AI visibility benchmark · first-party data

Automotive businesses: ready sites, invisible brands.

When someone asks an AI engine "mechanic near me", most automotive businesses aren't the answer. We measured 25 of them with our own scanner. Here is what the category actually looks like.

36.6/100
average AI visibility across 25 automotive businesses
70.5/100
average site readiness — the websites are largely fine
34pts
the gap between being ready and being recommended

What drives the gap

Average visibility sits at 36.6/100 against readiness of 70.5/100. The weakest pillar in this category is brand signals at 57.7/100 — that is usually where the fastest gains are — while technical (83.6/100) is already carrying its weight. 1 of the 25 businesses measured scored zero: completely absent from AI answers in their own category.

Pillar averages (25 businesses)

Citability 73
Brand signals 57.7
E-E-A-T 69.6
Technical 83.6
Schema 70
Platform 78.9

Method: latest scan per business from the Are you found by AI? corpus (1,837 businesses measured 2026-06-27 → 2026-07-19). Categories are normalised at scan time; only categories with 12+ businesses are published. Aggregates only — no individual business data is shown.

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