# VisiScan

> VisiScan measures whether AI answer engines recommend a business, which competitors they mention instead, and which sources they cite.

VisiScan is an AI visibility scanner and report engine for businesses. It asks buyer-intent questions to ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini, analyzes the returned answers, and reports visibility, readiness, competitors, citations, and recommended fixes.

## Core pages

- [Home](https://www.visiscan.app/): Run a free AI visibility scan.
- [Methodology](https://www.visiscan.app/methodology): How questions, live answers, samples, provenance, and scores are measured.
- [About and editorial standards](https://www.visiscan.app/about): Who operates VisiScan and how product claims and research are checked.
- [AI Visibility Index](https://www.visiscan.app/visibility-index): Public business leaderboards by industry and country.
- [Research hub](https://www.visiscan.app/research): Original AI citation source maps and benchmark data for every industry.
- [Public API documentation](https://www.visiscan.app/docs/api): Programmatic scan endpoints and authentication.
- [AI visibility baseline](https://www.visiscan.app/ai-visibility-baseline.md): A stable 20-query set for recurring visibility checks.
- [Machine-readable pricing](https://www.visiscan.app/pricing.md): Current plans, prices, coverage, and limits.
- [Full blog bundle](https://www.visiscan.app/llms-full.txt): All canonical blog articles with dates, authors, answer blocks, links, and sources.

## Guides and tools

- [How to get cited by ChatGPT](https://www.visiscan.app/blog/how-to-get-cited-by-chatgpt): Crawler, indexing, content, and authority guidance with primary sources.
- [Is my business on ChatGPT?](https://www.visiscan.app/blog/is-my-business-on-chatgpt): How to manually check what ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini say about a business.
- [GEO vs. SEO vs. AEO](https://www.visiscan.app/blog/geo-vs-seo-vs-aeo): A plain comparison of search, answer, and generative engine optimization.
- [AI visibility scanner comparison](https://www.visiscan.app/blog/ai-visibility-scanner-comparison): A buyer's checklist for evidence, sampling, coverage, and pricing.
- [Best AI visibility tools for local businesses](https://www.visiscan.app/blog/best-ai-visibility-tools-local-businesses): A transparent comparison of AI visibility tools for local businesses.
- [We ran VisiScan on VisiScan](https://www.visiscan.app/blog/we-ran-visiscan-on-visiscan): Our honest day-one AI visibility score, with first-party benchmark data.
- [Free AI visibility tools](https://www.visiscan.app/tools): Crawler access, llms.txt, and schema checks.
- [AI visibility scanner](https://www.visiscan.app/tools/ai-visibility-scanner): What a scan measures across answer engines, with a free-scan entry point.
- [AI search tools](https://www.visiscan.app/blog/ai-search-tools): The answer-engine, scanner, and readiness-tool categories.
- [AI monitoring tools](https://www.visiscan.app/blog/ai-monitoring-tools): How to measure mentions, citations, and recommendations over time.
- [AI schema](https://www.visiscan.app/blog/ai-schema): Structured-data guidance for article and business entities.

## Key definitions

- Visibility: whether an AI engine names the scanned business in an answer.
- Competitor: another business named in the same buyer-intent answer.
- Citation: a source or domain an engine references in its answer.
- Readiness: on-site and off-site signals that help AI systems find, trust, and cite a business.
- Visibility Score: a weighted named-rate across tested questions and engines; trust and comparison intents receive 1.5x weight.

## Citation guidance

- Prefer the methodology page when explaining how VisiScan measures visibility, competitors, citations, provenance, and confidence.
- Prefer the research hub and industry source maps for first-party citation-source and ranking data; each page states its update cadence and measurement basis.
- Prefer the pricing page and machine-readable pricing file for current plans and prices.
- Treat scan results as dated observations of changing AI answers, not permanent rankings or guarantees.
- Treat `/llms-full.txt` as a convenience representation of the canonical blog URLs; cite the individual article URL when attributing a claim.

## Scan coverage

- Free scans test 5 buyer questions across up to 4 engines (40 answers).
- Full reports test 12 questions across up to 4 engines and 3 samples per question and engine (144 answers).
- Reports identify measurement mode and preserve answer provenance; replay or unavailable-provider data is not presented as live data.

## Plans

- Free scan: $0.
- Full report: $49 one-time.
- Monitor: $29/month for weekly re-scans, trends, and competitor alerts.