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The AI recommends three providers. Are you one of them?

Where your customers award the contract.

94% of B2B buyers use AI in the buying process (Forrester 2026). If it does not recommend you, the enquiry never reaches you — and you never learn that it existed.

  • ChatGPT
  • Claude
  • Gemini
  • Perplexity
  • Google AI Mode

Free · about 20 seconds · result without sign-up

Asking the AI systems …

  • ChatGPT
  • Claude
  • Gemini
  • Perplexity
  • Google AI Mode

At the same time, we read your website the way an AI system sees it:

  • May AI systems read your website?
  • Does your website protection let them through?
  • Can they see your content without JavaScript?
  • Is it clear what you offer?
  • How up to date is your content?
  • Is your company data machine-readable?

Visibility Snapshot · ·

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Sample taken on . AI answers vary from day to day. The answers shown are those of the AI systems, not a statement by CodaAI about the companies named.

The questionThe AI answerYour absence
How buyers decide today

A potential customer asks on google.com.

Step 1 of 3
competitor-alpha.com
Alpha Systems — market leader in industrial automation
Complete solutions for mid-sized companies since 1998. References, white papers, consulting …
beta-technik.com
Beta Technik AG — plants & control systems
Tailored solutions, certified quality, 24/7 service for your production …
gamma-group.com
Gamma Group — your partner for digital manufacturing
From the sensor to the cloud. Over 400 projects delivered across Europe …
your-company.com
Your company — page 2, position 14
… hardly anyone scrolls that far.
↓ organic results — pushed below the fold
AI Overview
Alpha SystemsBeta Technik AGGamma GroupYour company
55%
of buyer questions come back with no mention of your company — and those are the prospects you never reach.

Anyone missing from these answers is out of the relevant set — without noticing. That non-mention shows up in no statistic and in no traffic report.

This decision is made in three places: in classic search (SEO), in Google AI Overviews (AEO) and in AI assistants such as ChatGPT (GEO). Provided the AI understands you (AIO).

1 · Search Engine Optimization

Be found when someone is actively searching.

A buyer types into Google what they need – not what you say about yourself. SEO means knowing exactly those terms and building your website so that Google understands it and ranks it near the top. The foundation – because AI systems draw on the search indexes too.

“Quality and innovation since 1965” – nobody searches for that.
“Metering pump for caustic soda, stainless steel” – that is how your customer searches.

In short: SEO gets you into the results.

2 · AI Optimization

Be understood before the AI answers.

AI systems read your website like a very fast, very sober intern. Marketing speak means nothing to them – facts do. AIO makes sure the AI knows who you are, what you deliver and for whom.

Three levers
  1. Structured data – company, location, products in machine-readable form.
  2. Facts instead of phrases – dimensions, standards, lead times, industries.
  3. The same details everywhere – website, Google profile, portals, LinkedIn.

In short: AIO makes you readable for AI.

3 · Answer Engine Optimization

Become the answer – in Google AI Overviews.

Google answers more and more questions directly above the results. AEO makes sure your page appears there as a source. The rule is simple: ask the question, answer it in the first sentence, explain afterwards. Take three sentences to warm up and you get skipped.

“Choosing the right pump is a complex topic in which many factors …”
“For caustic soda, diaphragm metering pumps in stainless steel 1.4571 or PVDF are suitable.”

In short: AEO makes you the answer.

4 · Generative Engine Optimization

Recommended by name in ChatGPT & co.

The hardest discipline: a buyer asks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity or Claude for providers – and the AI names three. GEO decides whether yours is among them. That takes content for exactly these comparison and decision questions, honest facts and mentions on sites the AI trusts.

“We are the leading provider.” – a claim no AI will repeat.
“Diaphragm or peristaltic pump? Costs, maintenance and limits compared.”

In short: GEO makes you the recommendation.

SEOgets you into the results.
AIOmakes you readable for AI.
AEOmakes you the answer.
GEOmakes you the recommendation.
Four acronyms, one foundation: do SEO properly and half the work for the other three is already done.
Example · AI competitor comparison · real figures, company name removed

The competitor comparison shows in black and white who gets recommended instead of you.

A German manufacturer of sanitary fittings, eight questions its buyers ask, put to ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews. The name is removed, the findings are not.

Open one of the questions. In your comparison it shows your industry — and the name that is mentioned instead of yours.

