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A sample GEO Visibility Report

This is the monthly deliverable every Resonate Labs engagement produces: a full read on where a company stands inside AI answers, and a ranked plan to change it. Walk through it section by section below. The company, competitors, and numbers are invented to show the shape. Real reports run on your own category, your own buyers, and your own data.

  • 150 queries
  • 4 engines, scored individually
  • 5 personas
  • Citation landscape
  • 30-day action plan
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A real report runs on your own category, competitors, and numbers.

A GEO Visibility Report answers one question: when your buyers ask AI assistants about your category, do you show up, and if not, who does instead? Everything below is built to demonstrate the deliverable. None of it is real client data.

The scorecard

The top-line read across the 150 queries this company's buyers actually use.

14%
Visibility
21 of 150 queries
9%
Win Rate
13 of 150 queries won outright
#6
Share of voice
of 8 vendors in the category
129
Invisible
queries where [Client] is absent

What this is and why it matters

Win Rate is scored across all 150 queries: how often [Client] is named the single top pick, whether or not it appears. That's different from its hit rate when visible (62% — see below), which only counts the queries it shows up in. A strong hit rate on a low win rate is the honest, common pattern: competitive when present, but present in a small slice of buyer questions and invisible almost everywhere else. This is a reach problem, not a persuasion problem, and it's exactly what the plan is built to move.

Visibility analysis

Visibility is not one number. The report breaks it down three ways: by buying signal, by where the buyer is in their journey, and by who's asking.

24%
High-intent visibility
on the queries that signal active buying
62%
Hit rate when visible
13 of the 21 queries you appear in, you win
9%
Win Rate
graded across all 150 queries

By funnel stage

Early funnel: where [Client] is absent
Problem Identification
4%
Solution Exploration
8%
Requirements Building
6%
Late funnel: where [Client] competes
Comparison
30%
Shortlisting
28%
Validation
25%
Artifact Creation
12%

What this is and why it matters

This company shows the shape we see most often: a little present near the finish, where buyers compare a shortlist they have already built, and close to absent at the start, where they first describe the problem. Late-funnel presence feels reassuring, but by then the shortlist was assembled without them. The visibility that changes pipeline is the visibility at the beginning, and that is exactly where the gap sits.

By buyer persona

The same run, split by who's asking. Every real report also breaks this out by buying job, product feature, and pain point.

PersonaVisibilityHit rateSeen / total
VP / Head of Engineering
22%
67%8 / 36
Delivery / PMO Lead
16%
60%5 / 31
Ops / RevOps Manager
10%
50%3 / 30
Individual Contributor / IC
9%
67%3 / 33
Founder / Exec Buyer
11%
50%2 / 20

What this is and why it matters

Visibility is uneven across the buying committee. Here the brand reaches engineering leaders reasonably well but is nearly absent for the ops and IC personas who often start the search. Knowing which persona can't find you tells you which content to build first, and for whom.

Share of voice

Who owns the AI answer when your buyers ask, and where you land against them.

Competitive Share of Voice

VendorMentionsShare of Voice
Competitor A64
18.6%
Competitor B52
15.1%
Competitor C47
13.7%
Competitor D38
11.0%
Competitor E31
9.0%
[Client]18
5.2%
Competitor F15
4.4%
Competitor G11
3.2%

What this is and why it matters

Share of voice counts every brand mention across the run and ranks the field. Sitting sixth of eight, behind five competitors, means the engines reach for someone else first when your buyers ask. The brands above the line are not necessarily better products. They are more legible to AI, because they have published the content that answers the question being asked. This is the scoreboard a 30-day plan is built to move.

