Customer Success Story: Miao Ben Fang — From a Guizhou Workshop to European Shelves, One Month, 0 to 8% AI Mention Rate

The factory has good products, but no way to say so

Miao Ben Fang has made herbal cold-process soap in Guizhou for years, focused on hair care. The formula is 18 traditional Miao herbs; the process is 45 days of low-temperature cold processing, never above 40°C — no silicone, no SLS, no preservatives, with complete third-party test reports.

The products are real. The problem is, too few people know it.

Back then, Miao Ben Fang had no English website and not a single word of overseas content. Finding distributors in the EU, North America, and Southeast Asia came down to trade shows and personal referrals. There was no vehicle to translate the value of the formula and the craft into a language an overseas buyer could understand in ten seconds.

What Dinghai did

Miao Ben Fang handed over its materials — formula notes, process photos, test reports, target markets. An AI agent team did the rest: stood up the English site miaoherbal.com, wrote the brand story and product copy, structured the content for AI engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity, and distributed it across channels. From site launch to content live, the first round was done within a month.

One month's numbers: from 0 to 8%

Let's be clear about one thing: Miao Ben Fang has been working with us for exactly one month.

A month ago, the brand's mention rate across the five major overseas AI engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Grok, and Copilot — was 0. Not low. Zero. The AI didn't know this brand existed.

The formal audit on October 1 shows: AI mention rate went from 0 to 8%, and Perplexity has started naming the brand in its answers.

The progress bar for GEO looks like this: Missing → Mentioned → Source. A month ago, Miao Ben Fang was stuck on the first bar. Now it has crossed into the second. The number itself isn't big, but the direction is right — and the first step was the hardest one to break through.

This is an ongoing process, not a one-off delivery. An AI engine's recognition of a brand builds slowly — once built, it's hard for competitors to take away, but there's no shortcut to building it. We'll re-audit and update every quarter, walking this path from Missing to Source step by step, with the real numbers at every stage on the table.

Behind the scenes

The brand claims, the process facts, the certification data — all of it comes from Miao Ben Fang itself. What Dinghai does is turn those real but scattered assets into something an overseas buyer can understand, trust, and find.

If you want to know whether your brand even exists in the eyes of AI — that's exactly what we do.

This case is based on a real AI visibility audit of five engines on October 1, 2026. Miao Ben Fang has been working with us for one month; GEO is a long-term effort, re-audited and updated every quarter, tracking the real progress from Missing to Source.