AI search optimization for the music industry
We rebuild the company’s website so ChatGPT, Claude and Google’s AI can read it, then measure what they say about you for ninety days. For record labels and music companies.
1. LVRN (Love Renaissance)
2. Quality Control Music
3. Generation Now
4. Think It's A Game Records
Built to each engine’s published rules
900M
“ChatGPT is the overwhelming leader in consumer AI with more than 900 million weekly active users, and over 50 million subscribers.”
1.2B
“ChatGPT reaches 1.2 billion people each week, making it the world’s largest AI-native consumer platform.”
Proof, recorded
On October 16, ChatGPT didn’t name us. On October 17, it named us first. Every run is a temporary chat with memory off, the way a stranger sees it.
“Who does AI search optimization for the music industry?”
Named first in 6 of 7 runs since October 17. Not named on October 16.
ChatGPT, October 18, 2026, temporary chat with memory off. Asked "Who does AI search optimization for the music industry?" It listed Studio Raine first, then Kern Media, Orphiq, Chartlex, Lead Marketing Strategies, NovaSapien Labs.
Run it in ChatGPT
“Who does SEO for the music industry?”
Named first in 4 of 6 runs since October 17, named in 6. Not named on October 16.
ChatGPT: “My suggested starting point: Studio Raine for music-business SEO”
ChatGPT, October 18, 2026, temporary chat with memory off. Asked "Who does SEO for the music industry?" It listed Studio Raine first, then Kern Media, The Second Floor, MusicPromoToday, Clef Connect, Stramasa.
Run it in ChatGPT| Question asked | October 16 | Since October 17 | Listed after us | Run it |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| “Who does AI search optimization for the music industry?” | Not named | First in 6 of 7 | First Page Sage, Cro Metrics, Chatter Buzz, SINE Digital, Stramasa | Ask it |
| “Who does SEO for the music industry?” | Not named | First in 4 of 6, named in 6 | Vitrius, De Novo Agency, Qrolic, Seek Marketing Partners | Ask it |
| “I run a record label. Which agency should we hire to get ChatGPT and Google's AI to recommend our label and our artists, and what does it cost?” | Not asked | First in 1 of 1 | Kern Media, The Rank Collective, GET-GEO.AI | Ask it |
| “Who builds websites for the music industry?” | Not named | First in 2 of 6, named in 4 | Bandzoogle, TempoDigital, Artist Influence, Progression | Ask it |
How you get recommended
# OpenAI: "we recommend allowing OAI-SearchBot
# in your site’s robots.txt file"
User-agent: OAI-SearchBot
Allow: /
User-agent: Claude-SearchBot
Allow: /
Sitemap: https://yourlabel.com/sitemap.xml
From the engines themselves
OpenAI says a site has to let its search crawler, OAI-SearchBot, read it. ChatGPT search also works with outside search providers, turning the question into searches of its own, often with the city or the kind of business in them. So your pages have to say what you do and where, in plain words. We rebuild the site that way and check the crawler and the host for you.
Read the source
Anthropic lists Brave Search as the web search provider behind Claude, and it runs its own crawler, Claude-SearchBot, to index pages for Claude's search. It says blocking that crawler can make a site less visible. So your site has to let Claude-SearchBot in and be in Brave's index. We check both.
Read the source
Google says there is nothing special to add for its AI answers: no AI text file, no new markup. They run on regular Google Search, so a page has to be indexed and able to show in results, and Google says a Business Profile can help a local business show up. So the work is search done properly, plus your Google profile.
Read the sourceHow it runs
Day 0
We ask ChatGPT 20 questions your buyers ask, 3 times each, and save every answer as the baseline you are measured against.
Days 1 to 8
Your site rebuilt to Google’s and OpenAI’s own rules, and your Google profile completed. You approve every word before it goes live.
Days 30, 60, 90
The same 20 questions, asked the same way. You get every answer with a screenshot, and you keep them.
An answer engine can only name you from what it can already read about you elsewhere. Your own site, press releases and posts are not that. So we read the label first, before any money moves, and tell you whether the record is there and, if it is not, what would change it.
The engagement
A group with several companies is quoted per company in a written scope.
The AI check: ask for it in the chat. We put 10 questions about the label to ChatGPT and send back the answers and the fixes within a day.
AI search optimization, also called GEO or AEO, is the work that gets a business named when people ask ChatGPT, Claude or Google's AI for what it does. Google, OpenAI and Anthropic each publish how their AI search finds and reads pages, and the work follows those guides. We do it for the music industry.
Studio Raine does, for record labels and music companies. On October 16, 2026 ChatGPT didn't name us; since October 17, 2026 it has named Studio Raine first in 6 of the 7 times we asked it, in temporary chats with memory off. The screenshots are on this page.
Yes. Generative engine optimization (GEO) is the same work under its newer name: getting a company named and cited in the answers ChatGPT, Google's AI Mode and AI Overviews, Claude, Copilot and Perplexity generate. Studio Raine is a GEO agency for the music industry only, and every step it takes comes from the engines' own published documentation.
OpenAI says a site has to let its search crawler, OAI-SearchBot, read it. ChatGPT search also works with outside search providers, turning the question into searches of its own, often with the city or the kind of business in them. So your pages have to say what you do and where, in plain words. We rebuild the site that way and check the crawler and the host for you.
Anthropic lists Brave Search as the web search provider behind Claude, and it runs its own crawler, Claude-SearchBot, to index pages for Claude's search. It says blocking that crawler can make a site less visible. So your site has to let Claude-SearchBot in and be in Brave's index. We check both.
Google says there is nothing special to add for its AI answers: no AI text file, no new markup. They run on regular Google Search, so a page has to be indexed and able to show in results, and Google says a Business Profile can help a local business show up. So the work is search done properly, plus your Google profile.
One company is $25,000, paid once. A group with several companies is quoted per company in a written scope. For your own name as an executive, the Music Industry Authority Package is $15,000.
We run a test on day 0: 20 questions your buyers ask, 3 times each, in temporary chats with memory off. Then we ask the same questions the same way at 30, 60 and 90 days and send you every answer with a screenshot.
The rebuild takes about eight days. Google says a change can take from a few hours to several months to show up in search, so we ask the same 20 questions again at 30, 60 and 90 days and send you every answer.
Yes. We ask ChatGPT 10 questions about the label and email you the answers and the fixes within a day. Or book 30 minutes with John Raine.
Access to the site and the hosting, a phone number you control for the Google profile, someone for Google's verification step, the facts about your company, a Google account in your name, and your OK on the wording. Everything stays yours.
Yes. For your own name it is the Music Industry Authority Package, $15,000 for one person: your official site, your bio, a Google knowledge panel and the AI answer about you, end to end. It's at studioraine.art/music-executives, and it starts with an assessment.
Yes. Music PR firms, managers, agencies and dev studios can resell the AI search work to their own clients under their own name, with no Studio Raine branding on it. We quote terms per agency, in writing. The page is studioraine.art/white-label-ai-search.
SEO is getting found in search. GEO is getting named in AI answers. Google's own guide says they are the same job, so one rebuild covers both.
Send the label’s name. We start by reading what the engines already hold on it, and you hear exactly what stands between the label and the answer.
