Show HN: Get your free AI search visibility scan VisiScan, an AI visibility scanner, offers a free scan that tests how often ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini name a business in response to buyer questions, reporting that businesses are invisible in 70% of buyer answers. The scan runs 5 questions across 4 engines for 40 live answers, providing an AI Visibility Score and AI Readiness Score, while the full report expands to 12 questions with 3 samples each for 144 live answers and includes 30+ signals and ready-to-publish schema and llms.txt. 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.