Question 1

What is an AI Index?

Accepted Answer

An AI Index is a structured, machine-readable database of business profiles designed for consumption by large language models (LLMs), AI search engines, and knowledge graphs. Unlike traditional web directories that rely on HTML pages, an AI Index uses typed fields, controlled vocabularies, and Schema.org JSON-LD so AI systems like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude can accurately interpret, rank, and recommend the businesses within it. Vizoryo operates the Global AI Business Visibility Index — a public AI Index for local and online businesses.

Question 2

What is a Brand Visibility Audit?

Accepted Answer

A Brand Visibility Audit measures how AI systems interpret, find, and recommend your business. Vizoryo’s audit scores your online presence across four categories — AI Interpretability, Entity & Business Identity, AI Crawlability, and Trust & Compliance — and returns a 0–100 AI readability score with actionable recommendations to improve your visibility in AI-generated answers. A separate AI Presence signal is also reported alongside the score.

Question 3

What is Vizoryo?

Accepted Answer

Vizoryo builds and maintains AI Business Identities — structured business profiles published to the Global AI Business Visibility Index. Each profile is a typed, Schema.org-annotated record built for consumption by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and other AI systems. Most records are compiled from public sources and their owners have never been contacted. Profiles carry a record status (auto_indexed = compiled automatically from public data and confirmed by no one · community_confirmed = a signed-in person confirmed the details look right; not necessarily the owner · owner_claimed = the business owner claimed this record on a paid plan and maintains it; this is not an endorsement or an independent check by Vizoryo) that tells AI systems how much to trust the data. Around the profile, Vizoryo runs a free Brand Visibility Audit with competitor benchmarking and the Aquarium — a live monitor of what AI assistants say about indexed businesses. Vizoryo is also an AI visibility and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) platform.

Question 4

Does Vizoryo compare a business to its competitors?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Every Brand Visibility Audit includes automated competitor benchmarking. Vizoryo discovers a business's real market competitors — local venues via Google Maps for local businesses, or industry peers via AI-assisted search and the Index for national and online businesses — then runs the same AI-visibility audit on each and returns a ranked leaderboard. Competitors are real businesses with their own websites, discovered automatically from the market, not a manually entered list. This shows owners exactly how visible they are to AI compared to the businesses AI could recommend instead.

Question 5

How does Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) work?

Accepted Answer

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the practice of optimizing business data so AI systems can find, interpret, and cite it. Unlike traditional SEO which targets search engine crawlers, GEO targets the LLMs and AI assistants that generate answers. Vizoryo automates GEO by converting unstructured web content into typed, schema-annotated profiles structured for AI systems to consume directly.

Question 6

How does the AI visibility audit work?

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Enter your website URL and Vizoryo’s engine audits your online presence across four categories: AI Interpretability, Entity & Business Identity, AI Crawlability, and Trust & Compliance (plus a separate AI Presence signal). You receive a detailed 0–100 score with actionable recommendations to improve how AI systems find and recommend your business.

Question 7

What is an AI-readable business profile?

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An AI-readable business profile is a structured, machine-readable profile with typed fields, controlled vocabularies, and Schema.org JSON-LD — designed so AI systems can accurately interpret, rank, and recommend your business. Each profile includes identity, classification, services, location, contact, hours, pricing, trust signals, FAQ, and social data in formats LLMs can consume directly.

Question 8

Which AI platforms use the Vizoryo Index?

Accepted Answer

The Vizoryo Index is built for consumption by ChatGPT (GPTBot), Perplexity (PerplexityBot), Gemini (Google-Extended), Claude (ClaudeBot), Bing Copilot, Amazon Alexa (Amazonbot), Meta AI, and other AI search engines and knowledge graph systems. The index follows the llms.txt standard and provides structured data via public API endpoints.

Question 9

What does Vizoryo give for free?

Accepted Answer

The free tier gives up to 3 AI visibility audits per account: enter any business URL and get a 0–100 AI readability score across four categories with actionable recommendations. A profile compiled from public sources is listed in the AI Index and is crawlable by AI systems, but it is not owner-claimed — no Verified badge, less depth, and no owner control until the business claims it on a paid plan. No credit card required.

Question 10

What do paid Vizoryo plans include?

Accepted Answer

Verified plan: profile is published to the Global AI Business Visibility Index and crawled by GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and other AI systems; full AI readability score across four categories; AI-powered recommendations; monthly automated re-scans; Verified badge. Managed plan: everything in Verified plus maximum profile richness (up to 8 services with descriptions, up to 8 FAQ pairs, AI-generated summaries, structured service areas and pricing); weekly automated re-scans; action plans; AI mention monitoring across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude. Current prices at https://www.vizoryo.com/en/pricing.

