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AI Visibility Diagnostic

Can AI
recommend you?

Find out if AI systems can understand, cite and recommend your organization.

AI Visibility Diagnostic

We diagnose your AI visibility
before we sell AEO.

Answer seven questions and identify whether AI systems can understand, cite and recommend your organization — or whether your entity signals are incomplete, conflicting or missing.

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Why diagnosis matters

High-value buyers increasingly use AI systems to research, compare and shortlist organizations. If your entity layer is incomplete, AI systems may misunderstand you, ignore you or recommend someone else.

1 in 3 searches on Google now trigger an AI-generated answer — a number growing every quarter.
12.4% of all websites use structured data. The first mover advantage in AEO is still wide open.
527% growth in AI-referred sessions between January and May 2025. This channel is accelerating.
Common questions

Still not sure
what AI can see?

Stefan Petschinka, AEO Strategist
curated by Stefan Petschinka AEO Strategist.
Can't my existing SEO cover this? +

No. SEO optimizes for Google's crawler and ranking algorithm. AEO operates on a completely different layer: machine-readable entities, structured data, verified external signals and knowledge graph relationships.

A site can rank number one on Google and still not exist for ChatGPT or Perplexity. The two require separate, parallel approaches. SEO and AEO are complementary — but one does not replace the other.

What happens if a competitor gets AEO and I don't? +

AI systems will recommend your competitors by name, specialty and location — while you remain unmentioned. Every AI-generated answer that names a competitor instead of you is a lead you will never see.

At high deal values, even a handful of missed leads per month exceeds the annual cost of a full AEO implementation. The structural disadvantage compounds over time as the competitor's entity signals accumulate weight in successive model training runs.

I'm not mentioned in ChatGPT at all. Is that fixable? +

Yes. Absence in AI systems almost always means incomplete entity signals — missing or broken JSON-LD schema, no Knowledge Graph presence, unverified or conflicting external sources.

That is exactly what entity building addresses. We have taken organizations from zero AI mentions to being the default recommendation for their category — including displacing globally recognized brands from the answer entirely.

Is AEO only relevant for large organizations? +

No. AEO is most valuable where individual clients have high value — regardless of company size. A specialist clinic, a boutique law firm, a luxury developer, or a solo consultant with enterprise clients all benefit more from AEO than a large e-commerce company with low order values.

The question is not how big you are. The question is: what does one missed client cost you?

How long until results are visible? +

Retrieval-based systems like Perplexity and Google AI Search can reflect new entity signals within days to weeks. Model-based systems like ChatGPT update on their own training schedule.

What we can guarantee: the signal is correct from day one — structured, consistent, validated and ready to be crawled, cited and understood. AEO is not a switch. It is a foundation that compounds.

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Your diagnostic result shows where your entity signals are strong, weak or missing — and what AI systems need in order to understand, cite and recommend you.

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