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AI Visibility Meter

Buyer shortlist problem

Will ChatGPT recommend my business?

AI recommendations can influence which providers a buyer investigates first. A business can be excellent and still be omitted when its public website and third-party evidence do not give AI enough reason to understand, trust or shortlist it.

Find the problems keeping your business out of AI recommendations

Run the free buyer-style test. No account is required to see whether your business appeared, the main problem and one source receipt.

Check my business website free

Why a business may be left out

AI systems assemble answers from public information they can retrieve. They may find a competitor first because that competitor describes its services more clearly, demonstrates relevant experience, publishes stronger buyer guidance, has more independent corroboration, or is easier to connect with a location and customer need.

Absence is not proof that a business is poor. It is evidence that the sampled answer did not find enough reason to include it at that moment.

What the free buyer-style test does

AI Visibility Meter derives a non-branded service, audience and location from the public homepage. It then asks three web-grounded buyer questions without giving the model the business name or domain. Only afterwards does a named diagnostic investigate why the business appeared or did not.

  • A broad category search
  • An ideal-customer situation
  • A preference-based buyer situation

Problems worth checking

  • Your category or primary offer is unclear.
  • Your location or service area is difficult to verify.
  • Your strongest claims lack visible proof.
  • Your pages answer service questions but not buyer-decision questions.
  • Competitors have clearer case evidence, comparisons or independent mentions.
  • Your site is difficult for crawlers or agents to access and interpret.

What this cannot prove

The test uses web-grounded model families through OpenRouter. It does not reproduce the personalised consumer ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini applications, and a point-in-time answer is not a permanent ranking. Results can change with model versions, indexes, wording, location and new public evidence.