Sample report preview: valve exporter AI search visibility (anonymized)
This sample shows what our paid diagnostic delivers. The data is real. The tested company did not commission the test, so this page removes its name, website and town, and the names of its peers.
The full anonymized PDF is in final anonymization and will be posted here. Until then, email [TBD: contact email] to request it.
Scope
- Test date
- 2026-10-15 (17:29–17:37 ET)
- Questions
- 25 English questions from a North American buyer's view: 10 category discovery, 6 comparison, 4 certification, 5 brand (22 US-phrased, 3 Canada-phrased)
- Answers
- 151 API test answers: Perplexity 75, ChatGPT model 45, Gemini model 31 (1–3 runs per question)
- Models
- openai/gpt-5.4-mini (native web search); perplexity/sonar-pro; google/gemini-3.5-flash (Google Search grounding); called via OpenRouter API
- Not included
- Google AI Overviews; web/app screenshots. API results are not what a buyer sees in the web or app versions.
Report structure (15 pages)
- Cover and one-page summary: how often the company appears, who outranks it, and the estimated business at stake (an estimate, with every formula and assumption shown).
- Method: what was and was not tested; engines, models, runs, cost; all 25 questions.
- Per-question evidence: who each engine named for each question.
- Peers and sources: who appears in AI answers and which pages AI reads.
- Accuracy: how each engine describes the company, fact by fact.
- Technical check: crawler access and whether key facts exist as readable text.
- Problem areas and solution outline (outline only in the sample).
- Market reality, revenue method, limits, selection rationale.
- English executive summary.
Key numbers
| Metric | Result | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Mentioned in non-brand answers | 7/126 | All from GPT |
| US-phrased questions | 0/98 | All 3 engines; excludes one question naming the cluster's town |
| Canada-phrased questions | 5/21 | GPT 5/6; Perplexity 0/9; Gemini 0/6 |
| One peer from the same cluster named | 36/126 | Across 11 questions; 251 distinct suppliers named in total |
A different AI can give a completely different picture, which is why we record by engine and market. API results; they may differ from web or app answers and from conditions today.
A raw record
- Question
- best brass ball valve manufacturers in China for US plumbing distributors
- Market
- US
- Engine / model
- Perplexity ·
perplexity/sonar-pro· API - Time
- 2026-10-15 17:29:53 ET
- Sample company mentioned
- No
- Sample company site cited
- No
- Suppliers named
- 6
- Citations
- 20 links; source types: B2B supplier directories / marketplaces, "top Chinese brass valve manufacturers" list articles, a press-release wire, websites of the named suppliers
For US plumbing distributors, the strongest China brass ball valve manufacturers in the results are [Supplier 1], [Supplier 2], [Supplier 3], [Supplier 4], and [Supplier 5] because they explicitly market brass ball valves and broader plumbing-valve lines for export-oriented applications. … Excerpt of the answer; supplier names replaced with [Supplier 1–5]. The full record holds the whole answer, all cited links and call parameters.
Why anonymized
The company in the sample did not commission the test, so all names are removed here. Paid diagnostic results go only to the client.