Where AI gets its answers
The sources AI cites for Hardware
When a customer asks ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google's AI for a hardware, the answer is built from a handful of sources. Get mentioned on these and you become one of the names it gives. Ignore them and no amount of on-page SEO gets you into the answer.
Measured from real Google AI answers to hardware questions asked in Australia, DataForSEO LLM-mentions. The bar is how often each domain is cited in those answers.
How to use this
- Claim and complete your profile on the directories and review sites at the top, that's where AI reads about hardware businesses.
- Earn a mention in the press, associations and community threads it cites, one reference-grade citation beats any on-page tweak.
- Run a free scan to see which of these already cite you, which name a competitor instead, and the exact gap to close.
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Method. Found by AI asks ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google's AI the questions real buyers ask for each category, then measures which businesses the engines actually name. Scores are 0–100 point-in-time measurements; the index re-scans and grows automatically. Businesses listed here were selected and measured by us from public directories,
scan your own site free to see where you'd rank. Queries and methodology are open:
github.com/techhorizonlabs.