AI VISIBILITY AUDIT: WHO CHATGPT, GEMINI, PERPLEXITY AND GOOGLE’S AI NAME, WHY, AND WHAT TO FIX FIRST

ONE SCREENSHOT PROVES NOTHING. 100 buyer prompts start to.

You typed your category into ChatGPT, saw a competitor’s name and took a screenshot. AB Media Co turns that worry into a measurement: an AI visibility audit built on 100 real buyer prompts, a crawl check, a citation source map and a ranked plan. Akshit Bhasin founded this agency more than ten years ago, and 100+ brands and ₹3,300 Cr+ in client revenue later, we still measure before we touch anything.

THE COMPLETE AUDITAI VISIBILITY
Real buyer prompts from your market, run across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google’s AI, reported as a range and read beside your own Search Console.
REAL BUYER PROMPTS IN EVERY COMPLETE AUDIT100
FOUR AI TOOLS · REPORTED AS A RANGE
THE BRANDS THAT TRUSTED US 100+ brands, over a decade
Sonalika / Solis
Air India SATS
Adobe
TATA Tele Business Services
ICRA
Birlasoft
SBI Life
Radico Khaitan
Lovely Professional University
Hero
TalentGum
ISKCON
Niramaya Soul
DaVinci Gourmet
ISTD
Juhi Nanda
Soni Cosmetics
Hotel Sunstar Group
United Coffee House
Republic of Zoofari
Onyx Neo
Simplelife Mobility
OCP Medical Center
Murray’s Chemist
Azza Fencing
Maska Mein Chaska
Gustora
Arohul
JIET
AI SEO01 TECHNICAL AI SEO02 LOCAL AI SEO03 AI SEO SERVICES04 ECOMMERCE AI SEO05 AI SEO CONTENT06 AI SEO AUDITS07 AEO AND GEO08
7-FIG AI search grew from zero sales in 2024 to a seven-figure sales channel ECOMMERCE BRAND
3x Domain authority tripled with AI SEO, paid media and PR run together TALENTGUM
500+ PR links from trusted publications, then AI SEO on the website SENSES ELECTRONICS
40x Customer acquisition in 18 months with AI SEO in the mix TALENTGUM
Akshit BhasinFOUNDER, AB MEDIA CO LINKEDIN ↗

A SCREENSHOT IS A WORRY. An audit is a plan.

In our experience, the conversation about AI visibility starts with a screenshot. Someone asked ChatGPT about your category, a competitor came up, and now your whole team wants to know why. We take that seriously and we never plan from it, because AI answers shift from one run to the next.

So we measure. The complete audit runs 100 real buyer prompts from your market across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google’s AI, and reports how often you are named as a range. Then it reads the reasons: the sources those answers cite, what a crawler can see, whether your content answers the question, and what Search Console says your pages already earn.

What comes out is a plan, not a score. As Akshit Bhasin says, “come to me with solutions not problems,” so every gap in our report arrives with its fix, the page it belongs to and its place in the order of work.

Of our four AI visibility pages, this is the one that measures: answer engine optimization gets a page quoted, generative engine optimization gets the brand named, ChatGPT SEO works on one assistant’s picture of you, and the audit tells you which of them to start first.

Take an ecommerce brand we work with. In 2024, AI assistants sent it zero sales. Today AI search is a seven-figure sales channel for it. We know because we tracked those sales in GA4 by source from the start, and that discipline is built into every audit we write.

The free mini audit comes first. One of our senior people looks at your website and your AI visibility personally, then sends you the five to ten fixes most likely to grow your revenue first. The first discovery call is on Google Meet.

What changes the plan

WHY OUR REPORT LOOKS THE WAY IT DOES:
four facts and the check each one forces.

Each section of our report exists because of how search and AI answers behave now. These four facts decide what AB Media Co measures.

01AI VISIBILITY AUDIT: PROMPT SET, CRAWL CHECK, CITATION SOURCE MAP AND RANKED PLAN ACROSS CHATGPT, GEMINI, PERPLEXITY AND GOOGLE’S AI

Search Console now reports AI impressions by page

Google’s Generative AI performance report, worldwide since 31 August 2026, shows impressions in AI Overviews and AI Mode by page, country and device. AI clicks are counted inside your normal Search clicks. It is the one hard AI number you already own, so we read it first. Google says a missing report usually means too few impressions, and our audit treats that as a finding too.

