The Diagnostic, applied to your industry.
Every category's buyers ask AI different questions, name different competitors, and keep their authority in different places. The diagnostic is the same instrument; what it finds is not.
The AI Answerability Diagnostic measures how the five major AI search systems — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok — retrieve, trust, and cite your company across the buyer-intent queries that matter in your market. It scores every cited URL across the three pillars of Answerability — Content, Retrieval, and Trust — and returns a written report with scored work orders, a roadmap, and a day-90 re-audit. It is the same instrument in every engagement.
Why verticals differ
What the instrument finds, though, is shaped almost entirely by the industry. Three things change from one vertical to the next:
The questions. A general counsel shortlisting litigation boutiques, a CFO comparing practice-management software, and a shopper choosing a skincare brand ask the engines completely different things. The prompt set is built from your buyers' actual language, not a generic template — so the same audit surfaces different gaps in different categories.
The competitive set and the sources behind it. In some categories the engines lean on review aggregators; in others on directories, trade press, or the firms' own pages. Who gets cited — and which corroborating sources decide it — varies sharply by industry, and so does the work required to be among them.
Where authority lives, and how legible it is. A SaaS company's authority is already machine-readable; a boutique advisory firm's is mostly offline. The pillar that binds — Content, Retrieval, or Trust — is rarely the same across two verticals, which is why a roadmap built for one industry misleads another.
The diagnostics below translate the framework into the specific exposure, evidence, and remediation path for each industry. Each is grounded in real engine captures for that category.
Available diagnostics
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Professional services● Live
AI Answerability for Professional Services Firms
Consulting, advisory, law, accounting, investor relations, actuarial, wealth. High offline authority, low machine-readability — and extreme cross-engine divergence in which firms get named. With real captures from boutique-advisor shortlisting queries.
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Specialty B2B SaaSIn preparation
Vertical SaaS & specialty software
Where comparison and "best tool" queries route to review aggregators and listicles, and your own comparison pages may be working against you.
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Financial servicesIn preparation
Financial & specialty finance
Regulated, trust-sensitive categories where entity corroboration and primary-source citation carry disproportionate weight.
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Private equityIn preparation
Private equity & the firms they back
Portfolio-wide visibility: how AI systems represent a fund and its companies to the operators, advisors, and acquirers researching them.
Don't see your industry?
The diagnostic runs for any category where buyers research providers through AI. If your vertical isn't listed, write to [email protected] — we scope it directly. All engagements are confidential under MNDA.