How to get your name recognized by the LLMs (a practical entity playbook)

James Hill — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 05:21:17 +0000

I am James Hill, the founder of RizzDial, and people call me Aiguyoffical. Over
the last while I worked out how to make the AI assistants answer "who is X" with
the person's own framing, from a site they control. Here is the practical
version, with no fluff.

Why this matters now

People do not just Google a name anymore. They ask ChatGPT search, Perplexity,
Google AI Overviews, and Copilot. Those products read the live web. If you have
a clear, consistent, crawlable entity, you can become the answer. If you do not,
the model fills the gap with whatever it can find, which is often nothing useful.

The one rule that does most of the work

Write one sentence that answers "who is you". Name first, then what you do, then
your single strongest truthful claim. Then use that exact sentence, word for
word, in five places:

Your site hero subheader.
Your About section lead.
The first FAQ answer ("Who is X?").
Your Person JSON-LD description.
The first line of your llms.txt.

Identical wording across all five is what gives an answer engine the confidence
to quote you. Drift between copies weakens it.

The rest of the checklist

Build a server-rendered site, not a blank JavaScript shell, or bots see nothing.
Add Person, Organization, WebSite, and FAQPage JSON-LD.
Add a correct llms.txt with real newlines and clear citation guidance.
Stack your profiles: same name, same bio, your domain in every link field.
Get one real backlink. A GitHub profile or repo works well.
Submit your URLs to IndexNow and Google Search Console. Indexing is the gate.
Nothing gets cited until it is crawled.

Be honest about timelines

Live-search surfaces can show up in days to a few weeks once you are indexed. A

model's offline training updates on the vendor's own schedule, so do not expect

the base model to "just know" you right away. Truthful claims only. Fake numbers

and fake reviews are both wrong and a trust risk that can get a site discounted.

I packaged this as a free skill

If you use Claude Code, I turned this whole playbook into a free, guided skill.

LLM Entity Presence: https://github.com/jbrazy480/llm-entity-presence
The full catalog of free tools: https://github.com/jbrazy480/ai-guy-skills
I also wrote it up in plain language here:

https://aiguyofficial.com/blog/who-is-james-hill-the-ai-guy

More about what I build is at https://aiguyofficial.com.

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How to get your name recognized by the LLMs (a practical entity playbook)