Find out what ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude actually recommend instead of you. Get your AI visibility score across 7 platforms. Then decide how you want to improve it.
Your website gets traffic from Google. Your phone rings from referrals. But when a prospect asks Claude or Perplexity to find a solution in your category, you are probably not in the results. Your competitor is.
You don't know what queries your buyers are actually asking AI. You don't know which platforms they use. And you don't know which competitors AI is recommending instead of you.
That's not a content problem or an SEO problem. It's a structural problem. Your digital presence was built for a world where humans did the searching. AI systems read signals differently, weight evidence differently, and recommend based on criteria most businesses have never optimized for.
The first brand AI mentions frequently becomes the shortlist, even when the buyer never clicks a single link.
The Root Competitive AI Audit runs real buyer personas through blind simulations across seven AI platforms. We don't guess what AI says about your business. We test it the same way your buyers do.
We construct actual buyer personas for your industry and business type, based on behavioral research rather than assumptions. The personas drive the simulation, not generic keyword lists.
We generate the specific search queries those personas use when looking for what you offer. The queries are what real buyers type, not what you'd want them to type.
We run those queries across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Meta AI, and Grok, without any of the platforms knowing which brand is being evaluated.
A scored measurement of how discoverable you are across all seven platforms. Not a vanity metric. A quality-weighted score that reflects recommendation rank and depth of coverage.
See which competitors AI recommends instead of you, how often, and on which platforms. Understand the pattern. Know the gap. Know exactly who is winning the recommendation you are losing.
Specific, actionable steps to improve your visibility, ranked by impact. Not generic advice. Steps tied directly to what the simulation revealed about your specific gaps.
A regional accounting firm with 85 people and $12M in annual revenue knew they won two out of three enterprise contract bids. What they didn't know was that AI had already decided against them before their sales team ever got a meeting request.
The firm had built their practice around technical depth: 40 years in the market, certifications, regulatory expertise. Their website said as much. When they commissioned the Root Competitive AI Audit, they expected to score high on enterprise queries. Instead, they received a visibility score of 48%.
The simulation ran 51 buyer queries across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude, all sourced from actual buyer behavior. ChatGPT mentioned them in 28 queries. Perplexity, 14. Claude, 9. Gemini, 7. But when buyers searched "accounting for PE-backed rollups" or "regulatory reporting for financial sponsors," AI recommended two competitors in the top position 40% of the time. Those competitors barely had a larger client base. They had better positioning on the specific problems PE firms actually care about.
The firm's messaging problem wasn't depth. It was specificity. Their homepage spoke to accountants. Buyers spoke in deal terms.
They spent the next 60 days rewriting their narrative. New case studies keyed to three specific buyer scenarios: growth equity acquisitions, debt restructuring, and cross-border holding structures. They rebuilt service pages to mirror the language the simulation revealed. Their sales team got new discovery call frameworks based on the actual buyer queries from the report.
Three months in, deals from target segments averaged 30% higher ACV. More concretely, they stopped losing to commodity positioning. They could see, for the first time, what AI was saying about them. It looked nothing like what they thought.
Most firms assume their competition is other firms in their category. But for buyers using AI during vendor discovery, the competition is whatever narrative wins in a model's recommendation. What does your market hear before your phone ever rings?
If your buyers spend time in ChatGPT or Perplexity before calling you, this report was built for your situation. The businesses where AI-driven discovery matters most are research-intensive, high-consideration categories where the buyer evaluates options before ever making contact.
Three ways to work with Root on AI visibility. Most buyers start with the Snapshot Audit, then move into Active Optimization once they see their score and want to track whether their improvements are working.
A single simulation run delivered as a report. Full results, competitor matrix, visibility score across all seven platforms, and priority recommendations. Order it, get the results, decide what to do next.
Monthly re-runs with automated improvement suggestions generated from score movement between runs. Keeps your competitive picture fresh and tells you whether your investments are paying off.
Root holds your hand through implementation. We interpret the findings, build the roadmap with your team, and work directly on execution: content, structured data, authority building, and ongoing optimization.
The Snapshot shows you where you stand. If your score is lower than expected, or if competitors are consistently ahead, you'll want to know whether your improvements are working. That's when Active Optimization makes sense.
Active Optimization works best when your team has capacity to act on what it surfaces. If you don't have the internal bandwidth to build content, deploy structured data, or execute the strategy, Managed Consulting closes that gap. Root does the work. You see the results.
Typically 5–7 business days from purchase. We run multiple blind simulations across seven platforms using real buyer personas, so the timeline reflects the work involved. You'll receive an email when your report is ready.
The report works for any business with a defined buyer persona and a searchable service or product. Whether you're a 2-person firm or a 200-person company, if AI buyers are looking for what you offer, this report will show you how you appear across the platforms they're using, or why you don't.
No. We only need your business details and the industry or category you operate in. The simulations run blind. We're not analyzing your site or your customer base. We're testing how AI recommends you to realistic buyers.
That's valuable information. It tells you the full scope of the problem. The recommendations in your report will prioritize the highest-impact steps to improve your appearance across the platforms where your buyers are searching. Most businesses close significant visibility gaps within 60–90 days once they understand the specific queries and platforms that matter most for their category.
Yes. The report is yours. Share it with your marketing team, your agency, or your leadership. No restrictions on internal distribution.
Start with a Snapshot Audit. Know where you stand before your next competitor does.