AI answer-engine visibility · Birmingham, AL

Somebody just asked an AI who to hire.

In your category. In the Birmingham metro. Probably this week.

It named three companies. You weren’t one.

There was no click to track and no ranking that would have warned you.

There is a reason. It is buried, and it is measurable.

Entity records, review language, and the sources these models actually read.

So we go down and get it.

Forty prompts. Six assistants. Seven days. One number you can act on.

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What was in the chest

The scoreboard nobody has been keeping.

Pick a category. This is the shape of what comes back — who the assistants name, how often, and where you land against them.

SCRYING CONSOLE SAMPLE OUTPUT

TIMES NAMED — ACROSS 40 CUSTOMER PROMPTS

Illustrative run. The company names above are invented for this demo — no real business is shown as present or absent. Your audit uses the real ones, pulled from live assistant responses.

What changed

Ten blue links stopped being the whole game.

You probably felt this before you could measure it: rankings hold, impressions hold, the phone rings less. Here is what the data says, from sources with nothing to sell you.

68% of U.S. Google searches ended without a single click, January–April 2026. It was 60% in 2024. SparkToro / Similarweb
~60% drop in click-through rate on searches where an AI Overview appears. SparkToro / Similarweb
8 vs 15 percent of visits where someone clicked a result — with an AI summary, versus without one. Pew Research Center
900M people use ChatGPT every week. Some share of them are asking it who to hire. OpenAI, reported Feb 2026

None of those numbers tell you whether an assistant said your name. That is a different measurement, and almost nobody is taking it.

The gap

Ask your current agency what your AI share of voice is. Watch what happens.

WHAT THEY MEASURE

Position in a list of links

Rank tracking answers "where does our page sit in the results?" That question still matters. It is no longer the only question, and it is not the one your customer is asking an assistant.

WHAT DECIDES THE JOB

Whether a model says your name

An assistant does not return a list. It returns one answer with two to five businesses in it. You are in that answer or you are invisible. There is no page two to climb from.

Most local agency stacks — the rank tracker, the call tracker, the Google Business Profile dashboard — never send a single query to an assistant. They cannot tell you what ChatGPT said about your category yesterday, because they never asked it. That is not incompetence. It is a tooling gap that opened faster than the tools did.

Chapter break

Every category has a dragon.

In most categories, one business gets named far more than everyone else. Not always the biggest. Not always the best at the actual work. Usually the one whose name, address, reviews, and citations all agree with each other everywhere the models look.

The audit tells you who your dragon is, how far ahead it is, and which signals it holds that you do not. Then you go get them. No sword required.

The offer

The AI Visibility Audit

One category. One metro. A number you can act on, and a list of what to fix in the order it should be fixed.

WHAT GETS RUN
  • 40 prompts, written the way an actual customer types — not keywords, questions.
  • Six assistants: ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Perplexity, Copilot, and Grok. Visibility does not transfer between them, so each is scored separately.
  • Multiple passes per prompt, because these systems do not answer identically twice.
  • The full competitor ladder — every domain the assistants name in your category, ranked, with you marked on it. Usually 50 to 100 names, not the three you were expecting.
WHAT YOU GET BACK
  • Your share of voice — how many of the 40 prompts named you, broken out per assistant.
  • The scoreboard against the competitors actually beating you, side by side, per service line.
  • The citation set — which sources each assistant actually pulled from, ranked by how much weight they carry in your category.
  • Sentiment scoring — how favourably you are described when you are named, per platform and per service line. It separates a presence problem from a reputation problem, which get fixed very differently.
  • A prioritized fix list, ranked by effort against likely impact. Yours to keep.
  • A 40-minute walkthrough where I explain it and you ask hard questions.

The seven days

DAY 1–2Prompt set

I build the 40 prompts for your category and lock the competitor set with you.

DAY 3–4The runs

Every prompt, every assistant, multiple passes. Raw responses captured and stored.

DAY 5Entity and citation audit

What the models know about you, where they learned it, and where the record disagrees with itself.

