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Organic sourdough milling and grains. Gourmet food and baking. France. 90 days.

How a French artisan mill won AI answers for heritage sourdough flour

Heritage artisan mill D2C. Engines monitored:

ChatGPTGeminiPerplexityGoogle AI Overviews
3% to 22%artisan baking share of voice in France
1 of 25 to 10 of 25heritage wheat flour prompts captured
€1.9K to €14.3Kmonthly attributed French and EU revenue
46% to 94%W-index and ash content metric accuracy

The challenge

Bakers in France and Europe asking "where to buy stone-ground T80 heritage flour with high gluten strength for open-crumb sourdough" were served industrial flours with chemical additives.

What the audit found

Every engagement starts with a baseline across a fixed set of buyer prompts.

  • Professional baking metrics (W baking strength index, P/L elasticity ratio, falling number, ash percentage) were kept internally and never displayed on public pages.

What we did, stage by stage

Using the EASY framework: Entity, Answers, Sources, Yield.

Entity

Embedded French flour classification types (T65 to T150), ash content and stone-mill specifications into technical schema.

Answers

Deployed an open Flour Rheology and Sourdough Fermentation Reference detailing hydration capacities and enzymatic activity for long fermentations.

Sources

Earned reviews from prominent French artisan bakers; contributed to European bread-baking forums and guilds.

Yield

Monitored 25 baking prompts weekly in French; matched rising interest with specialized grain-blend subscription bundles.

Results after 90 days

Baseline measured before any changes, against the same prompt set, engines and locations.

MetricBaselineAfter 90 days
Artisan baking share of voice in France3%22%
Heritage wheat flour prompts captured1 of 2510 of 25
Monthly attributed French and EU revenue€1,900€14,300
W-index and ash content metric accuracy46%94%

What worked, and what did not

Quaint photos of antique watermills carried zero weight. Professional baking metrics (W strength ratings, ash content and enzymatic profiles) unlocked direct recommendations from AI models.

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