AI Visibility (GEO / AEO)

When someone asks AI who to hire, does it say you — or your competitor?

Buyers now ask ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity for recommendations before they ever open Google. If the answer names a competitor instead of you, you never even knew you were in the running. We'll show you exactly where you stand — free.

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The receipts

Here's our own scorecard. We didn't soften it.

Before we sold this to anyone, we ran Never Behind's own audit — our own method, our own prompt set — against ourselves. Every row below is a real question a buyer would type into an AI assistant. We didn't either — 96 times out of 100. The other 4 named us without a link.

THE MATRIX · 20 PROMPTS × 5 ENGINES · 100 CELLS ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini · Perplexity · Grok

Never Behind's presence in AI answers, by prompt and engine. ● = cited · ◐ = mentioned · ⚪ = absent.
Buyer question	Stage	ChatGPT	Claude	Gemini	Perplexity	Grok
Never Behind reviews — are they any good	brand	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
is Never Behind a legitimate AI visibility audit service	brand	Absent	Absent	Mentioned	Mentioned	Absent
best AI visibility audit service for small businesses	shopping	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
best GEO audit service for local businesses	shopping	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
best service to improve AI search presence for SMBs	shopping	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
top AI visibility consultants for small business	shopping	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
best AEO audit service for niche businesses	shopping	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
who should I hire to improve my business visibility in AI assistants	shopping	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
best AI citation audit for professional services firms	shopping	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
top rated generative engine optimization services	shopping	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
Never Behind free AI scan what is it	offering	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
Never Behind full AI visibility audit review	offering	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
Never Behind GEO audit what is included	offering	Absent	Mentioned	Mentioned	Absent	Absent
AI visibility audit for local service businesses	offering	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
generative engine optimization audit for small business	offering	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
AEO audit service who provides it	offering	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
my business doesn't show up in ChatGPT recommendations who can help	pain point	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
why isn't my business mentioned in AI search results	pain point	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
competitors showing up in AI assistant answers but not my business what do I do	pain point	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent
how do I get my business cited by Perplexity and Claude	pain point	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent	Absent

Cited (named + linked) Mentioned (named, no link) Absent — didn't show up

Full method + raw capture data: run neverbehind-matrix-20260728T172102Z · see docs/audit/site-proof-datapack-2026-07-28.md

Who the AI named instead of us

Zoom out and the pattern gets sharper: across all 100 answers, the five engines cited 1,508 sources from 700 different domains. None of those citations pointed at neverbehind.com. semrush.com was cited 13 times across 11 answers — the only domain cited by all five engines. blog.hubspot.com and clutch.co were each cited 17 times. reddit.com surfaced in 6 answers with 9 citations. searchengineland.com appeared in 4 answers with 5 citations. Zero of ours. That's the real gap. It's not that our website needs better SEO — it's that we're absent from the sources these engines already trust and quote. Fixing that is what the full audit's fix list is for.

Share of the 100 answers that named each business. The demand isn't hypothetical — buyers asking these exact questions get real vendor names back today.

Read the full case study — 4 named, 0 cited, out of 100 →

How it works

Three steps. No jargon.

Tell us your business

Your business name, your website, your work email. That's the whole form — no phone call, no fifteen-field intake.

We ask the AI what your buyers ask

We run real buyer-intent questions — the kind someone actually types when they're shopping, not generic keywords — against ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok, and record whether you show up. Or whether a competitor does.

You get your Snapshot

A plain-English scorecard: where you stand today and the single biggest lever to fix it. Free, no strings, emailed straight to you.

What you get

Start free. Go deep when you're ready.

Free Scan

We check whether AI answers in your category include your business. Request takes 2 minutes; results delivered in 1–2 business days.

Presence check in your category
Whether a competitor shows up in your place
Your single biggest visibility gap
Emailed to you — no call, no card, no pitch

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Snapshot / Mini Audit

$30 one-time

We run a focused sweep of how AI answers questions about your business, show you what we found, and tell you what is worth addressing first.