DAY 6–7Scoring and walkthrough

Share of voice scored, fix list written and ranked, call booked.

$1,500

Flat. Paid up front. Delivered in 7 days.
No retainer, no contract, no upsell required.

The honest part

Your CRM is lying to you, and not on purpose.

Someone asks ChatGPT for a crawl space company. It says your name. They type your name into their phone, or just call you. There is no referrer, no UTM, no click to count.

Your intake form asks how they heard about you. They say "online," or "somebody recommended you." Your CRM files it under direct or word of mouth. So the channel growing fastest in your market is the one your reporting is worst at seeing.

WHAT THE ENGAGEMENT DOES ABOUT IT
  • Fix the intake question. One added option that separates an AI referral from a neighbor's recommendation. It sounds small. It is the highest-yield change most owners can make this week.
  • Watch branded search. When an assistant starts naming you, people start searching your name. That lift shows up in Search Console before it shows up in revenue.
  • Capture referral traffic where it exists. Some assistants do pass a referrer on outbound links. That traffic is small, real, and currently uncounted in most accounts.
  • Baseline, then re-measure. Share of voice is the leading indicator. It moves before the phone does, and it is the number I hold myself to.
WHAT IT DOES NOT DO
  • It does not give you clean last-click attribution for AI-sourced customers. Nobody can. The click does not exist to be tracked.
  • It does not tell you that 14 specific jobs came from Gemini last month. Anyone showing you that number is modeling it and calling it measurement.
  • It does not replace your ads reporting or your call tracking. It sits next to them and covers a blind spot they were never built for.

If someone promises you clean AI attribution, they are selling something. I would rather hand you a leading indicator that is honestly measured than a revenue number that is quietly invented.

The mechanism

Four things decide whether a model says your name.

There is no secret incantation. There are four signal families, and most local businesses are quietly failing at two of them.

01 — ENTITY

Does the model know you exist?

Name, address, and phone that match everywhere. Structured data that resolves. Clean separation from the three other businesses in the metro with a similar name. If the record disagrees with itself, the model hedges — and hedging means it names somebody else.

02 — REVIEWS

What do your reviews actually say?

Models read the text, not just the average. Four hundred reviews that all say "great service" carry less weight than ninety that name the specific job, the specific neighborhood, and the specific problem you solved.

03 — CITATIONS

Are you in the sources it reads?

Every category has a source set the assistants lean on. It is rarely the one your SEO report tracks. Sometimes it is a trade directory. Sometimes it is a forum thread from 2023. The audit shows you the actual list.

04 — CONTENT

Do you answer the question as asked?

Not keyword pages. Answer pages — written in the shape of the question, carrying the specifics a model can quote: pricing ranges, process, service area, and what disqualifies a job.

Qualification

This is worth it for some businesses and a waste of money for others.

WORTH IT IF
  • You are a local service business doing $1M–$10M in the Birmingham metro.
  • A single job is worth $5,000 or more. One recovered customer pays for the audit several times over.
  • You are crawl space or foundation repair, roofing, HVAC replacement, a med spa, cosmetic dentistry, or a personal injury or estate practice.
  • The person reading this can approve $1,500 without a committee.
  • You want the number even if the number is bad.
NOT WORTH IT IF
  • Your average job is under $1,000. The math does not work and I will tell you that on the call instead of taking the money.
  • You sell products online or operate nationally. Different problem, different measurement.
  • You want somebody to run your ads. I do not do that here.
  • You want a guarantee that you will be named within 30 days. Nobody can honestly sell you that.
  • You are looking for the cheapest option. This is not it.

Who runs this

Measurement first. That is the whole pitch.

I am Connor Hand. For six-plus years I have run paid media and lifecycle analytics — at a Birmingham ad agency and at a national tech company. My job was building the reporting that told executives which channels were real and which were rounding errors. I am good at telling the difference.

Tiny Mage runs enterprise-grade AI-visibility tracking that local agencies do not have access to. That is the edge, and it is a boring one: I can measure this, and most people selling it cannot.

