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 — check the site signals that crawlers and AI-assisted search may use.
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.
GEO builds on proven SEO practices with accessible pages, useful author and book content, and clear structured data. These foundations help search tools interpret your work, but cannot guarantee a citation or recommendation in an AI-generated answer.
Clear headings, readable book details, and reading orders help readers and automated tools navigate your work.
Clarifies connections between names, books, genres, and official profiles, reducing avoidable ambiguity.
Structured data can describe your books and official retail links. An optional llms.txt overview is available for tools that choose to use it.
Have an existing author website? Check your site's public metadata, crawler directives, and entity signals — then see what to improve.
Run the Free AI Visibility ScanFree · No card · No call · Results in seconds
What you get.
Technical Discovery Readiness: Clear author and book facts make your work easier to interpret without promising AI recommendation placement.
Connected Author Identity: Consistent links to your official profiles, books, and retailers make your catalog easier to verify.
High-Converting Reader Hub: A professional storefront designed around reader behavior to turn casual browsers into newsletter fans and buyers.
Ongoing Technical Checks: Periodic reviews help spot crawl, content, and identity issues as search systems 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.
Sourceable Author Bio: Clear factual summaries make your work easier to understand and quote accurately.
Reader Q&A Architecture: Useful answers to reader questions about books, reading order, and formats.
Optional llms.txt Overview: A readable map of key pages for participating tools, not an AI-search requirement.
Rich Metadata & Open Graph: Descriptive tags support social previews and give search systems accurate page context.
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 public author-site signals — including schema, headings, and crawler rules — with a heuristic score and actionable findings.
Best for: anyone who wants to know where they stand before spending a dollar.
- → Heuristic technical-readiness 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.
Meet the Founder
Brian Plescher is the founder of Sonexial. As an author and strategist based in Grand Haven, Michigan, he has published books on Amazon, rewritten covers, retooled keywords, and watched the algorithm bury good work under weak structure. He built Sonexial because he 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 means making author content easier to find and interpret in search, including AI-assisted features. Helpful writing, accessible pages, accurate author and book data, and consistent official links are practical foundations. They cannot guarantee AI citations or recommendations.
Not necessarily. Many existing author websites already have a sound search foundation. Our free technical-readiness scan checks publicly available page signals; it cannot reveal what a particular AI model sees, indexes, or recommends.
Absolutely. Wix and Squarespace can publish accessible pages, clear content, and structured metadata. What matters is checking the actual output, crawl access, and quality of the information you publish.
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.