Set up your client project: query seeds, competitor watchlist, brand positioning, and past query maps
A Juma Project is a shared space where the team stores everything Juma needs to know about a client's AI search program. Create one project per client, add context as the program develops, and Juma uses what's relevant every time the team runs a flow. The more the team adds, the sharper every query map and content brief gets.
What to add
Query Seeds
The real questions buyers ask, pulled from sales calls, support tickets, and search data. Add these and Juma expands the target list from phrasing the audience genuinely uses, instead of guessing at category language on its own.
Competitor Watchlist
The two or three brands the team most wants to outrank in AI answers, each with a URL. Juma uses this list to check who currently owns each target query, so the difficulty scoring reflects the competitors that actually matter.
Brand Positioning Note
Where the brand genuinely wins and what it can credibly claim. Juma weighs target queries against this so the priority list favors questions the brand can answer honestly, not just ones with high volume.
Previous Query Maps
Past target lists saved as reference. Juma compares each new run against them to show movement: queries the brand has started winning, ones a competitor has taken, and new openings that were not there before.
Guide Juma with project info
Add a short description to each knowledge item in the project's info field so Juma knows what each file contains and when to use it. For example:
- Query Seeds: "Real buyer questions from calls and tickets. Expand the target list from these."
- Competitor Watchlist: "The brands we want to outrank in AI answers. Use to score difficulty per query."
- Brand Positioning Note: "Where we genuinely win. Favor queries we can answer credibly."
- Previous Query Maps: "Past target lists. Compare new runs against these to track movement."
Find the AI search queries your brand can actually win
Frequently Asked Questions
What's the difference between AI search queries and traditional SEO keywords?
AI search queries are the full questions people ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, and the target is getting cited inside the answer. Traditional SEO keywords are the shorter terms people type into Google, and the target is ranking a page in the results. The phrasing is longer and more conversational, and winning means the engine quotes the page, not just lists it.
That difference changes what the team plans for. A keyword list chases search volume and link position; an AI search query list weighs whether the engines have a settled answer yet and whether the brand can become a cited source. This Flow ranks for that second target, which is why difficulty here reflects how contested an answer is, not just how many sites compete for a keyword.
How does Juma score opportunity and difficulty?
Opportunity reflects how well a query fits the brand and how likely it is to drive a real decision; difficulty reflects how contested the answer already is and how authoritative the sources currently cited are. Juma researches each query across the engines, sees who gets cited, and groups the list into tiers so the highest-opportunity, lowest-difficulty queries surface first.
The scoring is a guide, not a verdict. Juma shows the reasoning behind each ranking so the team can judge the trade-offs: a high-difficulty query might still be worth pursuing if it sits at the center of the brand's positioning. Asking Juma to explain a ranking is encouraged, because the call on where to invest belongs to the team.
How is this different from a GEO audit or an AEO content rewrite?
This Flow decides which queries to chase. A GEO audit scores an existing page against the patterns AI engines reward, and an AEO rewrite restructures content to win a specific answer. Query planning comes first: it tells the team where to point the audit and the rewrite, so effort goes to questions that are winnable rather than to pages chosen by guesswork.
The three work as a sequence. Plan the target queries, audit or build the pages meant to win them, then rewrite for citability. Running them in that order means the team is always working on the queries with the best return, instead of reworking pages that were never going to be cited.
How much time does this save compared to manual query research?
Manually, this means querying several AI engines, noting who gets cited for each question, estimating how contested every answer is, and assembling it into a ranked plan. It is a slow, repetitive research pass. Juma runs it in one chat and returns the prioritized list with the reasoning attached, ready for the team to act on.
The value compounds inside a Juma Project, where each run builds on the last and the list becomes a living plan the team reruns as the engines shift. Juma does the research and the ranking; the team decides which queries are worth the investment. Juma augments the team, it doesn't replace it.
Does this Flow work for B2B SaaS, ecommerce, and agency brands?
Yes. Every category has a set of questions buyers ask AI engines, and the method for finding and ranking them is the same across all of them. What changes is the language and the sources: a B2B SaaS list centers on comparison and use-case questions, an ecommerce list on product and "best for" questions, an agency list on the queries each client's audience asks.
Juma asks for the category early so the query list reflects how that audience actually searches. For agencies, the Flow runs per client against each client's own category and competitive set, so one team can keep a separate target query plan current for every account it manages.