You typed your category into ChatGPT once. Something like "best CRM for small agencies." It gave you a tidy list of five tools, with a sentence or two on each. Maybe you were on it, maybe you weren't. Either way you closed the tab not sure what it meant. Was that answer the same for everyone? Would it say the same thing tomorrow? And why those five?

One question, typed once, can't tell you much. That's the gap the free AI Visibility Audit at audit.bizloc8.ai is built for. This post walks through what it checks, how to read every part of the report, and what to actually do with each finding. It ends with what the full product adds, and where the free version stops.

What the free audit checks

You enter your website. There's no signup to start. The audit works out your brand and category, puts a set of buyer-style questions to ChatGPT, and reads the answers: are you named, where in the list, in what tone, who is named ahead of you, and which websites the answer leans on.

Three things to know up front:

  • It's ChatGPT only. The free run asks one engine. Gemini and Perplexity results open up when you give your email or start a free trial.
  • There's a daily limit. You can only run a limited number of audits per day. It's a check, not a monitoring tool.
  • It's one run. AI answers change from run to run. Treat the report as a snapshot of how ChatGPT sees you today.

How to read the report, part by part

Here's a sample report for a made-up brand, Tallbird CRM. The numbers are invented. The layout is what matters.

Illustration: annotated free AI Visibility Audit report for a made-up brand, showing score, mention percentage, average rank, sentiment, competitors ahead, prompt results, cited domains and issues
Illustration. A made-up brand, with each part of the report numbered.

1. Overall score

A single number out of 100 that rolls the rest of the report together. It's useful for one thing: noticing change. Don't obsess over whether 38 is "good." Look at what's dragging it down.

2. Mention %

The share of questions where ChatGPT named you at all. I'd look here first. If it's low, the rest can wait. You aren't in the conversation yet.

3. Average rank

When you are named, where you sit in the list. Being fifth of five is different from being first. AI answers are short, and people tend to act on the first name or two.

4. Sentiment

The tone ChatGPT uses when it talks about you. Neutral is common and usually fine. Negative is worth reading closely, because it often traces back to old reviews or complaint threads.

5. Competitors ahead and % of questions lost

How many competitors outrank you, and on what share of questions you lose to someone else. Nobody enjoys this part. Read it anyway, because it tells you who AI thinks your category actually is.

6. Prompt-by-prompt results, with intent

Every question gets a row: its intent (Exploratory, Decision, Comparison, Transactional and a few others), whether you were mentioned, and your rank. Don't stare at single rows. Look for patterns. If you show up on Comparison questions but disappear on Exploratory ones, that's usually a content problem, not a reputation problem.

7. Cited domains and competitor presence

The websites ChatGPT leaned on, the role each one plays (review site, listicle, your own site), whether you're present there, and which competitors are. Read this one slowly. It's the closest thing you'll get to a map of where AI forms its opinion about your category.

8. Issues

Plain-language problems the audit spotted, such as thin pages on certain intents or missing presence on sources that keep getting cited. Think of them as a rough first draft of your to-do list.

What opens up with email or a free trial

The free report is useful on its own, but parts are blurred. Giving your email or starting a trial opens up:

  • Gemini and Perplexity results, so you can see whether the picture holds across engines. It often doesn't.
  • Full answers for each prompt, not just a summary. You'll want these, because the exact wording tells you how AI describes you.
  • More rows in the prompt results, competitor rankings and cited domains.

What to do next: one job per finding

Most people read the report, wince a little, and close the tab. Here's how each finding turns into actual work instead.

Illustration: table mapping each AI visibility audit finding to an action and an owner
Illustration. Each finding in the audit maps to one concrete job.

Get listed on the sources AI cites

Go back to the cited domains. Every row where competitors are present and you aren't is a gap. Review sites want a profile and genuine reviews. Roundup articles want a reason to include you, so pitch the author with specifics, not a press release. It's slow and a bit boring. In my experience it's also what moves the numbers most.

Fix your content and schema

If you vanish on certain intents, write the page that answers that exact question. Say who you're for, what you cost, and how you compare. Then make the page easy for machines to read: Organization, Product and FAQ schema, clean titles and meta descriptions. AI can't quote what it can't find or parse.

Work on reviews and sentiment

If sentiment is flat or negative, the fix sits outside your website. Ask happy customers to review you on the sites that keep showing up in citations, and reply to complaints in public. It takes months. Start anyway.

