For years, marketing departments and agencies have pursued a number one ranking in search. It has been a financially relevant strategy, forcing competitors to pay excessively to appear in the realm of #1, albeit with a paid shadow on them. AI visibility is no different today in its role to aid companies in being discovered ahead of their peers. And while there’s no official ranking, we opted to score it and outline the path to the top. We call it Visibly-One.
Free, no-commitment analysis of the buyer inquiries where AI leaves your brand out of the answer.
Our Visibly-One Sweep finds buyer inquiries where AI leaves you out of the answer, then serves you custom solutions. Leveraging existing SEO and content work, we help you maximize your measurable AI presence in ways the competition has yet to consider. We don’t just look at your brand, but the executives and SMEs behind it.
Buyer inquiry “best mid-market franchise partners” — AI answer omits client entirely
Comparison prompt references two competitors by name, not client
Executive byline placement now surfaced as primary AI source
New buyer inquiry flagged in category: Franchising
of Google’s top-10 SaaS brands get zero ChatGPT citations for the same keywords they rank for.
EMGI Group, 150-company SaaS study (April 2026). Organic traffic showed only weak correlation (r = 0.23) with ChatGPT citations — brand authority and content depth mattered more.
of businesses are invisible in AI answers — no industry topped 32% visibility.
Omni Eclipse, manual audit of 1,700 businesses across 32 industries in 3 countries. US roofing, Australian solar, and UAE private schools scored 0%.
of brands are invisible to AI search, by a separate measure.
BrightEdge-sourced figure cited by AuthorityTech, framed around “Machine Relations” as the fix.
of brands that appear in one AI answer show up again in the next response to the same query.
AirOps / Kevin Indig, 2026 State of AI Search report. Persistence drops to 20% across five runs.
Brand-One, Exec-One, and Competitive-One each look at a different slice of how AI engines already talk about your category — together they show the whole picture.
Measures how often your company shows up when a buyer asks AI to solve their problem — before they’ve ever heard your name.
Explore Brand-One →AI increasingly cites people, not just companies. Exec-One finds out whether your executives and SMEs are the authority AI recommends — or absent entirely.
Explore Exec-One →Shows exactly who AI recommends instead of you, which domains it’s citing, and the specific gaps letting competitors win.
Explore Competitive-One →Pricing scales with how many AI engines, prompts, and competitors we track for you. Most engagements start at $50/month for one visibility analysis. The full-sweep scales from there. If you convert to an integrated engagement, your AI Visibility becomes part of your program.
Brand-One measures how your company shows up when AI engines answer buyer questions. Exec-One looks at authority across seven different dimensions, all impacting LLM pulls. Competitive-One starts with how your company competes for Brand-One and Exec-One, but then goes much deeper into the full online ecosystem.
We’re not a software vendor guessing at what earns a citation — we’re the same team that places the earned media, executive bylines, and content AI engines actually cite. The Sweep is built on what has already worked in live campaigns, not a theoretical model of AI search.
Yes. The cost of your AI Visibility Sweep is credited toward any engagement where we execute the recommendations, so you’re not paying twice to diagnose the gap and then close it.
The report is the diagnostic — a scored snapshot of where you stand across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and AI Overviews today. The action plan is the roadmap — the prioritized, practitioner-built steps to close the specific gaps the report surfaces.
Visibly-One grew out of Trevelino/Keller’s 3Gen Platform — discovering the changing online search landscape that was impacting the way businesses were discovered through Demand, Reputation and Lead Generation. It’s AI-Visibility Practice became none too familiar with its success with clients winning page-one Google rankings but underperforming the moment a buyer asked AI instead. However, we didn’t just build the measurement but the playbook to solve it.
For years, the playbook was simple: rank #1 on Google, and the phone rings. That strategy got expensive — competitors paying to sit inside a paid shadow of the real #1 — but it worked, because there was one algorithm to satisfy. AI changes the mechanics without changing the goal. Buyers still want to be pointed at an answer; they’re just asking a different engine to point them there, and that engine has no official ranking — yet.
We didn’t come to this as a software company watching the trend from the outside. We came to it as an integrated agency that had spent two decades building the power of authority, search and awareness. Visibly-One is that same discipline — run by practitioners who understand the value of authority, power of content, ancillary benefits of amplified social, adjunct impact of resources beyond the brand. And we are not just here to measure it — that’s the starting point to accelerating it.
We understand the full 360 reputation marketing which means we know how to address the impact of AI on the full funnel.
A free Brand-One Snapshot before you spend anything on a full Sweep — you see the gap before you pay to close it.
Brand-One, Exec-One, and Competitive-One together, instead of a single-purpose tool that only ever sees part of the picture.
If you hire us to close the gaps we find, the cost of the audit is credited toward the work — you’re never paying twice.
Both, in practice. Visibly-One is an independent brand, owned by Trevelino/Keller, ranked #1 in organic growth. The audit and scoring runs as its own product, and the same agency team is available to execute what it finds.
No — those show up as representative examples to demonstrate AI-visibility gaps, but the same measurement applies to any brand or executive that buyers might ask AI about, B2B or B2C.
Once we have a discovery meeting, within a week we will have a full Visibly-One analysis. Within two weeks of the analysis, we can launch an integrated program.
Buyers are already asking AI to solve the exact problem your product solves. Brand-One measures how often your company shows up in that moment — and builds the content and citations to close the gap when you don’t.
Free, no-commitment scan across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews.
Every Brand-One engagement tracks the same core measures across every major AI engine, so progress is comparable audit to audit.
