Experts in AI Visibility for Banks

Experts in AI Visibility for Banks

Customers are asking AI which bank to choose. We help your products earn a place in those answers, with content built for a regulated industry.

We fix the product, rate and branch pages that Google, ChatGPT, Perplexity and AI Overviews read, prepare content for your compliance team to review, and track where AI names your bank. For one of the 20 largest US banks, AI Overview visibility grew 8x.

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Inc. 5000 honoreeUS Agency Awards 2025 winner, Best Use of AI in a Client CampaignSearch Engine Land Awards 2025 finalistSearch Engine Land Awards 2023 finalistUS Search Awards finalist, Best Use of Search in Finance

Results for one of the 20 largest US banks.

+427%
AI-referred traffic, year over year
8x
AI Overview visibility
+63%
Forms submitted, year over year

Where we track your bank

AI Overviews
AI Mode
ChatGPT
Gemini
Perplexity
Copilot
Claude
Grok

Why Your Bank Is Invisible to AI Search

These are the gaps we see across financial institutions that are still set up for traditional search while more of their customers' questions go to AI.

01

Answers buried under marketing copy

Rates, eligibility and fees sit below brand language, so AI may quote a page that states them plainly.

02

Gaps across the buying journey

Questions about comparing, qualifying and safety get answered by publishers instead.

03

Authority split across duplicate pages

Several pages target the same query, so search engines split their signals between them.

04

Thin trust signals on money topics

Content about money carries no named expert, update date or primary source.

05

Pages machines cannot read

Rates sit in images or PDFs, content needs JavaScript, or AI crawlers are blocked.

06

Third parties telling your story

Comparison sites, press and Wikipedia describe your products, and AI may repeat their version.

What Your Bank Gets

Each part of our SEO and AI search work for banks has a clear deliverable, scoped to the products you sell and measured against accounts opened, applications filed and forms submitted.

01

AI Visibility Audit

An assessment of your bank's content, trust signals and technical health, how AI describes you today, and a prioritized plan to improve visibility for your key products.

02

Topic & Content Strategy

A content plan for each product line, covering the pillar page, the supporting pages and the publishing order by business value.

03

Product & Rate Pages

Rewritten product and rate pages with rates, fees and eligibility in readable text, product schema and one clear next step.

04

Content for Every Decision Stage

Guides, comparison pages and safety pages written for each step a customer takes before applying.

05

Expert & Trust Signals

Author pages for your named experts, a primary source behind every rate and rule, and drafts ready for compliance review.

06

Technical SEO & AI Readiness

A technical fix list and its implementation, so search engines and AI crawlers can reach and read every priority page.

07

Local & Branch SEO

A page and an accurate Google Business Profile for every branch, kept in line with your site.

08

Brand Narrative & Off-Site Citations

A map of the comparison sites, press and profiles AI quotes about you, and the work to keep your product facts consistent there.

09

Measurement & Reporting

A monthly report on AI mentions, citations and referrals by platform, tied to accounts opened and applications filed.

For SEO and AI search outside banking, see our general SEO & AI Search service.

Experts Set the Direction, AI Agents Do the Work

Our strategists lead your bank's SEO program, using specialist AI agents to support research, drafting and technical checks. For your bank, priority pages move from brief to review in less time, and every draft reaches your reviewers with its sources attached.

15specialist AI agents covering research, drafting, review and publishing
90+documented procedures, so each task runs the same way every time
17production workflows, from the first audit to monthly reporting
7quality checks, including two human reviews
  1. StrategistOwns your program and sets the objectives, priorities and brief.
  2. Research AgentSearch demand, competitor pages and the questions customers ask AI.
  3. Writing AgentA complete draft against the brief, in your bank's voice.
  4. Review AgentChecks the draft against E-E-A-T, SEO criteria and brand voice.
  5. Compliance AgentFlags claims, disclosures and brand-safety issues for review. It supports your reviewers and does not replace them.
  6. Publish AgentStructured data, formatting and a page ready for your CMS.
  7. Human approvalYour CB/I strategist approves the work, then your compliance team reviews and signs off.

What our pre-review check flags for your compliance team

  • YMYL content standards
  • Required disclosures
  • UDAAP risk in wording
  • Brand safety
  • Personal data
  • Routing to legal review

Work that runs on a schedule

  • Monthly SEO and AI search audit
  • Traffic-drop investigation
  • Response to Google updates
  • YMYL content audit
  • Compliance sweep of published pages
  • Schema rollouts
See a 90-day plan for banks →

See Which AI Answers Mention Your Bank

We test the questions customers ask about your products and branches, then show which answers name you, which name a competitor and which pages to fix first.

Get Your AI Visibility Assessment

What Changes for Your Bank

Visibility You Can Tie to Applications

AI mentions and citations are reported next to the accounts opened and forms submitted they lead to, so marketing can make the business case.

Drafts Your Reviewers Can Check

Every claim arrives with its source and rate and fee language is flagged, so your compliance team reviews from a clean draft.

A Senior Strategist Leads Your Account

A senior strategist in New York leads your account, works with your team during business hours and answers for the plan.

Search, Paid and Analytics on One Plan

Page changes, tracking and campaigns are planned by one team, so search work and paid media use the same data.

Proven AI Search Work in Banking

We have built AI search programs since 2019. Our program for a US bank won Best Use of AI in a Client Campaign at the US Agency Awards 2025.

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Banking Case Studies

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Union Savings Bank

A Connecticut mutual bank asked CB/I Digital to run SEO and paid media around the launch of its new website.

+61%Organic search traffic grew 61% in the first month after launch.
½Cost per lead for new checking accounts fell by half against the prior year.
Read the case study

"CB/I Digital have been executing SEO and paid advertising campaigns for Union Savings Bank, and we are delighted with the results. CB/I team has deep digital expertise, is action-oriented, and very dedicated to deliver great work. We look forward to continuing our digital success with them."

Melissa R. MacCaull, VP/Director of Marketing at Union Savings Bank

MELISSA R. MACCAULL

VP/Director of Marketing - Union Savings Bank

Frequently Asked Questions

What should a bank look for in an SEO and AI search agency?

Proof on a regulated site, a clear way to measure AI visibility, and a team that has worked with compliance reviewers before. Ask for results with a period and a baseline, and ask who runs the account day to day.

How is AI search different from the SEO our bank already does?

Classic SEO earns a position in the list of results. AI search earns a mention or a citation inside the answer, which depends on whether your page states the fact plainly and whether other sites agree with it. Rankings still matter, because Google's AI features draw on pages in its search index.

How much does SEO and AI search for a bank cost?

It depends on how many products and branches you market, the state of your templates, and how many review rounds your content needs. We scope after the audit, so the proposal is based on your site.

How does compliance review fit into the work?

Your compliance team approves every page before it goes live. We mark each claim with its source and flag rate, fee and eligibility language, so reviewers can see where each statement comes from.

Do we need to replace our current SEO agency?

No. We can run the AI search work alongside an existing agency and share findings in a format they can act on. Where the two scopes overlap, we agree who owns each task before work starts.

How long before a bank sees results in AI search?

An AI answer can change soon after a page is fixed and recrawled, while rankings for competitive product terms take longer. No agency controls what an AI system cites, so we report early signals such as crawling, indexing and first mentions from the first month.

Want to Know Where Your Bank Stands in AI Search?

Tell us which products matter most this year. We will show you where AI answers stand today and what we would fix first.

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