Four months ago, no AI assistant had ever sent Team Zold a visitor. Now it's 9% of traffic.
Team Zold, a real estate team in a crowded, locally competitive market, started AI Engine Optimization with Detectabli on April 2, 2026. This is the whole engagement so far, measured month by calendar month: how search visibility grew 4.5×, how an AI referral channel appeared and kept climbing, and why the traffic that arrives now is worth far more than the traffic that left.
- AI assistant sessions
- 0 → 74
- a channel that did not exist in April
- Search impressions
- +345.1%
- 21.9K → 97.7K · last 3 months vs previous 3
- Engagement rate
- 5.4% → 25.0%
- April vs July · 31.2% in early August
- LLM referrals
- 100
- last 90 days · ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude