AI Scores / Small Business
AI Visibility Scores for Small Businesses
Small businesses are often the hardest hit by AI search shifts. Without the brand authority of large companies, local businesses need strong structured data and clear entity signals to show up in AI answers. See how small businesses score.
Score Distribution - 181,144 Small Business Brands
Only <1% of small business brands are AI-ready.
The other >99% are being skipped by ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode.
181,144 brands scored - page 62 of 1,812
Want to improve your AI visibility score?
Read: AEO guide for Small Business brands →What an AEO score of 3.5/10 means for small business brands
The average Small Business brand we've scored sits at 3.5/10. That means roughly <1% are positioned to be cited by ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity, while the remaining >99% are at risk of being skipped when AI engines answer customer questions.
Common AEO issues in small business
- Missing Organization JSON-LD with sameAs links to social profiles
- No llms.txt file declaring the brand to AI crawlers
- FAQ content rendered without FAQPage schema, so AI engines cannot extract it
- robots.txt or Cloudflare WAF blocking GPTBot, ClaudeBot, or PerplexityBot
- Thin About pages with no founder/team Person schema
How to improve your small business AEO score
Run a free AEO score for your site and see exactly which signals are missing. The audit takes under a minute and the fix list ships as a one-click JSON-LD + llms.txt + robots.txt patch you can paste into any platform.