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AI Visibility Audit · For B2B Manufacturers
Your buyers are asking AI. Are you in the answer?
Get a custom audit of your AI Share of Voice across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. See exactly where competitors win the citations you should own with a 90-day roadmap to fix it.
0%
of B2B searches end with zero clicks
— SparkToro / Rand Fishkin, 2024
0%
of buyers use generative AI for vendor research
— Forrester Buyers' Journey Survey, 2024
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vendors AI shortlists per query, winners take all
— Gartner CMO Survey, 2024
Trusted by Industry Leaders
The Hidden Crisis
Your sales team is losing deals they never knew existed.
You can't see them in your CRM. They don't show up in Google Analytics. They never get a tracking pixel. They're the buyers AI talked to instead of you, and they're already on a call with three of your competitors.
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If AI never surfaces you, you may never enter the deal.
In 6sense's 2025 Buyer Experience Report, buyers ultimately purchased from their day-one shortlist 95% of
the time. If AI-led research leaves your brand out of that first set, sales may never get a shot to compete.
6sense Buyer Experience Report, 2025
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Your SEO is working. Your traffic isn't.
Impressions are up. Clicks are down. AI Overviews now answer the question without sending the buyer to your
page, even when you rank #1. The traffic-to-revenue link is broken.
Ahrefs & SE Ranking studies of AI Overview impact, 2024
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By the time you're invited, it's over.
The traditional 15–30 day vendor research cycle has collapsed into one AI conversation. Buyers contact 3
vendors: the ones AI named. Everyone else never gets the RFP, the call, or even the cold email reply.
Gartner B2B Buying Journey Research, 2024
This is happening right now
A $400K buyer just asked ChatGPT for your category. Watch what they see:
VP
VP of Operations · Food & Beverage Co.
AI
ChatGPT
- Competitor A — ISO 9001 certified, cited in ThomasNet and IndustryWeek
- Competitor B — strong G2 reviews for food-grade compliance
- Competitor C — featured in Packaging World case studies
The buyer never visits your site. They never see your case studies. They contact the three brands ChatGPT named, and you don't know the conversation happened. Your sales team will hear about this deal in six months when the press release announces the win. You'll wonder why you weren't invited to bid.
The Math of AI Search
In your category, 3 vendors own 80% of every AI answer.
AI doesn't show 10 blue links anymore. It names a handful. The companies that earn citations win; everyone else competes for a 20% slice that buyers rarely act on. This is what concentration actually looks like across B2B manufacturing categories.
80%
Owned by top 3
The top 3 take it all. Everyone else competes for scraps.
When buyers ask AI for vendor recommendations, the response is a shortlist, not a search results page. Across B2B manufacturing categories we've audited, citation share follows a predictable power law:
- #1 cited vendor The default answer 38%
- #2 cited vendor Frequently shortlisted 24%
- #3 cited vendor Rounding out the shortlist 18%
- Everyone else combined The long tail, rarely cited 20%
Aggregate citation share modeled from B2B manufacturing AI Visibility Audits, 2024–2026 — AEO Industry Benchmarks.
Why It Matters
The buyer journey collapsed. You didn't notice.
Your buyers used to spend 15–30 days researching, visiting 10+ vendor sites, downloading whitepapers, and building shortlists. That's gone. They ask AI. AI picks 3 vendors. They contact those 3. Everyone else is invisible.
Yesterday
How buyers used to research
15–30 days · 20+ touchpoints
Google search
Visit 10+ sites
Read content
Compare vendors
Contact sales
Collapsed into
Today
How buyers actually research now
5 minutes · 1 conversation
Step 01
Buyer asks AI
Step 02
AI names 3 vendors
- 1 Competitor A — cited in ThomasNet
- 2 Competitor B — strong G2 reviews
- 3 Competitor C — trade pub mentions
Your Brand — not found
Step 03
Buyer contacts those 3
Competitor A — demo booked
Competitor B — RFP sent
Competitor C — call scheduled
Your Brand —
never knew
The Citation Gap
Most of your content is invisible to AI.
AI engines can't crawl what they can't read. Your best assets — the gated whitepapers, the brochure-style PDFs, the JavaScript-rendered pages — are exactly the assets AI ignores. Here's the difference between what wins citations and what doesn't.
Invisible to AI
What you're publishing now
2026 Manufacturing Guide.pdf
Gated · 47 pages · Form-protected
- Gated PDFs — AI crawlers stop at the form
- Brochure pages with no structured data
- JavaScript-rendered specs and tables
- Content older than 12 months without dateModified
- First-party marketing claims with no third-party validation
AI Citation Rate
Near zero
Cited by AI
What wins shortlist spots
<script type="application/ld+json">
{
"@context": "schema.org",
"@type": "Product",
"name": "FDA-Compliant Packaging",
"datePublished": "2026-04-12",
"review": { ...G2 verified... }
}
</script>
- Ungated HTML pages with semantic structure
- Comparison tables AI can extract directly
- JSON-LD schema with dateModified timestamps
- Third-party validation (G2, ThomasNet, trade pubs)
- Author entities and expert bylines
AI Citation Rate
4x baseline
Your Audit
See exactly where AI doesn't see you.
Your custom AI Visibility Audit shows your real Share of Voice across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, and the exact prompts where competitors are winning citations you should own.
MAPS Framework · Model Buyer Intent
Buyer-intent prompt coverage
Prompt coverage across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity
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SOV
Status
Critical · Below industry baseline
4 points vs. last quarter
Your category competitors average 34% Share of
Voice. You're being cited in only 1 in 12 relevant
queries.
