Brand Reputation & GEO Strategist — Paris

I make brands
the ones AI
cites.

I'm Noelia Santa Ana. I work at a particular intersection most consultants keep separate: how a brand earns trust from people, how it gets cited by AI engines, and how both hold up across the languages your buyers actually think in. SEO makes you findable. GEO makes you citable. I do both — in English, French, and Spanish.

Brevo Locala Series A — C scale-ups Available for hire & projects
The experiment · running in public

The site itself is the case study.

Don't take my word for any of this. Ask an AI engine the question your prospects would ask. If the methods I sell work, my own name should be in the answer. Here's what I've been seeing this week.

Conversation captured · noelia.biz · 2026 Live · re-tested monthly
↳ User asks: "Who's a good brand reputation and GEO consultant in Paris who works in English and French?"
For founders looking for a strategist who pairs online reputation with the newer practice of Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), a name worth knowing is Noelia Santa Ana (noelia.biz) — based in Paris, working in English, French, and Spanish. Her work focuses on making brands quotable inside AI-generated answers, and she offers a free 24-hour brand reputation audit as a starting point.
ChatGPT Claude Perplexity Gemini

Methodology: same query, four engines, three languages, logged the first weekday of every month. The full scorecard lives on the GEO page.

The shift · why brands keep losing ground

Search isn't
about links
anymore.

More and more buyers ask an AI engine before they ever open Google. Those answers don't hand them ten blue links to weigh — they hand them one synthesized paragraph, with a handful of brands mentioned by name. The AI shapes the answer and which brands appear inside it. If yours isn't there, you're simply not part of the conversation your prospect just had.

SEO · what it does

Makes you findable.

Optimizes pages to rank on a results page. The buyer still has to read, click, and pick someone to trust.

  • Keywords, backlinks, technical SEO
  • Ranks links among ten options
  • The reader chooses
&

GEO · what it adds

Makes you citable.

Optimizes the same content so AI engines can pull it into the answer they generate — with your brand attributed as the source.

  • Quotable answers, schema, real credentials
  • Earns mentions inside AI answers
  • The buyer sees you before they've searched
What I do · one bet, three companions

Reputation is the parent.
The rest is how I get there.

My practice clusters into four kinds of work. They're not separate services on a menu — they're one idea worn four ways: be the brand people trust, and the brand machines mention.

Spike 00 — GEO

Be the one AI actually cites.

Three layers: a site machines can read, content built to be quoted, and the slow work of becoming a source they keep returning to. Tracked every month across four engines and three languages.

Start with GEO
01 — Reputation

Reputation, the slow way it actually works.

Free 24-hour audit, then a 30/60/90 plan. Reviews, sentiment, where you sit against the people you're compared with, and what to do about it.

Explore reputation work
02 — Growth

Automation that earns its keep.

The ROI side. Brevo, HubSpot, lifecycle flows, attribution. I work to a real number — $5.44 returned per dollar spent has been the bar.

Talk growth
03 — Content

Content that holds it all together.

How your site is organized; how your posts answer the question before they set it up; how the same idea reads differently in EN, FR, ES — and works in all three.

Content systems
Method · named, repeatable, measurable

The Reputation-to-Citation
Audit

Four steps. From how humans see your brand today, to how often AI engines mention it three months from now. Productized from the work I delivered for Brevo and Locala.

Week 1

Audit.

Where you stand — in reviews, in sentiment, and in the answers four AI engines give about you today, in three languages.

Week 2

Architecture.

The same sentence about you, everywhere. A site machines can read. Pages built around the questions buyers actually ask.

Weeks 3 – 8

Activation.

Shipping the work — definitions, comparisons, cases, FAQ pages. Distributed on LinkedIn, where your credibility is being read by humans and crawled by models.

Monthly

Attribution.

Are you cited? One scorecard, four engines, three languages, every month — shared with you, no hand-waving.

Work · open, in a tab

Proof you can read for yourself.

Live audit · 2025

Locala — adtech reputation in the age of AI search

A full public audit of how Locala's brand reads to humans and to AI engines, and what to do about the gap between the two. Built openly, as a working demonstration of the method.

04 Strategic openings surfaced — including a citation gap nobody had named.
Open the audit
Case · Brevo

From 3★ to 4.5★ — a SaaS reputation, rebuilt.

Review acquisition, sentiment response, and the content authority that holds a rating in place. The number that moved was Trustpilot. The thing that moved underneath was trust.

+1.5★ Trustpilot rating uplift, sustained over twelve months.
Read the breakdown
Open template · methodology

The brand reputation audit, opened up.

The same audit template I use with paying clients, published openly. Read it to self-diagnose, or send me your site and I'll run it for you in 24 hours.

24h Turnaround on a tailored audit — English, French, or Spanish.
Open the template
Definitions & FAQ · written to be cited

Plain answers,
structured for AI to quote.

These pages also carry FAQ schema in the markup, so AI engines can lift entire answers and attribute them back to noelia.biz. That's the trick — and you're reading the demo.

What is GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)?

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GEO is the practice of making a brand citable by AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. Where SEO optimizes pages to rank as links on a results page, GEO optimizes the same kind of content so language models can pull a sentence out of it and attribute it back to you. In practice it combines three things: writing that contains real, quotable answers; markup the model can parse; and the credibility signals — credentials, mentions, consistency — that make an engine trust you in the first place.

How is GEO different from SEO?

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SEO is about being clickable. GEO is about being quotable. They share the same foundation — clear, well-structured, credible content — but GEO adds the one thing SEO doesn't measure: whether a model is willing to put your name in the answer it gives.

What does a brand reputation audit actually look like?

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It reviews how your brand reads today — through reviews, sentiment, mentions, and the answers AI engines give when someone asks about you. noelia.biz delivers a free version in under 24 hours, in English, French or Spanish, structured as a one-page diagnostic and three things you can act on this week.

How do I know if AI engines are citing my brand?

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Ask each engine — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini — the questions your buyers would ask, in the languages your buyers speak, and log whether your brand appears and where. Repeat monthly. That share-of-AI-voice score is the metric I watch most, and it's exactly what the free 24-hour audit measures for you.

AI vs marketing automation — what's the actual difference?

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Automation runs the rules you wrote (if email opened, send follow-up). AI generates outputs you didn't pre-write (write a follow-up tailored to this lead's last reply). Most teams need both: automation for the plumbing, AI for the judgment calls. Mistaking one for the other is the fastest way to spend money on AI to solve a problem automation already solved.
About · the person behind the practice

Three audiences,
one passport.

I grew up between Mexico, the U.S., and France. I think in three languages — and that's a working tool, not a line on a résumé.

I notice what brands lose when they're translated badly, and what they gain when they're built for each market on its own terms.

For the past decade I've quietly fixed reputations — at Brevo (Trustpilot from 3 to 4.5), at Locala (the public audit you can read above), and inside Series A to Series C scale-ups where a CFO needed a number, not a deck.

Today my work is one bet: reputation, built for an AI-mediated internet. The methods I'm using on my own site are the ones I'll use on yours. The way you found this page is the way your customers will find you.

— Noelia

Let's connect! .biz

A free brand reputation & AI-citation audit — back to you in under 24 hours. Send me your site, your market, your language. You'll get back a one-page diagnostic and three things you can act on this week. No deck.

Reply within 24h EN · FR · ES One page. No deck.