# BeViz

> BeViz is a free AI visibility audit for small and medium businesses. It runs a live check across the five major AI answer engines — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews — and reports whether they recommend a business when customers ask, who they recommend instead, and the steps to get found. Results are real (an engine that does not answer is reported honestly, never given a fabricated score).

## Key definitions

- **AI visibility**: whether AI assistants (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude) name and recommend a business when someone asks them for a recommendation.
- **AEO (Answer Engine Optimization)**: getting a business named and cited inside the direct answers AI and answer engines give, rather than only ranking as a link.
- **GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)**: optimizing an online presence so generative AI includes and cites the business; used interchangeably with AEO.
- **AI Overviews**: Google's AI-generated summaries shown above the traditional search links, which often name specific businesses.
- **SEO vs AEO/GEO**: SEO ranks your website in a list of links; AEO and GEO are about being named inside the AI-generated answer.

## What drives AI visibility for local businesses

AI engines assemble local recommendations from the sources they trust — reviews, business profiles, and directories (ChatGPT leans heavily on Foursquare, plus Yelp and Bing). The biggest levers are a complete Google Business Profile, review volume and recency that is consistent across platforms, and matching name/address/phone details across the directories AI reads. These local fundamentals matter more than website content tricks, and AI recommendations cannot be bought or gamed.

## Pages

- [AI Visibility Audit (home)](https://beviz.ai/): run a free live audit across 5 AI answer engines.
- [Privacy Policy](https://beviz.ai/privacy)

Last updated: 2026-10-02