# A buyer asks AI where to buy a car in your town. Is your store in the answer?

> Find out if Claude and GPT name your dealership when buyers ask. Free AI Visibility Scan, then plans from $997 a month, month to month.

Source: https://autolander.ai/ai-visibility/
Author: The AutoLander team
Updated: September 29, 2026

**Short answer:** We ask Claude and GPT, each with web search on, up to 20 questions a buyer in your town would ask, 3 times each. You see when they name you, who they name instead, the sources behind every answer and the 3 fixes we would make first.

- Free
- No logins needed
- Checked by a person
- 20-minute walkthrough

AI Visibility is a service from AutoLander, the Facebook Marketplace software for car dealers.

## More buyers ask an AI assistant before they visit.

A search results page lists ten links, and your store can be one of them. An AI answer names a few dealers and explains why. If your store isn’t one of them, that buyer may never see it.

19% of all car buyers used AI websites or AI-generated overviews while they shopped. [Cox Automotive, 2025 Car Buyer Journey Study, released January 2026](https://www.coxautoinc.com/insights/cox-automotive-car-buyer-journey-study-finds-efficiency-digital-tools-and-ai-drive-record-satisfaction/)

## What your free report shows.

### Who gets named

The dealers Claude and GPT name for buyer questions in your town, question by question, and how often each one comes up.

### The sources they cite

The pages each answer cites, as links you can click, so you can see where the assistants learn about dealers near you.

### Your vehicle pages

We open up to five vehicle pages on your website and check whether price, mileage and VIN are on the page as plain text an assistant can read.

### Your site’s front door

Whether your robots.txt lets AI search crawlers in, and whether the security service in front of your site challenges automated visitors. If our own check is blocked, the block goes in your report as a finding.

### A score out of 100

Built from how often you are named, the sources that cite you, your reviews and your site’s technical readiness. Answers vary from run to run, so the score comes with a margin.

### The 3 fixes

The three changes we would make first, written plainly enough to hand to your website vendor.

### AI Visibility Report · sample layout

57/100. Named in some answers, missing from most.

| Buyer question | Claude | GPT |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Best used car dealer | named | rival |
| Trucks under $30k | no | named |
| Trade-in near me | rival | no |

- AI search crawlers blocked in robots.txt
- Fewer Google reviews than the dealers around you
- Vehicle pages don’t show price and mileage as text

## What keeps good stores out of the answers.

### The door is locked

The security service in front of many websites can block AI crawlers, and some now ask site owners to choose when the site is set up. If yours blocks them, your site never gets read.

### Your story doesn’t match

Different hours, names or phone numbers across Google, Yelp and the listing sites make an assistant less sure it’s the same store.

### Reviews go unanswered

Your reviews, and how you answer them, are part of what an assistant sees about your store. Silence reads as neglect.

### Cars hidden in images

When price, mileage and VIN aren’t on the page as text, an answer can’t describe the car on your lot.

## Tell us your store. We ask up to 120 times.

1. **You tell us where you sell:** Your store, website and city or ZIP. No logins, nothing to install.
2. **We ask what your buyers ask:** Up to 20 questions a buyer in your town would ask (finding a dealer, specific cars, reputation, trade-ins), put to Claude and GPT with web search on, 3 times each, because answers change from run to run. Every question names your city or ZIP. If we can’t find cars on your site, we skip the car questions and say so in your report.
3. **You get the report and a walkthrough:** A person on our team checks every match and your report before it goes out, e-mails it to you and walks you through it in 20 minutes. No obligation.

## Get your free AI Visibility Scan

About a minute. A person on our team checks your report before we send it.

Every field is required except the text-message box.

- **Dealership:** The dealership’s trading name.
- **Website:** Example: yourstore.com
- **Store’s city or ZIP:** The town your buyers shop in.
- **Your name:** First and last name
- **Your role:** Their role at the dealership.
- **E-mail:** Your report goes here
- **Mobile:** Example: (212) 555-0123

- Owner / dealer principal
- General manager
- Sales or used-car manager
- Salesperson
- Marketing
- Other

We use your details to run your scan, send your report and set up your walkthrough.

