AI Visibility Checker
The DirJournal AI Visibility Checker is an Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) diagnostic tool that assesses how prominently a brand or entity is referenced by generative AI models.
Used for rate limiting only. One scan per 7 days.
How it works
Tell us your business
Name, category, and where you compete. That's it.
We ask AI what your customers ask
15 real buyer queries across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Gemini.
See exactly who AI recommends
Your name, your competitors, and the sources AI trusts.
What you get
AI Visibility Score from 0–100
Exact prompts and AI responses (no black box)
Competitor brands being recommended instead of you
Sources AI engines trust most
A clear picture of why you are — or aren't — being cited
What is Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?
Traditional SEO ranks links — the goal is to be the best-positioned blue link on a search results page.
Answer Engine Optimization is different. AEO ensures a brand is the factual, primary answer generated by AI models. There are no ten blue links to climb — there is one synthesized answer, and you are either named in it or you are invisible.
Measuring Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)
- 1Define your core brand entity. Pin down the exact name, category, and locale you want the engine to associate with you — ambiguous entities fragment across model embeddings.
- 2Scan for brand mentions within AI outputs. Run category-defining prompts across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews and capture whether your entity is named, named accurately, or absent.
- 3Identify knowledge graph gaps to improve your entity authority. Where the engines miss you, trace which third-party sources they relied on instead, then build the citations and structured-data signals needed to close that gap.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is an AI visibility checker?
An AI visibility checker queries generative engines (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews) with category-defining prompts and measures whether your brand surfaces in the answer. It reports which queries name you, which name competitors, and which name no one at all — so you can see, query by query, where your entity is missing from the model's knowledge graph.
How do I improve my Answer Engine Optimization (AEO)?
Publish disambiguated entity facts — schema.org markup (Organization, Person, Product), consistent NAP across the web, citations on authoritative third-party sites, and machine-readable about/contact pages. AEO improves when the answer engine can verify the same fact about your brand from multiple independent sources; one strong page won't move the needle alone.