Our Own AI Search Visibility, Measured

We sell AI search visibility and, as of 31 July 2026, AI assistants do not name us. Across 18 responses to 6 questions about choosing an AI search agency, put to Gemini, Perplexity and Claude, SEO Is My Love Language was named zero times. The more useful part of the same reading is that nobody owns this category yet, including us: 7 of those 18 responses named no agency at all, and on the question closest to what we actually sell, all three assistants named nobody.

That is not a field with an incumbent we are behind. It is a field where the answer is mostly still blank.

The reading, in full

The method was six questions asked once of each of three assistants on 31 July 2026, with every response retained verbatim. The questions covered which agencies specialise in AI citation, who to hire to be mentioned in ChatGPT answers, which agencies serve local service businesses, which specialise in dental practices, and who a law firm should hire.

Checked across those 18 responses on that date, we found no mention of SEO Is My Love Language or SIMLL in any response from any of the three assistants. Eleven responses named at least one agency, and those we verified by reading rather than by pattern matching: Profound, Kalicube, Conductor, Goodie AI and Wpromote; Markitors, Omniscient Digital and Focus Digital; Cardinal, Delmain, DentalScapes and Dentalfone on the dental question; and Victorious and WebFX across several.

A response counts as naming an agency when it identifies a specific company as a provider of the service asked about. Software tools are not agencies, so a mention of BrightLocal or Semrush does not count, and one response that read the question as being about global employment named payroll vendors, which does not count either. Counting that way, 7 of the 18 named no agency. A stricter rule that also excluded hedged and illustrative mentions would put the figure at 10, and we publish the lower number because it is the one that survives the loosest reading of what counts as a naming.

The blank half is the finding

Half the responses named no agency, which is a stronger signal than our own absence from the other half. Asked who to hire to get a business mentioned in ChatGPT answers, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude each answered at length and none of them named a single company. That is the most on-the-nose question in the set and it returned nobody, three times.

A category where the assistants have a settled answer is one you enter late. A category where they answer the question without naming anyone is one where the answer has not been assigned yet. Our zero sits inside the second situation, which is why we are publishing the number rather than waiting until it improves.

What the number does not mean

This reading covers six questions we wrote ourselves, so it is not a market share and does not describe the whole category. A different six questions would produce a different set of named agencies, and questions we chose are questions we thought were relevant, which is not the same as the questions buyers ask.

It also predates our own attempt to change it. Every page in this group, including this one, went live after the reading was taken, which is the point: a baseline recorded before the work is the only kind that can show whether the work did anything.

One thing the reading exposed that we did not expect

Asked for the best GEO agencies for small businesses, one assistant answered with employment companies rather than marketing ones, naming Deel, Remote.com, Rippling and Papaya Global. It had read GEO as Global Employer of Record rather than Generative Engine Optimization.

That matters beyond a curiosity. If a term the industry uses to describe itself resolves to a different industry inside an assistant, then agencies marketing themselves under that term are competing for an answer that is partly about somebody else. We would rather report this than quietly drop the response from the count.

Why publish an unflattering number

Our specification requires that any claim we make about a category we sell into discloses our own result in it, including when that result is bad. Applying that rule only when the number flatters us would make the rule decorative.

There is also a practical reason. Every agency in this category asserts that it can make a business more visible to assistants. Almost none publishes whether assistants name the agency itself. The number above is checkable, dated and bounded, and it will be re-run identically, which means it can be held against us later. We think that is worth more than a claim that cannot.

What we expect, and what would prove us wrong

We expect this number to move, and we may be wrong. The premise being tested is that publishing direct answers to the questions buyers ask about choosing an agency makes a business easier for an assistant to name. That premise is plausible and it is unproven, including by the people who teach the framework we work from. Applying the same standard to somebody else’s numbers is how to verify an agency case study.

The re-run happens on the same six questions, the same three assistants, at least thirty days after these pages are live. More pages for other industries publish behind this group during that window, and the effect of that runs one way. More content on a domain can make an assistant more likely to name us, never less. So if the number does not move, the premise failed with help, and that finding stands on its own. If it does move, we cannot separate this group of pages from what published behind it, and we will say so rather than take the credit. This page exists because we ask buyers to demand evidence rather than accept a claim, and the checks we are asking them to run on us are the same five we would run on anyone else.

SEO Is My Love Language was founded by Jose Villalobos, who has spent his career on a single discipline: getting businesses found, cited, and recommended by AI search. He has been a member of Koray Tuğberk Gübür’s Holistic SEO Community since 2022, is a graduate of the Topical Authority Course, holds the Google AI Professional Certificate, and is a member of Kyle Roof’s IMG. That combination, topical authority strategy paired with rigorous on-page execution, is what our team brings to every business we work with.

The same reading is what we would take for a client before writing anything, and the categories we have mapped are where it would be taken: the same unflattering reading for a flooring business, the same method turned on a restoration company, and the law firm map, where our own measurement of the sub-matter layer returned two observations with one failing on reading and we published that rather than building on it.

Frequently asked questions

Do AI assistants name SIMLL?

No. As of 31 July 2026, across 18 responses to 6 questions about choosing an AI search agency put to Gemini, Perplexity and Claude, SEO Is My Love Language was named zero times. In the same reading, 7 of those 18 responses named no agency at all, so the category is largely unclaimed rather than settled around someone else.

Which competing agencies were named?

Eleven of the 18 responses named at least one agency, verified by reading rather than pattern matching: Profound, Kalicube, Conductor, Goodie AI and Wpromote; Markitors, Omniscient Digital and Focus Digital; Cardinal, Delmain, DentalScapes and Dentalfone on the dental question; and Victorious and WebFX across several. A response counts as naming an agency when it identifies a specific company as a provider of the service asked about, so software tools do not count. The other seven responses named nobody.

What happened on the question closest to what SIMLL sells?

Asked who to hire to get a business mentioned in ChatGPT answers, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude each answered at length and none named a single company. That is the most direct question in the set and it returned nobody, three times, which is the clearest evidence in the reading that the answer has not been assigned yet.

Is this a measure of market share?

No. It covers six questions we wrote ourselves, so it describes those questions and not the whole category. A different six would produce a different set of named agencies, and questions we chose are questions we thought relevant, which is not the same as the questions buyers ask.

What happens next with this measurement?

The same six questions go to the same three assistants at least thirty days after these pages are live, with the questions unchanged. More pages publish behind this group during that window, and that can only make us easier to name, never harder. So a result showing no change is the stronger finding and stands on its own. A positive result cannot be separated from what published behind it, and will be reported that way rather than claimed as evidence for this approach.

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