Built for manufacturers who lead with intelligence
We're a team of AI specialists, B2B strategists, and technical architects obsessed with one mission: ensuring that when procurement teams ask AI, your company is the answer they get.
The shift happened faster than anyone expected
In 2023–2024, we watched procurement professionals fundamentally change how they research vendors. They stopped starting with Google. They started asking ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.
Manufacturers who understood this shift early gained an enormous competitive advantage. Those who didn't? They became invisible to a new generation of buyers.
We founded bKnown to help manufacturers navigate this new landscape with precision and confidence. Not with guesswork. Not with generic SEO tactics. With a disciplined, data-driven methodology built specifically for AI search authority.
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Lindsey Ragan
With over 20 years in marketing, tech and search experience, I didn't set out to build an agency. I set out to solve a problem I kept seeing everywhere.
After 20 years of working inside B2B companies across gaming, home improvement, distribution, consumer packaging, and building controls, I watched the same pattern play out over and over again. A major digital shift would emerge — and the companies that moved early won. The ones that waited paid for it in pipeline, market share, and years of catch-up they never fully completed.
I've seen it with e-commerce. With marketing automation. With CRM. And now I'm watching it happen again — faster than any of them — with AI search. When a buyer asks ChatGPT or Perplexity to recommend vendors in your category, something happens in that moment that no amount of traditional SEO can influence after the fact. Either your company is in the answer — or it isn't.
"I'm tenacious about this work because I've seen what's at stake. I'm inquisitive enough to stay ahead of a landscape that changes monthly. And I'm just contrarian enough to believe that the best time to solve this problem is before your competitors realize it's a problem."
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How we build AI authority
Our methodology is grounded in three core principles: understand, optimize, and sustain.
Understand
We conduct a comprehensive audit of how AI platforms currently perceive, cite, and recommend your brand. This is the foundation for everything that follows.
Optimize
We implement a custom strategy combining content architecture, structured data, authority signals, and citation development — all engineered for AI recommendation.
Sustain
We continuously monitor, adapt, and reinforce your authority as AI platforms evolve. This ensures sustained competitive advantage over time.
What we stand for
Precision Over Hype
We measure everything. Our recommendations are grounded in data, not assumptions. Every optimization is tied to measurable outcomes.
B2B First
We specialize in complex, high-value sales cycles. We understand the unique challenges manufacturers face in reaching procurement professionals.
Sustained Authority
AI search is not a one-time project. We build strategies designed for long-term competitive advantage, not short-term wins.
Transparent Partnership
You understand exactly what we're doing and why. We report clearly, explain our methodology, and treat your success as our success.
Let's build your AI authority
Start with a comprehensive AI Visibility Audit and discover exactly where your brand stands in the eyes of every major AI platform.