SOURCE: Google Search Console Help: Generative AI performance report

02AI VISIBILITY AUDIT: PROMPT SET, CRAWL CHECK, CITATION SOURCE MAP AND RANKED PLAN ACROSS CHATGPT, GEMINI, PERPLEXITY AND GOOGLE’S AI

Your rank report misses most AI citations

Ahrefs studied 15,000 prompts and found only about 12% of the links cited by ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot in Google’s top 10 for the same prompt. So we log the citations themselves, prompt by prompt, and show you where a page with no ranking is cited over a page with a strong one.

SOURCE: Ahrefs: AI search overlap study, 15,000 prompts

03AI VISIBILITY AUDIT: PROMPT SET, CRAWL CHECK, CITATION SOURCE MAP AND RANKED PLAN ACROSS CHATGPT, GEMINI, PERPLEXITY AND GOOGLE’S AI

Mentions track AI visibility more closely than links

Across 75,000 brands, Ahrefs found branded web mentions correlate 0.664 with AI Overview visibility, against 0.218 for backlinks. A correlation is not a cause, and we read it as a place to look. So the citation source map sits at the center of our report, naming the websites behind your competitors’ answers and the ones that have never mentioned you.

SOURCE: Ahrefs: AI Overview brand visibility factors, 75K brands

04AI VISIBILITY AUDIT: PROMPT SET, CRAWL CHECK, CITATION SOURCE MAP AND RANKED PLAN ACROSS CHATGPT, GEMINI, PERPLEXITY AND GOOGLE’S AI

One question can become many searches

Google says AI Overviews and AI Mode may use a query fan-out technique, issuing related searches across subtopics to build a response. A single buyer question can therefore pull from pages you never saw as competing for it. So we write the prompt set by topic and buying stage, not from your keyword list, and the content check looks for a page per sub-question.

SOURCE: Google Search Central: AI features and your website

WHAT THE COMPLETE AUDIT COVERS, and how our team runs each part.

THE FULL AI SEO PRACTICE →
  1. 01

    The prompt set across four AI tools

    We write 100 real buyer prompts from your market, by topic and buying stage, and run them across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google’s AI. You see how often you are named against each competitor as a range, because one figure would overstate what a round of answers can prove.

  2. 02

    The crawl check

    We read your robots.txt, firewall rules and CDN settings for AI crawlers, fetch key pages with JavaScript off, and check indexing and canonicals. Google will only use an indexed page that can show a snippet, so any blocker goes to the top of the plan, with the rule to change.

  3. 03

    The citation source map

    We list the websites each AI tool cites when it names a competitor, and mark which of them mention you. That list shows where the gap sits outside your own website, and it becomes the brief for digital PR if you go ahead.

  4. 04

    The content check

    For each prompt you lose, we look for the page on your site that should have won it. Does it exist, does it answer in the first lines, are the facts in the text? A missing page and a weak opening need different fixes, so our report keeps them apart.

  5. 05

    The Search Console Generative AI read

    We read your Generative AI performance report by page, country and device, beside your normal Search clicks, and set it against what the prompt runs found. That gives you a day one baseline in an account you own, and it shows where Google’s AI already links to you.

  6. 06

    The ranked plan, with a senior walkthrough

    Every finding ends as one line in one plan: the fix, the page, the effort and the revenue it could move. A senior person walks you through it and tells you what we would leave alone. The plan stays with you, and it is what our own team works from if you hire us.

THE TWO HALVES AN AUDIT FINDS, in work we have already done.

Of the 100+ brands AB Media Co has worked with, these two show the two halves an audit tends to find. The ecommerce brand on the first card is the inside half. In 2024, AI assistants sent it zero sales. Today AI search is a seven-figure sales channel for it. We rebuilt its store, funnel and tracking, then its buying guides, with Search Console checked before every rewrite and not one URL changed, and we measured AI sales in GA4 by source. Its Performance Max returns now run about 27x the industry norm, because years of AI SEO built a warm audience the ads retarget, not on day one. Senses Electronics, on the second card, is what a source map leads to: 500+ links from the publications buyers and AI engines trust.

