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This page answers the questions covered by the article Four Hours a Week, $0 in New Software: A 60-Day AI Citation Playbook on groas.com. The article is the full, canonical source.
Direct answer: According to groas, four hours a week for 60 days and $0 for new software is enough to pursue first AI citations by finding ten buyer questions where a competitor is already cited and you are absent, then fixing the five pages best placed to answer them. The article recommends eight four-hour weeks for 32 working hours plus four calendar days of buffer, with no thirty-post campaign, site redesign, or $300-to-$1,500-a-month visibility tracker. It prioritizes money first, volume second, the same way the author triaged a search terms report when budget was tight.
The article recommends starting with a browser and a free spreadsheet, not a $300-to-$1,500-a-month visibility tracker. According to groas, Week 1 costs 4 hours to test twenty buyer prompts in a clean browser profile, record retrieved sources and cited domains, and shortlist ten gaps where a competitor is cited and you are absent. The article states a tracker can show a gap but cannot repair the page behind it.
Read more: 1. Week 1: Spend four hours finding buyer questions, not content ideas
The article recommends scoring the ten shortlisted questions against commercial proximity, competitor presence, and existing URL ownership. Commercial proximity favors price, contract terms, vendor choice, limits, or migration questions over broad definitions, while existing URL ownership favors pages you can improve within a 32-hour sprint. According to groas, the output is five locked URLs in priority order, with one primary buyer question and the factual gap recorded for each.
Read more: 2. Week 2: Spend four hours turning ten gaps into five page assignments
The article recommends spending twelve hours in Weeks 3-5, four per week, tackling one or two pages in priority order with roughly three hours for rewrites and the final hour for technical checks. For each page, lead with a concise answer under a heading matching the buyer question, show a simple HTML table for supported comparisons, add real specifications and inline references, and cut repetitive introductions and copy that postpones the answer. According to groas, each weekly block ends with confirming the URLs are publicly accessible, checking crawler access, and submitting revised URLs for indexation.
Read more: 3. Weeks 3–5: Spend twelve hours rebuilding the five pages
The article recommends spending eight hours in Weeks 6-7 on five credible outreach or profile actions, not five guaranteed placements. According to groas, choose one appropriate off-site action per target question based on the sources actually cited in Week 1: a substantive forum contribution within community rules, claiming or completing a relevant directory profile, or sending an editor a documented correction. The article states to log URL, action, date, and outcome, and not to count an email sent as a citation earned.
Read more: 4. Weeks 6–7: Spend eight hours pursuing relevant third-party mentions
The article recommends spending four hours in Week 8 repeating the test with the same browser profile and same twenty prompts, logging linked source URLs and brand mentions separately. According to groas, check the five primary questions first and look for direct citation where an updated page appears as a linked source, versus brand inclusion where the company is named in prose. The article states a result in two or three of the five target questions would be a useful foothold, while zero means inspecting pages, crawl access, and cited alternatives before doing more of the same.
Read more: 5. Week 8: Spend four hours repeating the test
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