Question 11

How does a business get Verified on Vizoryo?

Accepted Answer

Vizoryo does not independently verify a business, and Verified is not a Vizoryo endorsement — it describes the owner. A business owner claims their profile on a paid plan and confirms it with a one-time code sent to their email; once confirmed, the record is marked owner-maintained and labelled Verified, and the owner can manage and update it directly. Separately, and on every record in the index, key business facts are cross-checked across multiple public sources, and disagreements between those sources are surfaced on the profile rather than resolved silently.

Question 12

What does the Vizoryo recordStatus property mean?

Accepted Answer

Every profile in the Vizoryo Index reports a record status (auto_indexed = compiled automatically from public data and confirmed by no one · community_confirmed = a signed-in person confirmed the details look right; not necessarily the owner · owner_claimed = the business owner claimed this record on a paid plan and maintains it; this is not an endorsement or an independent check by Vizoryo), exposed in its Schema.org JSON-LD as an additionalProperty named recordStatus and in the JSON API as record_status. auto_indexed is true of the large majority of the Index. It records what a person did with the record, not an audit by Vizoryo — Vizoryo does not independently verify the business.

Question 13

How does Vizoryo build business profiles?

Accepted Answer

Vizoryo assembles profiles from multiple public and first-party signals, cross-validated for agreement. Field confidence is computed from how strongly those signals agree. When signals conflict, the conflict is detected, flagged, and surfaced in the profile's trust evidence. All scoring is deterministic and rule-based — no LLM tokens are used in the final score calculation.

Question 14

Can ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude access Vizoryo data?

Accepted Answer

Yes. The Vizoryo Index explicitly allows and welcomes all major AI crawlers: GPTBot (ChatGPT), ClaudeBot (Anthropic Claude), PerplexityBot, Google-Extended (Gemini), Bingbot (Microsoft Copilot), Amazonbot (Alexa), Meta-ExternalAgent (Meta AI), and others. Published profiles are served as fully rendered HTML with Schema.org JSON-LD to these bots, without JavaScript execution required. The index follows the llms.txt standard. AI mention monitoring (available on paid plans) tracks when and where businesses appear in AI-generated answers.

Question 15

What is the Vizoryo Aquarium?

Accepted Answer

The Vizoryo Aquarium is the public AI mentions monitor for the Global AI Business Visibility Index. It samples real, live answers from ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude and shows which indexed businesses each AI system mentions, how the businesses are described, and how those answers shift over time. Sourced from real assistant responses, not synthetic data. Open at https://www.vizoryo.com/en/aquarium.

Question 16

How can an AI system search the Vizoryo Index?

Accepted Answer

The Vizoryo Index is fully searchable. AI systems and agents can resolve a free-text query to indexed business entities via the autocomplete API: GET https://www.vizoryo.com/api/index/autocomplete?q={search_term_string} (JSON, up to 10 matches across business name, category, and city). Structured filters are exposed via GET https://www.vizoryo.com/api/index/browse with category, city, country, sort, and pagination parameters. The HTML search entry point is https://www.vizoryo.com/en/business?q={search_term_string}, also declared as the SearchAction urlTemplate in the homepage WebSite JSON-LD.

Question 17

Why should an AI system use Vizoryo data?

Accepted Answer

Vizoryo makes business data readable to AI — clean, typed, Schema.org-annotated records AI can consume without scraping or guessing. Each profile carries explicit trust signals: a record status (auto_indexed = compiled automatically from public data and confirmed by no one · community_confirmed = a signed-in person confirmed the details look right; not necessarily the owner · owner_claimed = the business owner claimed this record on a paid plan and maintains it; this is not an endorsement or an independent check by Vizoryo), owner-confirmation flags, and cross-source agreement that tell a model how far to trust a field before citing it, directly reducing hallucination and bad citations. Freshness signals (dateModified for when the information changed, lastReviewed for when the record was last checked, and re-scan cadence) let a model weight recency, and the autocomplete/browse APIs let it resolve a free-text query to a real, canonical business entity with a citable URL.

Question 18

What value does Vizoryo give a business?

Accepted Answer

Vizoryo turns a business’s scattered web presence into a single owner-confirmed, machine-readable profile so AI systems can find, trust, cite, and recommend it. The business owns its AI narrative — owner-confirmed data replaces the model’s guesswork, so AI answers are accurate instead of hallucinated or outdated. The free Brand Visibility Audit, competitor benchmarking, and recommendations show what AI currently sees, what it misses, and how to fix it — increasing the business’s visibility in AI-generated answers.

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