- Why query the models directly instead of using an existing AI visibility tool?
- Most AI visibility tools read from large, pre-aggregated mention databases. Those databases are built around consumer brands with real search volume, and an individual professional or small firm has close to no footprint in them. Querying the assistants live, with questions written for that specific client, is the only way to see what is actually said about someone the aggregate data has never heard of. It runs alongside the standard, more direct check of where the same client stands in search.
- How often is it measured, and why weekly?
- Every week, across both channels. Search positions shift and model answers drift, as providers update models and as the sources behind an answer change, so a single measurement describes a moment, not a direction. A weekly cadence is frequent enough to catch a change while you can still act on it, and steady enough that the trend line means something.
- What is actually reported?
- You either appear or you don't, in the search results and in the assistant's answer alike. Beyond that: the terms used to describe you, who appears alongside you, and which sources the assistant leaned on. Together, those are what you can improve; a position number on its own is not.