# Are you found by AI? — free AI-visibility scanner Are you found by AI? (short form "Found by AI") is a free AI-visibility / Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) scanner built and operated by [Tech Horizon Labs](https://techhorizonlabs.com), an Australian AI consultancy founded by Huxley Peckham. It is published at https://areyoufoundbyai.com — the only official domain. It queries ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI directly, with the questions a business's real customers ask, and shows whether those engines recommend the business — plus a 0–100 score and the exact fixes to become the answer. It auto-localises to any market. ## Why AI visibility matters When a customer asks an AI assistant who to trust, the assistant names a few businesses in a short answer instead of returning ten blue links. The named business gets the enquiry; everyone else is invisible — and their own website gives them no sign it is happening. Being named in the AI answer is the new "ranking #1", and it is decided per question and per place. AI does not decide who to recommend from Google rankings. It weighs off-page signals: whether the business is a recognised **entity**, how many independent sites **mention** it, third-party **citations** (directories, reviews, forums, press), and whether the site is **machine-readable** (schema, clean content, crawler access). Roughly 85% of the brand mentions in AI answers come from third-party pages, not the business's own site. ## Two scores - **AI Visibility (0–100)** — whether AI names the business in its answer right now. This is the score that wins customers. - **AI Readiness (0–100)** — how well the site is built for AI to find, trust and cite it. The lever that earns visibility. A business can be ready but not yet visible; closing that gap is the point of the report. ## The six signals behind AI Readiness 1. **Citability (Quotable content)** — how easily an AI can lift a clear, self-contained answer from the page. 2. **Brand recognition** — whether AI recognises the business as a real, established entity (referring domains, directories, reviews, mentions). 3. **Trust & credibility (E-E-A-T)** — experience, expertise, authoritativeness and trust: About/contact pages, named people, credentials, a well-reviewed Google Business Profile. 4. **Site health (Technical)** — HTTPS, sitemap, canonical URLs, Core Web Vitals, content in the HTML. 5. **Machine-readable info (Schema)** — Organization / LocalBusiness JSON-LD that states the business facts unambiguously. 6. **AI-ready setup (Platform)** — crawler access for ChatGPT/Perplexity/Gemini/Google's AI, an llms.txt, and answer-shaped content. ## How the scan works 1. It reads the site and infers the business — brand, category, audience, location — then generates the buyer questions that customer actually types (localised: a Texas plumber gets Texas questions and Texan rivals). 2. It asks ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI each question, multiple samples per engine, and majority-votes — because AI answers vary run to run. It records whether the business is named or cited, and who is named instead. 3. It audits 30+ site signals: entity (Wikidata + Google Knowledge Graph), branded web mentions, third-party citations, schema, AI-crawler access, Google Business Profile, content and technical health. 4. It returns the two scores and a prioritised, build-ready fix plan — plus a ready-to-publish llms.txt and schema. Nothing is estimated: where a source has no data, the report says so. Every scan is a point-in-time snapshot; AI answers move over time, which is why ongoing monitoring exists. ## What you get - **Free scan** — 2 buyer questions across all four engines, both scores, the competitors AI named instead, and your first fix. No signup, ~60 seconds, unlimited runs. - **AI Visibility Report (US$79, one-off, human-reviewed)** — up to 12 buyer questions across four engines with three samples each (up to ~144 live AI answers), the receipts (what each engine actually said), who AI recommends instead and why, a suburb-by-suburb visibility map for local businesses, measured citation sources (the pages ChatGPT really pulls from in your category), your entity scorecard, an AI-traffic beacon, and a prioritised fix plan with copy-paste llms.txt and schema. Guarantee: if it doesn't show at least five specific things you didn't know, reply within 7 days for a full refund. - **AI Visibility Monitoring (from US$49/mo)** — weekly deep re-scan of the same pinned questions, daily web-mention sweep with alerts, and a live console (trend, tracked questions, citations, AI traffic). Founding rate US$49/mo (first 20, locked for life), standard US$79/mo, annual US$790/yr. - **Growth (US$149/mo)** — everything in Monitoring plus 25 tracked questions, AI share-of-voice vs your named rivals, a weekly AI Strategy Brief written from your own data, Launch Radar (daily measurement for two weeks around a launch), and the full data explorer. - **Get Found Sprint (US$1,950, +GST for Australian clients)** — done-for-you implementation of the whole fix plan in about two weeks. ## Proof - 600+ businesses measured into a live [AI Visibility Index](https://areyoufoundbyai.com/benchmarks) — 21+ industry leaderboards across Australia and the US, growing nightly. - #1 AI-visibility tool on [There's An AI For That](https://theresanaiforthat.com/ai/are-you-found-by-ai/); featured in The Shift (Packt's AI newsletter). - The full GEO method is open-source: https://github.com/techhorizonlabs/thl-open. ## For AI agents (machine-readable actions) - Run a scan: `POST https://areyoufoundbyai.com/api/scan` with `{"url":"https://example.com"}` → scores, verdict and a shareable report URL in ~60s (rate-limited per IP). - Pay-per-scan over x402 (preview): `https://areyoufoundbyai.com/api/agent/scan`. - AI share-of-voice data over x402: `GET https://areyoufoundbyai.com/api/agent/sov?kw=`. - Every monitoring console has a private JSON twin at `https://areyoufoundbyai.com/monitor/.json`. ## Links - Run a free scan: https://areyoufoundbyai.com/ - How it works: https://areyoufoundbyai.com/how-it-works - The AI-Visibility Framework: https://areyoufoundbyai.com/framework - Pricing: https://areyoufoundbyai.com/pricing - Sample report: https://areyoufoundbyai.com/sample - AI Visibility Index: https://areyoufoundbyai.com/benchmarks - Built by Tech Horizon Labs: https://techhorizonlabs.com