AEO · ANSWER ENGINE OPTIMIZATION

Is ChatGPT recommending your brand — or a competitor?

60% of US adults now ask AI before they buy. The brands AI picks get the lead — the brands it skips never see the visit. Here's how to find out where you stand, and what to do next.

Example: AI mentions across engines
Your brand22%
Competitor A68%
Competitor B54%

Real example: a regional services brand vs. its top two competitors. Visibility gap closes in 6–8 weeks with focused AEO.

5 min read · Updated for 2026 AI search

What an AI Visibility Report actually tells you

An AI Visibility Report tests how often AI search engines mention your brand when real buyers ask the questions that lead to a sale. Instead of guessing whether your SEO is "working," you see — in plain English — whether the AI engines that now sit between your customers and Google are recommending you, ignoring you, or sending the lead to a competitor.

The report scores your brand on a 0–100 AI Visibility Score, lists the competitors AI mentions instead of you, surfaces the exact questions where you're invisible, and gives you the next three moves to close the gap. No dashboards to learn. No analyst to translate.

ChatGPT
OpenAI · 500M+ weekly users
Perplexity
Answer engine for research
Google AI Overviews
Top of Google search
Gemini
Google's flagship model
Claude
Anthropic · pro buyers

How it works — three steps, sixty seconds

01
Enter your website
One field. No signup. We pull your brand, category, and competitive set automatically.
02
We query the AI engines
We ask the buying-intent questions real customers ask — across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and more.
03
You get a branded report card
Your AI Visibility Score, the competitors being mentioned, the answer gaps, and the next 3 moves to win the answer.

Who it's for

The AI Visibility Report is built for businesses that already get traffic but suspect leads are being intercepted before they ever land on the site.

  • Owners and GMs of US small and medium businesses who are losing leads they can't explain
  • Marketing leads who already do SEO and want to know if it's translating to AI search
  • Founders launching a new product who want to see who AI currently recommends in their category
  • Agencies running discovery for a new client and needing a credible visibility baseline

What the results mean

70–100 · Strong

You're the answer. Protect and widen the moat — competitors will catch up fast.

40–69 · At risk

You show up sometimes. A focused 60-day AEO sprint usually moves you into the top recommendation slot.

0–39 · Invisible

Buyers ask AI about your category and never hear your name. The leads are going to whoever AI does name.

SEO vs. AEO — what's the difference?

SEO ranks pages for a query. AEO gets your brand cited inside the AI's generated answer. SEO and AEO share signals — clean structured content, authoritative mentions, clear answers — but the winning format is different. AEO rewards short, self-contained answers and rich entity signals. The AI Visibility Report measures only the AEO side, which is the side most teams have no instrumentation for.

Run it on your domain in under a minute.

Free. No signup. Shareable branded report card.

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Frequently asked questions

What is an AI Visibility Report?+

An AI Visibility Report tests how often AI search engines — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and Claude — mention your brand when real buyers ask the questions that lead to a sale. It scores your brand on a 0–100 scale and shows which competitors are being recommended instead.

Why does AI visibility matter for small businesses?+

More than 60% of US adults now use AI to research products and services before buying. Unlike Google's blue links, AI engines pick one or two brands to recommend — and the brands they don't name simply don't get the lead. If you're invisible inside ChatGPT and Perplexity, you're already losing pipeline you'll never see in your analytics.

How is AI visibility different from SEO?+

SEO ranks pages for a query. Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) gets your brand cited inside the AI's generated answer. SEO and AEO use overlapping signals — clean structured content, authoritative mentions, clear answers to questions — but the winning page format is different. AEO rewards short, self-contained answers and rich entity signals.

How long does the report take?+

Under 60 seconds. You enter your website, we run the queries across the major AI engines, and you get a branded report card with your score, the competitors being mentioned, and the next steps to take.

Is the AI Visibility Report really free?+

Yes. No credit card, no signup wall, no sales call required. You get the full report. If you want help acting on it, you can book a free strategy call from inside the report — but you're never required to.

What do I do with the results?+

Start with the gaps. If a competitor is named in three answers and you're named in zero, that's a content and authority gap you can close in 4–8 weeks with targeted answer-engine content. Our team can do this for you, or you can hand the report to your internal team.

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