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There is no page two
Ten blue links gave a dozen businesses a shot. A generated answer gives two or three. Ranking eleventh used to be survivable, being unnamed is not.
Generative engine optimizationBroward County, FL
Your next customer is asking AI, not Google.
The AI Visibility Scanner runs 100 real buyer-intent searches across the five engines people actually ask, then tells you exactly how many of those answers named your business, and which competitor took the rest.
First scan is freeEvery scan run by handNo contract to see the number
Coral Ridge Med Spamed spa · Fort Lauderdale · fictional
Perplexity 2/20
Google AIO 3/19
ChatGPT 4/20
Claude 2/18
Gemini 3/19
0/ 0
Named in 14 of 96 completed answers. Wins only the questions that already contain its name.
- Named the business
- Named a competitor instead
- Request failed, excluded
100
real searches per scan, no sampling or extrapolation
5
engines queried live, each with web access switched on
20
buyer-intent prompts written for your category and market
~6m
from pressing run to a finished report
01Why now
Search stopped returning a list. It started returning an answer.
An answer names two or three businesses. Everyone else is simply not in the conversation.
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Analytics can't show you the loss
An AI answer that never mentions you produces no impression, no click, no line in a report. The revenue walks to a competitor and leaves no trace to investigate.
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The sources are being set now
Models assemble their picture of your market from listicles, directories and review sites you can still influence. Whoever earns those citations first gets named repeatedly.
02The method
One scan is 100 real searches.
Not a crawl, not an estimate, and not a self-service tool, we run every scan by hand. A hundred distinct questions a real buyer would type, sent live to every engine, with the answers read back and counted.
5engines×20prompts=100searches
Read the full methodology
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We build your prompt set
Twenty distinct buyer-intent questions for your category and market, problem-first, "best X in Y", ranked comparisons, price and rating filters, near-me, and asked-about-you-by-name.
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We run them for real
Live calls with web search and grounding switched on. Perplexity, the ChatGPT Responses API, Claude's server-side search, Gemini with Google grounding, and Google AI Overviews scraped as served.
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We count names, not vibes
Every business named in every answer is extracted and tallied, yours and each rival's. A request that fails is excluded from the denominator, because a timeout is not evidence of invisibility.
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You get the scoreboard
One number out of 100, then the breakdown: which engines ignore you, which questions you lose, who is being recommended instead, and the fixes each of those measurements points to.
03Scan setup
Is this company visible in AI?
Tell us who you are and where you compete. That is enough to write the twenty questions. We run the hundred searches live on the call, roughly six minutes, while you watch.
- No slide deck and no discovery questionnaire. The measurement comes before the pitch.
- If you're already visible in AI search, we'll tell you that and you'll have spent twenty minutes.
- Want to see the output first? Click through a full sample report.
Request your free scan
Three fields. The booking page takes it from there.
04The report
What you actually get back.
Coral Ridge Med Spa
14/ 96✕ Barely there▲ up 2 pts since last scan
Coral Ridge Med Spa appeared 14 times out of 96. That is noise, not presence, a competitor is winning the other 82 conversations.
Visibility
15%
of AI answers named them
Share of voice
3%
their mentions vs every rival named
Cited as a source
6%
answers linking their domain
Five tabs on the full report: overview, engines & questions, competitors, what to fix, trend. Same layout, same measurements, same wording as the PDF a client keeps.
05Engines covered
Five engines, measured separately.
They disagree constantly. Being strong in one and absent from another is the normal result, and it changes what you should fix first.
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Perplexity
Search-native APIHighest citation rate for local businesses. Leans hard on third-party listicles and directories, so absence here usually means absence from those sources.
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Google AI Overviews
Scraped as served · SerpApiScraped as served, via SerpApi. The highest real-world traffic impact of the five, because it sits above the results your customers were already scrolling.
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ChatGPT
Responses API · web_searchRun through the Responses API with the web_search tool enabled, so the answers reflect what a customer sees today rather than stale training data.
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Claude
Messages API · web_searchMessages API with the server-side web_search tool. Conservative about naming businesses, which makes an appearance here a strong signal of source quality.
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Gemini
generateContent · google_search groundinggenerateContent with google_search grounding. Closest to the Maps and Business Profile ecosystem, so local signal problems tend to show up here first.
06Questions
What people ask before they book.
More definitions in the AI search glossary, or read the full methodology.
What is AI visibility?
AI visibility is the share of AI-generated answers to buyer-intent questions that name a given business, measured out of the answers actually received. A business named in 14 of 96 completed answers has 15% AI visibility.
Why does being named in AI answers matter more than ranking?
Ten blue links gave a dozen businesses a shot at the click, so ranking eleventh was survivable. A generated answer names two or three businesses and has no page two, so a business that is not named is not in the conversation at all.
Can analytics show me the business I lose in AI search?
No. An AI answer that never mentions your business produces no impression, no click and no line in any report. The revenue goes to a competitor and leaves no trace to investigate, which is why AI visibility has to be measured deliberately rather than inferred from analytics.
Which AI engines should a local business be measured against?
Five cover the field for local search: Perplexity, ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Claude and Gemini. They disagree constantly, so being strong in one and absent from another is the normal result and it changes what to fix first.
07About
Built by Sun Coast Digital Media.
We're a marketing agency in Broward County, Florida. We built the scanner because clients kept asking a question no existing tool could answer: when someone asks AI for the best in our category, do we come up?
So we ran it on ourselves first. The number was ugly. It's the reason the tool exists, and the reason we don't sell you a plan before we show you the measurement.
The call20 minutes, scan run live
Nothing prepared in advance. You keep the PDF.
The costFirst scan free
No contract, no retainer, no card up front.
Next stepFree scan
Get your visibility score.
Want your own numbers? The first scan is on us. Twenty minutes on a call and you'll know where you stand, one call, one free scan, one honest number. If you're already visible, we'll tell you that too.