Search used to decide who found you. Increasingly, an AI assistant answers the buyer's question directly and names a shortlist. If your company is not on that shortlist, or is described inaccurately, you never enter the conversation. visdx makes that visible and measurable.
1. Start with real buyer questions
You enter your company, an optional website, and the questions your buyers actually ask, such as “who are the top providers of X” or “best software for Y.” These are the moments where an assistant decides who to recommend.
2. Ask the assistants, capture the answers
Each question is put to an AI assistant with live web search, exactly as a buyer would ask it. The assistant is not told it is being audited, so the answer reflects what a real buyer would see. Every answer is captured word for word.
3. Ask again. Several times, not once
This is the step almost every tool in this category skips, and it is the one that decides whether a number means anything. AI answers are not deterministic: ask the same question twice and the assistant runs a fresh search and phrases a fresh answer. It rarely drops your company, but the list of rivals named beside you changes every time.
So visdx asks each question between 3 and 7 times. The first 3 go out in parallel, because three sequential search-grounded calls is several minutes of watching a spinner while three concurrent ones cost the same wall-clock as one. If those answers agree, sampling stops there: agreement is the evidence that more asks would tell you nothing new. If they disagree, no number of extra asks can restore agreement, so the run goes straight to 7 and reports the split honestly rather than pretending to a verdict.
You see all of it. The results page draws a grid of brands against asks, so you can read which competitors were named on which ask, click any mark to read the answer it came from, and see for yourself how much a single ask would have missed. A failed call is drawn as hatching rather than as an empty cell, because a missing measurement is not an absence.
4. Score presence, position, sentiment, competitors
A separate analysis reads only the captured answer and scores it: are you mentioned, where do you land relative to others, what is the tone, and which competitors own the answer instead. Keeping the answering and the scoring separate is what keeps the score honest.
5. Audit your site's AI readiness
If you provide a domain, visdx checks whether your own site is built to be read and cited by AI: whether the crawlers that actually decide citation (OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, Claude-User, PerplexityBot, Googlebot, and bingbot) are allowed in your robots.txt, whether content is present in the initial HTML, structured data, how clearly the site establishes what you do, and your sitemap. Crawler access is weighted as the single heaviest on-site signal, because an assistant that cannot read your site cannot cite it. On-site hygiene matters, but the larger driver of whether assistants cite you is off-site presence.
6. Get a 90-day plan
Finally, visdx synthesizes everything into key findings and a three-phase 90-day plan with specific actions. Your scores show on screen; the full report, including the plan, is delivered by text.
Common questions
What does visdx measure?
For each buyer question, visdx measures whether an AI assistant names your company, where you appear relative to competitors, the sentiment, and which competitors show up instead.
How many times is each question asked?
Between 3 and 7 times. Sampling is adaptive: the first 3 asks go out in parallel and stop there if they agree, and go to 7 if they disagree. The results page shows every ask as a column so you can see which competitors moved between them, and clicking any mark reads back the answer it came from.
Does it use live data?
Yes. The answering step uses live web search, so answers reflect what assistants would tell a buyer today, not a static snapshot.
What is the on-site domain audit?
An optional check of your own website: whether AI crawlers are allowed, whether your content is in the initial HTML, whether you publish structured data, how clearly the site states what you do, and whether you have a sitemap.
How do I get the full report?
Your scores appear on screen. The full report, including the 90-day plan, is delivered by text so it lands where you will read it.