Somebody is being recommended. Find out who.
This is the context layer for AI visibility. We measure what seven engines say about your market, which sources they trust, and who they recommend instead of you. Open it as a console, or plug your agents straight into the same context.
Two questions on two engines, free, about sixty seconds. No signup and no card. You see who the engines name as soon as the answers come back.
The whole instrument in one pass: who AI recommends instead of you, the reading layer in 3D, and your own agent working from the live measurement.
How an engine actually picks who to recommend.
One buyer question, put to an engine, exactly as it played out.
“refinance mortgage Robertson QLD”
... Key Refinancing Details & Local Contacts To secure the best deal in the Brisbane southside area, consider speaking with local experts who know the Robertson market:Robertson Mortgage Broking Local independent brokers based nearby who can analyze your current financials and run a refinancing calculation. Zest Mortgage Solutions Services the Robertson area with access to over 60 lenders to negotiate better rates and cashbacks. Mortgage Choice in Sunnybank A local Mortgage Choice Robertson broker who can evaluate variable/fixed packages and debt consolidation options.
It named Robertson Mortgage Broking. Across all seven engines, Pcmortgages was named 1 of 7 times.
The same question, put to every engine we measure. 1 of 7 named Pcmortgages, which is the number a buyer never sees.
The internet, as AI reads it.
The seven engines read these sources before they recommend anyone. The sites at the centre show up in almost every market. Get your business onto them and your answers move more than any change on your own site.
Get onto the places your market already reads and your answers move more than anything on your own site. Nobody else publishes this layer.
We are the layer underneath, not a button that asks ChatGPT.
A scanner asks a model a question and hands you a score. We keep the whole path instead, five layers joined on one business, 64 days deep and growing every night.
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The questionBuyer questions carrying real Google search demand, so a question is measured rather than imagined.14,953questions
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The answerWe ask all seven engines directly, several times each, and keep every reply word for word.20,474answers kept
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What it read firstThe searches an engine ran before it answered, and every source it cited. This is the layer nobody else publishes.247,23920,836 source domains
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The site, as a machine sees itOur own crawl: the rendered page, the schema, and a headless agent read of what an agent actually gets.1,411businesses crawled
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Whether it sent anyoneNew pages mentioning you, and the visitors the engines really sent, recorded by the site's own beacon.3,840mentions swept
Because we hold all five, you can ask what the engines read across a whole category, not just about one domain. The scoring and evals are open at github.com/techhorizonlabs/thl-open.
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Connect itOne line. Works in Claude, Cursor, or anything that speaks MCP.
claude mcp add --transport http found-by-ai https://areyoufoundbyai.com/mcp/demo -
Ask it something real“Which engines name us, who do they name instead, and what would you fix first?” It answers from the live measurement, not from what the model happens to remember.
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Read what comes backThe verbatim engine replies, the searches each engine ran first, the rivals named, and the ranked fixes. The full tool list →
One console. Free on your own domain, deeper when you pay.
Everyone else shows a demo account. This is the live console for paddockmap.com.au, one of our own sites, measured weekly exactly like a customer.
What anyone can see on their own domain in about a minute, without an account.The same instrument at full width. Every engine, every answer kept, and the fix list in order.The instrument left running, which is the only way to know whether anything you did worked.
Where paddockmap.com.au stands today. Readiness is our own HTML. Visibility only moves when other people's pages cite us, which is slower, and that is why the watch runs weekly.
what moved the site
the fix list, in order, in full- Publish honest comparison pages for the rivals AI names against you, in our analysis of 1,001 high-intent searches, two-thirds of "you vs rival" results and five of six "alternatives" results are won by a page the brand didn't write, and those pages are what AI reads when a buyer asks it to choose. An honest head-to-head page (including who should pick them) takes that moment back.
- Get onto the platforms already feeding your category's AI answers: Reddit, cited 46× in the answers we measured, real answers in your category's subreddits, from a real profile; YouTube, cited 85× in the answers we measured, a channel with a few plain answer videos and community posts. Each of these is a source the engines draw on in your market right now, and you have no verified presence there yet.