Head-to-head: 11W–8L when you meet a competitor in the same answer

On the queries where both brands appear, who does the engine rank first.

vs Competitor A

3W – 2L

22 shared answers

vs Competitor B

4W – 2L

18 shared answers

vs Competitor C

2W – 3L

15 shared answers

vs Competitor D

2W – 1L

11 shared answers

What this is and why it matters

A winning head-to-head record confirms the product competes once it's in the room. That's the reassuring half of the story, and the trap: it's easy to read a positive record as "we're fine." The share-of-voice rank above is the reality check. You win most match-ups but enter far too few of them.

Where you're invisible

A sample of the early-funnel queries where [Client] never appears and a competitor wins the answer.

Invisibility Gaps

Buyer query (early funnel)Who wins it
best project management software for distributed teamsCompetitor A
how to track dependencies across multiple teamsCompetitor C
agile project management for fully remote teamsCompetitor B
project management software with built-in time trackingCompetitor A
how to run an effective sprint retrospectiveCompetitor D
resource planning tools for growing agenciesCompetitor E

What this is and why it matters

A gap is a buyer query where the brand never appears and a competitor does. These are high-intent, early-funnel questions, the moments a buyer is choosing the vocabulary that frames everything after. Closing them is pipeline, not vanity. Each row is a buying conversation happening right now without you in it, and the brand that answers it shapes the requirements the buyer carries into every later stage.

Where AI looks for answers

Visibility is downstream of citations. The engines answer by pulling from pages they trust, so the report maps exactly which pages get cited, yours and your competitors'.

9
Pages cited
distinct [Client] URLs the engines quote
#5
Domain citation rank
how often your domain is cited vs the field
8
Third-party gaps
high-authority sites citing rivals, not you

Your cited pages

The pages doing the work, ranked by how many answers quote them.

[client].com/integrations/jira11 citations
[client].com/8 citations
[client].com/product/time-tracking6 citations
[client].com/compare/[client]-vs-competitor-a5 citations
[client].com/pricing4 citations

High-authority sources citing competitors, not you

The third-party pages the engines trust for this category, and who they currently name.

g2.com/categories/project-managementCompetitor A, C · 14
capterra.com/project-management-softwareCompetitor A, B · 11
reddit.com/r/projectmanagementCompetitor B · 7
theproductmanager.com/toolsCompetitor C · 5

What this is and why it matters

Citations are the raw material of every AI answer. Your own cited pages show which content already earns trust, so you double down on what works. The third-party gaps are the bigger prize: when G2, Capterra, and the category's go-to review sites name your competitors and never you, the engines inherit that bias on every related question. Closing citation gaps, on your site and on the sources AI leans on, is what moves visibility in the next crawl.

Every query, every engine

The numbers above roll up from the raw run: all 150 buyer queries, scored on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity individually. The report lets you open any query and read exactly what each engine said, who it picked, and which sources it cited.

Hit rate when visible, by engine 13 of 21 queries where you appear
62%
  • ChatGPT71%5/7
  • Perplexity60%3/5
  • Gemini57%4/7
  • Claude50%3/6

Win rate isn't uniform. You're strongest on ChatGPT and weakest on Claude, so the plan can prioritize the engines where you're closest to breaking through.

Two queries, opened up

"best project management software for distributed teams"

Ops / RevOps ManagerSolution explorationinvisible · 0/4
ChatGPTInvisibleTop pick: Competitor A · cited g2.com, competitor-a.com
ClaudeInvisibleTop pick: Competitor A · cited capterra.com
GeminiInvisibleTop pick: Competitor C · cited theproductmanager.com
PerplexityInvisibleTop pick: Competitor B · cited reddit.com

"[Client] vs Competitor A for engineering teams"

VP / Head of EngineeringComparisonvisible · 3/4
ChatGPTVisibleTop pick: [Client] · cited [client].com/compare
ClaudeVisibleNamed as co-leader with Competitor A
GeminiVisibleTop pick: [Client] · cited [client].com/integrations
PerplexityInvisibleTop pick: Competitor A

What this is and why it matters

Every headline number traces back to queries like these. The first is a high-intent, early-funnel question the brand loses on all four engines, a clear content gap. The second shows it winning the comparison it's built for, everywhere except Perplexity. Seeing the actual answers, picks, and citations is how you turn a score into a to-do list, and how you verify the fix worked on the next crawl.

