Question 1

What is AI-visibility measurement?

Accepted Answer

It measures whether AI answer engines can reach, read and recommend your business, and how often they actually name you when someone asks about your category — or, for a local service business, who to hire in your area. Perceply reports which engines a given measurement covered rather than implying every engine is included.

Question 2

Why does a single AI answer not tell you whether you are visible?

Accepted Answer

Because an answer is a random draw, not a fact. The same prompt on the same model returns different brands across runs, so a one-shot check can report "not cited" and "cited" for the same brand minutes apart. Perceply asks each engine the same question many times and reports a proportion with a confidence interval.

Question 3

How long does the free scan take?

Accepted Answer

About twenty seconds. It fetches only public pages and requires no signup.

Question 4

What does the free scan check?

Accepted Answer

Whether AI crawlers are permitted and able to read your homepage, whether your content is server-rendered or hidden behind JavaScript, and your llms.txt, sitemap, structured data and technical-SEO essentials such as title, meta description, canonical tag and mobile viewport.

Question 5

Can it prove that a change improved your AI visibility?

Accepted Answer

Only with a control. Engines drift on their own, so a before-and-after difference cannot be credited to your work by itself. Measurements are compared across test and control prompts, and where the underlying assumption has not been tested, the result says so rather than presenting the number as proof.

Question 6

What will it not tell you?

Accepted Answer

Anything it could not actually measure. A check that cannot obtain real data is reported as skipped with a reason rather than a guessed pass or fail, and a result too small to support a claim is marked provisional with the sample size it would need.

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