Does ChatGPT recommend your company? I scored 50 brands — most are invisible

AI assistants now answer "what's the best X?" for millions of buyers every day — and they only name 2-4 companies per answer. If you're not one of them, you're invisible to a buyer who never sees a list of 10 blue links anymore. This is Generative Engine Optimization (GEO), and most businesses have no idea where they stand.

So I wired up a tiny endpoint that asks ChatGPT-class models the real buyer questions for a category, then scores whether a given brand actually gets named.

What the data looks like

Figma — "best design tool", US:

• Score 80/100, named in 5/5 answers. Competitors surfaced: Adobe XD, Sketch, Canva.

A typical local "Acme Roofing" — "roofing contractors", US:

• Score 20/100, named in 0/5 answers. Who AI recommends instead: GAF, Owens Corning, CertainTeed, HomeAdvisor, Angie's List.

That gap is the whole story. Big brands with lots of citations get named; everyone else gets a customer routed to a competitor — silently.

Try it on your own brand (free, no signup)

I put a live checker up as a static app — type a brand + category and it calls the API client-side and shows your score, mention rate, and the competitors AI names instead of you:

👉 https://huggingface.co/spaces/RileyCraig30/ai-visibility-checker

Want the full audit? Get the $49 AI Visibility Report → https://buy.stripe.com/9B63cvaeAb2PfdbfuL7ss00 — 8 buyer questions tested, competitor share-of-voice, and a 30/60/90-day fix plan.

Or hit the API directly:

curl -X POST https://aivisibility.agentexchange.work/check \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"brand":"Your Company","category":"your category","market":"us"}'

You get back score, mentionRate, the competitors AI names, and the actual question/answer pairs so you can see why.

Why this matters more every month

Search behavior is shifting from Google's 10 links to a single AI answer that names a handful of options. GEO is early enough that a focused fix (getting cited in the sources these models read) can move you from invisible to named. The first step is just measuring where you are.

If you want the deep version — 8 real buyer questions tested, competitor share-of-voice, and a prioritized fix plan — there's a full report at https://aivisibility.agentexchange.work. But start with the free check above; it's genuinely useful on its own.

What score did your company get? Drop it in the comments — curious how many folks are at 0.