What is AI Visibility Assessment?
An AI visibility assessment measures where and how often your brand appears in AI-powered search results — across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Gemini — and identifies what to fix so you show up more.
Why It Matters
Most businesses have no idea whether AI search engines mention them. They track Google rankings, they track organic traffic — but they have zero visibility into whether ChatGPT recommends their brand when someone asks a question about their industry.
AI search is growing. Perplexity handles millions of queries daily. Google AI Overviews appear on an increasing percentage of searches. If you're not measuring this, you're flying blind on the fastest-growing search channel.
How It Works
An AI visibility assessment queries the major AI platforms with the same questions your target audience asks. Then it checks:
- Brand mentions — Does the AI mention your brand by name? How often? In what context?
- Competitor comparison — Who else gets mentioned? What's your share of model compared to competitors?
- Citation analysis — When the AI cites sources, does it link to your content? Which pages?
- Gap identification — Which questions should mention you but don't? What's missing from your content?
- Technical readiness — Can AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot) actually access your site? Is your robots.txt blocking them?
The output is a clear picture of your AI search presence — not just whether you appear, but why you do or don't, and exactly what to change.
Common Mistakes
Blocking AI crawlers in robots.txt. Some site owners — or their security teams — block GPTBot and similar crawlers without realising it. If the AI can't crawl your content, it can't cite you.
The other mistake is assuming Google rankings equal AI visibility. They don't. A site can rank position 1 for a keyword and still not appear in ChatGPT's answer for the same query. Different systems, different criteria.
How I Use This
I built my AI visibility assessment to measure exactly this. It checks your brand across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Gemini — then produces a report showing where you stand, where your competitors stand, and what to fix first.
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Related Terms
AI Overview
AI Overviews are AI-generated summary answers displayed at the top of Google search results — synthesising information from multiple web sources to provide direct answers to queries, fundamentally changing how users interact with search and how websites earn traffic.
Answer Engine Optimisation
Answer engine optimisation (AEO) is the practice of formatting your content to directly answer specific questions, so that search engines and AI platforms use your site as the source in featured snippets, AI Overviews, and conversational search results.
Generative Engine Optimisation
Generative engine optimisation (GEO) is the practice of structuring your website content so that AI-powered search engines — like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews — cite your brand when answering questions in your industry.
Schema Markup
Schema markup is structured data code (typically JSON-LD) added to web pages that helps search engines understand the content — identifying entities like products, businesses, articles, and FAQs so Google can display rich results with star ratings, prices, and other enhanced features.
Share of Model
Share of model is a metric that measures how often a brand is mentioned or cited by AI language models compared to its competitors — the AI equivalent of share of voice in traditional marketing.