AI visibility check for small businesses
Who this is for and what you get
This is for owners of small businesses who want to know one thing: when a customer asks ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or Grok for a recommendation, does your name come up? Foreground answers that with a measurement instead of a guess. We read your site and suggest three customer niches — who they are, what they want, where. You confirm one, and the check is free: one company, one customer niche, one scan, no credit card. A scan usually takes three to five minutes; you can close the page, because we email you when it is done. What lands in your inbox is a result you can act on: how often you were named out of 12 AI answers, which businesses were named instead of you, the exact pages the AIs read to get there, and a fact-checked action plan covering page copy, listings and a review request.
AI visibility checker for small business: what does it actually check?
For the customer niche you pick, we write three questions the way that customer would really ask them. None of the questions mention your business by name. We put each question to ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok, each queried directly against its own provider's API with live web search, so the answers reflect real search results rather than training data alone. That is 12 live answers per niche. We then count how many of those answers name you: "named in X of 12". If a model does not answer, we count only the answers that came back, for example "named in X of 9". If you are a local business, we also check three answers from Google Maps. There is no invented 0-100 score — just how often you are named, and who gets named in your place.
I run a small local business — which affordable tools can check and track whether AI assistants recommend us?
Start with the free check. It costs €0, covers one company and one customer niche, and gives you a scan plus a fact-checked action plan without a credit card. If you run a business in the Netherlands, there is also an instant check: city by city, we already asked ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok about estate agents, building contractors, kitchen showrooms, roofers, window frame companies, bathroom specialists, solar panel and heat pump installers, and mortgage advisers in Amsterdam, Utrecht and Haarlem. Type your business name and see at once whether it was named, and who was. If you would rather not do the work yourself, the done-for-you fix is €950 one-off, excluding VAT, paid by bank transfer: up to five pages of your site with FAQs, services, service area and structured data, your Google Business Profile, up to three free directory listings with the same details everywhere, a text to ask customers for a review, and a new measurement after four to six weeks with a before-and-after report. Marc de Ruijter does that work himself, after 25+ years of websites and IT. Fix clients can add ongoing tracking for €49 a month.
What should a small business look for in a tool that tracks AI recommendations?
Four things are worth checking before you pay for anything. First, real questions: a tool should ask what your customers ask, not what your brand name is — Foreground's three questions per niche never mention your business, so being named has to be earned. Second, live models: ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Grok queried against their own APIs with web search on, so you see what a customer sees today. Third, honest numbers: AI answers change from one run to the next, so a few answers moving between scans means nothing. We only call a move of three or more out of 12 a real change, and we only say you improved after that holds across three scans in a row. Fourth, a fix you can carry out: a count on its own changes nothing, so every result comes with the pages the AIs actually read, the listings to get onto, structured data to add, and a review request ready to use. One last point, because it matters: we measure and improve, but nobody can promise that an AI will name you.
Run your free check
Pick the customers you want to reach, confirm the niche, and see who AI recommends to them instead of you. One customer niche, no credit card, about five minutes — we email you the result and the action plan.