Signal CheckSee what LLMs say about you.
Buyers ask an LLM who to hire before they ever reach your site. Something answers, and it is already shaping who gets the call.
Hover a column to read the question behind it.
Reading the field
The pattern is the finding.
The grid is generated from your results. We do not style it to look encouraging. It comes back badly in two ways, and they need different work.
Sparse field
Absent from the questions that matter
Mostly empty means nothing is being retrieved about you. The whitespace is a measured absence. Usually the answer exists in your building and not on your site.
Dense field
In the mix, but not listed first
A crowded field can be worse than an empty one. You appear late and qualified, behind operators the LLM reaches for first. That is positioning and evidence. Publishing more will not move it.
Method
The bar is set before we look.
The question set is built to your category, and what counts as winnable is decided before a single answer is collected.
Call what's winnable
We mark the questions you could realistically win, judged from what you actually deliver rather than from how you rank today. The call is made first and never revised, so a low result comes back as reachable ground instead of a verdict.
Build the question set
A set built to how your buyers actually ask, across six types: category, qualified, capability, problem-led, comparison, verification. Sized to your category.
Run it across the LLMs
Every question against each LLM (Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini), versions recorded. Presence, order, and competitors named are logged. A failed call is logged as a failure, not an absence.
Where the answer came from
The pages, profiles, and mentions behind each answer, wherever the engines disclose them. This is where a visibility gap resolves into a content, entity, or positioning problem.
The rigor
Presence is one of three measurements.
Whether your name retrieves you, and whether what the LLMs say about you is true, matter more. We report how sure we are of every call, ours included.
Does your name bring you back?
We put each of your names to each LLM on its own, nothing else in the question, to see whether the name alone retrieves you. A name your market uses every day can return nothing, which is a different problem from being absent.
Whether what they say is true.
Every factual claim an LLM makes about you is checked against figures you have confirmed, in a pass separate from the one that reads presence. Only direct conflicts count: telling buyers you charge per seat when you are free is an error, understating your scale is not.
How sure we are, us included.
We print the range a figure likely falls in rather than a single false-precision number, and we report how many of our own scorer's calls we withdrew on inspection. You see how much of the result is measurement, how much is variation, and how much is us.
The engagement
One way in.
No service menu. The Read tells you where you stand and what is causing it, yours to act on with us or without us. If you want the gaps closed, that is the Retainer.
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The Read
Starting at $2,500 · credited toward month one
- A question set built for your category and your buyer
- Run across all four LLMs (Claude, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini), versions recorded
- Every mention, omission, and competitor the LLMs name in your category
- The trace: where each answer came from, wherever the engines disclose it
- Priorities, ranked by what is actually fixable
- A 90-minute readout with your leadership
If you want it fixed
The Retainer
Monthly engagement
- A monthly working session with whoever runs the operation
- Two published assets, written, marked up and live
- Entity correction across profiles, directories, structured data
- Your question set re-run, showing what moved
Capped at eight clients. The limit is the hand verification: one person checks every claim in every report against the run that produced it, and that step does not scale.
Deeper brand work, repositioning and messaging, is a different engagement. That's Catalyst →
For agencies and investors
Read the whole roster at once.
Five to ten companies in one engagement, every one run on the same question design so the results sit side by side. Built for agencies with a client roster and investors with portfolio companies.
Every read produces at least one finding specific enough to book a meeting on. A category nobody owns. A competitor named in your client's place. Three facts the LLMs have wrong. You bring it, and nobody else is bringing it.
The findings resolve into named work: correct the entity, publish the evidence that already exists inside the company, restate the category. Ranked by what is fixable, so you can price it on the same call.
The question set, the winnable calls made before the run, the audit that withdrew our own scorer's mistakes. When their CTO pushes back, you hand over the method and let them argue with it.
What you get
- A full Read for every company in the set
- One comparison across the set, scored the same way
- Name resolution and factual accuracy checked per company
- The single move worth making for each company that has one
- A working session with your team before anything reaches a client
How partners work with us
You bring the roster. We run the Reads and stand behind the method, in the room with your client if you want us there.
The client-facing summary can carry your brand. The measurement stays under Signal Check, because a number is only defensible when the buyer can see who stands behind it and how it was checked. That attribution is what you are selling.
Partner economics are set per relationship, as a referral fee or an agreed margin on the set.
Priced against the number of companies in the set.
Talk about a set →FAQ
Fair questions.
01Isn't this an AI-visibility tool I could rent for less?+
Those tools chart whether you are named and track it over time. Three things separate this.
The questions are written blind. Most tools expand your own top organic keywords into a prompt set. That asks your site what your site already answers, and companies score well on their own homework. Ours come from what a buyer is trying to do, written before anyone has seen your marketing.
Winnable is called before the run, from what you actually deliver, and never revised. That turns a low score into reachable ground rather than a grade.
The scorer is audited by something that is not a model. A fixed check written by hand reviews every call the scoring model made, and we report how many it withdrew.
Once you know what to fix, a monitoring tool is a reasonable way to watch it, and we will tell you which one.
02Is this just SEO with a new name?+
No. SEO optimizes for a ranked page of blue links. This is retrieval and entity: whether the LLMs can find, trust, and assemble an accurate answer about you. Different mechanism, different fixes, and often a different team inside your building than the one that owns keywords.
03The answers change every time. How is this reliable?+
They do vary, which is why a one-off screenshot is worthless. We report the headline figure as a range rather than a single false-precision number, so you can see how much a different but equally fair set of questions would have moved it. Model versions are recorded on every answer, and a failed call is logged as a failure rather than counted as an absence.
04What do I actually walk away with?+
Dozens to well over a hundred answers, sized to your market: the grid, the trace behind it, every competitor the LLMs name, priorities ranked by what is actually fixable, and a 90-minute readout with your leadership. Yours to act on, with us or without us.
05Am I signing up for the monthly retainer?+
No. The Read is a one-time engagement at $2,500, complete in itself, with nothing to cancel. If you decide to close the gaps with us, the full $2,500 applies to your first month of the Retainer. The credit is there if you want it.
06We represent several companies. Is there a version for us?+
Yes. The Portfolio Read covers five to ten companies in one engagement, run on the same design so the results compare across the set. It is the fastest way to find which of your clients is sitting in front of an open category.
07Where does Catalyst fit?+
The Read often shows that a visibility gap is a positioning problem rather than a publishing one. The LLMs cannot describe you clearly because the organization has not said clearly who it is. Closing the tactical gaps is the Retainer. Redrawing the positioning itself is Catalyst. The Read tells you which one you are looking at.
08What if the Read says we're fine?+
Then you have spent $2,500 to know that with confidence, and we will tell you plainly, with no retainer pitch. More often it surfaces two or three fixable things worth far more than the fee.
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See how clearly the LLMs read you.
The answers are already being generated for your category. Tell us your category and a competitor or two, and a partner replies within two business days.
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