AI Search for Career Colleges & Trade Schools
Prospective students ask AI everything — which trade school is worth it, what a program costs, whether graduates actually get hired — and get one or two school names back, not a page of links. We specialize in AI search, and education is where outcome data and accreditation decide the answer.
Free — see exactly what AI says about your school.
FROM THE TEAM BEHIND TRUSTRECORD — THE VERIFIED DATA REGISTRY AI CITES.
WE’VE ANALYZED AI PRESENCE FOR 350+ SCHOOLS.
The Problem, In One Screen
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Prospective students don’t stop at “which school is good.” They ask AI about job placement rates, whether the credits transfer, what graduates actually earn, how you compare to the community college down the road — and AI answers all of it from whatever data it can find.
Across 6.8 million AI citations analyzed, 86% of the sources AI cites about businesses are ones the business already controls — its website, listings, and data. For schools, the answer AI gives a prospective student is built from sources you can fix today.
YEXT, 2025 · 6.8M AI CITATIONS ANALYZED
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Where AI Reads About Your School
For education queries, AI systems pull from accreditation records, outcome data, and school profiles. Your school’s data needs to be present, accurate, and consistent across all of them — and structured on your own site so AI can quote it.
The Work, For Education
A tracked panel of real student questions — by program, cost, and outcome (“best trade school near me,” “HVAC certification program [city],” “is [school] worth it”) — tested monthly across five AI systems from a day-one baseline.
Program pages rebuilt so AI can read and quote them: direct answers on tuition, program length, accreditation, job placement rates, and prerequisites — the questions prospective students actually ask AI before they ever fill out an inquiry form.
EducationalOrganization, Course, FAQ, and location schema written and maintained, so AI parses your programs, credentials, and campus locations without ambiguity.
Fact-dense content refreshes on the programs that drive your enrollment — HVAC, welding, CDL, medical assisting — built as reference material AI can cite, not blog filler.
Your school’s data corrected and consistent across College Scorecard, accreditation directories, state boards, and every source AI reads. Plus something nobody else can offer: a TRUSTRECORD — an independently verified record of your school’s operating history, published in a format AI can cite as proof.
Monthly re-testing of your student-question panel. Quarterly reports: what AI said about your school then, what it says now, which sources it cites, and AI referral traffic in your own analytics.
Student Data
Our work never touches student records. Everything we optimize and publish is school-level: programs, accreditation, outcomes, and aggregate operating history. No student records, no FERPA data, ever — by design, not by policy.
Pricing & Exclusivity
FOUNDING RATE — FOR THE FIRST BUSINESSES WE TAKE ON IN EACH MARKET
BILLED ANNUALLY · $7,500/YR
BILLED ANNUALLY · $12,000/YR
Each location gets its own panel, listings cleanup, structured data, and reporting. Consolidated under one account.
One per market. Part of our job is winning comparison queries — “who’s better, X or Y?” We can’t do that for two competitors. One school per city. When your slot is taken, it’s taken.
FOUNDING RATES HOLD FOR LIFE · 5+ LOCATIONS:
Questions
Career colleges, trade schools, CDL programs, beauty schools, coding bootcamps, medical assistant programs, and any vocational or technical institution that markets to prospective students locally. If students search for your type of program and pick from a short list, this work applies.
Accreditation is necessary but not sufficient. AI systems read accreditation records as one signal among many. If your outcome data, program details, and school profile aren’t structured and consistent across every source AI reads, accreditation alone won’t put you in the answer.
Yes — this is one of the most common findings. Wrong program offerings, outdated tuition, missing accreditation status, invented job placement numbers. These errors trace to the sources AI reads. We correct those sources, publish authoritative school data, and re-test monthly to confirm the record stays fixed.
One component of our Data & Authority work: an independently verified record of your school’s operating history, published where AI systems can cite it. Verification is computed independently; our team can’t edit verified metrics.
No — one school per market. Winning the “who’s better” comparisons AI answers can’t be done for two competitors at once. When you sign, your market’s slot is yours for as long as you’re a client.
No, and nobody honestly can. We guarantee the work and the measurement — a tracked panel of student questions, tested monthly, reported quarterly in your own numbers.