Focused sweep of AI answers about your business
What we found — specific to your business
What is worth addressing first
Delivered straight to your inbox

Start with the Mini Audit — $30

Or: sign up to hear when Watch is ready — monthly re-runs of your audit as AI answers evolve. Not yet purchasable. Learn about Watch →

Single-Engine Audit

$200 one-time

You pick one AI engine — the one that matters most to your buyers — and we audit it completely: how it handles queries in your category, whether you appear, and where your closest competitors land when you do not.

You pick the engine that matters most to your buyers
Full audit: queries, presence, competitor positioning
Prioritized fix list specific to that engine
Delivered to your inbox within 5 business days

Start the Single-Engine Audit — $200

Or: join the Watch interest list — monthly re-runs of your audit on a schedule, with a delta report each time. Not yet purchasable. Join the Watch interest list →

Full Audit

$500 one-time

We audit your brand across the AI engines buyers in your category use. You receive the full picture: which engines mention you, which do not, who appears instead, and a fix list ranked by what the data says is worth addressing first.

Full audit across the engine set your buyers use
Which engines mention you and which do not
Who appears instead when you do not
Fix list ranked by what the data says to address first

Get the full audit — $500

Or: join the Watch interest list — monthly re-runs of your audit on a schedule, with a delta report each time. Not yet purchasable. Join the Watch interest list →

Watch

Monthly monitoring · Not yet available for purchase

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Why it matters

This is the new front page — and most businesses aren't on it.

82%

A competitor is already the answer

In our own 100-cell test, at least one competitor was named in 82% of answers. We were named in 4%. If a buyer asks and hears a competitor's name instead of yours, you're not in the running — you don't even know you lost.

Citations,
not clicks

It's not SEO you can game

AI assistants answer from what they've already read about you — on your own site and everywhere else. It's a citation graph, not a ranking algorithm. You can't trick your way in; you can only earn a real presence in the sources these engines already trust.

Days → weeks

The gap compounds quietly

There's no error message when an AI doesn't mention you. Every week you're absent, competitors get cited again, quoted again, and cemented further as the default answer. You can't fix what you can't see — which is the entire reason the Snapshot exists.

Why trust us

We ran this on ourselves before we ran it on anyone.

We show our work

Our own scorecard is right above this — zeros and all. Every one of the 100 cells is backed by a captured, timestamped answer — raw and scored — filed under run neverbehind-matrix-20260728T172102Z, and we published the losing score before we published a single ad.

Real method, not vibes

The same 20 buyer-intent questions, across the same 5 AI engines, scored the same way every time — so a result means something and you can actually track whether it's moving.

Plain English, no lock-in

You get a scorecard and a fix list you could hand to anyone — your own team, another agency, doesn't matter to us. The free Snapshot is genuinely free: no card, no call, no auto-enrollment into anything.

Your free Snapshot

Find out where you stand — free.

Give us three things and we'll run your AI Visibility Snapshot and email you the result. No card, no call, no obligation to buy the full audit.

Not ready to share your site?

Just enter your email and see a sample audit — a real, full report on a sample business, so you can see exactly what you'd get before you hand over a thing.

Questions

Short answers

Is the Snapshot really free?

Yes. No credit card, no sales call, nothing to cancel. The full audit is $500 if you want the complete matrix and the fix list — the Snapshot itself has no catch.

What's the difference between the Snapshot and the $500 audit?

The Snapshot tells you whether you show up. The full audit tells you why, benchmarks you against the competitors actually getting named instead, shows you the specific sources AI trusts, and hands you a fix list ranked by impact.

Which AI engines do you check?

ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok — the five places a buyer is most likely to ask "who should I hire for this" today.

Isn't this just SEO?

No. Traditional SEO gets you ranked on a results page a human scrolls through. This is about whether an AI assistant names you directly inside its answer — a different signal, driven by which sources the AI has already read and trusts, not by keywords or backlinks alone.

How long until my Snapshot arrives?

Usually within a couple of business days. We'll email it to the address you give us — no login, no dashboard to check.