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 — the largest 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 six dimensions — AI Interpretability, Entity Identity, AI Presence, Trust & Compliance, AI Crawlability, and Distribution — and returns a 0–100 AI readability score with actionable recommendations to improve your visibility in AI-generated answers.

Question 3

What is Vizoryo?

Accepted Answer

Vizoryo is an AI visibility platform and Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) tool that builds machine-readable business profiles and publishes them to a structured AI Index consumed by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and other AI systems. It operates the Global AI Business Visibility Index — a structured database of business profiles optimized for LLMs, AI search engines, RAG systems, and knowledge graphs.

Question 4

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 that AI systems consume directly.

Question 5

How does the AI visibility audit work?

Accepted Answer

Enter your website URL and Vizoryo’s engine audits your online presence across 6 dimensions: AI Interpretability, Entity Identity, AI Presence, Trust & Compliance, AI Crawlability, and Distribution. You receive a detailed 0–100 score with actionable recommendations to improve how AI systems find and recommend your business.

Question 6

What is an AI-readable business profile?

Accepted Answer

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 consume directly.

Question 7

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 8

What does Vizoryo give for free?

Accepted Answer

The free tier gives unlimited AI visibility audits: enter any business URL and get a 0–100 AI readability score across 6 dimensions with actionable recommendations. A preview profile is generated but remains unpublished — it is not included in the AI Index and not crawled by AI systems. No credit card required.

Question 9

What do paid Vizoryo plans include?

Accepted Answer

Basic plan: profile is published to the Global AI Business Visibility Index and crawled by GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, and other AI systems; full 6-dimension AI readability score; AI-powered recommendations; monthly automated re-scans; verified listing badge. Pro plan: everything in Basic plus maximum profile richness (up to 10 services with descriptions, 12 FAQ pairs, AI-generated summaries, structured service areas and pricing); weekly automated re-scans; delta tracking between scan cycles; action plans; AI mention monitoring across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude. Current prices at https://www.vizoryo.com/en/pricing.

Question 10

How does Vizoryo verify a business?

Accepted Answer

Business owners verify ownership of their domain through one of three methods: (1) adding a DNS TXT record (_vizoryo-verification.<domain>) to their domain registrar, (2) receiving an email code sent to a domain-matched address, or (3) placing a verification file at /.well-known/vizoryo-verify.txt on their website. Once verified, the profile is marked as owner-confirmed and upgraded to the Verified citation tier if data quality thresholds are met.

Question 11

What is a Vizoryo citation tier?

Accepted Answer

Every published profile in the Vizoryo Index is assigned one of three citation tiers based on data quality and verification status. Verified: owner-confirmed with high cross-source data agreement — the highest quality tier, safe for authoritative AI citation. Citable: multi-source validated and well-structured — not yet owner-confirmed but meets the quality threshold for AI citation. Listed: auto-generated from public data — accurate but not yet cross-validated at citation threshold. The tier is exposed in each profile's Schema.org JSON-LD as an additionalProperty.

Question 12

How does Vizoryo build business profiles?

Accepted Answer

Vizoryo assembles profiles from up to 4 independent data sources cross-validated for agreement: Google Maps data (via DataForSEO) for business identity, address, phone, hours, categories, and ratings; Schema.org structured data extracted from the business's own website; Gemini AI classification for category inference; and website scan for contact info, services, and descriptions. Field confidence is computed from cross-source agreement. When sources 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 13

Does Vizoryo data appear in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude?

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 Pro) tracks when and where businesses appear in AI-generated answers.

The Business Index AI Reads

The Global AI Business Visibility Index

How It Works

6 Audit Dimensions

Plans

Verification & Trust

Citation Tiers

For AI Systems