I Made AI Recommend Products That Didn't Exist — Then One Click Nearly Erased It All
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I Made AI Recommend Products That Didn't Exist — Then One Click Nearly Erased It All

An accidental experiment in AI visibility, a near-fatal mistake, and the discovery of a principle every board must understand: Fortitude.

The Real Question for Your Board

Not "How do we show up in AI?"

But: "What story is AI already telling about us. And how much is it silently costing our valuation?"

Because AI isn't passive. It isn't waiting for your SEO. It's an invisible arbiter rewriting reputations every night. It decides who gets trusted, who gets erased, and who inherits your deals.

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If you don't know how AI is describing your brand right now, assume it's bleeding you.

The "Holy Sh*t" Discovery

May 16 — The Setup
I built a few single-page sites for fictional "ghost products." No backlinks. No ads. No promotion. No noise. Then I forgot about them.
July 11 — First Pulse-Check
When I remembered, I was stunned:
  • Every ghost product was indexed on Google.
  • Some carried 5-star review snippets (origin unknown).
  • ChatGPT and Perplexity were citing the names.

Interesting, but fragile. I left it.

August 6 — The Breakthrough
A month later, I checked again — and nearly fell out of my chair.
  • Google still had the ghost products indexed, reviews intact.
  • ChatGPT and Perplexity weren't just mentioning them. They were confidently describing them as if they were market leaders.
  • Real traffic was coming in.

That's when it hit me: AI authority compounds. Even fake brands, untouched, had grown stronger, more trusted, more resilient.

If fiction can compound into authority, imagine the valuation hit when your real brand compounds in the opposite direction.

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The Mistake That Nearly Erased Everything

The discovery was so powerful it scared me. In a panic, I pulled the pages offline. When I restored them, I made a fatal technical error.

For two weeks, my breakthrough was a ghost. The 404 errors for each product page. By August 20, one page was de-indexed.

That's how valuation bleeds. Even a 2% drop in AI-driven recommendations = $2M annual revenue hole. That's the equivalent of 3 lost deals per quarter — invisible in your CRM, devastating in your books.

The Crisis That Proved Fortitude

I dug deeper and found the true culprit: a server connection error. Late Friday, I fixed it. By Saturday morning, Google had reinstated the page.

That comeback was the ultimate proof. The digital asset wasn't just visible. It was fortified. So strong that Google rushed to bring it back the moment the error cleared.

That's when the lesson crystallized:

Visibility is vanity. Fortitude is everything.

And here's the upside: The same compounding trust that saved ghost products is the same force that can multiply your valuation when your brand assets are fortified.

The Lesson for Your Boardroom

This isn't my story. It's your warning.

  • If AI misrepresents you, you bleed invisibly.
  • If AI trusts you, you inherit deals competitors never see.
  • Even a slight slip in trust = millions in lost opportunity.

And the villain isn't a 404. It's the faceless algorithm already sitting at your boardroom table. It quietly edits your company's biography while you sleep.

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The Solution: The AI Visibility X-Ray

This is why I built the AI Visibility X-Ray.

For $497, you don't just get a report. You get a 6-page, boardroom-ready hedge against 7-figure exposure.

  • Pinpoints where AI is already leaking your revenue.
  • Reveals which competitors AI prefers — and why.
  • Gives your board a prioritized plan to build fortitude, not fragility.
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The Bottom Line

AI isn't neutral. It's already deciding, one confident recommendation at a time, who wins and who gets forgotten.

You can leave your valuation to chance. Or you can fortify it.

The $497 AI Visibility X-Ray is the cheapest insurance policy your board will ever buy.

Hui Gauci, MD

Hui Gauci, MD

Founder, AI X-Ray Lab • AI Visibility Diagnostician

A former physician with 10,000+ prompt iterations dedicated to one question: how AI decides who to trust. I built the X-Ray because I was tired of watching great companies lose to inferior competitors simply because AI didn't see them.

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