I am not an AI company. I am an analyst who found a channel nobody was counting, in a city I live in, in categories where one job is worth more than most agencies charge for a month.

Birmingham, Alabama. One person. No account managers, no offshore team, no dashboard you will never open.

What comes after

If you want the fix list executed, that is the retainer.

The audit is a complete product and it ends cleanly. Most owners who buy it want the work done and the score watched. That is a separate decision, made after the report is in your hands.

$2,500–$5,000 / MONTH

Monitoring and remediation

  • The full 40-prompt set re-run every month. Same assistants, same competitors, comparable numbers.
  • Entity, citation, and review signals fixed, not just recommended.
  • Answer content written and shipped, not handed to you as a brief.
  • One call a month, plus a dashboard you can open whenever you want.
  • Price depends on category competition and number of locations. You get the number before you commit.
TERMS

90 days, then month to month

No annual contract. The initial term is 90 days because nothing in this channel moves in 30 and I am not going to pretend otherwise. After that, cancel any month.

You are not required to take it. Plenty of people will hand the fix list to the agency they already pay. That is fine. It is your list — you bought it.

Four a month. I would rather be honest than busy.

Capacity

Four audits a month. That is the real number.

Each audit is roughly twenty hours of work I do myself. There is no team behind me and I am not going to pretend there is. When a month fills up, you go on the list for the next one and I tell you the date before you pay anything.

Currently booking: September 2026

Updated by hand, not by a countdown script. If it is wrong, email me and I will fix it.

Objections

The questions you were already going to ask.

Isn't this just SEO with a new name on it?

No. SEO optimizes for position in a ranked list of links. This measures whether a model names you inside a generated answer. Some inputs overlap — a clean entity record helps both — but the measurement is different and so are most of the fixes. Plenty of businesses ranking first organically never get named by an assistant. That gap is exactly what is worth finding.

Can you guarantee I'll start showing up?

No, and be suspicious of anyone who does. These systems are probabilistic and the companies running them change them without telling us. What I guarantee is the measurement: after seven days you will know your exact share of voice, who is beating you, which sources they hold that you do not, and what to do in what order.

The models change constantly. Won't this be obsolete in six months?

The models change. The inputs mostly have not. Entity consistency, substantive reviews, and presence in the sources a category actually cites have mattered to every version so far, and they mattered to search before that. That is why the remediation work stays useful even when the scoreboard moves.

My agency says they already do AI SEO.

Then ask them for three things: your share of voice across forty prompts and six assistants, the citation set Gemini pulled from in your category last month, and how those numbers moved since the month before. If they can produce all three, you do not need me. If they send you a blog post about AI, you have your answer.

What if the audit says I'm already doing fine?

Then you paid $1,500 to find that out, I will say so plainly in writing, and I will not pitch you a retainer. Knowing you are covered is a real result. It is also cheaper than a year of paying somebody to fix a problem you did not have.

Why should I pay $1,500 for a report?

Because in your category one job is worth $5,000 and up. If the audit surfaces a single fixable reason you are missing from answers your competitors are winning, and you recover one customer from it, the math is finished. If you are not in a category where that is true, this is the wrong purchase and I will say so.

Do you work outside Birmingham?

The offer on this page is built for the Birmingham metro, because local answer sets are local and I know this market. If you are elsewhere with the same profile, email me. I will tell you honestly whether I can do it well.

Find out whether the answer has your name in it.

Forty prompts. Six assistants. Seven days. One number that tells you where you actually stand, and a list of what to do about it.

The free version is three prompts and the raw output. No report, no call. It takes me ten minutes and it is the fastest way to find out whether this is worth $1,500 to you.

Free, ten minutes of my time

Send me your category. I'll run three prompts and send you the raw output.

No report, no call, no sequence to unsubscribe from afterwards. You will see the actual answer the assistants give, with the company names in it. That is usually enough to tell you whether the $1,500 version is worth it.

I reply personally, usually same day. Your details go into my CRM and nowhere else.