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AI visibility

What is AI visibility?

AI visibility is whether, and how often, AI engines mention or cite your business when people ask the questions your customers actually ask. It is what page-one used to be: if the assistants answering your buyers never name you, you are invisible at the exact moment a decision is being made.

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In practice

Why it matters for AI visibility

Visibility in AI answers behaves differently from search visibility. There is no fixed results page to audit: answers vary by phrasing, session and engine, and each engine draws on its own mix of training data, live search and preferred sources. That makes visibility feel unknowable, and most businesses simply never check. But it is measurable: ask a consistent panel of buyer questions, on a schedule, across the engines that matter, and record who gets named. Once measured, it becomes improvable, because the engines' habits are consistent enough to work against: they lean on particular directories, review sites, forums and articles, and those sources can be won. Few businesses measure this yet, so the answer space is still lightly contested.

Measurement

How AEOscore measures this

AEOscore tracks your AI visibility weekly across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, and turns it into a score you can watch move.

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  • ChatGPT
  • Claude
  • Gemini
  • Perplexity
  • Google AI Overviews
  • Google AI Mode