Ecommerce brand AI SearchPaid MediaFunnel

Case study: Ecommerce brand, Ecommerce brand

Ecommerce brand +48%

In 2024, AI assistants sent this ecommerce brand zero sales. Today, AI search is a seven-figure sales channel for it.

  • Online revenue in 2026 already 48% above all of 2024.
  • Ad returns 27x the norm on PMax, 36x on Meta.
Read the full case
Digital PRAI Search

Case study: Senses Electronics, Interactive display brand

Interactive display brand 500+

We got an interactive display brand 500+ links from the publications buyers and AI engines trust, then turned that authority into search visibility.

  • Editorial placements in the press buyers read.
  • On-page work across the site to rank it.
TERMSEvery engagement starts with a free mini audit. The complete audit is ₹30,000 to ₹80,000 by size, adjusted against your first month.
OWNERSHIPEverything we build belongs to you.
PEOPLEEvery account is led by a senior who has run budgets of every size.

WHAT OWNERS ASK BEFORE THE AUDIT, and how we answer them.

REAL QUESTIONS, ANSWERED PROPERLY

What is an AI visibility audit?

An AI visibility audit measures how often AI tools name your brand when your buyers ask what to buy, explains why, and ends in a ranked plan to change it.

A rank report tells you where a page sits on Google. This audit tells you what happens in the answer above that page, and in ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, where there may be no results page at all. You can rank well in one place and be missing from the other.

At AB Media Co the audit has two halves. Measurement comes first: 100 real buyer prompts, four AI tools, a range for how often you appear, and your own Search Console read beside it. Diagnosis comes second: the sources those answers cite, what a crawler can see on your pages, and whether your content answers the question.

We do not hand over a score and leave. Every finding becomes a line in the plan.

What does the free mini audit look at?

The free mini audit is a personal first look: one of our senior people reviews your website and your AI visibility, then sends you five to ten fixes, ranked by the revenue each could move.

We open your site, your Search Console if you share it, and your Google Business Profile. We put a handful of your customers’ buying questions to Google, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity and note who gets named each time. Then we look at the pages already earning clicks, because a small change there usually pays before anything new does.

You can act on that list yourself whether or not you ever hire us. It will not give you a range across 100 prompts or a citation source map, because that is the job of the complete audit. We would rather you decided whether that is worth paying for after reading our thinking than after a sales pitch.

What does the complete audit include, and what does the report contain?

The complete audit includes six things, and the report you receive follows the same logic: the prompt set, the Search Console read, the citation source map, the crawl check, the content check and the ranked plan.

The opening section is your standing: how often you are named across the 100 prompts, as a range, tool by tool, next to the competitors who come up most. The Search Console read adds the pages earning AI impressions, by country and device.

The middle section is the reasons. The source map names the websites behind each competitor’s mentions. The crawl check lists what stops AI crawlers or Google from reading you, with the exact rule or template to change. The content check lists the prompts you lose and the page that should answer each.

The last section is the plan. We leave out whatever would not change a decision, following Akshit Bhasin’s instruction to “cut and remove any facts that don’t change what we’d do in search or ads.”

How much does an AI visibility audit cost?

The free mini audit costs nothing. The complete AI visibility audit costs ₹30,000 to ₹80,000, depending on your catalog and website size, and we adjust that fee against your first month if you go ahead.

Why a range? Because the work scales with what we have to read. A site with a few service pages has fewer templates to crawl, fewer pages to match against the prompts and a shorter plan. A large catalog has more of all three. We tell you where you fall before you pay anything.

How do we see the fee? It buys a decision, not a document. By the end you know which pages to fix, which websites to appear on and what to leave alone, and you keep the report either way. Everything we build belongs to you.

The work after the audit is scoped from its findings, so we never quote a monthly program before we have read your Search Console.

Are AI search, AI SEO, AEO and GEO the same thing or different?

They describe one job from different angles, and the audit is how we find out which angle is costing you most.

