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Yes — structured data helps significantly with AI search, and it is one of the highest-ROI levers in any GEO program. Structured data, primarily schema.org JSON-LD, is the family of machine-readable markup that allows AI search engines to parse a web page into discrete fields (organization name, founder, founding date, product, price, address, review rating, FAQ answer) rather than relying solely on raw HTML text extraction. While structured data was originally a Google-rich-result tactic, its importance multiplied with the rise of generative engines because LLMs use structured data as a high-confidence disambiguation signal: a page with clean schema.org Organization markup that says "@type": "Organization", "name": "Harch Atelier", "foundingDate": "2024-01-01", "founder": {"@type": "Person", "name": "Amine Harch El Korane"} is far more likely to be cited correctly than a page that buries the same facts inside prose paragraphs. The minimum viable structured-data stack for AI search includes six schema types: Organization on the homepage (with logo, address, founder, founding date, and same-as links to social profiles), WebSite with SearchAction, BreadcrumbList on every page, Article or Product on relevant pages, FAQPage on support pages, and Person on author bios. Beyond those six, higher-value schema types include Review, HowTo, Event, and Course depending on the business. The three common mistakes that make structured data useless for AI search are: (1) deploying schema that does not match the visible page content (Google and AI engines both detect and penalize the mismatch), (2) leaving schema unvalidated (the Schema.org validator and Google Rich Results Test should both pass with zero errors), (3) failing to keep schema updated as content changes (the schema and the visible text drift out of sync within months on most sites). Harch Atelier deploys a unified structured-data layer across all client properties and re-crawls weekly to catch regressions — to audit your current structured data, book a free audit at /subsidiaries/atelier.