AI shortlist visibility
Your buyers are asking AI who to shortlist.
We check whether you are in the answer.
ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot are building vendor shortlists for your buyers. Buyer Mining shows whether your business appears, who appears instead, which sources the models trust, and what to fix.
The path
One path, four steps. Each one is done for you, and you can stop after any of them.
Free tools
Whether AI can read your site, who it names when a buyer asks, whether it would quote one page, you next to a rival, what your platform lets you fix, and what your buyers ask. Plus a proof wall with the dates on.
How buyers find you has changed
How buyers used to find you
A search returned ten blue links, and your site could earn the click with a good page and a decent ranking.
How they find you now
One question to an AI returns a shortlist of three to five names, and most buyers stop there. The AI never shows its work unless you ask it the way we do.
Retrieved → Cited → Trusted
The three questions every answer engine asks about you. There is no black-box score, just a model you can explain to your business partner.
The first question is whether the AI can fetch and read your pages at all. Many hosts block AI crawlers without telling you. The refusal is a 403 in your CDN's security log, which is not a place anyone looks, so we check.
The second question is whether it uses you as a source when it answers your buyers' questions, or your competitors.
The third question is whether the third-party sources the AI already believes (directories, reviews, articles) vouch for you.
The AI Shortlist Visibility Snapshot
~25 real buyer questions · Claude and Perplexity by API, five runs each · a ChatGPT spot-check by hand · competitor answer surface · citation/source map · top-10 prioritized fixes · 30-minute readout.
one-time · one domain · beta pricing
The one case we have so far
Who does the work
One senior analyst, end to end
Your Snapshot is run by one analyst with 15+ years of direct and secondary market research and advanced training in SEO and answer-engine optimization. The same person who runs the analysis writes the report and takes your readout call. There are no account managers and no dashboard to work out on your own.
How to tell a real vendor from the spam
This field is full of hype, so we publish our whole method, we never guarantee placement (nobody honestly can), and we quantify the noise instead of hiding it. Here's how to tell who's real, including the questions to ask us.
Common questions
How much does it cost?
The Snapshot is $750, one-time, fixed scope. That is the whole price for one website at one domain. The AI Readability Check is free. If you want us to implement the fixes afterward, that is the Fix Sprint at $2,500, and your Snapshot fee credits 100% toward it for 60 days, so you would pay $1,750.
Can you guarantee I'll show up in ChatGPT?
No, and nobody honest can. AI answers are probabilistic and they change constantly. What we can do is measure where you stand, identify why competitors appear instead of you, and fix the things that reliably influence the answer. Our whole method is published on the Method page.
How is this different from the $29/month monitoring tools?
Those tools are dashboards. You pick the prompts, you interpret the charts, and you figure out the fixes. We do the opposite. A person builds the question set from your actual buyers, reads every answer, and hands you a fix list in priority order. A dashboard reports the score. The Snapshot tells you what to change first.
What happens after the Snapshot?
Most clients take the fix list and do the work themselves, because it is written so they can. If you want it done for you, the Fix Sprint implements the top ten for $2,500, and your Snapshot fee credits 100% toward it for 60 days. A Re-Snapshot, a Citation Builder for ongoing content, and monthly monitoring all exist as follow-on work, but none of them has a published price yet, because we have not run enough of them to quote one honestly. Ask and we will price your case in writing.
I have more than one website. Does the price cover all of them?
No. Every price on this site is for one website at one domain. That includes its www and non-www forms and any old domains that only redirect to it. A second brand site, a second country site, or a separate site on a subdomain, like a shop or a blog built on its own platform, is a second domain and is priced separately. If you have several, tell us on the call. We quote the set in writing, and the per-site price comes down as the count goes up.