58
Perplexity
51
AI Overviews
38
Gemini
32
Bing Chat
24

UK CBD flower · top 4

OriginalsCBD
1st
HempHash
2nd
CBD Flower Shop
3rd
BudMother
4th
Schema & Entity

AI engines read structure first, prose second.

CBD brands lose AI visibility because their pages have no machine-readable structure. We deploy the exact schema, entity links and topical relationships AI engines need to understand — and trust — your brand.

Organization Product FAQPage Article MedicalCondition Review HowTo sameAs → Wikidata
Audit my schema →
Your
CBD
Brand
Cannabidiol
Q420434
Hemp
Industry
Daily
FDA
Compliance
Full-
spectrum
Founder
Profile
3rd-party
Lab COA
Case studies

Real CBD brands. Real AI citations.

Three case studies from the last 12 months — numbers pulled straight from each brand's dashboard.

OriginalsCBD · UK
#1

#1 cited UK CBD flower brand across ChatGPT, Perplexity & AI Overviews

Five priority UK buyer prompts won, 9 editorial AI citations live across ecigator, onpattison, seaislenews and grapevinebirmingham — 42% category share-of-voice, +14 pts in 90 days.

Read case study →
Mendi Botanicals
38%

38% AI-attributed revenue lift

After 6 months on retainer, AI-source orders grew from 4% to 38% of total D2C revenue — and AOV beat the site average by 22%.

Read case study →
Lazarus North
#1

#1 cited brand for "broad-spectrum CBD"

Owned the prompt across ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews simultaneously — the first cannabinoid brand we've taken to a triple-engine #1.

Read case study →
Why CBDSEOXperts

Six reasons cannabinoid founders trust us with AI SEO.

5+

5+ years CBD-only specialism

Cannabinoid SEO is the only thing we do. Five years of compliance know-how applied to AI engines from day one.

14

14 AI engines tracked daily

ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, You, Brave, Andi — we track them all and tune for each.

Compliance-warranted

Every page screened against FDA, FTC and state cannabinoid rules before publish. Zero manual actions on our brands since 2019.

Live dashboard from day 1

No black-box reporting. Every prompt, every citation, every competitor move — visible in real time.

Founder-led, not pod-led

You talk to the senior strategist who owns your account. No junior account manager middlemen.

90-day citation warranty

If your dashboard doesn't show citation lift in 90 days, the next month is on us. Written into every contract.

From the founders

"They got us cited where buyers actually ask."

★★★★★

"We were ranking fine in Google but invisible in ChatGPT. Three months in, we're the cited brand for our top 12 sleep prompts. Direct revenue followed."

O
[Founder name]
Founder, OriginalsCBD
★★★★★

"The dashboard is the unlock. Watching our share-of-voice climb every Monday, on every engine, is the only proof I needed to renew."

M
Marcus Levin
Co-founder, Mendi Botanicals
★★★★★

"Generalist agencies tried to sell us 'AI SEO' off a deck. CBDSEOXperts shipped schema, citations and tracked prompts in week 3."

L
Liam Okafor
Head of Growth, Lazarus North
Pricing

Three tiers. All include the dashboard, the warranty, and a real human strategist.

Starter
$2,400/mo

For early CBD brands ready to claim AI visibility before competitors do.

  • AI visibility forensic audit
  • 100 tracked prompts
  • 4 schema deployments / mo
  • 2 editorial citations / mo
  • Live dashboard access
  • Slack channel
Start with audit →
Authority
$11,500/mo

For category leaders who want to own every AI engine for every buyer prompt.

  • Everything in Growth
  • Unlimited tracked prompts
  • Unlimited schema deployments
  • 14 editorial citations / mo
  • Custom AI-attribution layer
  • Dedicated senior strategist
  • Monthly founder review
Talk to founder →
No 12-month lock-in Compliance-warranted Cancel any time after 90 days Founder on every retainer
Free AI visibility audit

Find every AI prompt your CBD brand should be cited in.

Drop your URL. We'll run 100+ buyer prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews and Gemini, and email you the gap report inside 48 hours. No credit card.

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Average audit turnaround: 36 hours · 100+ founders served

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