Priority buyer prompts
"best CNC suppliers ISO 9001 certified"
12%
"injection molding food-grade FDA compliant"
0%
"5-axis CNC prototype shops Midwest"
33%
"FDA-compliant corrugated packaging vendors"
67%
"custom thermoforming packaging at scale"
Not cited
Your category baseline is 34%
Competitors winning here
How It Works
Three steps. Two weeks. One clear roadmap.
Step 01
Book your session
Fill out the form below. Pick a 30-minute slot. Share your category, deal size, and what's at stake.
Today · 30 minutes
Step 02
We run your audit
Our team scans ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity against your category, competitors, and your ideal buyer
prompts.
Within 7–10 days
Step 03
Receive your roadmap
Live review of findings, your AI Share of Voice score, and the 90-day plan to start showing up in AI
answers.
Within 2 weeks
The Framework
The MAPS Framework for AI Search Authority.
A systematic approach to securing AI visibility: built on data, designed for B2B manufacturers, executed in 90 days.
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Model Buyer Intent
Map how your buyers actually phrase questions to AI. Identify the conversational prompts that drive vendor selection across roles and buying stages.
73% of B2B buyers say vendor content doesn't address their actual questions — Search
Engine Land, 2024
A
Answer Clearly
Create question-focused content optimized for AI consumption. Structure information so it's easily extracted, cited, and synthesized.
80% of B2B queries now trigger AI Overviews instead of traditional links — Search
Engine Land, 2024
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Prove & Place
Build credibility through third-party validation. AI engines trust earned authority — reviews, trade publications, expert mentions — not branded marketing copy.
89% of LLM citations come from third-party sources, not your own site — AEO Industry
Benchmarks, 2024
S
Structure & Stay Fresh
Maintain AI-friendly architecture. Content freshness, JSON-LD schema, and Core Web Vitals are now ranking signals for citation eligibility.
4x more likely to be cited when content is updated within 6 months — BrightEdge, 2024
Your Strategists
Learn from industry leaders.
Decades of combined experience helping manufacturers and B2B brands dominate digital.
Samuel Thimothy
Chief Growth Officer
Forbes contributor and thought leader with over 15 years helping manufacturers, SaaS companies, and B2B brands build scalable growth systems.
Forbes Contributor
Ana Chang
Solutions Architect
Turns strategic vision into actionable growth plans, helping B2B and manufacturing brands navigate the evolving digital landscape.
Growth Strategist
What The Audit Reveals
Turn scattered mentions into measurable share of voice.
The point of the audit is not just to tell you that AI is changing. It shows where demand is already consolidating, which engines cite your category, and how quickly visibility compounds once the right authority signals are in place.
How buyer attention fragments across AI engines
Your shortlist visibility is only as strong as the engines and prompts that mention you today. This audit maps where your category attention is actually concentrating right now.
Visibility lift after structured
fixes
4x
Brands with stronger entity clarity, third-party proof, and fresher content tend to compound citations
instead of trading one-off mentions.
Quarterly trajectory
From invisible prompts to repeat shortlist mentions.
Baseline
Entity cleanup
Proof placements
AI citations
Common Questions
What B2B leaders ask before booking.
No. The strategy session is a working call. We'll have your initial AI visibility scan in hand before we
get on the phone. You'll walk away with specific findings about your brand whether you become a client or
not. If you decide there's a fit, we'll talk about engagement options. If not, the roadmap is still yours.
SEO audits measure how you rank in Google. AI Visibility Audits measure whether ChatGPT, Gemini, and
Perplexity cite you when buyers ask category questions. The signals are different (entities and third-party
consensus, not keywords and backlinks), the metrics are different (Share of Voice, not rankings), and the
work to win is different. You can be #1 on Google and invisible in AI.
B2B manufacturers, OEMs, and contract manufacturers between $10M–$100M revenue with deal sizes above $50K.
If your buyers research before they buy, and they're starting to research with AI, this audit will surface
gaps you can't see yourself. Smaller or transactional businesses may not see meaningful ROI in 90 days.
AI Visibility Audit engagements are customized to your category and scope. The exact investment is dependent
on the number of priority buyer prompts you choose to analyze and the specific LLMs tracked. Every audit
evaluates your brand's performance across the three major engines driving today's B2B research:
Google AI
Overviews, ChatGPT, and Perplexity. We will walk through your exact tracking scope and map out
potential
ROI during your initial strategy session.
AI citations typically begin appearing within 60–90 days once foundational work is in place: structured
content, third-party placements, freshness signals. The roadmap is sequenced so the highest-impact moves
come first, with measurable Share of Voice lifts within the first quarter.
Client Story Reel
Our clients can’t help but notice the differences we’ve made.
See what they’ve been saying about us.
“We have been extremely satisfied with the campaign progress.”
“Traffic and leads have been on a steep incline since we started
working with the OneIMS team.”
Sophia Daukus
Director of Marketing, Florock
“OneIMS has been a tremendous asset.”
“They were involved in all of the creative and functional aspects of
our website design.”
Charles Jones
Sr. Marketing Manager, Netcom
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A focused 30-minute session for B2B manufacturers. See where you show up in AI results, where competitors beat you, and what to fix first.
What You Get
- Live visibility scan across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity
- Top competitor and citation gaps
- Clear 90-day action plan
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