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AI visibility, tested across real platforms

Google ranks pages.
AI chooses businesses.

Customers are starting to ask AI which businesses to choose. AEOFirst shows whether your business makes the answer — and what is stopping it if it doesn’t.

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✓No retainer ✓Real competitor checks ✓3 working days
AI recommendation check
“Who should I call for an emergency plumber in Birmingham?”
Illustrative recommendation view
Local competitor AStrong third-party signals
Recommended
Local competitor BConsistent listings + reviews
Recommended
Your businessGood website, weak external evidence
Not mentioned
The problem isn't always that you're worse. AI may simply have stronger evidence for somebody else.
3 platformstested as standard
5 signalsscored in every audit
01 · The shift

Search gave customers a list. AI gives them an answer.

Your business can now lose the customer before they ever reach your website.

Traditional search

Customer does the filtering.

01
Searches Google“best accountant near me”
02
Sees many businessesAds, map results and blue links.
03
Visits several websitesYou get a chance to persuade them.
04
ChoosesThe decision happens after discovery.
→
AI-assisted search

AI does part of the filtering first.

01
Asks a question“Which business should I choose for…”
02
AI gathers evidenceWebsites, sources, reviews and mentions.
03
A few names are surfacedSome businesses never enter the consideration set.
04
Customer chooses from the answerThe shortlist may already be formed.
If AI doesn't understand why you're a good choice, the customer may never reach your website.
The commercial riskInvisible before the click.

Good SEO and good reviews are not always enough if AI can understand and justify a competitor more easily.

02 · Make it real

Make it your business.

Pick your industry. See what the problem looks like in the real world.

Emergency plumber

You look strong. AI still picks someone else.

Your website looks fine. The wider web tells a less consistent story.

What AEOFirst asks: what evidence is AI seeing that makes those businesses easier to recommend than yours?
03 · Real evidence

The web disagrees. AI still has to choose.

Real examples from AEOFirst research.

QUERY CHECKED

“best solicitor for conveyancing in Birmingham”

Checked August 2026

REAL RESEARCH · NOT A MOCK AI ANSWER
What we found
One directory placed ESN Solicitors in its top three. Another ranked the same firm 13th out of 218.
ThreeBestRatedReviewSolicitors
Why it matters: the same business can look exceptional in one source and ordinary in another. AEO is partly about making the evidence around your business clearer, more consistent and easier to trust.
AEOFirst does not claim to know a secret ranking formula, and no honest provider can guarantee a particular AI recommendation. The product is a structured audit of what AI systems currently say, which competitors appear, and the public evidence that may be helping or hurting your visibility.
04 · What is AEO?

SEO gets you found. AEO helps you get chosen.

AEO builds on SEO. It strengthens the evidence AI can use to understand, trust and recommend your business.

SEO

Win the click.

✓
Be crawlable and relevant
Help search engines understand your pages.
✓
Rank for useful searches
Earn visibility in search results.
✓
Persuade after the click
Your page still does much of the selling.
AEO

Earn the recommendation.

✓
Be clearly understood as a business
Name, services, location and expertise must be unambiguous.
✓
Be corroborated beyond your own website
Independent evidence matters because anybody can praise themselves.
✓
Give AI a reason to choose you
Specific, consistent evidence makes a recommendation easier to justify.
AEO
Answer Engine OptimisationThe work that improves how clearly AI systems can discover, understand, corroborate and justify your business when answering a customer's question.
01

Does AI know you exist?

Can AI find you at all?

Discovery
02

Does AI know exactly who you are?

Are your name, services and locations consistent?

Identity
03

Does the wider web back you up?

Does independent evidence back you up?

Corroboration
04

Can AI understand your actual offer?

Can AI understand your offer without guessing?

Comprehension
05

Why should AI choose you?

Is there a clear reason to choose you?

Justification
The weakest-link view
Strong everywhere. Broken in one place.
Illustrative score
Discovery88
Identity82
Corroboration18
Comprehension71
Justification76
Simple average67/100
Weakest link18/100
06 · The product

This is what you actually get.

Where you appear. Who appears instead. Why. What to fix first.

AI Visibility Report · sample preview
Prepared for
[Your Business Name]
18/100 confidence — constrained by weak corroboration, not by your website.
3AI platforms tested
5confidence signals
3priority actions
Headline finding

Your strongest evidence currently comes from sources you control. Competitors are easier to corroborate across independent websites, making them easier to justify in a recommendation.

Live platform check
Are you actually being mentioned?
ChatGPTNot mentioned
ClaudeMentioned · 3rd
PerplexityNot mentioned
What this tells you

Visibility can vary by platform. The audit records the variation rather than pretending there is one universal AI ranking.

Confidence Chain
Where the evidence breaks
Discovery81
Identity74
Corroboration18
Comprehension69
Justification72
Action plan
The three things to do first
01
Strengthen independent corroborationPrioritise the two relevant sources customers already use to compare providers in your category.
02
Standardise your business identityRemove conflicting service and location descriptions across key listings.
03
Make your strongest proof explicitRewrite key service content so expertise and evidence can be extracted without inference.
07 · What happens after you buy

Buy once. Get the answer.

Send the basics. We investigate. You get the report.

01

Send your business details

Website, location and core services.

02

We test the AI landscape

We test AI answers, competitors and sources.

03

We diagnose the weak link

We find the weakest link in your evidence.

04

You get the action plan

Your findings and top three actions.

No. SEO still matters. AEO adds the signals AI needs to understand and recommend your business.
One prompt is not an audit. We compare platforms, competitors, sources and signals — then tell you what matters first.
No. AI answers change. We identify the evidence gaps you can actually improve.
Any business where customers compare providers before choosing — especially local and professional services.
No. The report is based on what customers and AI systems can see publicly.
No. £295 once. No contract. No retainer.
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