Every day, potential customers ask ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI questions like “who is the best plumber near me?” and get a direct answer with one or two business names in it.
If your name is not one of them, you are invisible to those customers. They never see a results page. They never scroll past your competitors. The AI just recommends someone else.
Our free AI Visibility Audit shows you exactly where you stand, and what to do about it.
Ranking on Google Is No Longer Enough
Here is the pattern we see over and over: a business ranks on page one of Google, sometimes in the top three, and is completely absent from AI answers for the same searches.
That happens because AI engines choose who to recommend differently than Google ranks pages. They pull from the web’s most trusted signals: consistent mentions across multiple sites, local links, structured content they can extract, and reviews they can verify. A business can win at classic SEO and still lose the AI recommendation.
We measure both, side by side, so you can see the gap.
What We Check
Our audit runs 47 checks across five AI platforms, but here’s what matters most:
Brand mention frequency, How often does each AI platform cite or recommend your business when asked relevant questions in your industry and location? We track mentions per 10 queries and compare you to your top three competitors.
Citation accuracy and consistency, Are your business name, address, phone number, services, and key details correct when AI platforms mention you? Inconsistent citations hurt your credibility and confuse potential customers.
Sentiment analysis, When your business is mentioned, is the sentiment positive, neutral, or negative? AI engines learn from reviews, articles, and forum discussions. We flag reputation issues before they cost you leads.
Competitor comparison, Which businesses in your market get cited most often, and why? We reverse-engineer what they’re doing right so you can close the gap.
Schema markup readiness, AI platforms prioritize sites with clean, structured data. We check whether your pages have the schema types that improve AI citation rates, including LocalBusiness, Service, FAQPage, and Review schema.
E-E-A-T signals AI engines prioritize, Expertise, experience, authoritativeness, and trustworthiness are the four pillars AI platforms use to decide which businesses to cite. We audit your About pages, author bios, credentials, case studies, and third-party mentions.
Content gaps vs. top-cited sources, What topics and questions are competitors answering on their websites that you’re not? We map the content gaps keeping you out of AI answers.
Link authority from cited pages, AI engines favor sites with backlinks from trusted sources. We measure your domain authority and identify which link-building strategies will improve your AI visibility fastest.
Every check feeds into a single AI Visibility Score from 0 to 100, broken down by platform. You’ll see exactly where you stand and which fixes deliver the biggest impact.
What You Get
Your audit arrives as a detailed PDF report, typically 8 to 12 pages, delivered within 2 business days of submission. Here’s what’s inside:
AI Visibility Score (0 to 100) for each platform, A single number that benchmarks your current performance on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini. Scores below 40 mean you’re rarely cited. Scores above 70 mean you’re competing effectively.
Screenshots of actual AI responses, We show you exactly what each AI platform says when asked about businesses like yours. You’ll see whether your business gets mentioned, ignored, or outranked by competitors. No guessing.
Citation frequency compared to your top 3 competitors, A side-by-side comparison showing how often you and your competitors appear in AI answers. If a competitor gets cited twice as often, we explain why.
Actionable checklist: the 5 to 7 changes that will improve your AI visibility most, Not a 50-item wishlist. We prioritize the fixes with the highest ROI: schema additions, content updates, review strategy, link building, or profile optimizations. Every recommendation is specific and ranked by impact.
Schema and content recommendations, Exact schema types to add to your pages, FAQ questions to answer, and content topics to cover. We tell you what to build, not just what’s missing.
No-obligation consultation, After you review the report, we’ll walk through the findings and answer your questions. You can implement the fixes yourself, or we can handle the work for you. No pressure, no sales pitch.
We Run This on Our Own Business
We audit bretzmedia.com with the exact same process, every quarter, and act on the findings the same way we recommend to clients. This is the same audit we use to run our own visibility program, not a lead-gen gimmick built once and forgotten.
How to Get Yours
Thirty seconds: your business name, website, what you do, and your city. We run the audit live against ChatGPT and Gemini, Sam reviews it, and your report arrives by email within one to two business days. No obligation, no pressure.
If the findings point to work you want help with, our local SEO services and Local Growth Network are built to fix exactly these problems. Law firm? There’s a version of this audit tuned for legal: Local AI Search Audit for Law Firms.
Which AI Platforms We Audit
When someone searches for a business recommendation today, they’re asking ChatGPT, not clicking through ten blue links. Our audit checks how your business appears across the AI platforms that matter most in 2026.
ChatGPT has over 200 million weekly users asking for recommendations, comparisons, and buying advice. If your business doesn’t show up when someone asks “best HVAC company in Lawrenceville” or “who should I hire for web design,” you’re invisible to the fastest-growing search audience online.
Google AI Overviews now appear in 15 to 20 percent of Google searches, giving users an AI-generated answer before they see traditional search results. Businesses that rank well in AI Overviews get cited at the top of the page. Everyone else gets pushed below the fold.
Perplexity is the AI search engine built specifically to replace Google for research queries. It cites sources in every answer, which means your site either gets mentioned and linked, or it doesn’t exist in the conversation.
Claude and Gemini round out the audit. Claude is Anthropic’s AI assistant used by professionals for research and analysis. Gemini is Google’s multimodal AI, integrated across Google Workspace and Android. Both platforms cite and recommend businesses based on the same authority signals.
We query each platform with the questions your potential customers are actually asking, then analyze whether your business gets mentioned, how you’re described, and what your competitors are doing to get cited more often.
How the Audit Works
Getting your AI visibility audit takes about 90 seconds on your end. Here’s the process:
1. Submit Your Website, Fill out the short form on this page with your business name, website URL, and primary location (if you’re a local business). No credit card required. No account signup. Just the basics so we know what to audit.
2. We Query 5+ AI Engines, Over the next 48 hours, we ask each AI platform the questions your potential customers would ask. For a law firm, that might be “best personal injury lawyer in Lawrenceville” or “how to choose a workers comp attorney.” For a roofing company, “who should I hire for roof replacement” or “how much does a metal roof cost.” We track which businesses get cited, how often, and why.
3. Get Your Report, We deliver your full audit as a PDF via email within 2 business days. You’ll see your scores, competitor benchmarks, screenshots of AI responses, and the 5 to 7 fixes that matter most. From there, you can implement the recommendations yourself or schedule a call to discuss how we can do it for you.
Most businesses have no idea how they perform in AI search until they run this audit. The platforms don’t publish rankings like Google does. You either show up in the answers, or you don’t.
Who This Audit Is For
This audit is for any business that depends on being found online, especially in competitive local markets.
Local businesses competing for near me queries in AI results, If you’re a plumber, dentist, lawyer, HVAC company, or contractor in Lawrenceville or the Atlanta metro, AI platforms are now answering “best [service] near me” queries before users ever see a map or search result. If you’re not cited in those answers, you’re losing leads every day.
B2B companies whose buyers research vendors via ChatGPT, Decision-makers are using AI to shortlist vendors, compare solutions, and research providers before reaching out. If your competitors show up in AI-generated buying guides and you don’t, you’re not in the consideration set.
E-commerce brands losing traffic to AI shopping recommendations, AI platforms are becoming product research assistants. When someone asks “best running shoes for flat feet” or “which blender is worth the price,” AI engines recommend specific products and brands. If your products aren’t mentioned, you’re invisible.
Professional services (lawyers, accountants, consultants) whose expertise needs to surface in AI answers, Trust matters in professional services. AI platforms cite businesses with strong credentials, case studies, and third-party validation. If your expertise isn’t visible to AI, referrals and inbound leads will dry up as more people skip Google and go straight to ChatGPT for recommendations.