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    GeoGenie Case Study · Fintech

    How Leus Capital became the 3rd most-recommended UA-financing provider on AI search

    In May 2026, when a gaming studio founder asked ChatGPT “how do I fund user acquisition without giving up equity?”, the answer named four companies - and Leus Capital wasn’t one of them. This is the story of how, ten weeks later, it became the 3rd most-recommended UA-financing provider on AI search.

    10 weeks · May 5 - Jul 15, 2026157 buying-intent prompts13 topics · 2 marketsChatGPT · Gemini · Perplexity · AI Overviews3 data layers: answers · bots · humans

    Provider rank

    #3

    from 14th in May

    Flagship topic visibility

    32.6%

    11.6x vs 2.8% in May

    Monthly AI citations

    7.8x

    daily pace 14x

    Bot vs human AI traffic

    200x+

    88% indexing hits

    Baseline May 2026 vs. current measurement July 1-15, 2026. Sources: GeoGenie prompt monitoring, BotsGenie access logs (week of Jul 9-15), GA4 (Jan 16 - Jul 16).

    Prologue

    One question, four names, one gap

    Picture a mobile game studio in London or Istanbul. The game is working, the cohorts are healthy, and the only problem is that the cash needed to scale user acquisition is locked in Apple’s payout, two months away. What did a founder do about this in the old world? Google it, skim a few agency pages, call an investor. In 2026 they do something different: they open ChatGPT and ask. “What are the best UA financing partners for mobile games?”

    The answer arrives in seconds and names four companies: Braavo. Capchase. Pipe. Clearco. Clean, persuasive, with sources linked. The founder books their first call from that list.

    Leus Capital did exactly this job - non-dilutive UA financing advanced against app-store receivables. But it wasn’t in the answer. And that wasn’t a feeling; it was a measured fact: in May 2026, Leus appeared in barely 3% of the category’s AI answers - 3.0% in Türkiye, 2.3% in the UK. Among financing providers: 14th place.

    The few seconds in which buying decisions are made were being filled, every day, almost entirely with competitors’ names.

    Chapter 1 · May

    The mirror: seeing that you’re not seen

    On May 5, GeoGenie went live. Across two markets and 13 topics, 157 real, buying-intent questions - from “how do I fund UA without dilution” to “how do I bridge Apple’s payout delay” - were put to ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews every single day. Every answer was scanned: which brands are named, which sources are cited.

    The picture that accumulated in the first weeks was brutal, but unusually precise. The problem was no longer a vague sense that “AI doesn’t like us” - it was a target list at the prompt level. Which question does each competitor win? Where does Leus not exist at all? Which niche is nobody strong in? This is the first pillar of GeoGenie’s methodology: find the “Jobs To Be Done” prompts - surface the real questions buyers ask AI, and map the territory with measurement instead of assumption.

    What the answers looked like in May

    Share of core-topic AI answers mentioning each provider, May 2026 - GeoGenie

    #ProviderShare of answers
    1Braavo26.7%
    2Capchase17.9%
    3Pipe16.0%
    4Clearco15.9%
    5PvX Partners12.6%
    14Leus Capital3.1%

    End of May: visibility TR 3.0% · UK 2.3% · provider rank #14 · citation volume: baseline (1x).

    “As more people turn to AI before Google to research products and services, being visible in those high-intent conversations has become strategically important for us. GeoGenie gave us a clear framework to understand where we were missing, create the right content, and measure our visibility as it improved.”
    - Halil İbrahim Özdemir, CEO @ Leus Capital

    Chapter 2 · May-June

    One hyper-focused page per high-intent job

    With the target list in hand, the plan wrote itself. Instead of a broad “corporate blog” strategy, the second and third pillars of the methodology were applied:

    1

    Find the “Jobs To Be Done” prompts

    Surface the real questions buyers ask AI. 157 prompts, tracked daily; the baseline turned invisibility into a prompt-level target list.

    2

    Extremely narrow content optimization

    One hyper-focused page per high-intent job - built to be the complete answer to a single question, in the shape AI engines like to cite.

    3

    Content ready for AI agents

    Schema audits, Gemini File Search embedding, robots.txt and sitemap tuned for bots - because the first visitor is never a human.

    Each mapped “job” got exactly one page, written as the full answer to exactly one question:

    The narrow-content portfolio - and what it earned

    Pages built or optimized in the program, with the share of all leus.capital AI citations each collected, June 1 - July 15 - GeoGenie

    PageThe job it answersShare of site citations
    What is UA Financing: The 2026 Must-Know“What is UA financing, is it for me?”29.2%
    /funding“Who provides it, on what terms?”11.0%
    Financing Models for Mobile Studios“Which funding model fits my studio?”8.3%
    Apple Payout Guide 2026“How do I bridge Apple’s payout delay?”7.3%

    Then the third pillar: making that content consumable by machines. SiteGenie crawled the TR and UK sites, ran structured-data (schema) audits on the key templates, and embedded every page into Gemini File Search; robots.txt and sitemap.xml were tuned for bot access. The content was now ready for both of its readers: the human asking the question, and the machine composing the answer.

    Chapter 3 · June-July

    The break: one answer in three

    By mid-June the curve stirred, and the clearest way to tell what happened next is through the program’s most successful example. On the flagship topic - “Mobile App User Acquisition Financing” (UK), answered by a guide written for exactly that question - visibility climbed from 2.8% in May to 9.0% in June, and in the first two weeks of July hit 32.6%. When a founder asks that question now, one answer in three says Leus.

    This was the proof that the chain works: write the narrow answer to the right question, open the gates to bots - and the engines start citing you.

