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More and more people ask an AI assistant instead of searching: “Where can I buy good coffee beans in Portland?” If the assistants don’t know your business, you’re not in the answer. Hiveku asks the main AI assistants about your business and your category, scores how each one sees you, and lists what to fix first. This guide checks Northwind Coffee Roasters once.

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Set up your business

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Open AEO

Click Marketing in the left rail, then SEO, then the AEO tab.
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Fill in your business

Type your Brand name and Website domain. Under Category, write what customers would ask an AI assistant for, such as “Coffee roasters in Portland”: the assistants are asked about that category without your name, to see if they bring you up. Industry, Region and Competitors are optional; competitors are found for you if you leave them empty.Check again every week after the first check is ticked to start with. Untick it to run one check only; you can switch weekly checks on later. Checks are included in your plan and are not added to your invoice.
Check again every week after the first check, unticked and outlined, with Checks are included in your plan and are not added to your invoice; Brand name Northwind Coffee Roasters and Website domain northwindroasters.com, outlined; Category Coffee roasters in Portland, outlined; Industry Food and drink, Region United States, Competitors empty; and Save and run first audit, outlined

Northwind's details, for one check

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Run the check

Click Save and run first audit. It takes a minute or two while each assistant is asked in turn.

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Read your score

The AI visibility score at the top is out of 100. Northwind scored 31: most assistants don’t know it yet.
AI visibility score 31 out of 100, outlined; Northwind Coffee Roasters, Graded just now, Weekly checks paused; Checks are included in your plan and are not added to your invoice; Resume weekly checks and Remove, outlined; and Re-grade now, outlined

Northwind's score

Below it, each assistant has its own score, whether it Knows your brand, and five parts of the score:
  • Brand recognition: whether it knows who you are.
  • Market placement: whether it puts you in your category.
  • Presence quality: how well what it says matches your business.
  • Brand sentiment: how positively it talks about you.
  • Share of voice: how often you come up when people ask about your category without naming you.
Four cards: OpenAI 24, Weak, Doesn't know your brand; Perplexity 42, Moderate, Knows your brand, outlined; Gemini 34, Weak; Claude 24, Weak; each with Brand recognition, Market placement, Presence quality, Brand sentiment and Share of voice, and Evidence

How each assistant sees Northwind

Click Evidence on a card to read what that assistant actually answered.

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See what to fix first

Recommendations lists what would help most, marked High or Medium. Click Work on this with AI to have your SEO assistant start on one, such as drafting a page.
Recommendations: High, Get into the AI shortlists, publish content that puts Northwind Coffee Roasters in Coffee roasters in Portland roundups, Share of voice, outlined, with Work on this with AI, outlined; and High, Strengthen entity signals, Brand recognition

The first thing to fix

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Check again, weekly or now

  • Re-grade now runs one more check whenever you like. The Overall score trend draws a line once there are two checks.
  • Resume weekly checks checks again about a week after the last one, then every week. Pause weekly checks stops them until you resume.
  • Remove stops the checks and shows the set-up form again. Hiveku asks first. Your past scores are kept, and come back if you set the business up again.
Remove Northwind Coffee Roasters from AI visibility? The weekly checks stop, and this page shows the setup form again. Removing costs nothing. Your past scores are kept, and show again if you set the brand up later. Keep it, and Remove, outlined

Removing asks first

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