More and more people ask AI assistants where to go: "best pizza restaurant in Brooklyn", "a good dentist near me". AI visibility shows how often ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode and Perplexity mention your locations in such answers, which questions you are missing and which businesses are recommended instead. Open it from Sidebar → AI visibility.
Every week LocalUp asks each assistant a set of local questions for each monitored location and records the answers. Results are for a typical logged-out answer: a real person with a search history may see something slightly different.
Note: AI visibility is switched on by your agency. If you don't see it in the sidebar, or the page says it is not enabled for your account, contact your agency.
Layout
| Area | What it shows |
|---|---|
| Header | Period (4, 12 or 26 weeks) and Engine filters, and Enable for locations to monitor more locations. The filters at the top of the cabinet (brand, group, country, city) also apply. |
| Scan line | Last scan and Next scan — when answers were last collected and when the next weekly scan runs. |
| Score cards | Visibility score (0–100), Mention rate, Share of voice, Average position, Citation rate — each with the change against the previous period of the same length. within noise means the change is too small to be meaningful. |
| By AI engine | One card per assistant with its score, its change and a weekly line, so you see where you are strong and where you are missing. |
| Visibility by week | The visibility score week by week. |
| Queries | Every tracked question with the share of answers that mention you and, per assistant, your position (#1.5) or Not mentioned. |
| Locations | Monitored locations with their score, mention rate, position and trend. Click a location to open its own AI visibility tab. |
| Competitors | Businesses the assistants recommend for the same questions, and how often. |
| Top sources | Websites the assistants cite in their answers (directories, review sites, your own site). |
Queries
The list starts with the questions where you are mentioned least — the best place to start improving. Switch between All, Not mentioned and Mentioned above the table.
Click a question to read the answers: the text of each run, with your business and competitors highlighted, and the sources the assistant cited.
Score, mention rate and position
- Mention rate — the share of answers that name your location.
- Average position — where you appear in the list when you are mentioned (1 = first).
- Visibility score — combines both: being mentioned often and near the top gives a high score.
- Share of voice — your mentions compared with all businesses mentioned in the same answers.
With fewer than 10 answers in the period the cards say Not enough data instead of numbers.
When the page is empty
- Monitoring is on — the first results arrive after the first scan. Answers are being collected; this usually takes less than an hour.
- Monitoring is not on yet — no location is monitored. Click Enable for locations and choose locations, or ask your agency.
Answer texts and competitor names
Your agency decides whether you can read the answer texts and competitor names. When they are hidden, the page shows the scores only and says that your agency has hidden them.
Dashboard card
The AI visibility card on the dashboard shows your current score, its change over the last four weeks and the question you are missing most often. Click Open AI visibility to go to this page.