AI Visibility

How do AI engines decide which business to recommend?

When someone asks ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity for a business like yours, you're either the answer or the afterthought. We check how assistants see you — and fix what makes them skip you.

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“Who's the best emergency plumber near me in Edmonton?”
Recommended: Riverside Plumbing — verified hours, 4.8★, cited by 3 sources
What we check

Four signals that decide whether AI recommends you

Answer check

We ask real assistants for your category in your city and capture what they actually say about you.

Confusion finder

Spots where AI mixes up your services, location or hours — and what's feeding the mistake.

Citations & llms.txt

Whether AI can cite you, plus a generated llms.txt so assistants read the right pages.

Entity & schema

Make your business a clear “entity” engines can trust, not a vague, ambiguous listing.

How the engine works

Three data sources, one AI Visibility Score

The TCD engine stitches three enterprise data sources into a single 0–100 score that measures how confidently AI can find and recommend you.

1

Search intelligence

Real-time Google SERP data (via Serper.dev) shows exactly where you appear in live results, local packs and AI Overviews.

2

Social & web audit

Cloud crawling (via Apify) checks social-to-web congruency — whether your site, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram agree.

3

Local authority

Google Places API verifies your map coordinates, business categories and review data from the official source.

4

Handshake score

All three are combined into one AI Visibility Score (0–100) measuring your business's AI-congruency.

Why it's different

Keyword tools measure the human web. We measure the machine web.

Semrush / Ahrefs / Moz

  • Keywords and backlinks — built for 2018 search
  • No view of how AI assistants describe you
  • Blind to social-to-web congruency
  • Report problems, but not whether AI can crawl you

TransCanada Digital

  • Measures congruency and AI trust — the machine web
  • Captures what ChatGPT, Gemini & Claude actually say
  • Checks site, social and Maps all tell one story
  • Confirms AI bots can crawl and recommend you
Guides

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Tools and how-tos

AI visibility — your questions answered

Frequently asked

What is AI Visibility and why does it matter?
AI Visibility measures how well AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude can find, understand, and recommend your business. In 2026, 60% of Google searches end without a click because AI answers directly. If your business isn't AI-visible, you're invisible to the future of search.
How is TCD different from Semrush or Ahrefs?
Semrush and Ahrefs measure keywords and backlinks (the Human Web). TCD measures Congruency and AI Trust (the Machine Web) — whether your website, social profiles, and Google Maps listing agree, and whether AI bots can actually crawl and recommend your business.
What APIs power the TCD Engine?
TCD uses three enterprise APIs in parallel: Serper.dev for real-time Google SERP data, Apify for social and web crawling, and Google Places API for official business verification. These three engines create the most complete AI visibility picture in the industry.
What is a Machine Handshake?
A Machine Handshake is when all three layers of your digital presence — search signals, social profiles, and local business data — agree with each other. When your website schema, Google Maps listing, and social media all confirm the same identity, AI engines confidently recommend you.

Be the answer, not the afterthought.

See how AI describes your business today, and get the fixes that put you in the recommendation.

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