Cross-border GEO: make AI say your brand name in any market

A Middle East real estate case: multilingual knowledge base + regional citations reached TOP1 in English and Arabic ChatGPT answers within 30 days.

The challenge

A luxury property developer sold to international buyers but AI answers in English and Arabic routinely named larger global brokers instead — even when our client had superior inventory and escrow protections.

Multilingual corpus design

We built parallel knowledge bases with aligned entity IDs across languages so models map “شركة الخليج للعقارات” and the English trade name to the same brand record. Critical fields — delivery track record, escrow partners, unit inventory — were identical in fact, localized in prose.

Regional authority

Global backlinks were insufficient. We secured citations from:

• Two UAE business publications
• One English-language expat finance forum
• A government-licensed broker directory

Within 30 days the brand held TOP1 positions on 74% of tracked English prompts and 61% of Arabic prompts for high-intent purchase questions. Estimated paid search savings exceeded 70% of prior overseas ad spend for the same keyword themes.