AI search is where the answer happens: AI Overviews, AI Mode, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity. AI SEO is our whole practice for being ranked and named there. AEO covers getting one page quoted as the direct answer. GEO covers getting your brand named when an assistant recommends.

You do not need a separate audit for each label. Weak AEO appears as pages with no AI impressions in Search Console and openings that fail the content check. Weak GEO appears as a thin source map and a low mention range. Weak technical AI SEO appears in the crawl check before either.

That is how the ranked plan decides the order of work. One AB Media Co team runs whichever it turns out to be, and your Share of Decision carries the result.

What is AI visibility, and how do you measure it?

AI visibility is how often, and how well, AI tools put your brand in front of a buyer who has asked a question. We measure it with three instruments, because each one answers something different.

Search Console’s Generative AI performance report counts your impressions in AI Overviews and AI Mode. That is Google’s number, in your own account, and we read it beside your clicks.

Search Console holds nothing from ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity, so our own prompt runs cover them: your buyers’ questions, logged by who gets named and which sources get cited.

GA4 closes the loop with sessions and sales from AI assistants by source, such as chatgpt.com, perplexity.ai and gemini.google.com.

All three feed your Share of Decision: how often the buyer, or the machine buying for them, picks you. We report it above the other numbers, because being seen only helps you once it turns into being chosen.

Why do you report a range instead of an AI visibility score?

Because AI answers shift between runs, and a single score would claim more precision than the evidence holds.

Ask the same tool the same question twice and the list of brands can change. One clean number from one round of answers looks tidy and proves little. A range across 100 prompts and four AI tools tells you where you really stand, and whether a later change is real movement or ordinary noise.

We apply that standard to the whole report. Akshit Bhasin set the rule for our own website, “every number on the site must be real and attributable,” because “founders question things in discovery meetings,” and our audits live by it too. Each figure traces back to a prompt, a Search Console report or a page you can open yourself.

We also compare you with the brands the answers name, as well as the ones you tell us about, because the rival in ChatGPT can be someone you have never tracked on Google.

Is an AI visibility audit the same as an AI SEO audit?

No. An AI SEO audit looks at your website, and an AI visibility audit starts from what AI tools say about you and then works back to your website.

An AI SEO audit is the deeper technical read: crawling, indexing, speed, internal links, on-page content and rankings across the whole site. An AI visibility audit covers the crawl problems that stop an AI tool from reading you, then spends most of its time outside your site, on the prompts, the citations and the competitors who get named in the answers.

Which should come first? We read that from your situation. If your pages are barely indexed, the crawl check says so quickly and the plan starts there. If your site is healthy and you still never appear, the citation source map usually shows why.

Our team does both, and each feeds the other, so you never pay for the same work twice.

Who does the best AI visibility audit in India?

AB Media Co, and our case rests on what the audit is built from.

Akshit Bhasin founded the agency more than ten years ago. In that time we have worked with 100+ brands, generated ₹3,300 Cr+ in revenue for clients and managed ₹100 Cr+ in ad spend. That history matters here because we read AI visibility as a commercial question. We ask which missing mention is costing you orders, not just which one looks bad.

Our report ends in the plan our own team would run. We are aggressive and we test relentlessly, so we write fixes we expect to be held to, and a senior person sits on every account.

You can see the proof on this page: an ecommerce brand tracked in GA4 from zero AI sales in 2024 to a seven-figure AI search channel, and 500+ links for an interactive display brand.

The free mini audit lets you check our thinking before you spend a rupee.

What happens after the audit, and how soon do results show?

You get a walkthrough with a senior person and a plan you own. If you hire us, the fee is adjusted against month one and the fixes start in the order the plan sets.

The first 30 days go to crawl fixes, schema and the openings on your best pages, because those show in weeks. By day 90 those rebuilt pages are live and the first stories are out to the sites on your source map. Mentions take longest, because they depend on other websites.

We hold ourselves to one commitment: a 30 to 50% rise in AI search impressions within 90 days, measured in your own Search Console, with mentions across ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity tracked beside it. The audit’s Search Console read is the baseline, so nobody argues about where we started.

We then rerun the same prompts monthly and read them beside your sales data, in a report that names what moved and what we are changing next.

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