From the team at AI True Score
Practical guides on getting found, and named, when your customers ask AI who to call. Written for the people who run the business.
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AI-ready means ChatGPT and other AI engines can read, understand and trust your site enough to recommend you. Three tests tell you if yours is.
Two free ways to find out whether ChatGPT and other AI engines recommend your business: a ten-minute check by hand, and a free scan that does it for you.
A step-by-step playbook to get your business named when buyers ask ChatGPT and other AI tools for a recommendation, with a check and a fix for every step.
When AI names your competitors instead of you, it usually comes down to five fixable reasons. What they are, how to check each one, and what to fix first.
Getting recommended by AI is two jobs: AI has to find and read you, then choose to name you. How the two halves fit, and why fixing one isn't enough.
A Companion is a small second site, built from your report and made for AI to read, beside the website you already have. What it is and who it suits.
Your Google Business Profile is a major input for AI answers, especially Google's, but not the whole story. How AI uses it and what to get right.
Google AI Overviews are the AI-written answers at the top of Google's results. What they are, why they cut clicks, and how a business gets named in one.
AI share of voice is the percentage of AI answers that mention your brand across a set of prompts. What it measures, and why being named matters more.
An answer engine is an AI that replies to a question with a written answer instead of a list of links. What that means, which tools count, and why it matters.
Zero-click search is when someone gets their answer on the results page and never clicks a website. What it is, how common it is, and what it means for you.
AI crawlers are the bots that read your website for AI engines. Block them and AI can't name you. What each one is and how to let them in, in plain English.
llms.txt is a proposed file for telling AI about your website. As of 2026 it does almost nothing to get you named. Why, and what to do instead.
AI visibility is whether ChatGPT and other AI engines name your business when buyers ask for a recommendation. What it means and how to check yours.
GEO, generative engine optimization, is making your business easy for AI that writes answers to understand and name. What it means and how it differs from SEO.
Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) makes your business easy for AI engines to find, understand, and recommend. A plain-English guide for local service owners.
AIFSO is AI True Score's proprietary framework for getting AI to name your business: measure what AI says about you and your rivals, find the gap, fix it.
AI True Score vs hiring an AEO agency: a one-time report and fixes, or an ongoing monthly retainer. What each costs, what you get and when each is right.
AI True Score vs HubSpot's free AEO Grader: both start free, then split into a one-time report or a monthly tracker. Price, what you get, who it suits.
AI True Score vs Otterly.AI: a one-time report with a fix plan, or a monthly dashboard you log into. Price, what you get and who each one suits.
AI True Score vs the Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit: a one-time report with a fix plan, or a per-domain monthly dashboard. Price, what you get, who it suits.
AI visibility tools for local service businesses in 2026, compared on price, what you get and who each suits: Otterly, HubSpot, Semrush, Profound and more.
Google ranked our two-day-old site #1 for our own name — but Perplexity knew us while Google's AI Overview named other companies. Why engines disagree.
No guides match that — even the AI is stumped. Try a different word, or .
One scan, in plain English: where you already show up, where your competitors do instead, and what it takes to change that.
Be the answer.