AI Visibility Checker: See If AI Recommends Your Business
Free tool · AI visibility checker
ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews name the businesses they can verify. This checker scores your business on the nine signals those engines look for before they name anyone, and tells you which one to fix first. It takes two minutes, and your answers stay in your browser.
It is not a live scan of the AI engines. The live check, ten questions across four engines, is further down this page. I run it for you as a $150 AI visibility audit.
What the score is measuring
An AI answer is assembled in the moment. Google describes the mechanism for AI Overviews and AI Mode as query fan-out: the engine runs several searches around the question and reads what comes back before it writes. ChatGPT and Perplexity do a version of the same thing. What comes back is your third-party record, your profiles and your own pages, weighted by how much the engine trusts each source. The nine signals are the things that decide whether that search finds a business it can vouch for.
I weight the off-site signals ahead of the on-page ones on purpose. The tracking behind that call, from my own site and a client run, is in my answer engine optimization guide.
The ten-question live check
The scorecard predicts. The live check measures. You ask ten questions a buyer would type before they know your name, in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Mode, on three different days. Then you log whether you were named and every business named instead of you. That list of names is your outreach plan. The full method is in how to check whether AI is recommending your business.
How to check Google AI Overviews for your business
AI Overviews do not appear on every search, and they show up far more often on searches phrased as questions.
The manual version of an AI Overview checker uses the same ten questions. Type each one into Google as a question, in a private window, with the location set to the city you serve. For every search, note whether an overview appeared, which sources it cited and whether you were one of them.
A question with no overview has no AI slot to win. It is an ordinary ranking job. A question with an overview that cites other businesses is where the work goes. Google's own documentation says a page only needs to be indexed and eligible for a snippet to be shown as a supporting link, with no additional technical requirements.
If you are indexed and still absent, work through the reasons in the order I check them in why your business is not showing up in AI Overviews. The third reason there is that Google does not trust your site enough yet. On the scorecard above, that trust is signals one to five, from one name everywhere to verifiable facts on your site.
Search Console now has an AI performance report under Performance. It is the closest thing to an official AI Overview checker for the pages you own. It counts impressions only, with no clicks and no queries, and it will not tell you who was named instead of you. The live check does.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is this AI visibility checker a live scan of ChatGPT?
No. It scores your business on the nine signals the AI engines use to decide who to name, which predicts your visibility without asking the engines. The live scan is the ten-question check described above, run three times across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Mode. You can run it yourself in an afternoon, or I run it as the $150 AI visibility audit and bring the list of who was named instead of you.
Why does the checker weight reviews and listings above my website?
Because the engines name businesses they can verify from sources the business does not own. In my tracking, a well-built client site with a thin third-party record was named in none of 30 category answers. My own 115-post site at domain rating 0 drew 17 clicks in 90 days. Formatting gets a page read. Reviews, listings and mentions get a business named.
How often should I check my AI visibility?
Monthly, with the same ten questions and the same three runs, logged the same way. The record that gets you named builds over months, and a monthly rate is the only way to see whether it is working. Checking daily produces noise, and checking once produces a story you will believe for the wrong reasons.
Want the live check run for you?
The $150 AI visibility audit runs your ten questions three times across the four engines. You get the list of every business named instead of you, with the record each one has that you do not. Book a free call and bring your ten questions, or read what the audit includes first.
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