RankMachine
// Free tool · AI visibility

When customers ask AI, do they hear about you?

We take the real questions your customers type into AI assistants, run them through live AI search, and show you whether you got cited — who got cited instead — and how to fix it.

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// How we measure it

A real test, not a guess.

Most "AI visibility" tools just lecture you. This one actually asks the questions and checks the answers.

01

Read your site

We figure out what you do and the exact questions your customers would ask an AI assistant to find a business like yours.

02

Ask live AI search

We run those questions through an AI engine that searches the live web and cites its sources — the way ChatGPT and Perplexity do.

03

Check who shows up

We see if you were cited or named — and which competitors were cited instead. That gap is your opportunity.

// The basics

AI visibility, AEO & GEO — in plain words.

Definition

What is AI visibility?

AI visibility is whether your business gets named or cited when people ask an AI assistant — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Google's AI Overviews — a question your product or service answers. If the assistant recommends competitors and never mentions you, you have low AI visibility, even if you rank well on Google.

Definition

What is AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)?

AEO is the practice of getting your content cited inside AI-generated answers. It's the AI-era counterpart to SEO: instead of optimizing only to appear in a list of blue links, you optimize to be the source an answer engine quotes. GEO — Generative Engine Optimization — means the same thing.

How-to

How do you improve AI visibility?

Be the clearest, best-sourced answer to the questions your customers ask. In practice: state plainly what you do and who for, structure pages around real customer questions, back claims with specifics and sources, add FAQ and schema markup, and keep publishing on the topics buyers search. RankMachine builds exactly this kind of content — and this free check shows you where you stand today.

// Questions

Good to know.

Why does AI visibility matter?
More and more buying decisions start with "ask the AI" instead of a Google search. If ChatGPT and Perplexity never mention you, you're invisible at the exact moment a customer is choosing — and your competitors aren't.
Is this really live?
Yes. Each check runs your customers' questions through a live-web AI search engine in real time and reads the actual citations and answer. It's a measurement, not a canned report.
What do I do with a low score?
A low score means AI engines can't find or trust your pages for those questions. The fix is clear, well-structured, well-sourced content on the topics your customers ask about — which is exactly what RankMachine builds and publishes.