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# How to check AI search visibility

To check AI search visibility, choose real customer questions, run them on the AI surfaces that matter, record each answer and its context, note business and competitor mentions, and repeat the same checks later. One answer is an observation, not a universal ranking.

## A five-step AI visibility check

- Choose questions that match a real buying decision, such as finding a category, service, or trusted provider.
- Choose the Google and AI surfaces that your customers are likely to use.
- Record the exact question, answer, citations, provider, model, location, and time.
- Mark whether the business appeared, which competitors appeared, and which sources were cited.
- Repeat an equivalent check later and compare only results with the same important context.

## What should an AI visibility report record?

| Field | Why it matters |
| --- | --- |
| Question | Small wording changes can produce different answers. |
| Surface and model | ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity do not use one shared answer. |
| Market and time | Location and collection time can change what appears. |
| Mentions and competitors | This shows who appeared in the observed answer. |
| Citations | Sources show which pages supported the answer when citations were available. |
| Missing or failed state | A failed check is not the same as a business not appearing. |

## What does one AI answer prove?

One answer proves what that surface returned for one question in one recorded context. It does not prove that every customer saw the same answer. Use several relevant questions and repeat equivalent checks to find patterns without hiding normal variation.

## Primary sources

- [Google: AI features and your website](https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/ai-features): Google explains eligibility, crawlability, internal links, visible text, and measurement for AI features in Search.
- [OpenAI: Publishers and Developers FAQ](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/12627856-publishers-and-developers-faq): OpenAI explains how public sites can appear in ChatGPT search and how OAI-SearchBot access affects summaries and citations.

## Related Ask Proof Resources

- [AI Search Visibility Monitoring | Use Ask Proof](https://useaskproof.com/ai-search-visibility-monitoring): Monitor what AI search systems tell customers about a business, preserve citations and evidence, and compare like-for-like observations.
- [AI Search Visibility Basics | Use Ask Proof Guide](https://useaskproof.com/guides/ai-search-visibility-basics): Understand AI search visibility through real buyer questions, observed answers, evidence, and market context.
- [Ask Proof Methodology](https://useaskproof.com/methodology): Learn how Ask Proof defines buyer queries, surfaces, observations, evidence, mentions, citations, missing states, and like-for-like comparisons.

## More Ask Proof Resources

See the [Ask Proof Markdown sitemap](https://useaskproof.com/sitemap.md) for all available public resources.