CodaAI AI competitor comparison Company name removed · figures unchanged
0%AI visibility
0 of 8questions with a mention
100%of the questions name competitors instead
8individually written buyer questions
ChatGPT

“For mid-sized projects there are several German manufacturers of sanitary fittings that offer good value for money:
1. Grohe … 2. Hansgrohe … 3. Kludi … 4. Hansa …”

Finding: The company under review is not mentioned — even though this very price segment is its core business. Five competitors take the recommendation instead.

Google AI Overviews

“For accessible bathrooms in care homes, we recommend shower systems that meet the German accessibility standard (DIN 18040-2) and combine safety, ergonomics and ease of maintenance. Proven manufacturers include:
1. Grohe … 2. Hansgrohe … 3. Hansa …”

Finding: The AI names standards and requirements — and then providers. The company under review carries matching products, but does not appear in the answer.

ChatGPT

“There are several cheaper alternatives to Hansgrohe that still offer high-quality shower systems:
1. GROHE … 2. Ideal Standard … 3. Hansa … 4. RAVAK … 5. Kludi …”

Finding: The company under review is the cheaper alternative — that is its business model. On exactly this question it is not mentioned.

Excerpt: 3 of 8 individually written buyer questions. View the full comparison →

This is what your comparison looks like. It starts with a single question.

Start snapshot

CodaAI puts your company into the answer.

Your brand in Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT and other AI systems — measurable every month.

Tier 1 · Found

The AI can read and cite your company.

Your website becomes readable for AI systems, your services stand as text instead of inside a PDF, and your AI mentions are measured every month. Included in every tier.

Tier 2 · Recommended

You are where the AI collects its evidence.

Plus presence on the sources AI systems cite from: trade portals, directories, industry media. So the recommendation does not come from you alone.

Tier 3 · Cited

Your market quotes your figures.

You become the source that gets cited: your own studies, expert articles and data your market relies on. The strongest position there is in AI answers.

The monthly price starts at €1,970. Net, six-month minimum term — something you can work out in the calculator instead of asking for a quote.

Every service per tier and the prices →

Free and without obligation.·Result in about 20 seconds, no sign-up.·Worth it even if you have an agency: it gets the building blocks.

Free intro call

30 minutes — web meeting or phone.

In a short call we show you in black and white where your company is visible today in ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and classic search — and where your competitor is being recommended instead. Not a sales pitch. A clear finding.

  • Your AI visibility status — shown live in ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews
  • Which buyer questions you are missing from — and what that costs you in enquiries
  • Pick a slot directly — no form detour
30-minute strategy callVia video or phone Free & no obligation
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Common questions

What prospects ask us first

Questions about price, term and technology are answered on the pages where they belong — here is what keeps coming up about CodaAI itself and about working together.

We make sure your company shows up in AI answers — in ChatGPT, in Google AI Overviews and in classic search. It runs in three tiers: first we make your website readable for AI systems, then we get you present where those systems pull their evidence from, and finally we turn you into a cited source in your own right. Every month you get it in black and white: where you stand.

You start with the free Visibility Snapshot on our homepage: one of your customers’ questions, five AI systems, about 20 seconds. On request, the AI competitor comparison with around 20 buyer questions follows as a personal dashboard. In a 30-minute call we go through the findings together. To begin, we need nothing from you but your domain — expertise from inside your company and a named contact only become necessary once you decide to work with us.

A writing tool delivers text without strategy and without verification. A traditional agency delivers work but asserts the effect. We make it measurable: your audit comes before the contract starts, and monthly monitoring of your AI mentions runs throughout. The basis is our own study with 7,184 documented AI answers (CodaAI study “AI Blind Test 2026”, 449 mid-sized companies in Germany).

Yes — and nobody has to make room. Your agency knows your market, your tone and your audience; we are not replacing that. We bring in the building blocks for AI visibility and hand them over in a form your agency or your marketing team can work with directly. On request, your audit findings go to both sides.

Only if you want us to. Everything that works without access to your systems, we take over completely: content, digital PR, directories and portals, monitoring and reporting. For changes to your website we hand your web team ready-to-implement material — finished copy, concrete code snippets, step-by-step instructions. If you want us to and give us access, we implement it ourselves.

Our core is mid-sized B2B companies in the German-speaking market, typically 50 to 500 employees, where management and marketing decide together. What matters is not the industry but whether your customers research before they buy. Terminology, tone and topics we agree with you at the start. For pure consumer business built on impulse purchases we are the wrong partner — and we will say so.

You do. Every text, graphic and analysis produced during our work together belongs entirely to your company — as do your audit results and every monthly report. That holds after the engagement ends, too.

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