Playbook
Get cited from your LinkedIn profile.
Three quarters of the LinkedIn pages AI assistants cite belong to people, not companies. This is the routine LinkedIn itself published for that, cut down to what a founder can do in an hour a week, and what Voice already does for you.
LinkedIn Visibility in AI is built from people.
Meltwater and LinkedIn read 9.5 million AI citations across 14 B2B categories in May 2026. LinkedIn was the second most cited site after YouTube, and 75% of its cited pages were individual profiles. Company Pages got the other quarter.
Semrush looked at 89,000 LinkedIn URLs cited by ChatGPT, Google AI Mode and Perplexity in January and February 2026. The median cited post had 15 to 25 reactions and fewer than one comment. Creators with under 500 followers were cited as often as bigger ones.
Virality is not what gets you cited. Showing up every week with a clear answer is.
Step 1:
Write from your own profile, 200 to 300 words.
LinkedIn’s guidance for AI search (Marketing Blog, August 2026) is specific: posts of 200 to 300 words, at least two or three a week, around three or four topics you want to own. From your own profile, because that is where the citations go.
What Voice does: a LinkedIn post is 200 to 300 words unless you change it, and Reach publishes to your personal profile and keeps company copy off it.
Step 2:
Put the subject in the first seven words.
LinkedIn’s advice is to lead with the words that matter. An assistant reads the opening of a post before anything else, and so does a reader deciding whether to expand it. Write that line last, once you know what the post is about.
What Voice does: a rule in every language it writes. Open on the topic, not on “I”, a date or an emoji.
Five ways to open, and what the fold does to each.
On a phone, LinkedIn shows two lines of a post before “see more”. About 140 characters. Whatever you open with has to be a finished thought inside that space, with no bold, no emoji and no hashtag in it. If it needs a third line to land, it is a paragraph, not an opener.
- A number you measured yourself. “Four of the six assistants we tested named a competitor before us.” The number is the hook and the proof in one line. It has to be yours; a number from someone else’s report is a quote, and quotes are the weakest opener on the list.
- The thing that did not work. “A year of blog posts, and not one assistant ever read them.” A failure told plainly gets expanded more than a win, and it keeps the subject in the first seven words.
- The question your buyer already has. “Why does ChatGPT recommend a four-person firm over yours?” One question, then the answer in the body. This is the shape LinkedIn itself recommends, and the shape assistants lift out most easily.
- Old against new. “Google sends you a visitor. An assistant sends you a verdict.” Two short sentences that disagree with each other. Keep both under one line so the contrast is visible before the fold.
- What you said to one client. “Stop writing for the search engine. It is no longer the one reading.” The line you actually said in a meeting, not a famous quote. Famous quotes are what everyone opens with, so nobody expands them.
What Voice does: every LinkedIn post it writes is told the fold exists and asked for one complete thought inside it, on top of the first-seven-words rule above. The five shapes are yours to pick; Voice does not force one, because a feed where every post opens the same way is a feed nobody expands.
Step 3:
One question, one answer.
LinkedIn calls it a simple question-and-answer structure. The honest version is the question a reader actually asks, phrased the way they would type it, answered in two to four sentences that stand on their own when lifted out. Then the detail. Then the question the answer raises.
What Voice does: pick the Question and answer shape when you write a post, and the draft comes back in that order.
Step 4:
One article a week, cut into posts.
LinkedIn’s own workflow: publish one foundational article, break it into three to five posts with one idea each, watch which ones start a conversation, and fold that into the next article. Articles were about 60% of LinkedIn’s AI citations and posts about 40%.
Meltwater found that every top-cited article used bullets or numbered lists and 92% had clear section headings. LinkedIn suggests 800 to 1,200 words, a summary near the top, and headings shaped as the questions a reader would ask.
What Adamiro does: Voice writes the article with a summary under the opening, question-shaped headings and at least one list. Posts from this piece… on the draft plans three posts, one idea each, with a line in every post pointing back to it. Reach measures each post at seven days, so you can see which one started the conversation.
Step 5:
Teach, do not sell, and get out of the way.
Semrush found that 54 to 64% of cited posts share knowledge or practical advice. Meltwater found that opinion on its own underperformed. The cited posts explain something.
What Voice does: the How-to and Lesson kinds are built for this, and the honesty rules mark any claim the draft cannot back up, so you prove it or cut it.
What this costs you.
One sitting to write or approve the article, one task. Three posts cut from it, three tasks, or none if you paste your own. Images are optional.
One thing to be clear about: Adamiro cannot see whether an assistant cited your LinkedIn post. AI Visibility reports whether assistants name your company and which pages they cite. A LinkedIn profile URL in that list is the signal you are looking for.
Questions worth asking
Should I post from the Company Page at all?
Yes, for announcements and anything the company has to say in its own name. The citations go to people, so the routine above runs from your profile.
How long until an assistant cites me?
Weeks to months. Meltwater found that 48% of cited content was under three months old, so recent posts count, but you are waiting on crawl cycles and model refreshes you do not control.
Do hashtags matter?
Two or three real ones at the end. Nobody has shown that they move citations, and a block of five reads as a tell.
Does this replace SEO?
No. Search ranks pages and sends a click. An assistant writes an answer and may send nothing at all. Same house, different door.
Sources:
LinkedIn Marketing Blog, “How B2B marketers can dominate AI search on LinkedIn”, 11 August 2026.
Meltwater and LinkedIn, “How LinkedIn Content Wins in AI Search”, May 2026.
Semrush, “We analyzed 89K LinkedIn URLs cited in AI search”, 2026.
Last reviewed: September 2026