When someone asks ChatGPT or Gemini for the best business in your trade in their area, do you come up? We will ask them right now and show you exactly what they say.
We ask live AI engines the questions your customers ask them — who the best providers are in your category and city, which one they would recommend, and how you compare to the alternatives.
Then we read the answers and record two things: whether your business was named at all, and who was named instead. That is the whole method. There is no index we look you up in, and no score we assign by hand.
A search engine hands back a list and lets your customer pick. An AI assistant hands back an answer — usually two or three businesses, named. There is no page two to be on.
So the businesses winning here are not always the ones winning on Google. Plenty of companies that rank well are invisible to AI, and a few that rank poorly get named constantly because of what has been written about them elsewhere.
The score is the share of AI answers that named your business, weighted by how prominently you appeared. Being named first in every answer approaches 100. Never being named at all is 0.
Most small businesses that have never worked on this land somewhere between 5 and 20, and a low score is normal rather than a verdict on the business. It does mean that a customer asking an AI for a recommendation today is being pointed at somebody else.
AI visibility is whether AI assistants name your business when someone asks them for a recommendation in your trade and your area. It is a separate question from where you sit in Google search results, and a business can do well at one and badly at the other.
No. Search engines return a ranked list of links and let the person choose. An AI assistant returns a short answer naming two or three businesses, and everyone else is left out entirely. Ranking eleventh on Google still puts you on page two; being left out of an AI answer puts you nowhere.
Usually because there is more written about them in the places these models learned from — reviews, directories, local news, forum threads, trade association listings. The models are not judging who does better work. They are repeating who gets described most often and most consistently.
It starts with being described consistently in the places these models read: accurate listings across directories, a website that plainly states what you do and where you do it, and a steady flow of reviews that use the words customers actually search for. What matters most differs by trade, which is what the scan is for.
Nothing. It runs one free scan per business per day. We ask for an email because that is how the daily limit is enforced before we spend anything on the scan, and so we can send you the result.
It is real and it runs when you press the button, which is why it takes thirty to sixty seconds instead of appearing instantly. We ask live AI engines about your business and show you their actual answers, including which competitors they named instead of you.