Text me about my AI Visibility Scan. I agree to receive text messages from AutoLander at the mobile number above about my scan request and walkthrough, up to 4 messages per request. Consent is not a condition of any purchase. Message and data rates may apply. Reply STOP to opt out or HELP for help. [Privacy Policy](https://autolander.ai/privacy.html) [Terms](https://autolander.ai/terms.html)

Request the free scan at https://autolander.ai/ai-visibility/#scan-form. The dealer reviews and sends the form.

## Fix it yourself, or let us run it.

The 3 fixes in your report are yours to keep, whether or not you hire us. If you want the work done every month, there are three plans. Every plan starts with the free scan and a 20-minute walkthrough.

### AI Foundation

**$997 a month. $997 one-time setup.**

Independent and franchise stores that want their Google profile, listings, reviews and website fixes handled every month.

We run your Google profile, listings, reviews and website fixes every month, add 2 answer pages a month to your own website and track 3 named competitors.

- Everything every plan includes (listed below).
- 2 answer pages a month on your own website. Each answers one buyer question the scan shows you aren’t named for, opens with a direct answer, uses only your own facts, sits beside your website vendor’s live inventory block so prices stay current, and ends with a short FAQ and a last-updated date. Pages go live only after you approve them.
- 3 named competitors tracked in your report: which questions name them and the sources behind those answers.
- Every Google review answered within 2 business days.
- Review calls with your account manager at kickoff, then every quarter.

### AI Authority

**$2,497 a month. $997 one-time setup.** By application.

Busy stores selling 150 or more cars a month, and franchise rooftops.

Everything in AI Foundation, with 4 answer pages and 1 sponsored publication placement a month, a weekly competitor watch and review replies within 1 business day.

- Everything in AI Foundation.
- 4 answer pages a month, under the same rules.
- 1 sponsored publication placement a month. Your store is mentioned in a publication that AI assistants already cite for your market’s questions, on a topic you approve. The article is labelled as sponsored, and its links are tagged sponsored or nofollow. We check every delivery for the live link, your store’s name, the tag and the label.
- A weekly watch that re-runs 10 of your buyer questions every week against your 3 named competitors.
- Every Google review answered within 1 business day.
- A 30-minute review call every month.

### Market Leader

**$5,997 a month. $2,997 one-time setup.** By application.

High-volume franchise stores that want brand exclusivity in their market.

Everything in AI Authority, with 8 answer pages, 4 sponsored publication placements and 2 video answers a month, brand exclusivity in your market and a measured results credit. By application.

- Everything in AI Authority.
- 8 answer pages a month. Each is a new buyer question, or a refresh of an earlier page when its facts change.
- 4 sponsored publication placements a month, under the same rules.
- 2 video answers a month for your YouTube channel, made from your own footage and photos and posted only after you approve them. Realistic altered or synthetic content is disclosed under YouTube’s rules, and no AI-generated person is ever shown as your staff or a customer.
- A quarterly competitor teardown on top of the weekly watch.
- A monthly review call and a quarterly planning meeting.
- Brand exclusivity, by application. While you are subscribed, we sell no AI Visibility plan to another dealer of your brand in your territory: 25 miles in a straight line from your rooftop by default, confirmed in writing before you sign. A group’s same-brand rooftops count as one dealer, and we tell you before you sign about any same-brand dealer we already serve nearby. Exclusivity covers our AI Visibility plans only, and AI assistants may still name other dealers.
- The Market Leader results credit (full terms below).

AutoLander customers pay no setup fee.

### AI Visibility plans compared. Prices in US dollars, month to month.

|  | AI Foundation | AI Authority | Market Leader |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Monthly price | $997 | $2,497 | $5,997 |
| One-time setup fee | $997 | $997 | $2,997 |
| Setup fee for AutoLander customers | None | None | None |
| Built for | Independent and franchise stores that want their Google profile, listings, reviews and website fixes handled every month. | Busy stores selling 150 or more cars a month, and franchise rooftops. | High-volume franchise stores that want brand exclusivity in their market. |
| Monthly scan and report | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Website fix list, including structured data | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Google Business Profile run for you | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Core listings plus 40 directory listings in month 1 | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Answer pages on your own website | 2 a month | 4 a month | 8 a month |
| Sponsored publication placements | None | 1 a month | 4 a month |
| Video answers for your YouTube channel | None | None | 2 a month |
| Named competitors in your report | 3 | 3 | 3 |
| Weekly 10-question competitor watch | No | Yes | Yes |
| Quarterly competitor teardown | No | No | Yes |
| Google review replies | Within 2 business days | Within 1 business day | Within 1 business day |
| Review calls | Kickoff, then every quarter | Kickoff, then a 30-minute call every month | Kickoff, a monthly call and a quarterly planning meeting |
| Brand exclusivity in your market | No | No | Yes |
| Results credit | No | No | Yes, measured on months 4 to 6 |
| How it starts | Written agreement after your walkthrough | Application after your walkthrough, answered within 1 business day | Application, answered within 1 business day |

