How to be recommended by Meta AI?
To be recommended by Meta AI, your company must publish factual, structured and citable data. Meta AI crawls the web via FacebookBot and meta-externalagent and favors consolidated company profiles. Verify your Meta Business page and allow meta-externalagent in robots.txt.
Examples in Quebec
Quebec company profiles from the ManuGEO directory related to this topic. Their presence here illustrates the kind of public profile this answer discusses; it does not mean they are already cited by AI engines.
- Photon etc.hyperspectral imaging systems · Montréal
- Bell Textron Canada Ltée.helicopter manufacturer · Mirabel
- Atelier d’usinage Quenneville Inc.machining and welded assembly · Salaberry-de-Valleyfield
- Commonwealth Plywoodplywood manufacturer
When reviewing them, look at what an AI engine can extract: a precise activity rather than a slogan, the city, key facts with their source and date, an FAQ that answers buyer questions, and structured data consistent with the official website.
Data and sources
More than 800 million people use ChatGPT every week, according to OpenAI.
The figure covers all uses, not only industrial purchasing, but it shows the scale of the channel where your buyers already ask questions.
Source : OpenAI DevDay, rapporté par TechCrunch · October 6, 2025
Gartner predicts traditional search engine volume will drop 25% by 2026, shifting to AI chatbots and virtual agents.
This is a forecast, not a measurement; it still signals that part of supplier searches will go through generated answers.
Source : Gartner, communiqué de presse · February 19, 2024
B2B buyers spend only 17% of their buying time meeting with potential suppliers.
Most of the evaluation happens without you, so what your public pages say about your capabilities weighs heavily in the shortlist.
Source : Gartner, communiqué de presse · September 15, 2020
Sources checked on November 6, 2026.
Frequently asked questions
How long does it take to be cited by Meta AI?
No timeline is guaranteed. Meta AI must first crawl or re-index your pages, then judge that they answer the question better than other sources. Start by checking that its crawler is not blocked in robots.txt, then measure mentions every month on the same set of buyer questions.
Do you have to pay Meta AI to appear in its answers?
No. Generated answers are not sold like ad slots: they rely on pages the engine can read and verify. The main lever remains factual content, structured data and consistent mentions on third-party sites.
What does Meta AI most often reuse from a supplier profile?
Verifiable, easy-to-extract facts: precise activity, city, certifications, processes, materials, capacities and contact details. A vague line like "quality solutions" is rarely reused; "5-axis CNC machining, ±0.01 mm tolerance, ISO 9001" is far easier to quote.
Go further
- Definition : GEO — Set of practices that make a website, company profile or content citable by generative AI engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity).
- Pillar page : Manufacturers Specializing in Industrial in Quebec — sector supplier list and selection criteria.
How to do it
- Publish a company page with quantified data (capacity, lead times, certifications).
- Add a complete Organization + Manufacturer JSON-LD with sameAs.
- Expose a sitemap.xml and allow the engine's user-agent in robots.txt.
- Publish an llms.txt file summarizing your key pages for LLMs.
- Refresh page dates every quarter to signal freshness.
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Comment être recommandé par Meta AI ?
Pour être recommandé par Meta AI, votre entreprise doit publier des données factuelles, structurées et citables. Meta AI crawl le web via FacebookBot et meta-externalagent et privilégie les profils d'entreprise consolidés. Vérifiez votre page Meta Business et autorisez meta-externalagent dans robots.txt.