Wolf River Electric

Subject: Request to review a page cited by Google's AI answer

Dear Editors,

I am writing on behalf of Wolf River Electric, a solar installation
contractor headquartered in Isanti, Minnesota.

When we query Google's generative search for "is Wolf River Electric being
sued by minnesota attorney general", the answer states that the company is
facing a lawsuit filed by the Minnesota Attorney General alleging deceptive
sales practices. Your page is listed among the sources cited alongside that
statement:

  https://cleanenergydirectory.example.org/contractors/midwest-solar

We have read the cited page carefully and found no support for that
assertion in it. The same is true of the other sources cited on the same
block of the answer. We are not suggesting your page contains an error, and
we are not asking you to remove or alter anything.

Our request is narrower: because your page is being used by a generative
search engine as grounding for a statement it does not appear to contain,
we would be grateful if your editorial team could review the passage and
consider whether anything on the page could be read as implying it. If a
clarifying line would help, we are happy to supply the public record.

For your reference, the observation is archived with SerpApi search id
68b7c1f2a4e3d5b6c7891001, and we can share the full recorded payload and
its hash on request so you can reproduce what we saw.

Thank you for your time.

— Communications, Wolf River Electric

PUBLISHING BRIEF — /legal-and-regulatory-record

1. DIRECT ANSWER (lead paragraph, verbatim)

   Wolf River Electric is not a defendant in any action brought by the
   Minnesota Attorney General. The company has never been named in such an
   action. This page records the company's regulatory and litigation status
   and the primary records that establish it.

2. DATED SPECIFICS TO INCLUDE

   - Date of incorporation and the Minnesota Secretary of State file number.
   - Current standing on the Minnesota Department of Labor and Industry
     contractor licence register, with the licence number and renewal date.
   - A dated statement of pending and closed matters, updated quarterly, with
     the review date printed on the page so crawlers can see it is current.

3. PRIMARY SOURCES TO CITE INLINE

   - Minnesota Attorney General public case index (link to the search, not a
     screenshot, so a reader can run the query themselves).
   - Minnesota Secretary of State business filings record.
   - Department of Labor and Industry licence lookup.

4. SUGGESTED JSON-LD

   {
     "@context": "https://schema.org",
     "@type": "FAQPage",
     "mainEntity": [{
       "@type": "Question",
       "name": "Is Wolf River Electric subject to an action by the Minnesota Attorney General?",
       "acceptedAnswer": {
         "@type": "Answer",
         "text": "No. Wolf River Electric is not a defendant in any action brought by the Minnesota Attorney General."
       }
     }]
   }

5. TONE

   State the record. Do not characterise the search engine, and do not
   describe the assertion as anything other than unsupported by the sources
   cited with it.

Subject: A pricing figure attributed to your handbook

Dear Editors,

Google's generative answer for "Wolf River Electric solar panel cost and
battery storage pricing" states that a standard residential 8kW rooftop
installation through our company costs approximately $21,500 before federal
tax credits, and cites your hardware comparison page alongside it.

Your page discusses inverter hardware and does not appear to quote a price
for our installations, so the figure does not seem to originate with you.
We are not asking for a correction to your page. We are flagging that it is
being used as grounding for a number it does not contain, in case that is
useful to your team.

Our current published pricing, with the assumptions it depends on, is
maintained at our own pricing page and we are glad to keep it linkable and
machine-readable so any figure attributed to us can be checked.

Thank you for your time.

— Communications, Wolf River Electric

PUBLISHING BRIEF — /residential-solar-pricing

1. DIRECT ANSWER (lead paragraph, verbatim)

   A standard 8kW residential rooftop system installed by Wolf River
   Electric is quoted at $X before incentives, as of <review date>. The
   figure below is the company's own published price; any other figure
   attributed to us did not come from us.

2. DATED SPECIFICS TO INCLUDE

   - A price table by system size, each row carrying its effective date.
   - What the quoted price includes and excludes: panels, inverter, racking,
     permits, interconnection fees, roof work, monitoring.
   - The federal and state incentives applied, each with the statute or
     programme identifier and the year it applies to.
   - A visible "last reviewed" date. Stale pricing is how a correct page
     becomes an incorrect citation twelve months later.

3. SUGGESTED JSON-LD

   Offer / PriceSpecification with priceCurrency, price, validFrom and
   validThrough, so the figure carries its own expiry.

PUBLISHING BRIEF — /about/company-history

1. DIRECT ANSWER (lead paragraph, verbatim)

   Wolf River Electric was incorporated in Minnesota in <year> and has
   operated as a residential solar installer since <year>. The state
   incorporation record is linked below and is the controlling document.

2. DATED SPECIFICS TO INCLUDE

   - Incorporation date and Secretary of State file number, linked to the
     public filing rather than transcribed.
   - A short milestone list with years: first installation, first licence,
     each office opening.
   - An explicit line naming the founding year, phrased so a sentence-level
     extractor cannot lift it without the year attached.