## Every plan includes

- A monthly AI Visibility scan and report by business day 5: when Claude and GPT name you on a fixed set of buyer questions, who they name instead, the sources behind every answer (each labelled by the assistant it came from), the cars AI can find, what we did this month with links to every piece of work, and what comes next.
- A website fix list for your website vendor, sent with your written authorization, chased every week and re-checked until each fix is live. It covers AI search crawler access in your robots.txt and your CDN or firewall (you can still block crawlers that collect training data), price, mileage and the full VIN as plain text on every vehicle page, and dealer and vehicle structured data where your platform doesn’t already add it.
- Your Google Business Profile run for you as a manager while you stay the owner: categories, services, description, hours, attributes and photos kept current, and every change we make e-mailed to you within 48 hours. Vehicles are never added as Google products, because Google’s rules exclude them.
- Core listings claimed, completed and kept consistent: Bing Places, Apple Business Connect, Yelp (claim and complete only), your Facebook Page, DealerRater, and your Cars.com, CarGurus and Autotrader dealer profiles.
- 40 directory listings plus the main data aggregators, ordered in month 1, with every live link in your report.
- Reviews done by the rules: one neutral request to every sold customer from your own CRM or DMS, 2 to 5 days after delivery, with at most one reminder. No incentives, no filtering out unhappy customers, and never a Yelp request. Every Google review is answered in the reviewer’s language, and a person approves every reply to a 1-star or 2-star review.
- Delegated access only. We never ask for your passwords, and you own every profile, listing and page we build.
- Month to month. Cancel any time before your next billing date.

## What we promise

Each promise is a step we control, with a date you can check in your report.

| Promise | Step |
| --- | --- |
| Kickoff call within 5 business days of your signed agreement. | We book it with you as soon as your agreement is signed. |
| Your website fix request goes to your vendor within 3 business days of kickoff. | We send it with your written authorization, chase it every week and re-check your site until each fix is live. Its status is in every report. |
| Your Google Business Profile is complete within 30 days of us getting manager access. | We never change your business name, address or main category without your sign-off. |
| Core listing claims and completions submitted within 45 days of kickoff. | Each one goes live when that site finishes its own verification. |
| Your directory order is placed within 30 days of kickoff. | Every live link is listed in your report. |
| Your review-request template and cadence are set up within 14 days of kickoff. | We set it up in your own CRM or DMS. It starts sending when your system admin switches it on. |
| Every Google review answered within your plan’s window: 2 business days on AI Foundation, 1 business day on AI Authority and Market Leader. | A person approves every reply to a 1-star or 2-star review, and you hear about those reviews the same day. |
| Each month’s answer-page drafts reach your approver by the 15th. | We submit each approved page to your website vendor or CMS within 3 business days of your approval. |
| AI Authority and Market Leader: each month’s placement topic reaches you by business day 10. | Topics come from the sources the assistants cited in your scan. We check the live link, tag and label on every delivery. |
| Market Leader: 2 video answers reach you for approval each month. | They go up only after you approve them. |
| Your monthly report arrives by business day 5. | It links to every piece of work and shows the raw answers, each labelled by the assistant it came from, with a short note on how we measure. |
| If you leave, our access is removed within 5 business days. | We delete your scan data and reports within 30 days and confirm it in writing. You keep every profile, listing, page and video. |

## Market Leader results credit

This credit comes with Market Leader only. We offer it once our pilot scans have measured how much answers normally vary from run to run.

