Does your book make it from the cloud to the coffee shop?
Sonexial builds done-for-you author websites structured for AI-era discovery. DIY builders give you templates. Traditional designers give you a polished site. Sonexial gives you an author platform built with semantic structure, schema, entity clarity, and GEO from day one.
Start with a free AI visibility scan of the site you already have.
No card, no call — see what ChatGPT and Perplexity can actually read on your site.
The old playbook is broken.
For fifteen years, authors were told to upload to Amazon, optimize keywords, run ads, and pray. In 2026, that advice is a slow-motion burial.
Amazon is a checkout counter
It can sell books, but it does not discover them for you. Readers are increasingly asking AI tools for recommendations before they ever click into your KDP listing.
Google sends fewer clicks
AI Overviews answer more questions directly, which means your website has to do the work of making you discoverable, credible, and quotable.
Most author sites are invisible to AI
Even polished sites often lack the semantic structure, entity clarity, schema markup, and AI-readable signals that modern discovery systems actually use.
Meet GEO: the SEO of the AI era.
Search Engine Optimization made you findable on Google. Generative Engine Optimization makes your author platform easy for ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and AI search interfaces to understand, cite, and recommend to readers.
AI answer engines can easily parse, quote, and recommend sites that organize your books, themes, and reading orders clearly.
Eliminates confusion between your name, pen names, titles, genres, and platforms so AI systems never mix up your work or hallucinate details.
Hidden structured code and an AI roadmap file that tell crawlers exactly who you are, what books you write, and where official retail links live.
Have an existing author website? Find out what AI search engines see, what's missing, and how to fix your semantic entity data.
Run the Free AI Visibility ScanFree · No card · No call · Results in seconds
What you get.
AI Recommendation Readiness: Your author platform gives AI tools clear, verified facts to recommend your books when readers ask for suggestions.
Connected Author Identity: Entity links connect your website to Amazon, Goodreads, and BookBub so AI systems link all your books to you.
High-Converting Reader Hub: A professional storefront designed around reader behavior to turn casual browsers into newsletter fans and buyers.
Ongoing Visibility Protection: Continuous monitoring and reporting so your platform stays discoverable as AI search engines evolve.
The GEO stack inside every site.
Author & Book Schema: Hidden code so machines can clearly connect your name, books, genres, and official site.
Semantic HTML Hierarchy: Clean structure that makes your blurb, reviews, and reading orders effortless for crawlers to parse.
Citation-Ready Author Bio: Formatted summaries engineered for direct quotation when AI tools recommend books in your genre.
Reader Q&A Architecture: Direct answers to common reader and trope queries that AI search engines love to surface.
llms.txt Guidance File: An AI roadmap file that tells crawlers what your site is, what matters, and where key book data lives.
Rich Metadata & Open Graph: Complete previews and data tags for crisp social sharing and accurate search snippets.
Start free. Go deeper when you're ready.
Run the free scan on your existing site, or see everything — automated kits, diagnostics, and done-for-you website builds — on one page.
Free AI Visibility Scan
Scan any author website and see how AI answer engines read it — score, grade, and the failures holding you back.
Best for: anyone who wants to know where they stand before spending a dollar.
- → Instant AI visibility score and grade
- → Your most damaging failures, named
- → Full report emailed to you
- → No call, no card
See Pricing
Every option in one place — from the $99 Amazon Visibility Kit and the $297 GEO Diagnostic to done-for-you author websites at $497 and $3,000.
Two tracks: fast & automated (no call needed), or work with us on a custom build.
- → Amazon Visibility Kit — $99
- → GEO Diagnostic — $297
- → Author Starter — $497
- → Author Platform — $3,000
- → GEO Retainer — $300/mo
Not sure where to start?
- → Free AI Visibility Scan if you want a fast look at your current gaps.
- → Amazon Visibility Kit if your main issue is your Amazon categories, keywords, and description.
- → GEO Diagnostic if you already have a website and want the full, prioritized fix plan.
- → Author Starter if you need a clean, AI-ready site without a full custom build.
- → Author Platform if you have multiple books, series, or pen names that need real architecture.
- → GEO Retainer if your site is live and you want ongoing AI visibility checks.
Two paths, depending on what you need.
The free scan, the Amazon Visibility Kit, and the GEO Diagnostic need no call. Custom builds start with strategy.
Define the Gap
For the scan, kits, and diagnostic, this happens automatically, with no call. For Author Starter, Author Platform, and retainer work, we start with a free 30-minute discovery call to map your books, readers, and catalog.
Strategy & Build
I deliver a site architecture, content map, GEO strategy, and technical specification before I build. You review one draft, give feedback, and I refine it.
Launch & Optimize
Your site goes live, I tune the discovery signals, and you get back to writing. The site keeps working long after launch.
Built by an author, for authors.
I'm Brian Plescher. I've published books on Amazon, rewritten covers, retooled keywords, and watched the algorithm bury good work under weak structure. I built Sonexial because I got tired of pretending Amazon was a marketing platform.
Learn more about the story behind Sonexial.
→ MS in Management, Strategy, and Leadership from Michigan State University
→ Executive Education in Accelerated Management from Yale School of Management
→ Strategy-first builds with the empathy of an author who has been in your chair
Questions.
GEO stands for Generative Engine Optimization. While traditional SEO helped Google rank webpages, GEO ensures AI answer tools (like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini) understand who you are, what books you write, and why they should recommend your work to readers. Without structured author and book schema, verified entity data, and an llms.txt roadmap, AI tools often mix up titles, miss backlists, or recommend competitors instead.
Most likely. Traditional author sites look great to humans, but their data is invisible or confusing to AI crawlers. If your site lacks machine-readable schema, entity connections to Amazon/Goodreads, and an llms.txt file, AI search engines struggle to cite or recommend your books. The Free AI Visibility Scan at sonexial.com/tools/author-geo-audit shows you exactly what AI models currently see.
You can, and they can look good. But most template-based author sites are not configured with the schema markup, entity clarity, llms.txt guidance, and semantic structure needed for strong AI discovery.
No website makes a book sell by itself. What Sonexial does is make sure that when readers do look for you, they find a platform that converts curiosity into readers and readers into fans.
Not for the Free AI Visibility Scan, the Amazon Visibility Kit, or the GEO Diagnostic. Those are fully automated. Author Starter, Author Platform, and the GEO Retainer start with a free 30-minute discovery call so we can understand your catalog, readers, pen names, and goals.
Sonexial sets one up as part of every build. Your list is one of the most valuable assets in your author career.
Your next reader may be asking an AI for a recommendation.
Let’s make your author platform easier for AI search to find, understand, and recommend.