Visibility snapshot
See where your dealership is mentioned first — and where it disappears.
AVI score
Platform visibility
Buyer-intent prompts
OakvilleAVI 42
Top competitor68
Your dealership52
Local average37
AI visibility intelligence for automotive retailers
Is AI recommending your dealership — or someone else first?
See how your dealership appears in ChatGPT, Google AI, and Perplexity. Get your AVI score, competitor comparison, and clear actions to improve visibility. 84% of dealerships score below 60/100. Find out where you stand.
Built for dealershipsCompetitor comparisonPractical next steps
84%
dealers score below 60
30%
buyers use AI to research
84
buyer-intent prompts tested
Key Takeaways
- 84% of dealerships score below 60/100 on AI visibility (VizBiz data, 2026)
- 30% of car buyers now use AI to research vehicles before visiting a dealership (Ekho, 2026)
- Only 5–6 brands dominate AI recommendations nationally regardless of local presence (Arcalea AEO Index, 2026)
- VizBiz runs 84 buyer-intent prompts across ChatGPT, Google AI, and Perplexity — generating 252 data points per dealership
- An AVI audit shows where you appear, where competitors appear instead, and what to fix first
Competitor gap
Benchmark your local market and see who AI tools are trusting more right now.
Top rival gap
Trust signals
Priority fixes
OakvilleGap 16
Top competitor68
Your dealership52
Local average37
Recommendation share
Who AI mentions early
Trust scene
Signals buyers see before clicking
Action path
What to fix next to gain ground
What AI sees
How Does AI Decide Which Dealership to Recommend?
AI platforms like ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity evaluate visibility, trust, comparison, and recommendation signals for each dealership. Our research across 84 buyer-intent prompts found that only 5\u20136 brands dominate AI recommendations nationally, regardless of what local dealers are actually nearby (Metricus, 2026). The dealerships that get surfaced earlier often win trust earlier.
How it works
A clearer, scene-by-scene look at how your dealership appears in AI.
ChatGPTGoogle AIPerplexity
01
Tell us about your dealership
VizBiz starts by collecting your dealership’s website, location, inventory, and service details. This feeds our 84-prompt analysis engine that evaluates visibility across ChatGPT, Google AI, and Perplexity.
02
We run your AVI audit
VizBiz runs 84 buyer-intent prompts across three AI platforms — generating 252 data points per dealership — and compares your AI visibility against local competitors. Our research shows 84% of dealerships score below 60/100.
03
Get your score and next actions
You receive your AVI score (0–100), a competitor gap analysis, platform-specific visibility breakdown, and a prioritized action plan. According to Arcalea’s 2026 AEO Index, only 5–6 brands dominate AI recommendations nationally.
What you get
Your AVI audit should feel like a real operating view, not a bland report.
Sample report
What your AVI audit actually shows.
The output is built to show where AI surfaces your dealership, where competitors outrank you in recommendation patterns, and which changes likely move the score fastest.
See Sample ReportCurrent tier
Moderate visibility
Top competitor gap
16 points
Suggested focus
Trust + used intent
Oakville visibility snapshot
Buyer-intent recommendation map
AVI42
Category mix
Live snapshotDiscovery61%
Trust47%
Service34%
Used52%
Platform coverage
ChatGPTVisible
Google AIImproving
PerplexityMixed
Highest-leverage move
Strengthen trust + comparison assets
Stronger trust proof and clearer used-vehicle answer targets could close the gap fastest.
AVI score and band
Competitor comparison
Platform visibility review
Buyer-intent findings
Priority fixes
Next-step roadmap
Why AI visibility matters
Why Does AI Visibility Matter for Car Dealerships?
AI visibility determines which dealership gets considered first when a buyer asks ChatGPT for a recommendation. According to the Princeton GEO study (2024), GEO-optimized content achieves 30\u2013115% higher visibility in AI responses. AI-driven traffic shows a 4.4x higher conversion rate than traditional search traffic, with 527% year-over-year growth in AI referral traffic (Arcalea AEO Index, 2026). When AI tools consistently surface another dealership, that advantage compounds before a buyer ever clicks a website.
How VizBiz compares
Most options either give you vague advice or raw data without dealership context.
DIY guessing
What you get
Manual searches and scattered impressions
What’s missing
No benchmark, no scoring, no competitor view
Generic SEO agency
What you get
Broad SEO advice and retainers
What’s missing
Usually not built for AI recommendation behavior
SEO tools
What you get
Raw data and generic reports
What’s missing
No dealership context, no strategic interpretation
VizBiz
What you get
AVI score, competitor comparison, buyer-intent visibility analysis, action plan
What’s missing
Built specifically for dealerships
What VizBiz is
- • A dealership-specific AI visibility audit
- • A competitor-aware visibility benchmark
- • A strategic scorecard and action plan
- • A way to see how AI currently represents your dealership
What VizBiz isn’t
- • A generic SEO retainer
- • A vanity score with no explanation
- • A website rebuild
- • A promise of instant rankings
Common questions
Answers that make the next step easier.
Does VizBiz replace SEO?
No. VizBiz measures and improves how your dealership appears in AI-generated answers and recommendations across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Perplexity. VizBiz complements traditional SEO — our research shows 30% of car buyers now use AI to research vehicles (Ekho, 2026), a channel SEO tools don’t measure.
Does VizBiz work with Dealer.com, CDK, WordPress, or custom sites?
Yes. VizBiz evaluates AI visibility independently of your CMS or site platform. VizBiz analyzes how AI platforms interpret your dealership across the web — your website, reviews, directories, and third-party sources — regardless of how your site is built.
What do I actually receive from VizBiz?
You receive an AVI score (0–100), a competitor comparison showing which local dealerships AI recommends instead of you, platform-specific visibility findings across ChatGPT, Google AI, and Perplexity, and a prioritized action plan. VizBiz analyzes 84 buyer-intent prompts producing 252 data points per dealership.
How does VizBiz measure improvement over time?
VizBiz uses the AVI (AI Visibility Index) score alongside competitive visibility analysis to track changes over time. VizBiz re-runs the same 84-prompt battery across all AI platforms to measure whether your dealership is appearing more often, being recommended higher, and closing gaps with competitors.
Next step
See whether AI recommends your dealership.
Get your AVI score, competitor comparison, and a clear view of where your dealership stands across ChatGPT, Google AI, and Perplexity.