Best of 2025: The Service Pro AI Chooses First: Where the Machine Gets Its Answers

Today we're revisiting the episode that exploded in downloads this year.

Because AI is already deciding who gets seen, who gets recommended, and who gets ignored.

And this one hit a nerve for a reason.

Here's your holiday replay: AI's first pick.

Listen again. Update your strategy. Walk into 2026 making sure you're the one the machine chooses.

You'll learn the real truth most business owners still don't understand: AI isn't looking at your website first. It's not scanning your Instagram grid. It's not reading your blog.

It's pulling from open, high-authority platforms that mimic real human conversation — and if you're not present there, you don't exist in the machine's world.

I break down:

• The three places AI scrapes before touching your website.

• Why Reddit, Wikipedia, and YouTube hold disproportionate power in AI recommendations.

• How transcripts, comments, Q&A threads, and conversational content become "credibility signals."

• Why small service businesses get skipped — not because they aren't good, but because AI has nothing to latch onto.

• How to place your name and expertise inside the platforms AI trusts the most.

• Why collaboration (podcasts, blogs, interviews) is now discoverability currency.

• How a single talking-head video can make AI finally recognize your name.

• Practical steps to make sure your words live where the machine is listening.

This isn't about going viral. This is about being visible where discovery actually happens in 2026.

🎧 If you're a service-based business owner, consultant, or creative in Europe or beyond, this episode will help you rewrite your message so your words finally match who you are now.

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I'm Veronica Di Polo, a marketing strategist based in Moraira, Spain, helping service-based business owners get leads with words that sell.

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