    Weekly citation index

    Citations of leus.capital in AI answers per week, indexed to the first week of tracking (= 1x) - GeoGenie

    0x8x16x24x32x1.0xMay 4May 18Jun 1Jun 15Jun 2929.5xJul 13*

    The final bar covers Jul 13-15 only (3 days). The peak week (Jul 6-12) ran at 29.5x the first week of tracking.

    In the rankings the payoff was blunt: from 14th in May, Leus passed 11 providers - including Capchase, Pipe, Clearco, and PvX Partners - to settle at 3rd, with only the two category giants, Braavo and Pollen VC, still ahead. Half a month of July out-cited the whole of June - 7.8x May’s volume, with the daily citation pace at 14x.

    Ten weeks, one comparison: provider rankings, May vs July

    Rank among UA-financing providers by distinct AI answers mentioning each, core financing topics - GeoGenie

    May 2026July 2026#1 Braavo#1 Braavo#2 Capchase#5 Capchase#3 Pipe#8 Pipe#4 Clearco#10 Clearco#5 PvX Partners#4 PvX Partners#6 Tilting Point#6 Tilting Point#11 Wayflyer#9 Wayflyer#14 Leus Capital#3 Leus Capital#15 Pollen VC#2 Pollen VC#22 Outfund#7 Outfund
    ProviderMay rankJuly rankShare of answers (Jul 1-15)
    Braavo1123.5%
    Pollen VC15217.8%
    Leus Capital14311.1%
    PvX Partners547.5%
    Capchase256.6%
    Tilting Point665.8%
    Outfund2275.7%
    Pipe384.5%
    Wayflyer1194.0%
    Clearco4103.8%

    Chapter 4 · Behind the curtain

    The end of the chain: bots, then the first humans

    Bots arrived before people

    According to BotsGenie’s access logs, AI bots hit the site in a single week at more than 200x the rate of AI-referred human visitors: 88% of those hits were indexing, 8% live answer-building fetches, 3% model-training requests. The most-requested files were robots.txt, the homepage, and sitemap.xml - the signature of healthy, regular bot discovery. Right below them: exactly the narrow guide pages written in Chapter 2.

    Bots on site: leus.capital access logs

    BotsGenie - week of July 9-15, vs previous week

    Bot traffic: indexing

    88%

    of all AI-bot hits

    Bot traffic: answer fetches

    8%

    live citation reads

    Bot traffic: model training

    3%

    +48% week over week

    Bot vs human AI traffic

    200x+

    bots lead the way

    Humans from AI

    from 0

    first-ever week of referrals

    Requests with AI referrer

    0.2%

    +0.16 pp, from near zero

    Share of the week’s answer-building fetches each page received

    0%5%10%15%20%25%/robots.txt22.1%/ (homepage)17.5%/sitemap.xml14.8%/blog/what-is-ua-financing…6.8%/blog/financing-models…2.7%/blog/apple-payout-guide-2026…1.9%/funding1.5%/blog1.1%

    All of the week’s AI-referred human visits came from Apple’s AI surfaces. Blue bars: the narrow-content pages from Chapter 2.

    And then, the humans

    At the very end of the chain, the expected thing began: people. That same week, AI surfaces referred human visitors to the site for the first time - a number that had been zero the week before. GA4’s six-month window reads the same pattern: AI-referred visits concentrated in May-June, when the program ran; close to two-thirds of them come from ChatGPT; and in June, Claude appeared on the list for the first time.

    Humans referred from AI systems

    Share of AI-referred sessions by platform - GA4, Leus Capital Landing, Jan 16 - Jul 16, 2026

    0%10%20%30%40%50%60%70%ChatGPT62.5%Google25.0%Claude12.5%

    The main entry page for ChatGPT-referred sessions is the homepage. Revenue attribution is still zero - the human link of the chain has just opened, and volume is early-stage. This is where the story starts, not where it ends.

    Epilogue

    Same question, new answer

    Ask that founder’s question today - “what are the best UA financing partners for mobile games?” - and one time in three, the answer now names Leus Capital, with leus.capital’s own guide shown as the source. The company that wasn’t in the answer ten weeks ago is now the answer’s source.

    No single tactic did this. Three pillars worked in sequence and together: the jobs buyers actually ask AI about were found by measurement; each job got one narrow, focused page; and those pages were made consumable by bots. Every link of the chain is measured on its own: 32.6% visibility in answers, citation volume up 7.8x, bot traffic running at 200x the human AI traffic, and human visits starting from zero. And the position compounds - every new citation makes the next recommendation more likely, as more of the category’s discovery shifts to generative engines.

    Baseline vs. week ten

    Every link of the chain, before and after - all sources

    MetricMay 2026Jul 1-15, 2026Change
    Provider rank (core financing topics)14th3rd+11 places
    Flagship topic visibility (UK)2.8%32.6%11.6x
    Overall visibility - UK2.3%19.0%8.3x
    Overall visibility - Türkiye3.0%26.4%8.8x
    Monthly AI citations of leus.capital (indexed)1x7.8x7.8x
    Answers citing leus.capital / month (indexed)1x7.3x7.3x
    AI-referred human visitsnoneevery weekfrom zero

    Sources & methodology: (1) GeoGenie prompt monitoring - Leus Capital TR + UK workspaces, May 5 - July 15, 2026; visibility = share of successful AI answers whose brand-mention scan includes Leus (name variants combined). Provider ranking counts distinct AI answers mentioning each provider on core financing topics across both markets; the provider set covers all UA/app-financing brands detected in tracked answers. (2) BotsGenie access logs - leus.capital, week of July 9-15, 2026; changes vs the previous week. (3) GA4 - Leus Capital Landing property, January 16 - July 16, 2026; session changes vs the previous period. Revenue attribution not yet measured. The prologue scene is illustrative; every number in it is measured data.

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