There is no Search Console for AI answers. No impressions, no position, no click data. Measuring whether assistants mention your business means building the measurement yourself — which is more tractable than it sounds, and mostly free.
You measure it by running a fixed prompt set across the major assistants on a schedule and scoring each answer for three things: whether you were named, whether the description was accurate, and which competitors appeared instead. The metric is the trend in those scores, not any individual response.
No platform reports this to you. Search Console folds AI Overview clicks into ordinary web totals, and the assistants publish nothing. The measurement has to be built. Once you can see where you stand, the obvious next question is what actually moves it, and the surface with the most reach is Google's own AI Overviews.
Mention rate — Across repeated runs, how often does your name appear at all? A proportion, because the models vary between sessions.
Description accuracy — When named, is what it says about you correct? Wrong service areas and outdated claims are common and fixable.
Competitive share — Who gets named instead of you, and how consistently. Usually the most actionable number on the list.
Build the Measurement in an Afternoon
Three steps. No tooling required.
1
Write twenty real prompts
The questions a buyer actually types, not keyword strings. Mix recommendation prompts, comparison prompts and factual questions about your category. Write them once and freeze them — changing the set later breaks the comparison.
2
Run them from clean sessions
Signed out or in a fresh session, several times per prompt, across each assistant your buyers use. Save the full text of every reply rather than a summary; the wording is the data.
3
Score and archive
Named yes or no, description accurate or not, competitors listed. A spreadsheet is genuinely sufficient. Re-run monthly and compare archives — the diff is the whole point.
Three Numbers Worth More Than a Score
What we actually report to clients on this.
1
Which sources fed the answer
Most assistants cite. Reading which pages and platforms they leaned on tells you exactly where to invest — often a review platform rather than your own site.
2
Which claims came back wrong
An assistant asserting you do not offer something you do is a concrete, fixable problem. It usually traces to a stale profile or proof that is not publicly readable.
3
Which competitor is always present
If one name appears in nine answers out of ten, study what is publicly written about them. It is rarely a secret and frequently just more claimed profiles.
What This Measurement Cannot Tell You
It does not measure traffic, and you should resist any temptation to convert it into an estimate. There is no reliable way to model how many people saw an answer containing your name, and vendors offering AI traffic projections are producing numbers with no observable denominator behind them.
It also lags your work by weeks. Retrieval indexes update on their own schedule, so a profile claimed today may not change an answer for a month. Treat the measurement as a slow-moving trend line rather than a dashboard you refresh, and pair it with the entity and proof work that actually moves it.
Measuring AI Visibility
How do you measure AI search visibility?
By constructing a fixed set of prompts your buyers would realistically type, running them from clean sessions across the major assistants on a schedule, and scoring each response for three things: whether your business was named, whether the description was accurate, and which competitors appeared instead. The measurement is the change in those scores over time, not any single answer.
Is there a tool that tracks AI visibility?
Several vendors sell one, and they vary widely in coverage and honesty. They are worth evaluating, but none of them see everything and most sample a narrow prompt set. A manual probe you control costs nothing but time and reflects exactly the questions your buyers ask, which is usually the more useful signal.
Why do I get different answers to the same question?
Assistants are non-deterministic and personalise on session history, so two runs of the same prompt legitimately differ. That is precisely why a single check proves nothing. Run each prompt several times from fresh sessions and record the mention rate as a proportion rather than a yes or no.
What is a good AI visibility score?
There is no industry benchmark worth quoting, and anyone offering one is inventing it. The useful comparison is against yourself over time and against the specific competitors who currently appear in your category's answers. Moving from named in one prompt out of ten to four out of ten is a real result; an absolute score out of a hundred is not.
Does Search Console show AI Overview data?
Only partially. Clicks and impressions from AI Overviews are folded into the standard web search totals rather than broken out, so you cannot isolate them there. That is a genuine reporting gap, and it is why manual probing plus tracked SERP features is currently the practical substitute.
How often should I measure?
Monthly is enough for most businesses, quarterly if the category moves slowly. More frequent measurement mostly captures the models' own variance rather than the effect of your work. Keep the prompt set stable between runs, because changing the questions destroys comparability.
We build the prompt set for your category, run it across the major assistants, and send you the scored transcripts with the competitors that appeared instead of you.
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Then Track It Properly
One check is a screenshot. A repeated prompt set is a measurement. We run ours on a fixed cycle.
