Free AI visibility checker: does AI recommend your business?
An AI visibility checker tells you whether AI tools like ChatGPT and Gemini recommend your business when customers ask. Each answer names only a few businesses. Sophyx checks yours for free, shows who is named instead, and tells you what to fix first.
- Your AI visibility score in minutes, free
- The competitors AI recommends instead of you
- What to fix first
Thirty prompts, re-checked every two weeks, free forever on the free plan. No card.
Your AI visibility score
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Below average for your category
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When AI recommends competitors instead of you
AI names the businesses it can describe with confidence, and those are not always the top Google results. Sophyx shows your share of AI answers and flags when a competitor takes a question you used to win.
Competitor recommendations
Times named in AI answers
Before
Question: physio open on Saturdays
- Harbour Physio
- Northline Physiotherapy
- Bayview Sports Clinic
After
Northline Physiotherapy took first place
- Northline Physiotherapy
- Bayview Sports Clinic
- Harbour Physio
What AI visibility tools actually measure
An AI visibility tool checks whether AI includes your business in its answers. SEO tools track where your pages rank. AI visibility tools track whether AI says your name.
Answer checks
Which AI answers mention you, and which leave you out.
Competitors
Who AI recommends instead of you, and how often.
Missing answers
Topics where you should appear but don't.
Trends
How your visibility changes from one check to the next.
Results by topic
Where you are strong and weak, topic by topic.
What to fix
The changes that matter most, in order.
Why high rankings don't guarantee AI visibility
AI does not copy Google's rankings. It reads many sources and names the businesses it can sum up with confidence. You can rank first and still be left out of the answer.
Search results
- 1. Glebe Plumbing (your page)
- 2. Kingsway Plumbing
- 3. Ottawa's 10 best plumbers (2026)
- 4. Oakridge Drain Co.
- 5. Plumbing reviews near Bank St
The customer picks from the list
AI answer
- Kingsway Plumbing
- Oakridge Drain Co.
The customer may never click, and you are not named
Why traditional SEO tools can't check AI visibility
SEO platforms are built around rankings, backlinks and search impressions. The AI features most have added measure how AI Overviews affect those rankings. That is useful, but it does not tell you whether an AI answer named your business at all.
What SEO tools can't do
- Read AI answers
- Find your name inside an AI answer
- Track which competitors AI recommends
- Find topics where AI leaves you out
- Track AI visibility over time
- Tell you what to fix for AI
What Sophyx does
- Reads real AI answers
- Finds your name and your competitors' names
- Tracks your share of recommendations
- Finds topic gaps
- Re-checks every two weeks
- Writes the fixes, most important first
AI visibility tools compared: Sophyx vs SEO platforms
SEO platforms are good at rankings and backlinks. Social listening reads public posts, and AI chats are private, so it has nothing to read. Testing questions by hand works once but is hard to repeat. Comparing tools built for AI visibility instead? See the Profound, Searchable and SearchAtlas comparison.
| Feature | SEO platforms | Social listening | Testing by hand | Sophyx |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reads AI answers | No | No | Now and then | Yes, on a schedule |
| Finds your name in AI answers | No | No | One-off | Yes, every check |
| Competitors in AI answers | No | No | By hand | Yes |
| Finds questions you're missing | No | No | No | Yes |
| Results by topic | No | No | No | Yes |
| Trend tracking | SEO only | Social only | No | Yes, AI answers |
| What to fix | Generic SEO | No | No | Yes, in order |
| Webpage rankings | Yes | No | No | Partial |
| Backlink data | Yes | No | No | No |
| Time to first results | Minutes (SEO) | Hours | Manual effort | Minutes (AI) |
What to look for in an AI visibility checker
Pick a checker that reads real AI answers and explains its score.
Essential checklist
- Reads real AI answers, not rankings
- Finds your name inside each answer
- Tracks competitors and how often they are named
- Finds the questions where you are missing
- Shows change over weeks and months
- Tells you what to fix, in order
- Covers more than one AI tool, such as ChatGPT and Gemini
- Works without hiring an agency
Warning signs
- Says "AI visibility" but only shows rankings
- Can't show you the actual answers
- Checks only one AI tool
- Relies on you testing questions by hand
- A score with no reasons behind it
- No competitor tracking in AI answers
- No history to compare against
- An SEO tool with an AI add-on
Who uses AI visibility tools?
Agencies and SEO teams
Report AI visibility next to SEO, show clients the gap between rankings and AI answers, and plan the fixes.
Marketing leads
See whether AI answers help or hurt your pipeline, and where competitors are winning.
Business owners
Find out whether AI recommends you or a competitor, and what it gets wrong about you.
After the check: fixing what AI gets wrong
Checking what AI says about you is the easy part. Cloudflare has given a free score away since April 2026, so we give ours away too. Thirty prompts, re-checked every two weeks, free forever on the free plan. No card.
Getting into the answer means fixing what AI reads about you. Sophyx writes the corrections, labels your pages so machines can read them, and publishes the changes on your own website. It can also let an assistant book a customer for you, straight from the answer.
About 30 minutes to set up and about an hour a month to run. You approve every draft. Nothing goes live without your yes.
Owners, without hiring anyone
Win back the customers AI was sending to someone else, without adding staff.
Agencies, without new overhead
Offer it to every client under your own brand, with white-label reports and a weekly working session with our technical team.
New to this? Start with what AI visibility is and how it is measured.
AI visibility checker FAQ
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