Local AI visibility audit
See whether AI recommends your local business.
Test customer-style searches across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude. See where your business appears, which competitors are being recommended instead, and receive an evidence-backed roadmap showing what to improve next.
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What does a local AI visibility audit measure?
An AI visibility audit measures whether generative AI systems mention, cite, shortlist, or recommend a business when users ask relevant discovery and comparison questions.
Observed visibility
- Whether the business appears
- Whether it is directly recommended
- Which competitors appear
- Which platforms include or omit it
- Which sources support the responses
Visibility readiness
- Website crawlability and indexability
- Service and location clarity
- Business identity consistency
- Credentials and authority signals
- Content and internal-link gaps
It does not merely say that your business is absent. It identifies the evidence, competitor patterns, and website deficiencies that may help explain the result.
How the local audit works
VisibilityIndex.ai uses a structured process rather than relying on one manually chosen screenshot.
Define the market
The audit establishes the business, industry, location, services, and customer scenarios being measured.
Run relevant prompts
Customer-style discovery, comparison, service, and location prompts are tested across selected AI platforms.
Record the evidence
The audit records recommendation inclusion, competitors, descriptions, citations, and supporting sources.
Inspect the website
Technical access, business clarity, service coverage, authority, and structured information are evaluated.
Compare competitors
The businesses appearing more consistently are examined for stronger evidence, content, and third-party corroboration.
Prioritize actions
Findings are translated into a practical sequence of improvements instead of an unranked checklist.
What your local visibility report includes
A full report is designed to explain both the outcome and the supporting evidence.
| Report area | What it answers |
|---|---|
| Visibility score | How consistently the business appeared across the measured prompts and platforms. |
| Platform results | Whether the business was recommended, mentioned, cited, or absent on each platform. |
| Competitor findings | Which companies appeared more frequently and in which prompt categories. |
| Source evidence | Which websites, directories, publications, or profiles supported the generated answers. |
| Website diagnostics | Which technical, content, identity, and authority issues may be limiting visibility. |
| Action plan | Which improvements deserve attention first and why. |
Who should use an AI visibility audit?
The audit is built for local businesses and the agencies that serve them when they need evidence rather than assumptions about AI recommendation visibility.
Built for local businesses
See whether AI assistants recommend your business for service-specific, location-specific, and local comparison prompts.
Agencies and consultants
Give local-business clients measurable recommendation results, competitor findings, and evidence-backed priorities.
One defined local market
Each audit focuses on one business, one primary location or service area, and the local searches that matter to its customers.
AI visibility audit versus traditional SEO audit
The two overlap, but they measure different outcomes.
| Traditional SEO audit | AI visibility audit |
|---|---|
| Measures rankings, traffic, and technical search performance | Measures mentions, citations, and recommendation inclusion |
| Focuses heavily on pages and keywords | Focuses on businesses, entities, prompts, and evidence |
| Usually evaluates search-engine results | Evaluates generated answers across AI platforms |
| Tracks visible ranking positions | Tracks direct selection or omission within answers |
Read AI Visibility vs. SEO for a fuller comparison.
Frequently asked questions
Does an AI visibility audit guarantee recommendations?
No. It measures current observed results and identifies opportunities. AI-generated answers can change by platform, prompt, source availability, context, and time.
Can a business rank well in Google but remain absent from AI answers?
Yes. Search rankings and AI recommendation inclusion are related but not identical outcomes.
Does the audit include competitors?
The full audit identifies competitors appearing in the tested responses and examines the evidence associated with their visibility.
Which AI platforms are evaluated?
VisibilityIndex.ai can evaluate selected major AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude, depending on audit scope.
What should I do after receiving the report?
Begin with the highest-priority technical, content, identity, and authority recommendations. Re-test the same prompt set after meaningful improvements have been published and discovered.
Find out whether AI recommends your local business
See which AI platforms include your business, which nearby competitors appear instead, and what evidence may be influencing the results.