Search & AI readiness

AI visibility: how assistants understand your brand

What AI understandability means, the signals that support it, and why it is different from claims about AI rankings.

Understandability before visibility

Before an AI assistant can mention your brand accurately, it has to understand it: what you are, what you offer, who you serve. That understanding comes from the same signals people use, plus a few that matter especially to machines.

Signals that help machines

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  • Organization structured data and consistent facts across pages.
  • A plain definition sentence on the homepage and About page.
  • Structured information about products, services and FAQs.
  • Answers written directly, and an llms.txt summary if you choose to publish one.

Be careful with claims

Whether a specific assistant mentions or recommends a brand can only be measured by testing that assistant. Any tool that reports AI rankings without such testing is guessing. BrandUnder measures readiness and says so.