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.

No credit card. We run it and email you the result — usually within a couple of business days.

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. ⚪ means we didn't show up at all. We didn't either, 80 times out of 80.

THE MATRIX · 20 PROMPTS × 4 ENGINES ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini · Perplexity
Never Behind's presence in AI answers, by prompt and engine. ⚪ = absent.
Buyer question Stage ChatGPTClaudeGeminiPerplexity
why doesn't my business show up when I ask ChatGPT for recommendations problem
how do I get my company cited by ChatGPT and other AI assistants problem
my competitors show up in AI search results but I don't, what can I do problem
how do I check if my brand appears in AI search answers problem
is my website optimized for AI search engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity problem
why is my company invisible in AI generated answers problem
what is GEO generative engine optimization and do I need it solution
how is AI search optimization different from traditional SEO solution
how do I optimize my website to be recommended by AI assistants solution
how to rank higher in Google AI Overviews for my business solution
how do I improve my brand's visibility in Perplexity and ChatGPT answers solution
what does an AI visibility audit include solution
how much does an AI search optimization service cost solution
best AI visibility audit service for small businesses vendor
who can help me get my business found in AI assistants vendor
best GEO consultant or agency for generative engine optimization vendor
companies that offer AI search visibility monitoring vendor
should I hire someone to improve my AI search visibility or do it myself vendor
AI visibility monitoring tool or service to track brand mentions in ChatGPT vendor
how do I hire a service to make my business show up in AI answers vendor
Cited (named + linked) Mentioned (named, no link) Absent — didn't show up

Google AI Overviews (~20 more cells) is still being captured by hand — it won't change the headline. Full method + raw capture data: docs/audit/case-study-zero-neverbehind.md

Who the AI named instead of us

Zoom out and the pattern gets sharper: across all 80 answers, the engines cited 1,264 sources from 547 different domains — Semrush's own site alone 53 times, Reddit in 22 separate answers, Search Engine Land in 25, cited by all four engines we track. We're on none of them. 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 80 answers that named each business. The demand isn't hypothetical — buyers asking these exact questions get real vendor names back today.

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, and Perplexity, 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 Snapshot

$0

A fast, honest read on whether AI assistants know you exist.

  • Presence check across the major AI engines
  • Whether a competitor shows up in your place
  • Your single biggest visibility gap
  • Emailed to you — no call, no card, no pitch
Get the free Snapshot

Full AI Visibility Audit

$500 one-time

A hands-on audit of your actual site content plus a full prioritized GEO/AEO roadmap — what to fix, why, and in what order. Built on the same method we ran on ourselves first: we scored 0/80.

  • Full matrix: 20 buyer questions × 5 AI engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews)
  • Hands-on audit of your actual site content, not just the scan
  • Citation-share benchmark against your named competitors
  • A comprehensive, prioritized remediation roadmap — what to fix, why, and in what order
Get the full audit — $500

Why it matters

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

74%

A competitor is already the answer

In our own 80-cell test, an AI assistant named a competitor by name in 74% of answers. 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 80 cells is backed by raw capture data we keep on file, 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.

Include https:// so we run it against the right site.
We email your Snapshot here. No spam.

Free. No credit card. We typically send Snapshots within a couple of business days.

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.

Email only. No card, no website needed — we'll show you a full sample report on the next page.

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 Google AI Overviews — 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.