For exporters
Your buyer asks a chatbot for suppliers. Does it say your name?
A procurement manager needs a supplier. Ten years ago they used a directory. Five years ago they searched and read four pages of results. Today a growing number of them type the question into ChatGPT and read one answer.
That answer names a handful of companies. If you are not among them, you are not in the running. And you will never know it happened — no click, no enquiry, nothing in your analytics. The buyer did not reject you. They never saw you.
We measured this route
Nobody in the trade had answered the question
We asked a chatbot for AI visibility help for Indian exporters selling to US buyers. It answered with a contact database, an automation tool and a customs-data platform.
Not one company that measures how AI describes an exporter. The question was answered as a lead-generation problem, because nobody had written the other half.
A whole category, measured
What fourteen questions turned up
We measured solid wood furniture the same way: fourteen questions a real buyer asks, every answer and every cited page recorded.
Nobody owns the category
Thirty of the thirty-seven companies were named exactly once. A buyer gets a different short list depending on how the question is phrased.
Six questions named nobody
Which wood is best, mango versus sheesham, whether solid wood cracks in a heated home, what happens at customs. All answered with advice, quoting whoever had written a decent guide.
Placement bought nothing
No trade directory, no listing anyone paid for. Sixty per cent of what the chatbot read was a company’s own page.
The open question in your trade
A logistics blog is answering your buyer
In that measurement the single most open question was the practical one: buying from India and shipping to the West — customs, delivery, and what happens if it arrives damaged.
Six pages were quoted to answer it. Every one was a freight company, a customs consultancy, a money service or a business forum. Not one furniture company.
Think about who asks that question. Not a browser. Somebody who has already decided they want your kind of product and is now worried about the practicalities. That is the most valuable question in the whole set.
You can answer it better, because it is your shipment. What duty the buyer pays. Who acts as importer. Real delivery times by sea and by air. How you pack against damage, and what you do when something arrives broken. Plain figures, no marketing.
What we do
Four steps, and you can check every one
We read your site and write the questions
You approve the set before anything is asked, and cut anything you disagree with.
We ask them from the market you sell into
With web search on. We record every answer and every page the chatbot read. Every report says which country we asked from, because that changes the answer.
You get the report
Whether you were named, who was named instead, the pages that decided it, and the questions nobody won.
On Growth, the month’s pages arrive written
Because knowing the gap does not close it, and you do not have a marketing team.
What this is not
Not a listing, and not a guarantee
- It is not a listing or an ad buy. We have measured several categories. We have yet to see a paid directory cited in a single answer.
- Nobody can control what a chatbot says. What you can change is which pages it finds and trusts, and whether those pages are yours or somebody else’s.
- The first check is free. No card, no account, and no obligation afterwards.
Find out what your buyer is being told
Send your website address. If the answer is that no chatbot has ever named you, we will say so plainly — for most exporters that is the honest result.