AI Visibility
Are you the answer?
Buyers increasingly ask an AI assistant before they search. If the assistant does not name you, you never reach the shortlist and you never find out you were skipped. Verbinge measures that directly, in two halves.
1. Answer-engine visibility
Verbinge keeps a set of buyer questions for your workspace, generated from your Brand Brain. None of them mention your company by name. A question that already names you is guaranteed to produce a mention and measures nothing. The useful questions are the ones where you have to earn your place against alternatives.
Every week we ask each one and record:
- Whether you were named in the reply.
- Your position: rank among all brands named. Position 1 means recommended before any competitor.
- Which competitors were named instead, so you can see who is taking the answer.
- An excerpt of the reply, so you can see why it scored the way it did.
From those we derive your visibility rate: the share of tracked questions where you were named. The dashboard always shows the denominator, because 60% means something very different from five questions than from fifty.
Which engine is measured
Verbinge asks the answer engine configured on your workspace, and every result records the provider and model that produced it. Your dashboard attributes the number to that engine by name.
This matters and we will not blur it: engines answer differently, so a result from one is not evidence about another. A number presented as “AI visibility” in general, without naming the engine behind it, is not a measurement you should trust from anyone.
2. AI crawler analytics
Because Verbinge hosts your blog, every request already passes through our own servers. AI crawlers are identified by their user agent as they arrive. There is nothing to install and nothing an ad blocker can hide, because this is measured server-side rather than in the browser.
Verbinge tracks 21 AI crawlers and separates them by what they actually mean for your business. Collapsing them into a single “AI traffic” number destroys the signal, so we never do.
Live answers
Someone asked an assistant a question right now and it fetched your page to answer it. The strongest signal there is.
AI search indexing
An answer engine added your page to the corpus it cites from. A leading indicator of being cited.
Model training
Bulk collection for training. Highest volume, least immediate business meaning. Never mixed into the numbers above.
What is not a crawler
Google-Extended and Applebot-Extended are robots.txt control tokens, not user agents. No request ever arrives identifying as either, so no honest tool can report visits from them. They only control whether your content may be used for training.
How the two halves connect
Crawler analytics is the leading indicator; answer-engine visibility is the outcome. Engines cite content that is specific, factual and well structured, which is why Verbinge grounds every draft in your real website rather than writing generic industry commentary. Getting read is what eventually gets you named.
Running more than one blog?
The Clients view shows the visibility rate for every blog you run side by side, sorted so the ones needing attention come first.