CHICAGO, Sept. 15, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- OneIMS, an AEO agency serving manufacturers and B2B companies, today announced an expansion of its AI search and AEO services to include continuous AI visibility management. The proprietary MAPS Framework serves as the operating model behind the expanded service. A one-time audit shows a company where it stands today. The expanded service is built for recurring optimization as AI platforms change how they retrieve, interpret, cite, and surface information. The expansion is available now to manufacturers and B2B companies.
“An audit tells you where you stand the day we run it. AI platforms don’t stand still. They change how they retrieve and present information, and competitors publish new content that can change who appears in an answer. Long-term AI search management is how we keep clients visible after the audit, not just at the moment of it,” said Samuel Thimothy, Co-founder and Chief Growth Officer of OneIMS.
OneIMS measures AI share of voice by comparing a company's frequency of appearance across a defined set of relevant buyer prompts with the frequency of tracked competitors. From first-month tracking to the most recent 30-day window, one industrial automation client under continuous MAPS management moved from roughly 5% to roughly 10% share of voice among 51 tracked brands, taking the #1 position in its category. Across OneIMS's manufacturing client base, four industrial and packaging manufacturers currently hold the #1 share-of-voice position among their tracked competitors in AI-generated answers. One reaction injection molding manufacturer holds a 19.7% share of voice, more than four times that of its closest tracked competitor. A packaging machinery manufacturer under continuous MAPS management holds the #1 position among tracked competitors at 10.9%, more than double the next-ranked supplier.
Every part of the expanded service is an application of MAPS, OneIMS's four-part methodology for earning discoverability and trust with AI platforms:
Model Buyer Intent: maps the specific questions, personas, and industries a company's buyers actually search around.
Answer Clearly: restructures a company's content so AI platforms can extract a direct, citable answer instead of guessing at one.
Prove & Place: strengthens third-party proof points, citations, and placements that make AI platforms more confident recommending a company.
Structure & Stay Fresh: keeps that content technically readable by AI systems and current as models and rankings shift.
OneIMS built MAPS around the signals that influence how AI platforms discover, interpret, cite, and recommend information, rather than around traditional page-ranking factors alone. The framework is measured through changes in AI visibility, competitor share of voice, prompt and topic coverage, and citation patterns over time. The expanded service exists to keep those signals current, on a recurring basis, rather than as a single project.
The expansion moves AEO from a one-time deliverable to a recurring engagement. OneIMS will monitor a client's visibility across major AI platforms on a continuous basis, track shifts in competitor positioning, and adjust content and structure as AI platforms change how they retrieve, interpret, cite, and surface information. The service builds directly on OneIMS's AEO and GEO services, extending the MAPS Framework from a single audit into continuous AI visibility management.
“We built MAPS because a static website and a one-time SEO report don’t hold up in an AI-driven search environment. Visibility now has to be maintained the same way a paid campaign or a sales pipeline is maintained, with continuous attention, not a single project,” Thimothy said.
The expanded service is designed for manufacturers, industrial suppliers, and other B2B companies that have already run an AI Visibility Audit or otherwise identified gaps in how they appear in AI-generated answers. Businesses interested in continuous AI visibility management can reach OneIMS directly to discuss scope and onboarding.
The expansion positions OneIMS to help manufacturers and B2B companies treat AI visibility as an ongoing marketing function, with defined measurement, competitive monitoring, and recurring optimization rather than a one-time technical exercise.
About OneIMS
OneIMS was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. For two decades, the company has helped manufacturers and B2B companies get found by the buyers researching them, first through search engines, and now through the AI platforms those buyers increasingly ask instead. That same expertise in how industrial and B2B buyers search now informs how OneIMS approaches AI visibility.
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