1. **The questions:** At kickoff we agree 15 buyer questions for your market in writing. None of them names a dealer or a specific car, and at least 10 must not name your store in your first starting scan. The list is then frozen for the life of your agreement.
2. **How we ask:** Each question is asked 3 times of Claude (Anthropic) and of GPT (OpenAI), with web search on and the model versions fixed. That gives 30 question-and-assistant pairs per scan. A pair counts as naming you when that assistant names your store in at least 2 of its 3 runs, and a person checks every match.
3. **Your starting count:** The average count from two scans run at least 3 days apart during kickoff.
4. **The margin for normal variation:** Whichever is largest: 3 pairs, the gap between your two starting scans, or the variation measured in our pilot scans. Your report shows it.
5. **Your result:** The average count across your monthly scans in months 4, 5 and 6. You also get a progress readout at day 90.
6. **The credit:** If your result is not above your starting count plus the margin, we credit one full month’s fee on your next invoice. There is one credit per agreement.

- You stay subscribed and paid through month 6.
- Google Business Profile manager access is granted within 10 business days of kickoff.
- Your approver answers answer-page drafts and placement topics within 10 business days.
- If your website vendor has not let AI search crawlers in by day 60, measurement moves to the three monthly scans after the fix is live, and we confirm the new dates in writing.
- If a provider retires a model we use, we re-run your starting scans on its replacement that month. If we can’t, that assistant is left out of both your starting count and your result.

The credit covers a measured change in how often Claude and GPT name you on the agreed questions. It does not cover which answers name you, any position in an answer, traffic, leads or sales, or whether competitors are named.

## What we never promise

- A top spot, or any position, in the answers of any AI assistant, AI Overview or search engine.
- Your cars or inventory showing up inside any AI assistant.
- Traffic, calls, leads, appointments or sales, or any percentage lift.
- A number of reviews, a star rating, or the removal of any review.
- What an AI assistant will say about you, or that it will leave your competitors out. Market Leader exclusivity covers only whom we sell our plans to.
- Results on AI assistants we don’t measure, or on Google’s AI Overviews.
- That a sponsored placement will be cited by an AI assistant or pass search value to your site.
- That an answer page will be indexed or cited.
- That your website vendor, Google, Apple, Bing or any directory will act by a given date, or that a profile can’t be suspended.
- Any affiliation with, or approval from, OpenAI, Anthropic or Google.
- Manufacturer website-program approval or co-op eligibility. We are not on any manufacturer’s approved-vendor list.

## Not included in any plan

- Paid ads of any kind.
- Website builds or redesigns.
- The SEO program your website vendor already sells you. We work alongside it.
- Answering buyers on Messenger, chat, phone, text or e-mail. AutoLander never answers buyers for dealers.
- Replies to reviews on sites other than Google.
- Logging into your DMS or CRM, or holding your customer lists.
- Your passwords. We use manager roles and user invites only.
- Photo or video shoots at your store. Market Leader videos are made from footage and photos you already have.
- Measurement of AI assistants other than Claude and GPT, or of Google’s AI Overviews.

## How it starts

1. **Free scan:** Tell us your store, website and city or ZIP. We ask Claude and GPT up to 20 questions a buyer in your town would ask, 3 times each, with web search on.
2. **Walkthrough:** 20 minutes on your report with our team, including the 3 fixes we would make first.
3. **Agreement:** AI Foundation starts with a written agreement, month to month. AI Authority and Market Leader start with an application, and we reply within 1 business day. For Market Leader we also confirm whether your territory is available.
4. **Kickoff within 5 business days:** We agree the questions we measure. You give us Google Business Profile manager access, name who approves pages and bad-review replies, authorize our note to your website vendor and connect your inventory feed (already done if you use AutoLander).
5. **Work starts:** Your website vendor gets the fix list within 3 business days of kickoff, and your first monthly report arrives by business day 5 of the next month.

## The fine print

- Prices are in US dollars, plus tax where applicable. Plans are available to US dealerships.
- Month to month: cancel any time before your next billing date. The current month is not refunded, and you keep every profile, listing, page and video.
- AutoLander customers pay no setup fee on any plan once their AutoLander subscription at that rooftop has been active and paid for the prior 60 days.
- Dealer groups are priced per rooftop from the same table, and each rooftop can be on a different plan.
- For plans, answer pages and the cars AI can find check come from a live inventory feed: your AutoLander feed, or a CSV, XML or SFTP file from your inventory provider, set up at kickoff. The free scan may read up to five vehicle pages from your site.
- Google Business Profile is free from Google. Our fee is for our service.
- AutoLander is not affiliated with or endorsed by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or any AI company. Claude is made by Anthropic and GPT by OpenAI; product names belong to their owners.

