AIV Index · share of mention, tracked monthly
We measure how often ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini name you when buyers ask — every month, against your competitors.
A buyer asks ChatGPT
“Who are the best estate agents on Cape Town’s Atlantic Seaboard?”
Buyers are pointed to Pam Golding and Seeff — is your brand in the answer?
We check all four engines, every month
ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini · Perplexity
Your share of mention · climbing
Being named is only the first rung
The question that decides a buyer’s next purchase is now answered by an engine that names two or three brands and moves on. Whether one of them is you is invisible from where you sit.
The default is AI now
Buyers ask ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity directly — and the ones still typing into Google get Gemini’s answer first. AI Overviews sit on top of the results page by default.
No native dashboard
You cannot rank in an AI answer the way you rank in ordinary search results — and no engine publishes a console for what it says about you, your competitor, or neither.
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Princeton research (Aggarwal et al., KDD 2024): small content changes shifted citation visibility by up to +40% for lower-ranked sites. Your AI visibility is volatile by default — and silently so.
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GPTBot requests measured in a single month, on one hosting network alone
Vercel / MERJ, Dec 2024
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of Googlebot's crawl volume — what AI crawlers, combined, already run at
Vercel / MERJ, Dec 2024
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uplift in AI citations from small content changes
Aggarwal et al., KDD 2024
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native dashboards from OpenAI / Anthropic / Perplexity / Google
The measurement gap
Per engine
You might own Claude and be invisible on ChatGPT. We break your visibility down engine by engine, so you know where to fight.
Here is one real answer being built end to end — then whether you were in it.
A buyer asks · ChatGPT · live web search
“Which estate agency should I sell my Cape Town home with?”
For selling a home in Cape Town, the agencies that keep coming up are Pam Golding, Seeff, RE/MAX, Rawson, Chas Everitt — drawn from Property24, PrivateProperty and review sites, not from the agencies’ own websites…
Share of mention · this question, 8 asks
Pam Golding6/8
Seeff5/8
RE/MAX4/8
Rawson3/8
Your brand
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Your brand isn’t named once — and nothing told you. That’s the blind spot AIV closes.
See if you’re on the listPublished research
Edition 1 — July 2026 — every prompt panel and the full method published. The same measurement, run for your brand, is what you get here.
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grounded answers
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public prompts
The methodology is published. Each engine’s raw responses and the sources it consulted are stored against your tenant for audit — every answer readable in full on the dashboard. You can buy a refresh between sweeps, and you can take the data to a consultant who is not us.
Twenty to a hundred priority prompts your buyers actually ask (we provide an industry default set) plus three to five competitor domains. Brand entity reference (Wikidata QID) where applicable.
Every month we issue each prompt to ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini — with live web search on, the way the consumer apps actually answer, not from memory. Two runs per engine smooth out the randomness; we report the aggregate, not a single answer.
Share-of-mention and the sources behind every answer — on every tier — including which sources get cited in your category instead of you. Pro adds conviction (does an engine recommend you, or merely name you?), auto-flags competitors surfacing in your answers you're not tracking yet, and sends drift alerts by email, Slack, or Telegram when your share moves materially or a rival overtakes you in an engine.
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One brand, a monthly sweep across all four engines. For founders and small SA businesses opening the door on AI visibility.
A deeper prompt set, real-time drift alerts, narrative summaries on every run. For brands actively investing in AI search visibility.
Multi-brand measurement for agencies and enterprise teams — 3 brands included, add more as paid add-ons.
Need a reading between monthly sweeps? On-demand refreshes run at R100 / R250 / R500 per run by tier. Start tracking my brand.
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When a buyer asks ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, or Gemini a high-intent question (“best audit firm in Cape Town”, “SA fintech compliance tool”), the engine answers with a small list of recommendations. AI visibility is how often your brand appears in that list, in what position, and which sources sit behind the answer. We measure all three.
Traditional SEO ranks you in Google’s ten blue links — and even those now sit below Gemini’s AI Overview on the results page. AI engines don’t serve links; they synthesise an answer that names two or three brands and moves on. You can rank #1 organically and still be invisible inside the answer above you. The Vercel/MERJ Dec 2024 study showed AI crawlers do not execute JavaScript, so a site that renders fine for Googlebot can be a blank shell to GPTBot. SEO is necessary; AI visibility is the other half.
Yes — raw single-shot answers are noisy. That is why every prompt is sampled several times per engine per cycle (3 by default, up to 5 for higher-priority prompts) with live web search, and we report the aggregate, not a single response. Drift alerts only fire when share-of-mention moves by a material amount month-on-month — random flicker stays below the threshold. The methodology is published in full.
Both, and the gap between them is where the value is. A plain mention count can’t tell “named in passing” apart from “actively recommended” — but buyers only act on the second. On Pro and Scale we score conviction per engine: of the answers that name you, how many actually recommend you. (In our SA property Index, the category leader was recommended in 91% of the answers that named it — a level no rival reached; others were named but seldom recommended.) Pro and Scale also auto-surface competitors turning up in your answers that you don’t yet track. And on every tier you see which sources the engines cite in your category — so you know who’s being quoted instead of you.
Three differences. (1) ZAR pricing without the international markup; Starter at R650 vs R 1.5K–6K equivalent at current FX. (2) The product is bundled with AAA’s audit engine — every paying AIV Index tenant gets a site-readiness check from the same engine: can AI crawlers actually read your pages, and do other sites cite you — supporting context, not just mention counts. (3) Local methodology grounding: prompts are tuned for SA buyer-intent language; competitor sets default to SA-region brands.
Yes — AIV Index is live. Sign up directly at /sign-in; no waitlist, no invitation needed. Pricing starts at R650/month (Starter).
Yes. Existing AAA retainer clients get the first month at the Starter tier price for any tier, on request. Email hello@autoalphaadvisory.co.za to add AIV Index to your existing engagement.
Launch coverage: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini — each queried with live web search enabled, the way the consumer apps answer. We re-evaluate quarterly and add engines that hit measurable buyer-side share — Mistral Le Chat, DeepSeek, Grok, and others are on the watch list. Local AI products (e.g. South African finance bots) are added on request for Scale tier tenants.
One domain. Monthly sweep across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini. The first number is the hardest — it’s where you actually stand.
The AI Visibility Brief — Vol. 01 — Jun 2026 — By Auto Alpha Advisory