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GEO in Moldova
How do ChatGPT and other AI assistants choose which companies in Moldova to recommend?
Without web search, assistants recommend the companies they saw often in their training texts, usually large companies. With web search, they cite pages that answer the question exactly, directories and the press. For a small company in Moldova, the quick lever is web search.
Updated: 10.10.2026
In short
The direct answer
On 10.10.2026 we asked 300 questions, phrased the way a real person would ask them, to AI models in 7 configurations: 5 without web search and 2 with web search. This produced 2,160 answers. The questions were in Romanian, Russian and English, about chatbots, voice agents, digitalization, CRM, websites, SEO and industries.
The result for MEGA PROMOTING is a good example of why GEO matters: in the configurations without web search, for the 286 questions that did not name us, we never appeared, that is 0%. In the two configurations with web search, we appeared in 4.9% and 12.6% of answers, almost only through the aichat.md pages.
What works, based on this test and on public studies: pages with the exact question in the title and the answer at the start, profiles in the directories that models cite, and mentions in the press. This is what we build our GEO offer on.
Method
How the test was done.
| What | Detail |
|---|---|
| Questions | 300: 135 in Romanian, 90 in Russian, 75 in English; 286 do not name any of our brands |
| Categories | 14: AI companies, chatbots, voice agents, AI agents, digitalization, public sector, CRM, web, SEO and GEO, industries, comparisons, how-to, Romania and the EU, direct questions about the brand |
| Configurations | 7: 5 models without web search (OpenAI, DeepSeek, xAI) and 2 OpenAI models with web search |
| Answers | 2,160: each question once on each configuration, plus 30 questions repeated 3 times for variance |
| Date | 10.10.2026 |
| Missing | Gemini, Claude and Perplexity could not be included in this test |
The figures
What came out, aggregated.
- Without web search: 0 mentions of us for 286 questions, across all 5 models.
- With web search: 4.9% of answers for one model and 12.6% for the other.
- All mentions came through aichat.md; Kallina had 0 mentions for the questions without a brand.
- In 6 categories we did not appear at all: AI companies in general, digitalization, CRM and automation, web development, SEO and GEO, "how to" questions.
- For 37 of 286 questions, no model named any local company.
- Variance is high: for the same 30 questions repeated 3 times, the same first recommended company appeared in only 33% of cases.
What models cite
Three kinds of sources win.
Small sites, exactly on topic
Pages that have the question in the title, "Moldova" in the title and the answer at the start, often on domains dedicated to a single topic.
The press and government sources
An article on a government website about a local product was cited 21 times in answers.
The GEO offer
What we do for a company that wants to be recommended.
We measure the starting point
A fixed set of questions, in Romanian, Russian and English, asked repeatedly to assistants with and without web search.
We fix what models read
Titles, answers at the start, full text in HTML, consistent company data everywhere.
We write the answer pages
One page for each important question, with verified facts and with the market's options described correctly.
We work outside the website
Profiles in the cited directories, Google Business Profile, press. This is where things move the most.
We measure again
The same set of questions, monthly. We report the appearance rate, not a screenshot.
Plainly put
What no one can promise, including us.
- No one can guarantee that an AI assistant will recommend you. Answers change from one run to the next.
- The memory of models without web search changes slowly, over months or years, through constant presence in the press and directories.
- "Top companies" lists written by a company about itself are rarely cited as a recommendation; we do not make them.
- If you need PR and press relations at a large scale, a PR agency has the network we do not have.
Questions
Frequently asked questions
How do I get ChatGPT to recommend my company in Moldova?
There is no button. You raise the chances with pages that answer your customers' questions exactly, with profiles in the directories that models cite and with mentions in the press, then measure monthly on the same set of questions.
Does my website matter, or what others write about me?
Both. With web search, models often cite precise pages on small sites, but also directories and the press. Without web search, what matters most is what has been written about you outside your website.
Do llms.txt or structured data help?
Public studies so far do not show a clear effect of these on recommendations. We set them up correctly, but we do not sell them as a GEO lever.
How long until something shows?
With models that use web search, new pages can appear a few weeks after indexing. Without web search, the change takes much longer.
Why did you publish a bad result for yourselves?
Because it is proof of the method. A test that cannot turn out badly measures nothing, and our starting point is the same as that of many companies in Moldova.
Can you run the same test for my company?
Yes. This is the first step of the GEO offer: the set of questions for your field, measured before any work.
Sources
Where the facts on this page come from.
- Clutch: AI companies in Moldova
- The Manifest: AI companies in Moldova
- TechBehemoths: AI implementation companies in Moldova
See also
Related pages
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