How the full BizLoc8 AI Visibility product goes further

The free audit answers "where do I stand on ChatGPT right now?" The full product is for running this as an ongoing job. If you want the deeper tour, read how BizLoc8 AI Visibility works. The short version, in the order you'd use it:

  1. Set up your project. Add your website, brand, country, languages and cities, plus an optional buyer persona generated from your site. Agencies can keep each client as a separate project.
  2. Choose your prompts. Take the AI-suggested questions or write your own. Each is tagged with intent and search volume. Competitors are discovered for you, or you add them.
  3. Run across three engines and every city. ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity each give one answer per prompt, per city. You run it on demand: everything, one engine, or selected prompts.
  4. Read the dashboard. A headline verdict on why you're losing, average rank by intent, rank over time, engine-by-engine visibility, a prompt-by-prompt heatmap, cited sources by engine, and sentiment for you and each competitor.
  5. Work the Action Items. For every cited domain you see its role, its authority, whether you're there, which competitors are, and which engines cite it, with a citation strategy attached.
  6. Generate the fixes. Page copy, schema JSON-LD and meta tags, plus a Website Audit covering technical issues, schema, Core Web Vitals, content gaps, authority and trust signals.
  7. Share it. Download the AI Visibility PDF and the AI Strategy PDF for your team or your client.

See plans on the pricing page, or the product overview at AI Visibility.

Honest limits

Two things worth keeping in mind before you act on any single report.

  • One engine is one view. The free audit only asks ChatGPT. Plenty of brands are visible on one engine and missing on another, so don't generalise from ChatGPT alone.
  • Answers vary run to run. Ask the same question twice and you may get a different list. Look for patterns across many prompts, and re-run before you celebrate or panic over one change.

Quick checklist after your first audit

  • Write down your mention %, average rank and the competitors ahead of you, with today's date.
  • List every cited domain where a competitor is present and you aren't.
  • Pick the one intent where you vanish most and plan a page for it.
  • Check your homepage and product pages for Organization, Product and FAQ schema.
  • Get the Gemini and Perplexity results before drawing big conclusions.
  • Re-run in a few weeks and compare.

Frequently asked questions

Is the BizLoc8 AI Visibility Audit really free?

Yes. The BizLoc8 AI Visibility Audit is free: you enter your website at audit.bizloc8.ai and the ChatGPT audit runs with no signup to start. There is a daily limit on how many audits you can run. Gemini and Perplexity results, full answers and extra rows open up when you give your email or start a free trial.

Which AI engines does the free AI Visibility Audit check?

The free BizLoc8 AI Visibility Audit checks ChatGPT only. Gemini and Perplexity results open up when you give your email or start a free trial. Plenty of brands are visible on one engine and missing on another, so it is worth getting all three results before drawing big conclusions from the ChatGPT report alone.

What does the free AI visibility audit report show?

The free AI visibility audit report shows an overall score out of 100, mention %, average rank, sentiment, the competitors ahead of you and the share of questions you lose, prompt-by-prompt results with intent, the domains ChatGPT cites with competitor presence, and a list of issues. Parts of the report stay blurred until you add your email or start a free trial.

What does mention % mean in an AI visibility audit?

In the BizLoc8 AI Visibility Audit, mention % is the share of questions where ChatGPT named your brand at all. Average rank then shows where your brand sat in the list when it was named. A low mention % is the first thing to look at, because a brand that is not named is not in the conversation yet.

Why did my AI visibility results change when I ran the audit again?

AI visibility results change between runs because ChatGPT answers vary from run to run, even for the same question. Treat each audit as a snapshot of how ChatGPT sees you that day. Look for patterns across many prompts rather than reacting to one row or one run, and re-run before you celebrate or panic over a single change.

What should I fix first after a free AI visibility audit?

After a free AI visibility audit, start with the cited domains where competitors are present and you are not. Getting listed and reviewed on those sources is usually the biggest job. Next, write pages for the intents where you vanish, add Organization, Product and FAQ schema, and work on reviews if your sentiment is flat or negative.

How is the full BizLoc8 AI Visibility product different from the free audit?

The full BizLoc8 AI Visibility product runs your own prompts across ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, per city, on demand, instead of one ChatGPT snapshot. It adds a dashboard with rank over time and sentiment for each competitor, Action Items for each cited domain, content and schema generation, a Website Audit, and AI Visibility and Strategy PDF reports.

Is the free AI visibility audit enough to track AI search over time?

No. The free AI visibility audit is a one-off check with a daily limit, not a monitoring tool. It asks ChatGPT only and gives you one run. To track the same prompts across ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity in several cities and compare runs over time, you need a paid BizLoc8 AI Visibility plan, where you re-run prompts on demand.

Sources

Checked 12 November 2026.

  • BizLoc8 free AI Visibility Audit (audit.bizloc8.ai) and BizLoc8 AI Visibility features, as of 12 November 2026.
  • All brands, domains and numbers in the illustrations are made up.