34 questions come up again and again. Here are your answers.
Five areas — from how we work together, the snapshot and how AI visibility is measured through to price and term. Is yours missing? Get in touch.
CodaAI and working together
Who we are, how a project gets going, and how we sit alongside agencies and in-house teams.
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.
Visibility Snapshot
What the free snapshot shows, why results vary and how you get the AI competitor comparison.
Nothing. The snapshot and the AI competitor comparison are free and without obligation.
Because your customers do not ask that way. Anyone who already knows your name is not searching for suppliers. Only the question of a customer who does not know you yet tells you something – for example “Which suppliers of … are leading in Germany?”.
AI systems write every answer anew. Two identical lists in the same order are the exception. The snapshot is therefore a dated sample; the picture only becomes reliable across many questions – which is exactly what the competitor comparison does.
Enter your business email address below the result and click the link in the confirmation email. Then add your name, and we prepare the comparison for your website. You receive it by email, usually by the next working day.
The comparison shows how AI talks about a specific company and its competitors. That is why we only send it to an address that belongs to the website checked – not to free email addresses.
We use your details to prepare the comparison and send it to you. You will find the details in our privacy policy.
Digital Visibility
How AI visibility comes about, how we measure it, and why nobody can guarantee a placement.
SEO gets your website ranking on Google and Bing — the foundation. AEO gets your content into the answer box above the results, the Google AI Overview. GEO gets your company recommended by name in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude. The three build on each other: whatever an AI system cannot read, it will not cite.
Apparently not. In our own study, 35% of companies with more than 100 top-10 rankings on Google are completely invisible in ChatGPT (CodaAI study “AI Blind Test 2026”, 449 companies). Classic search engines judge pages; AI systems judge evidence — and for that, what counts is who writes about you away from your own website.
Every month we put the same buyer questions to the AI systems and document three things: how often your company is mentioned, which sources get cited for it, and how your share compares with your competitors. One thing matters for reading the numbers: AI answers are not deterministic — the same question can be answered differently tomorrow. What can honestly be claimed is the trend, not a single day.
Because nobody credibly can. There is no scheme through which a mention could be bought or booked, and the same question may be answered differently tomorrow. Anyone promising “number one in ChatGPT” is promising something technically impossible. We work the levers that demonstrably move the needle, and we put the development on the table every month — including the months when it stays flat.
From measurement, not opinion. Brand mentions on third-party sites correlate with AI visibility at r = 0.664; backlinks only at r = 0.218 (Ahrefs, 75,000 brands). That is why the mention comes first with us, not the link. Each of the fifteen building blocks is tied to an observation like that, either from published research or from our own study. We set out which one in the intro call.
First mentions typically appear in the German market after 8 to 12 weeks, dependable visibility after 3 to 6 months. The reason is the sequence behind it: content has to be found, classified and picked up by others before an AI system uses it as evidence. Visibility is something you build, not a switch you flip.
The weighting changes, not the principle. No provider discloses why it recommends one company over another, and every system works differently. So we do not bet on a trick but on the factors that recur across all of them: readability, third-party evidence, and substance of your own worth citing. Whatever shifts, you see in the monthly monitoring — and we adjust the plan.
Price, term and contract
What makes up the monthly price, how long you commit for, and what happens afterwards.
From three items: the number of articles multiplied by the unit price of your tier, the optional add-ons (translations, videos), and the fixed base fee of your tier. Example: 4 articles × €420 = €1,680, plus the €2,790 base fee of Tier 2 · Recommended = €4,470 per month. All net, all on one invoice.
Because the volume discount sits on the tier, not on the article count: €490 in Tier 1, €420 in Tier 2, €390 in Tier 3. Anyone who needs more content gets there more cheaply in a higher tier — and gets the stronger levers along with it. One price per tier instead of a discount table.
A comparable agency retainer in the German-speaking market averages around €3,800 per month, with the mid-market band running from €1,500 to €5,000 (DACH market benchmark 2026). With us the monthly price starts at €1,970 — and you can work it out in the calculator instead of requesting it. The difference comes from the division of labour: people decide and verify, AI handles what repeats.
Six months on monthly billing, because visibility needs that long to become measurable at all. Commit to twelve months and you pay 10% less. There is no automatic rollover: renewing is an active decision. When it ends you keep all content, audit results and reports — with no exit fee.
Moving up is possible at any time from the following month, with the running minimum term continuing. Moving down takes effect at the end of the minimum term. The number of articles within your tier you can adjust at every renewal date.
Put your configuration together in the calculator and book the 30-minute call. You receive the quote in writing afterwards — ready to forward to management or procurement. We bill by invoice; you do not need a credit card.
Live webinar
Registration, agenda and recording of the webinar “AI writes the shortlist.” — held in German.
German. Both speakers present in German and the Q&A runs in German. The study behind it measures companies in the German market. If you do not follow German comfortably, the webinar will not serve you well — the Digital Visibility Audit and the 30-minute call are available in English at any time.
After registering you receive a confirmation by email. We send the access link to the same address in good time before the session — there is no newsletter and no advertising.
Only if you explicitly allow it when registering — and then anonymously, without your company name being named. Your personal analysis goes to you and nobody else.
Attending is free, and everyone registered receives the guide “Die KI schreibt die Shortlist.” (in German). There is no project commitment and no sales block in the webinar. Anyone who wants to talk through their results can book a 30-minute call voluntarily. That is all.
Yes. Copilot runs on the same GPT models as ChatGPT, so everything we show for checking your own company works there in exactly the same way. Our measurements cover ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Mode; the mechanism by which AI assistants recommend or omit a provider is the same in Copilot.
It helps, but it is rarely enough. In the KI-Blindtest B2B-Tech 2026, around 13% of the sources the AI relies on lead to comparison portals and directories, around 70% to vendor websites — often to your competitors’ guides and best-of lists. The AI combines several sources. If you are only on the portal, you leave the rest to others.
Especially then: in the KI-Blindtest Mittelstand 2026, 35% of the companies with over 100 top-10 rankings on Google were completely invisible in ChatGPT. Classic SEO strength and AI visibility are two different disciplines — and it is exactly this SEO paradox we demonstrate live.
Yes. Everyone who registers receives the recording and the guide “Die KI schreibt die Shortlist.” by email afterwards — including those who cannot make the live session.
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