PROFILE — Founder · Research Director

Jose Arias.
AI Search Strategist.

Jose is the founder of Ranking Wolf and Research Director of the Ranking Wolf AI Search Lab. He architects the frameworks, leads the experiments, and authors the reports that shape how local businesses win visibility in the generative search era.

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Jose Arias

El Paso · TX

Speaking

→AI Search Summit 2026 — Keynote: 'Entities Over Keywords'
→Borderplex Business Forum — 'Winning the ChatGPT Recommendation'
→El Paso Chamber of Commerce — 'AI Visibility for Local Service Businesses'

Research

→AI Search Ranking Factors Report — 2026
→The El Paso AI Visibility Study — 2026
→How ChatGPT Recommends Local Businesses — 2026
→Gemini Local Search Benchmark (annual)

Frameworks

→Ranking Wolf Visibility Stack™ — flagship 7-layer framework
→Entity Authority Index — proprietary scoring model
→Citation Velocity Loop — citation acceleration framework

Articles

→Why Local SEO Is Becoming AI Visibility Engineering
→The End of the 10 Blue Links Era
→How LLMs Decide Which Business to Cite

Case Studies

→HVAC company, El Paso — page 9 → map pack in 5 months
→Law firm, Las Cruces — +267% qualified inbound calls
→Restaurant group, Horizon City — featured in ChatGPT local recommendations across 14 prompt classes