Prices and plans updated September 29, 2026.

## Selling nationally instead of from one lot?

For national and category brands, such as auto brands, online car retailers, marketplaces and dealer software companies, we run a brand scan with no location. It follows a buyer from the first questions to the final choice and shows whether Claude and GPT name your brand for category questions, and which sources they cite. For now we scan English-language markets only. Brand scans and brand plans are priced by quote: e-mail sales@autolander.ai with your brand and website and we reply with the scope and a quote.

## Frequently asked questions

### Which AI assistants do you check?

Two: Claude, made by Anthropic, and GPT, made by OpenAI, each with web search on. Every answer in your report is labelled with the assistant it came from and shows the sources it cited. We don’t measure other assistants or Google’s AI Overviews. AutoLander is not affiliated with any AI company. We ask through the tools Anthropic and OpenAI publish for developers, so the consumer chat apps may answer a shopper differently.

### Is this just SEO with a new name?

It shares a lot with SEO. The question it answers is narrower: whether an AI assistant can read your site and match it to what Google, the listing sites and your reviews say about you. The scan checks AI search crawler access, the sources the answers cite and whether your vehicle pages show price, mileage and VIN as text.

### Do you need my logins?

No. The free scan uses public information only: your website, your public listings and what the assistants say. If you choose a plan, we work through manager roles and user invites you control, never your passwords.

### Can you make AI recommend my store first?

No one can honestly promise what an AI assistant will say, and we don’t. We fix what keeps assistants from reading and trusting your store, do the work every month and show you the raw answers so you can judge the results yourself.

### What does it cost?

The scan and the walkthrough are free. Plans are $997, $2,497 or $5,997 a month, plus a one-time setup fee of $997, $997 or $2,997. Every plan is month to month.

### I’m already an AutoLander customer.

Your store details are already on file, and your walkthrough can happen on your next call with us. AutoLander customers pay no setup fee on any plan once their subscription at that store has been active and paid for 60 days.

### What does “by application” mean?

We take a limited number of AI Authority and Market Leader stores at a time, so both start with an application, answered within 1 business day. Market Leader also includes brand exclusivity: while you are subscribed, we sell no AI Visibility plan to another dealer of your brand in your territory, 25 miles in a straight line from your rooftop by default, and we confirm whether your territory is available.

### How do you measure?

Answers change from run to run, so every question is asked 3 times of each assistant and your score comes with a margin. Questions about cars in stock are reported separately, as "cars AI can find". In a dealer scan we read your robots.txt, your homepage, your sitemap when we need it and up to five vehicle pages, and nothing more. If your site blocks us, we report the block as a finding.

### We sell nationally, not from one store. Can you scan a brand?

For national and category brands, such as auto brands, online car retailers, marketplaces and dealer software companies, we run a brand scan with no location. It follows a buyer from the first questions to the final choice and shows whether Claude and GPT name your brand for category questions, and which sources they cite. For now we scan English-language markets only. Brand scans and brand plans are priced by quote: e-mail sales@autolander.ai with your brand and website and we reply with the scope and a quote.

### Can an AI assistant fill in the form for me?

An assistant can bring you to this page and fill in your store’s details. You review the form and press the button yourself, and only you can tick the text-message box.

## Find out if Claude and GPT name your store.

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AI Visibility is a monthly service from AutoLander LLC for US car dealerships. It measures whether Claude (Anthropic) and GPT (OpenAI), each with web search on, name a dealership when local buyers ask where to buy a car, then fixes what keeps assistants from finding and trusting the store: website crawler access and vehicle-page text, the Google Business Profile, listings, reviews and answer pages. It starts with a free scan. Plans are $997, $2,497 and $5,997 a month plus setup, month to month. It is separate from AutoLander's Facebook Marketplace software.

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AI Visibility is a service from AutoLander LLC, separate from our Facebook Marketplace software. Not affiliated with OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or any AI company; product names belong to their owners. https://autolander.ai/ai-visibility/