The share of real buyer prompts, across every tracked engine, where your brand appears at all.
How visibility changes once a prompt already knows your name versus when a buyer is still describing their problem.
Which specific pain points and use cases you already own, and which are still wide open.
Which domains AI engines actually pull from when they answer — and whether yours is one of them.
FranX is essentially invisible in AI answers for the moments that matter most: unbranded, pain-point searches from franchisees and franchisors who haven’t heard of FranX yet. The moment a prompt names FranX directly, visibility jumps to 84%.
Branded Queries
Strong — AI knows who FranX is once asked directly.
Integration Capabilities
Near-zero on unbranded discovery; the closest named competitor holds a 5x lead.
Automated Reconciliation
2 of 36 tracked prompts, 15 of roughly 213 model answers. Wide open for all four brands tracked.
Franchise Compliance Tracking
4 of 40 tracked prompts. Functionally uncontested category.
SEO reporting tells you where you rank on Google. Brand-One tells you whether you exist at all in the answer an AI model gives — a different, increasingly more important question, since a buyer can accept an AI answer without ever seeing a search results page.
ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews as standard, with additional engines added on request as the landscape shifts.
It depends on how open the category is. Categories with zero competitor coverage, like FranX’s reconciliation gap above, can move quickly once the first piece of direct content is published; contested categories take longer and compound over several cycles.
Yes, we can focus exclusively on elevating your brand’s visibility through our Visibly-One platform with a combination of 3Gen recommendations best suited for your industry.
When AI answers a buyer’s question, it increasingly names the person behind the claim, not just the company. Exec-One measures whether your executives and subject-matter experts show up as that voice — or whether the seat is empty.
Covers press coverage, LinkedIn, speaking, thought leadership, awards, and social presence.
Every executive audit scores the same seven channels — a qualitative 0–100 read on public footprint, not a platform analytics dump.
| Channel | What Exec-One looks at |
|---|---|
| Sentiment | Whether public mentions are neutral, positive, or carry any controversy — and whether there’s any share of voice at all. |
| Profile completeness, posting cadence, and engagement relative to peers in the same role. | |
| Press coverage | Independent trade-press profiles and interviews, not just quotes inside a company press release. |
| Speaking & webinars | Third-party speaking engagements versus company-hosted, promotional appearances. |
| Thought leadership | Bylined articles and guest posts under the executive’s own name. |
| Awards & recognition | Named industry awards or “40 under 40”-style recognition. |
| X / Twitter | Whether a verified, active account exists and is distinguishable from name-alike accounts. |
One CEO we audited had 32 years of real operating experience — product and P&L leadership at four companies before the current role — and almost none of it was documented anywhere an AI model could find it. Overall executive visibility score: 18 / 100, among the lowest we’ve scored to date.
| Channel | Score / 100 |
|---|---|
| Sentiment (quiet / safe) | 50 |
| 40 | |
| Press coverage | 20 |
| Speaking / webinars | 15 |
| Thought leadership / blogs | 10 |
| Awards & recognition | 5 |
| X / Twitter | 5 |
Yes — most engagements start with one or two named leaders (often the CEO and a technical or sales SME) and expand from there once the pattern proves out.
That’s a legitimate answer, and Exec-One will say so plainly. The audit still has value even then — it tells you exactly what a competitor’s more visible executive is claiming instead.
Those agencies produce content. Exec-One starts with measurement — a scored diagnostic of what AI and search already say — and only then recommends an executive visibility strategy that ultimately supports the brand, not exclusively trying to turn the executive into a personality. That’s a specific ask.
When a buyer asks AI to compare vendors, someone gets named first. Competitive-One benchmarks you head-to-head against the competitors AI already reaches for, topic by topic, so you know exactly where the opening is.
Tracks named competitors across every topic that matters to your buyers.
Competitive-One tracks the same measures for you and every named competitor, so a lead is never just a claim.
How often you appear at all across the tracked prompts vs your competitors.
Where your CEO stands in comparison to his/her peers.
Beyond AI visibility and a traditional look at your SEO against the leaders.
A valid score on customer and market sentiment that goes beyond just visibility.
A look at what’s being said about you vs your competition and where there’s white space.
How your brand stacks up because social is the best amplifying platform that feeds AI visibility.
None of the three named competitors owns this category outright — but the gaps between them tell you exactly where to move first.
| Topic | FranCount | SmartCo | Profitizer | Count-It |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Integration Capabilities | 1.33% | 0.0% | 0.44% | 7.08% ★ |
| Implementation Scalability | 0.84% | 0.0% | 0.84% | 1.27% ★ |
| Consolidated Reporting | 0.44% ★ | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Franchise Compliance Tracking | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.85% ★ | 0.0% |
| Automated Reconciliation | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
We start with whoever you name as your real competitive set, then validate it against who AI models actually surface in comparison answers — the two lists don’t always match, and the mismatch itself is often the finding.
Yes — most of them aren’t. That’s exactly why the wide-open topics in the sample benchmark above exist, and why moving first tends to matter more than moving perfectly.
It drives consideration, which is the stage right before pipeline. Competitive-One measures the visibility side; pairing it with your existing attribution data shows whether that visibility is converting.
Tell us a little about your brand and we’ll run your free Brand-One Snapshot — no card required, no obligation to continue.
For companies that want to benchmark where they stand today across Brand, Executive or Competition.
For companies that want the full perspective — brand, executive and competitor.
For companies that want the full suite of Visibly-One plus an integrated plan to leverage the analysis.