How the gate works
This tool grades whether an AI engine surfaces your brand at all - and how. Each signal is scored 0–2; the verdict is the weakest one — then a gate that can only make it worse.
The 3 signals
No presence is dispositive: if the engine does not mention you at all, the verdict is ABSENT regardless of accuracy and sentiment - you cannot be described wrongly in an answer you never appear in.
Why: Google AI Mode does not surface the brand at all - presence scored 0 - so it reads ABSENT even though accuracy and sentiment would both score clean.
A clean sheet didn’t save it. The verdict is the weakest signal — and a top trigger is dispositive on its own — so it names the one thing to fix first. Your own observations from a fixed prompt battery - no scraping, no API. AI answers vary run to run. Scores visibility, not people.