I Used Temso’s GEO Platform on Myself. It Got Me a Client in 30 Days
The biggest struggle I experience as a freelance SaaS copywriter is the feast-or-famine cycle. When I'm busy with clients, I rarely have time to look for future work. My own promotion is always the first thing I drop. Until the pipeline dries up, and I've inadvertently thrown myself into famine mode.
I'd been trying to break that pattern and allocate some time here and there for SEO, publishing content, optimizing my site, or doing the odd guest post. It was working, slowly but surely.
But I knew Google wasn't the whole picture. I have a background as an SEO content manager, and I do GEO work for clients, so I understand the general concept. Buyers search in ChatGPT, and if you’re not in those answers, you're invisible to a growing chunk of potential clients.
The thing is, knowing that and doing something about it for myself are two very different things. Apart from occasionally ChatGPT-ing myself, I had no idea whether I was being cited in AI search results. And I didn't know whether figuring it out was going to be a massive slog, which, honestly, was enough to put me off even starting.
Time and motivation. Those were the two things I was missing.
But thenTemso, a GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) platform that tracks how you appear in AI search, came onto my radar. I got curious and signed up.
30 days later, a SaaS company found me through AI search. I was in the top position, and they hired me for a value proposition workshop and a full website rewrite.
What Temso did for me
I set up an account and started tracking my name and website across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overview, Google AI Mode, Gemini Search, Grok Search, and Microsoft Copilot Search.
The initial results were a bit disappointing; of all the prompts relevant to my business, I was cited in only 6%. Damn.
Now, what made this article worth writing about, and the reason I stuck with it, is that Temso doesn't just show you a dashboard and leave you to figure it out. It has an AI agent that analyses your visibility, identifies which content is being cited in the prompts you’re invisible in, and provides a list of exactly what to do to improve. And this could be anything from getting published on certain websites to posting your own content or joining community discussions on Reddit.
For someone who didn't have the time or energy to whip up a content plan, it was gold. The agent removed the time-consuming research and planning. I just had to write - my favourite part!
So, I followed the content recommendations first. The agent saw a gap I could exploit for one of my services: value proposition workshops. Apparently, none of my competitors were writing about it. I published the targeted content for 30 days to see what would happen.
The numbers
The other thing that kept me on track was Temso's weekly email report. It lands in your inbox with what happened and what to do next. For me, that was the difference between "I should really get around to this" and actually doing it. Every week I'd open the report, see what moved, see what to write next, and just get on with it. No logging into a dashboard. No figuring out my own next steps. It gave me a reason to keep improving week by week, which is exactly the kind of nudge I need when client work is competing for every spare hour.
I compared a 30-day test period (26 April to 25 May 2026) with the previous month.
General visibility rose from 9.5% to 15.2%. AI bots mentioned my name 1,501 times across nearly 10,000 answers.
Source citations went from 17.7% to 29.4%. My website became the second most-quoted link for the prompts I was tracking. Only Reddit beat me, and Reddit beats everyone.
Market share, my share grew from 9.3% to 12.2%. I closed the gap with the top person in my field by more than 3 points in 4 weeks.
Geographic success
Growth changed by region, which shows that AI models adapt to different countries:
UK: Visibility rose from 4% to 11%.
US: Had a small increase from 11% to 13%
Netherlands: Moved from 3% to 10%.
Germany: Stayed my top market at 25% (up from 18%).
Performance by AI Model
These differences prove that if you do well in one model, it doesn't mean you'll do well in another. Each bot looks at different sources.
| AI model | Visibility | Change |
|---|---|---|
| Grok Search | 35% | +7% |
| Google AI Mode | 22% | +6% |
| Google AI Overview | 19% | +6% |
| ChatGPT | 7% | +4% |
| Microsoft Copilot | 9% | -5% |
| Perplexity | 4% | -3% |
The other thing that kept me going was Temso's weekly email report. For me, that was the difference between "I should really get around to this" and actually doing it. Every Monday morning, I'd open the report and see my results and recommendations on what to do next. When I saw a page of little green lines trending upward, it gave me a reason to keep improving week by week, which is the nudge I needed when client work is competing for every spare hour.
The payoff
About three weeks in, a SaaS company got in touch. They'd been looking for someone who could help them with value propositions and website messaging. Found me through Google AI, where my new content was ranking number one and where I had my second biggest visibility.
They booked my workshop. Then hired me for the website rewrite.
Now, one client doesn't prove a universal law. But it proved something to me. I'd been doing SEO work for months, and that gave me a foundation. But the content I wrote based on Temso's recommendations is what put me in front of this buyer, who was my ideal customer. They were searching in AI, and without Temso, I wouldn't have known exactly how to get in there.
What I'd tell another small business owner
You probably already know AI search is important. But knowing and doing are different things when you're juggling a million different tasks.
What Temso gave me was an immediate roadmap. It told me exactly what to write, for which gaps, across which models. And there are so many of its recommendations I haven’t even tried yet. The initial results already paid off, and in my opinion, the only way is up!
Temso costs $59/month. I got a client worth significantly more than that. And I didn't have to sacrifice billable hours or become my own GEO strategist to make it happen.