- Add direct quotations, a line from a named expert, founder or customer. Pages with quotations are cited markedly more often by AI assistants (~+40% visibility in the GEO study, arXiv:2311.09735).
Fixing it for you would mean living inside your stack. Instead the scan writes the artefact and names the places it belongs, so you can paste it, or hand it to your own agent and say do this.
- Paste this into the
<head>of your home page. It is the Organization JSON-LD this scan generated for paddockmap.com.au, with the sameAs links that tell every engine which profiles are really yours.{ "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Organization", "@id": "https://paddockmap.com.au/#organization", "name": "PaddockMap", "url": "https://paddockmap.com.au", "description": "PaddockMap, local food directory and farmers market finder.", "knowsAbout": "local food directory and farmers market finder", "sameAs": [ "https://www.facebook.com/paddockmap" ] } - Publish this at
/llms.txt. A plain-English summary an agent reads before it decides what you do.# PaddockMap > PaddockMap is a local food directory and farmers market finder. A national, community-powered map helping Australians find farm gates, farmers markets, butchers, bakeries, and local food producers near you. ## Key pages - [Home](https://paddockmap.com.au/): What PaddockMap does, who it serves, and how to get started. - [About](https://paddockmap.com.au/about): Who is behind PaddockMap, credentials, e … - Then go and get cited in these 3 places. Named from the answers in your own category, not a generic directory list.
- Australian Farmers Markets Association (AFMA) DirectoryAFMA is the peak body for farmers markets in Australia; AI cites official association registers as authoritative sources—get PaddockMap listed as a recommended resource on their…
- Organic Federation of Australia (OFA) / NASAA DirectoryAI assistants cite organic certification bodies and producer directories when recommending farm-direct platforms;
- Google Business Profile (PaddockMap entity + local listings)ChatGPT and Perplexity pull heavily from Google Business data; ensure PaddockMap has a verified Business Profile with rich description, and encourage farmers market / producer partners to…
Steps one and two are yours to paste in about ten minutes. Step three is the slow one, and it is the reason visibility moves weeks after readiness does.
Every one of these 63 cells holds the engine's answer, word for word. Click one.
This is our own console, this week. Green rose since the measure before, red fell. Every paying console opens on this, question by question. See the tools →
One line, and your own agent knows everything we measured.
There is no dashboard to learn. Point Claude, Cursor, or any agent at the connector and it reads the live measurement, then answers in your own words. This is a real exchange against our own numbers.
claude mcp add --transport http found-by-ai https://areyoufoundbyai.com/mcp/demono key on the demo · 16 tools →Start with the free scan. It is a real measurement.
The free check is the same instrument, run shallower. We hold nothing back to make it disappointing, and you never enter a card before you decide to pay.
Every tier is the same instrument: the readiness audit, the verbatim answers, the fix list in order. Monitoring keeps it running weekly, tracks which competitors AI names instead of you and how often, scans the web every day for new pages that mention you, counts the AI visitors landing on your site, and gives your agent tools to read all of it.
We have measured 3,700+ businesses, and 28% of the public index is named by no engine at all. Sceptical? Read a full sample report first. · Are you found by AI, for agents →
The short answers.
Is the scan really free?
Yes. No card, no signup, and your verdict with both scores shows in about sixty seconds. Fair use: up to five free scans per device per day.
Is there a guarantee?
Yes. The month-one human-reviewed report on Monitoring: at least five specific things you did not already know, or reply within seven days for a full refund. No forms, no hoops.
Is GST included?
Prices are in US dollars and exclude GST. Australian customers are charged 10% GST at checkout, so US$79/mo appears as US$86.90. Outside Australia you pay the listed price with no tax added.
Can I cancel Monitoring?
One click, from your console or any email, any time. No contracts, no exit forms. Your locked rate holds for as long as you are subscribed.
What is the AI-traffic beacon?
A one-line snippet you paste on your site that counts real visitors arriving from AI, with a live dashboard: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot and Gemini. No cookies, no personal data. Included with Monitoring.