PROPRIETARY MEASUREMENT MODEL

THE AEO VISIBILITY INDEX

We measure what you are — not what a tool thinks you should be. AI is changing how buyers discover vendors.

Most companies don't know if they're showing up.

 

 

113%

Average YoY growth in AI traffic in supply chain

70%+

of AI-driven sessions sourced from ChatGPT alone

~25%

of LLM citations attributable to earned editorial sources

WHY AEO IS HARD RIGHT NOW

THE RULES CHANGED.

Buyers are no longer searching. They're asking. Full questions in natural language, inside ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. Most brands don't know if they have a seat at that table.

 

The same prompt returns different answers across models, sessions, users, and geographies. Any single measurement is a sample, not a census. Snapshot scores are directional signals, not rankings.

Buyers see your brand inside an AI Overview and never visit your site. Your expertise gets cited, the buyer forms an opinion — and none of it shows up in GA4 as a session.

Ahrefs Brand Radar, HubSpot AEO, Semrush, Peec — each covers a subset of prompts and models. Real visibility requires judgment, industry context, and triangulation across sources.

 

GSC data from 11 LC clients shows average ranking position improved for every client — yet clicks declined for 8 of 11. Organic declines of 20–35% are common even among best-in-class SEO programs.

3Pillars.
100 Points.

A proprietary framework that sits on top of tools and interprets what they're collectively telling you. Not a dashboard — a discipline.

40 POINTS
Visibility
Are AI systems citing you where your ICP looks?
  • Ahrefs Brand Radar — AI citation share & mention volume
  • Globe Newswire data — earned reach & coverage
  • Source-domain share vs. named competitors
  • ICP overlay — cited where buyers actually read?
30 POINTS

Readiness

Is your site earning the right to be cited?

  • GSC zero-click data — impressions without visits
  • Answer-format coverage on priority URLs
  • Structured data & crawlability integrity
  • Topical cluster depth from cited → converted
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30 POINTS

Impact

Is visibility driving real intent and pipeline?

  • Branded search lift — primary intent signal (GA4, GSC)
  • Secondary intent — non-branded topic queries
  • AI-referral sessions & assisted conversions
  • Pipeline + closed-won on AI-visible URLs (HubSpot)
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GET THE REPORT

KNOW WHERE

YOU STAND.

Get your AEO Visibility Scorecardand see how your brand is showing up — or not — when buyers ask AI who the leaders are.