How I wired 10 verifiable identifiers into a one-day SDVOSB studio's entity graph (and why your site probably can't be cited)

When I checked Google Search Console for ThatDevPro on the morning of May 21, 2026, the numbers were brutal: 0 clicks, 3 impressions, 180 days. The site is well-built - Lighthouse 96+, full Schema.org, content-first React, no Cloudflare in front of it. None of that was the problem. The problem is fundamental: AI engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews) can't cite what they can't verify. So I spent a day fixing that. What follows is the actual checklist I worked through, with the exact JSON-LD, the actual file paths, and the real outcomes.