AI visibility for American manufacturers

Your next customer is already searching. They're finding your competitor.

Procurement engineers are now using ChatGPT and Perplexity to find suppliers — before they ever call a rep, visit a trade show, or check ThomasNet. Find out exactly who's showing up when they search for you.

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Shops invisible in AI search

48h

Audit delivered

$500

Flat rate, no commitment

What changed

The way buyers find suppliers
changed overnight.

Three years ago, a procurement engineer would Google your category, scan ThomasNet, call three shops they recognized. You had a chance if you did the basics right.

That process is gone.

Today they open ChatGPT, describe exactly what they need — "AS9100 certified CNC machining shop, titanium, Midwest, defense work" — and get a named shortlist back in seconds. No scrolling. No links. Just names.

The shops on that list get the call. The shops not on it never know what they missed.

This isn't coming. It's happening right now. Every day you're not in those answers, a competitor is locking in their position in the market.

How buyers found you

The old way

Google search → click links
ThomasNet directory lookup
Trade show relationships
Word of mouth referrals
Cold calls from your sales team

The shift happened

How buyers find you now

The new reality

Open ChatGPT or Perplexity
Describe exactly what they need
Get named suppliers in seconds
Call the ones that showed up
Never see the ones that didn't

Try it right now

Open ChatGPT.
Type this. See what happens.

Don't take our word for it. Run this search yourself right now and see exactly what your buyers see.

ChatGPT › "Who are the best precision CNC machining shops for aerospace and defense work in [your state]?"

→ [Competitor A] appears immediately
→ [Competitor B] appears immediately
→ Your company... not found

If your company didn't show up — that search is happening right now, with real procurement engineers, at real companies that need exactly what you make. The audit tells you why you're missing and what fixes it.

The $500 audit

In 48 hours, you'll know
exactly where you stand.

We run the searches your buyers are actually running — across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google Gemini — and document everything. No guesswork. No fluff. Just facts.

01 — VISIBILITY REPORT

Your AI Score Across All 3 Platforms

We run your highest-value buyer searches across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google Gemini. You see exactly where you appear, where you don't, and how consistently — not in a report we dressed up, but in raw search results.

02 — COMPETITOR MAP

Who's Taking Your Calls

The specific companies being named in your place. How often they appear. Which searches they're winning. This is the part that tends to get owners out of their chair.

03 — BUYER QUERY ANALYSIS

The 5 Searches That Matter Most

We identify the exact queries procurement engineers are using to find shops like yours — specific to your niche, your certifications, your geographic market. Some of them will surprise you.

04 — GAP BREAKDOWN

Why the Gap Exists + What Closes It

A plain-English explanation of exactly why your company isn't showing up and the three highest-impact things that would change it. No technical jargon. No upsell pressure. Just the facts you need to make a decision.

05 — THE WALKTHROUGH CALL

30 Minutes. Live Screen Share. Your Questions Answered.

We walk through every finding together — live, on your screen. You see the searches in real time. You ask the questions you need to ask. No recorded video, no PDF dump. A real conversation with a real person who knows your industry.

$500

Flat rate. No commitment. Delivered in 48 hours.

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30-min walkthrough call included

The window

Every month you wait, a competitor gets more entrenched.

AI systems don't pick the best supplier. They pick the most familiar one — the company that's been cited, mentioned, and structured correctly across the sources they trust.

The shops moving on this in 2026 will be the default answer in their niche for the next five years. The shops that wait will spend that time trying to catch up to a competitor who's already been recommended thousands of times.

Procurement teams are using these tools today. Not next year. Today.

2022–23

ChatGPT launches

Procurement teams experiment. No one treats it as a sourcing tool yet.

2024

Early adopters start using AI to source

Tier-1 and tier-2 procurement engineers begin asking AI for vendor lists.

2026 ←

The window is open — barely

AI sourcing is mainstream. Most shops are invisible. The shops auditing now are moving first.

2027+

Gap becomes permanent

Early movers are entrenched. Catching up costs 10x more and takes years.

Straight answers

You probably have questions.
Here are the honest answers.

We already rank on Google and have a good website. +

Google rankings and AI visibility are completely separate systems. A page-one Google ranking doesn't translate to being named in a ChatGPT answer — at all. We've audited shops with excellent SEO that are invisible in every AI search their buyers are running. The audit shows you both.

We get most business through referrals. We're not hurting. +

Referrals reach the buyers who already know someone to ask. AI reaches the ones who don't — new procurement teams, new companies entering your sector, reshoring manufacturers right now who are actively searching for domestic suppliers and have no network to tap. The audit shows you what that opportunity looks like specifically for your niche.

How do I know this is a real problem and not marketing hype? +

Open ChatGPT right now and search for your category in your state. Watch what comes up. If you show up everywhere, great — you've confirmed you don't have the problem and saved yourself from chasing a ghost. If you don't show up, you've just seen exactly what your buyers see. The audit exists to answer this with specifics, not generalities.

What happens after the audit? Is this a sales pitch? +

The audit is a standalone deliverable. You get the report and the call. Period. If you want to talk about what fixing the gap looks like, we're happy to have that conversation. But there's no pressure, no follow-up sequence, and no obligation. Some clients book the audit, see the results, and handle it themselves. That's fine. Our job on the audit call is to give you clear information, not to close a deal.

$500 seems cheap. What's the catch? +

No catch. We price the audit to make the decision easy — the goal is to put real data in front of people who need it, not to maximize revenue on a diagnostic. If the audit shows a real gap and you want help closing it, we offer a retainer program. But the $500 gets you the full audit and call regardless of what you decide after.