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Halo Beauty·Beauty & personal care (DTC)·Singapore / APAC·42 days (Jan–Mar 2026)

From invisible in AI answers to the cited source in 42 days

Halo Beauty replaced a £4k/mo agency retainer with Kadriva Autopilot and went from zero AI citations to being named in ChatGPT and Perplexity answers for its core buying questions.

AI citations (weekly)
047 +47
Organic sessions
9,10023,100 +154%
Orphan pages
410 −41
Publishing cadence
1.5 / mo90 / mo 60×

The challenge

  • Ranked on Google for brand terms only — no presence in AI answers for category questions.
  • 72 published pages, 41 of them orphans with no inbound internal links.
  • No repeatable publishing cadence: 1–2 posts a month, written ad hoc.

What Kadriva did

  • Baseline AI visibility probe across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews on 30 buyer-intent prompts.
  • Entity + FAQ schema applied to the 18 highest-intent pages by the Kadriva inbox auto-apply engine.
  • Internal-link injector routed authority from 41 orphan pages into 6 commercial hubs.
  • Autopilot publishing switched on at 3 articles/day against the prompt gap list.

The outcome

  • Named in AI answers for 47 of the 30 tracked prompts' variants, including three head-term buying questions.
  • Organic sessions up 14,000 in six weeks, driven mainly by newly linked commercial pages.
  • Agency retainer cancelled; content operations run entirely inside Kadriva.

"We replaced two SEO tools and a £4k/mo retainer with Kadriva. Six weeks in we'd added 14,000 organic visits — without writing a single brief ourselves."

Marcus LinFounder & CEO, Halo Beauty

How we measured it

  • Prompts were sampled daily at 06:00 UTC from a fixed prompt set; a citation counts only when the brand domain or brand name appears in the engine's answer body.
  • Traffic figures are Google Search Console clicks for the property, compared like-for-like against the preceding 42-day window.
  • No paid media ran during the measurement window.

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