3. WHY THIS ONE MATTERS DISPROPORTIONATELY

   Founding year is the field most often mixed between similarly named
   contractors, and it propagates: directories copy each other. Fixing the
   primary record and the directory records together is what makes it stick.

4. SUGGESTED JSON-LD

   Organization with foundingDate, legalName, identifier (state file
   number) and sameAs links to the state filing and licence records.

DISCLAIMER: This document is a technical audit summary, does not
constitute legal advice, and reaches no legal conclusions.

SUBJECT
  Assertion: "Wolf River Electric was established in 2008 as a rural
  electrical contractor."
  Verdict recorded by the audit: CONTRADICTED

WHAT WAS OBSERVED
  The assertion appeared in generative answers sampled from 2 of 8 markets
  (Minneapolis MN, Chicago IL) across google_ai_mode and
  google_ai_overview. It did not appear in the other 6 sampled markets.
  Observed frequency 0.4 over 10 samples. The cluster is marked
  inconsistent: sampled answers did not agree with each other.

WHAT THE CITED SOURCES SAY
  The sources cited on the containing block were read through SerpApi's
  indexed snippet before any page fetch was attempted. None of them
  supports the founding year given in the answer, and an independent
  corroboration probe returned a different year from a primary record.

CITATION TRAIL
  Every SerpApi search id consulted to reach this verdict is recorded in
  the dossier's evidence trail and can be re-fetched from SerpApi's archive
  by a third party, who can re-canonicalise and re-hash the payload and
  compare it to the hash recorded here.

LIMITS OF THIS DOCUMENT
  This summary records what generative answers stated, which sources were
  cited with those statements, and whether those sources supported them. It
  characterises nothing beyond that.

PUBLISHING BRIEF — /about/who-we-are-not

1. DIRECT ANSWER (lead paragraph, verbatim)

   Wolf River Electric is a Minnesota corporation headquartered in Isanti,
   Minnesota. It is not affiliated with Wolf River Solar LLC of Appleton,
   Wisconsin, or with Wolf River Energy Solutions. The 2023 Wisconsin
   regulatory matter concerning deposit refunds involved a different
   company under different ownership.

2. DATED SPECIFICS TO INCLUDE

   - State of incorporation, file number, and headquarters address.
   - Licence numbers held, and the states they are held in.
   - A plainly worded distinction table: our legal name, their legal name;
     our state, their state; our registration, theirs.

3. TONE

   Describe the other company only in terms of the public record, without
   characterising it. The goal is separation, not commentary.

4. SUGGESTED JSON-LD

   Organization with legalName, identifier, address, areaServed and sameAs
   links to the state registry and licence records.

DISAMBIGUATION WORK ORDER

COLLISION SET
  - Wolf River Solar LLC — Appleton, Wisconsin. Separate ownership.
  - Wolf River Energy Solutions — northern Wisconsin biomass heating vendor.

STEP 1 — GOOGLE BUSINESS PROFILE
  Confirm the legal name field matches the state filing exactly, including
  the suffix. Confirm the primary category and the service-area polygon.
  Ensure every location carries the same phone number as the state record.

STEP 2 — SITE MARKUP
  Publish Organization JSON-LD on the homepage carrying legalName, the
  state file number as identifier, address, and sameAs links to the
  Secretary of State filing, the licence lookup and the Business Profile.
  sameAs is the strongest disambiguation signal available and is routinely
  the one missing.

STEP 3 — WIKIDATA
  If an item exists, ensure it carries a distinct headquarters location
  (P159), inception (P571) and a state registry identifier. If items exist
  for the similarly named companies, ensure each carries its own, and add a
  "different from" (P1889) statement between them.

STEP 4 — DIRECTORIES
  Submit corrections to the directory pages the audit found cited. Include
  the state file number in every submission; a name alone is what caused
  the collision in the first place.

DIFFERENTIATION CRITERIA TO USE EVERYWHERE
  Headquarters state, incorporation date, licence numbers, principal
  officers. Use the same four in every submission so the records agree.

PUBLISHING BRIEF — /warranty

1. DIRECT ANSWER (lead paragraph, verbatim)

   Wolf River Electric's current residential workmanship warranty is <term>,
   effective <date>. Installations completed before <date> are covered by
   the terms in force at the time of installation; those terms are listed
   below and remain in effect for those customers.

2. WHY THE ARCHIVE PAGE IS THE PROBLEM

   The source cited by the answer is an archive covering 2021-2023. It was
   accurate when written. The generative answer presents it in the present
   tense, which is how a correct source produces an out-of-date statement.
   The remedy is not a correction to that archive — it is to publish a
   current, clearly dated page that outranks it for the same question.

3. DATED SPECIFICS TO INCLUDE

   - A version table: term, effective from, effective to, superseded by.
   - The current term stated in a single unambiguous sentence.
   - A visible "last reviewed" date, refreshed on a schedule.

4. SUGGESTED JSON-LD

   WarrantyPromise on the relevant Offer, with durationOfWarranty and
   validFrom, so the term is machine-readable and carries its own date.