The 30-day action plan

Every report ends with a ranked plan, not just a diagnosis. The full plan here runs 28 items across three layers; see the sample action plan for how the deliverable is structured, across the three layers, on and off your own site. A representative sample follows.

L1

Unblock AI crawlers on the docs subdomain, where robots.txt and a noindex tag are currently hiding the most-cited pages in the category.

L1

Add Organization and SoftwareApplication schema to the homepage so engines can resolve what the company is and which category it competes in.

L2

Rewrite the integrations page to answer "does it connect to [tool]" directly, in extractable language, for the integrations buyers name most.

L2

Add a plan-comparison table to the pricing page so engines can lift tiers and limits cleanly into a comparison answer.

L3

New page targeting the invisible early-funnel cluster: project management for distributed teams, written to match how buyers phrase the problem before they know the category.

L3

New comparison hub: the category's workflow tools compared, structured so each row is a clean, citable answer to a head-to-head query.

What this is and why it matters

Layer 1 is technical fixes that gate whether AI can read the site at all. Layer 2 optimizes pages that already rank so they answer the question being asked. Layer 3 builds net-new content aimed at the invisible clusters, on your own site and on the third-party sources AI engines cite. The layers are ordered on purpose: a new page cannot win an answer if a crawler cannot reach it, so the gating fixes come first. The plan is sized to a team's real deployment capacity, not an idealized roadmap.

The strategic read

How the numbers add up to a single story, and what to do about it.

[Synthesis] [Client] reads as wins-when-present, absent-by-default. The brand appears in just 14% of the 150 buyer queries, yet it wins 62% of the ones it does enter and holds a positive 11–8 head-to-head record. The problem is reach, not persuasion. Visibility concentrates at the late funnel, near 28% at shortlisting, and collapses at the start where buyers first describe their problem, at 4%. The citation map shows why: G2, Capterra, and the category's go-to review sites cite Competitors A through C and never [Client], so the engines inherit that bias on every related question. By the time [Client] enters the conversation, the requirements have already been framed by someone else. The 28 prioritized actions attack that gap in three layers: 4 technical fixes that gate crawlability, 15 optimizations to pages that already rank, and 9 net-new builds aimed at the invisible early-funnel clusters and the third-party sources AI leans on.

Frequently asked questions

What people ask most when they first see a sample report.

Is this a real client's report?

No. It is a representative example built with illustrative data to show the shape of the deliverable. The company, competitors, queries, and numbers are all invented. A real report runs on your own category, your own buyers, your own competitors, and your own numbers.

How do I get a report for my company?

Start with a free AI Visibility Snapshot. A full AI Visibility Crawl then runs 150 buyer-intent queries across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, scores where you appear per engine, maps the citation landscape, and returns a ranked 30-day action plan like the one shown here.

Which AI engines does the report cover, and is it broken out per engine?

Every report scores visibility across the four engines buyers actually use: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, and it breaks the numbers out per engine, down to what each one said on each query and which sources it cited. The methodology is documented in How We Measure GEO.

What do the metrics mean?

Visibility is how often you appear at all. Win Rate is how often you're named the single top pick, scored across all 150 queries (including the ones you're absent from). Hit rate when visible is how often you win only among the queries you appear in, so it's always higher. Share of voice is who owns the answer across all brand mentions. Each term is defined with examples in the GEO Metrics Glossary.

Next step

See this on your own data

Start with a free AI Visibility Snapshot for a no-commitment read on where you stand. The full Visibility Crawl is the real report this sample previews, run on your category, your buyers, and your competitors, scored across every engine:

  • Where you appear today across the four engines
  • Who is winning the answers you are absent from
  • The first moves that would change it