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When Buyers Ask AI,

Will Your Brand Be 

Part of the Answer?

The way buyers discover and evaluate companies is changing.

Increasingly, they’re turning to AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews to research solutions, compare vendors, and narrow their choices.

 

That creates a new set of questions for business and marketing leaders:

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Does your company show up when buyers ask relevant questions?

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How do AI engines describe your brand and offerings?

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Which competitors are being cited or recommended instead?

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Where are the biggest opportunities to improve your visibility?

Traditional search rankings don’t tell you the whole story.
You need to know what AI is actually telling your buyers.

The Complimentary AI Search Visibility Diagnostic gives you an executive-level view of how your organization appears across major AI answer engines—so you can understand where you stand before deciding where to invest.

 

What You'll Walk Away With

 A clearer view of your AI search visibility, including:

  • How your brand appears across major AI answer engines

  • How AI describes, compares, and recommends your company

  • Which competitors are earning visibility in relevant searches 

  • How ready your website and content are for AI discovery

  • Where visibility gaps or misinterpretations may exist
  •  The highest-value opportunities to explore next 

What's Included: 

Your complimentary Diagnostic combines AI answer-engine analysis, competitive context, and an executive-level technical review.

  • Benchmark your company against two AI-cited competitors
  • Review visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini
  • Identify which companies AI sees as your competitive set  
  • Test 6–8 category-relevant buying prompts
  • See how AI describes, compares, and recommends your brand
  • Add industry and buyer-journey context that automated tools alone can’t provide
  • Review bot accessibility, schema, rendering, and speed
  • Assess how readily AI engines can reach and interpret your content
  •  Identify questions and opportunities that warrant deeper investigation

Why It Works

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More Than a Tool Score
 Automated graders can provide useful signals. Your Diagnostic adds competitive, buyer, industry, and business context to help you understand what those signals actually mean. 
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 Built Around Real Buyer Questions 
 We look beyond your website to test how major AI engines respond to the kinds of questions buyers may ask when researching your category. 
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 Strategy-led 
 An experienced Chief Outsiders CMO helps interpret what we find, identify the questions that matter, and determine where deeper analysis could create value.

Who It's For

CEOs and business leaders who want to understand how changing AI search behavior could affect visibility and demand

CEOs and business leaders who want to understand how changing AI search behavior could affect visibility and demand. 

Marketing leaders looking to improve their company’s presence and share of voice in AI-generated answers.

Marketing leaders looking to improve their company’s presence and share of voice in AI-generated answers.

 

Companies seeing changes in web traffic or inbound leads and looking for greater insight into how buyers are discovering solutions.

Companies seeing changes in web traffic or inbound leads and looking for greater insight into how buyers are discovering solutions.

 

Private equity teams evaluating how a portfolio company—or potential investment—shows up when buyers turn to AI.

Private equity teams evaluating how a portfolio company—or potential investment—shows up when buyers turn to AI.

 

How it Works

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We Conduct Your Complimentary Diagnostic

We analyze how your company shows up across major AI answer engines, benchmark your visibility against AI-cited competitors, and identify potential gaps and opportunities.

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We Review the Findings With You

In a complimentary session, we’ll walk you through what we found, put the results in context, and help you understand what they could mean for your business.

That’s it. No commitment required.

Ready to Go Deeper? We Can Help With That, Too.

 Your Diagnostic may uncover opportunities that warrant a closer look. If you decide you want to act on them, Chief Outsiders can help you move from insight to action 

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Targeted Assessment & Roadmap

Go deeper in the areas that matter most across three pillars: Foundational SEO & AEO Technical, Brand Analysis, and Content.

Output: A prioritized roadmap for improving AI search visibility.

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Execute & Track

Put priority initiatives into action and measure progress against the same competitive baseline over time.

Output: Ongoing visibility into progress and opportunities.

 

The Targeted Assessment & Roadmap and Execute & Track are paid engagements, scoped based on your priorities and needs.

 

Know Where You Stand Before You Invest 

AI search is changing how buyers discover and evaluate companies.
 
Your first step doesn’t have to be a major technology investment, a new content program, or another AI tool.
 
Start by understanding what AI is already telling your buyers about you.
 
 

 Be Visible. Be cited. Be Recommended. 

Get your Complimentary AI Search Visibility Diagnostic.