# Show HN: Get your free AI search visibility scan > Source: > Published: 2026-08-30 10:50:35+00:00 AI visibility scanner · autonomous audit # Your customers ask AI who to trust. Are you *in the answer?* **You can't see what AI says about your business. Your customers can.** VisiScan asks ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini the exact questions your buyers type — and shows you whose name comes back. Free · no signup · results in ~60s · [see a sample report →](#report) You're invisible in 70% of buyer answers. Three competitors were named instead. *Run a free scan to check yours.* Why this decides who wins ## Do AI engines name your business — or a competitor? There's no page 2 in an AI answer—and nothing in your analytics tells you you're missing from it. **Being named is the new ranking #1**, decided per question, per suburb. ### ◷ Yesterday · a search engine Ten blue links. Rank fourth and still win the click. ### ✦ Today · an answer engine "The ones I'd recommend are Ridgeline Plumbing, Fast Bros and Astoria 24hr."YOU — NOT NAMED One answer, a few names. Miss it and you're invisible — silently. How the scan works ## Measured from real AI answers. Nothing estimated. ### Ask the four engines The agent reads your site, works out your market, then interrogates ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini with real buyer questions — localized to where you operate. Multi-sampled, majority-voted. ### Audit 30+ signals Entity presence in Wikidata & Google's Knowledge Graph, branded mentions, third-party citations, schema markup, AI-crawler access, content and technical health. ### Score & hand you the plan An AI Visibility score, an AI Readiness score, and a prioritized fix plan — with your schema and llms.txt already written, ready to publish. What's inside ## What does VisiScan measure in each plan? Both run on live AI answers — not estimates. The free scan surfaces your scores and your biggest gap. The full report maps every engine and question, audits 30+ signals, and hands you a prioritized fix plan ranked by impact × ease — with your schema and llms.txt already written. Updated August 2026. Measurement basis: VisiScan tests ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini; see the [measurement methodology](/methodology). ## What does the free scan include? The free scan runs 5 buyer-intent questions across 4 AI engines, producing 40 live answers with your visibility score, readiness score, top competitor, and highest-impact fix. ## What does the full report include? The full report runs 12 questions across 4 AI engines with 3 samples each: 144 live answers, 30+ visibility signals, quoted competitor evidence, and ready-to-publish schema and llms.txt. | Feature | Free scan | Full report | |---|---|---| Scores AI Visibility Score (0–100) | ✓ | ✓ | | AI Readiness Score | ✓ | ✓ | Live measurement Buyer-intent questions | 5 | 12 | | AI engines tested | 4 | 4 | | Samples per question × engine | 2 | 3 | | Total live answers | 40 | 144 | Competitors Who AI names instead of you | Top rival | Full breakdown | | Answer quotes, receipts attached | — | ✓ | Citations Source sites feeding each answer | — | ✓ | | Citation game plan for your industry | — | ✓ | Fixes Highest-impact fix recommendation | Single | Prioritized plan | | Ready-to-publish schema markup | — | ✓ | | Ready-to-publish llms.txt | — | ✓ | Agent readiness Agent-readiness ladder (L1–L5) & next rung | — | ✓ | Benchmarks Industry benchmark — your score vs peers | — | ✓ | Signals 30+ on-site & off-site visibility signals | Summary | ✓ | Inside the report ## Every claim comes with receipts. Not a vanity score. Inspect the questions, answers, citations, competitors and fixes behind every result. ### What's in the full report The free scan tests 5 questions across 4 AI engines and gives you a visibility preview. Enter your email to unlock the full report — 12 questions, 3 samples each (144 live answers), plus everything below delivered as a permanent shareable page. #### Visibility score How often each AI engine names your business vs competitors, with per-question detail and an overall visibility percentage — so you know exactly where you stand and where you're invisible. #### Competitor intelligence Who AI recommends instead of you — named businesses with every answer quoted, so you see the exact context your customers read. #### Citation game plan The exact directories, review sites, and content pages feeding AI answers in your industry — with contact details and a priority-ranked to-do list for getting listed where it matters. #### Agent-readiness ladder Your site graded L1–L5 for the agent era (chatbots recommend; AI agents book and buy), with the specific gap between your current rung and the next one. #### AI-readiness fix pack Copy-paste schema.org markup and llms.txt generated from your own site — prioritized by impact × ease so the first thing you publish moves the score. #### Industry benchmark How your visibility and readiness scores compare to businesses in your industry and region — so you know if you're leading or catching up. ### The visibility map Buyer questions × every AI engine. Green means your business was named; red means a competitor took your customer. | Question | GPT | CLD | PPX | GEM | |---|---|---|---|---| | "best plumber near me" | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ | | "emergency call-out" | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | | "most trusted local" | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | The full report maps 12 questions with 3 samples each — 144 live AI answers, with every competitor named and every citation source listed. ### Who's winning your customers The exact competitors AI recommends instead — per question, per engine, with the full answer text quoted verbatim. - Ridgeline Plumbing *named 9×* - Fast Bros Pipe & Drain *named 6×* - Astoria 24hr Plumbers *named 4×* The full report names every competitor found, shows how often they appear, and links to the directories and review sites AI engines are citing — so you know exactly where to get listed. ### Copy-paste fixes Your schema.org markup and llms.txt, generated from your own website. Publish, don't puzzle. ```