AI visibility benchmark · first-party data
Plumbers: ready sites, invisible brands.
When someone asks an AI engine "emergency plumber near me", most plumbers aren't the answer. We measured 47 of them with our own scanner. Here is what the category actually looks like.
What drives the gap
The striking number is the gap: sites in this category average 81.3/100 on readiness — the technical and structural work is largely done — yet only 27.6/100 on actual AI visibility. A 54-point gap between "ready" and "recommended" means the missing work is off the website: third-party mentions, entity clarity, and the sources AI engines actually cite. Their strongest pillar is E-E-A-T (94/100); the constraint is citability (74.1/100).
Pillar averages (47 businesses)
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.
Where do you sit?
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