AI search visibility for small business
When someone asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google AI for the best business in your category, do you show up — or does your competitor? We'll analyze your visibility across all three and send your free Vela Score within 48 hours.
Vela Score
34/100
Emerging
AI knows this business exists — but rarely names it. Competitors are answering the questions its customers are asking.
The shift
The rules changed. Nobody told small businesses.
45% of people now ask AI to find local services. They type "best plumber near me" into ChatGPT and trust the list it gives back. But that list isn't built from who's best, or best-reviewed — it's built from who's structured so AI can read them. Most businesses aren't. You can have 200 five-star reviews and still never get named.
- 01Hartwell Plumbing & Drain
- 02Brandywine Pipe Works
- 03FirstCall Mechanical
Your business — not mentioned.
ILLUSTRATIVE · NAMES ARE FICTIONAL
0%
of businesses are effectively invisible to AI search
0%
of consumers use AI to find local services
0%
of local businesses are never recommended by AI
0%
drop in clicks to normal results when an AI Overview appears
INDUSTRY DATA
Your competitor is showing up. Are you?
You have the reviews. AI just doesn't know it yet.
The Vela Score
One number that tells you where you stand.
The Vela Score rates your business from 1 to 100 on how visible you are across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews — the three places people now search. It isn't a vanity metric. Every point maps to a specific, fixable signal: your Google Business Profile, your reviews, how your website is written, whether AI can even read it.
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The spectrum runs from 1 to 100 in five stages: Invisible (1–20), Emerging (21–40), Developing (41–60), Visible (61–80), and Discovered (81–100).
How it works
Three steps. One of them is yours.
01
Tell us about your business.
Your name, your website, and your email. Thirty seconds.
02
We run the audit.
We search your category across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI the way a real customer would — and check every signal that decides whether AI names you.
03
You get your score.
Within 48 hours: your Vela Score, where you land on the spectrum, and a plain-language read on what it means for your business. Free.
The score email
Plain English. No jargon. A clear read on where you stand.
Your score comes with a plain-language explanation of what it means for your actual customers — not "your GBP signals are insufficient," but "when someone asks ChatGPT for a plumber in your city, AI can't find you, and competitors with fewer reviews are showing up instead." You'll also see the single biggest opportunity to move your score.
Why Vela
Built for your business, not an enterprise budget.
The tools for this were built for big companies with big budgets and a team to run them. Vela is built for the local business — the one where someone finding you online is the difference between a booked week and a quiet one. We say it in plain language, and we run the search ourselves.
FAQ
Questions, answered plainly.
Yes. Your score and the plain-language read on it are free. No card, no account — just your name, website, and email so we can send it.
Within 48 hours of submitting your website.
More customers now ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google's AI for recommendations instead of scrolling a list of links. Those tools name a handful of businesses. If you're not one of them, you're invisible to that customer — no matter how good you are.
Your Google Business Profile, your reviews, how your website is written and how fast it loads, whether your details are consistent across directories, and what real AI searches return for your category.
No one can guarantee that — and anyone who does is selling you something. What we can tell you is which signals matter most and which ones you're missing.
We'll send a short series of emails explaining the signals behind your score and what businesses at your level usually fix first. Useful whether or not you ever pay us a cent.
Find out if ChatGPT recommends you.
Enter your details. Your free Vela Score lands within 48 hours.