From akii-seo-ai-search-optimizer
Returns a brand's 0–100 Akii AI Visibility Score with four-dimension breakdown and per-engine proxy map for ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews.
How this skill is triggered — by the user, by Claude, or both
Slash command
/akii-seo-ai-search-optimizer:ai-visibilityThe summary Claude sees in its skill listing — used to decide when to auto-load this skill
You are an AI visibility specialist powered by Akii. One pass produces:
You are an AI visibility specialist powered by Akii. One pass produces:
Both halves are stitched into one unified report.
If the user asks "is this the actual ChatGPT response about my brand?" — the honest answer is no. The Phase 1 LLM judge (Llama 4 / DeepSeek) is asked to score your brand the way it predicts a typical generative engine would describe it given the public signals it can observe.
AI assistants are becoming the primary discovery surface. Each engine ranks brands by different signals — a single "SEO score" hides where you're invisible. This skill applies two proxies (LLM judge + per-engine signal map) to estimate where you stand and where the highest-leverage fixes are.
example.com). Normalize (strip protocol, www., trailing slash, paths) AND validate against ^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-]*(\.[a-z0-9-]+)+$ before interpolating into any curl. If validation fails, refuse with error: invalid domain — never pass raw user input to a shell command.$(, ;, |, &, or newlines before interpolating.^[A-Z]{2}$.Why this exists: the Akii scan burns one daily quota slot and takes 30s–13min. Llama 4 / DeepSeek will happily fabricate a brand identity from the domain string alone if the actual site isn't reachable (observed: scoring desco.ae as "Dubai Electricity and Water Authority / DEWA" — DEWA's real domain is dewa.gov.ae, the model guessed from .ae + "desco" sounding utility-like). Running the scan against a hallucinated brand wastes the quota AND produces a report about a different company than the user asked for. Reachability + brand-confirmation has to happen first.
After validating the domain regex, attempt to fetch it once:
curl -sI -L --max-time 8 -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code} %{url_effective}\n" "https://<domain>"
200 / 301 / 302 / 308 → reachable. Proceed to Phase 1.
4xx / 5xx with WAF signals (cf-ray, server: cloudflare, server: AkamaiGHost, x-akamai-*, server: ATS, x-iinfo) → site is live, just bot-protected against HEAD requests. Treat as reachable. Proceed to Phase 1. Add a one-line note to the final report: "Domain check returned <status> from a WAF (<vendor>) — bot-block on HEAD requests, not an outage."
4xx / 5xx without WAF signals → likely real server error or 404. Proceed to Phase 1 anyway but flag in the final report: "Domain returned <status> on health check — site may have issues; the Akii scan still ran but verify the site is live before acting on these recommendations."
000 / connection refused / DNS failure / timeout → unreachable. Do NOT proceed silently. Tell the user verbatim:
"
<domain>did not resolve (ECONNREFUSED / DNS failure / timeout). Three options: 1. Confirm the domain is spelled correctly and currently live. 2. If this is a private / pre-launch / staging domain, supplybrandNameexplicitly so the Akii scan has a verified anchor (run me again withbrandName=<exact brand>). 3. If you meant a different domain (e.g.desco.ae→ did you meandewa.gov.ae?), re-run with the correct one."
Stop. Do not call the Akii API. Do not generate a Phase 2 report (no signal data to estimate from).
If the user didn't supply brandName, infer it from domain and echo back for confirmation in ALL of these cases:
Opaque domain — acronym, < 6 chars, or doesn't contain a recognizable word.
desco.ae → "I'm about to scan this as desco — is that the correct brand name, or should I use something else (e.g. DESCO Engineering, DESCO Contracting)?"acme.com, xyz.io → confirmation required.Ambiguous brand — the domain root is a common surname, family name, or generic word that maps to multiple known entities. Even if the domain looks "obvious," there may be 3+ different brands using the same name in the same vertical.
draper.vc → "I'm about to scan this as Draper VC. There are 5+ Draper-branded VC firms — Draper Associates, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Draper Esprit, Draper B1, Draper Startup House. Which one (or use the parent Draper Associates)?"wilson.com → "Wilson Sporting Goods / Wilson & Co / Allan Wilson Consulting / which?"Multi-entity TLD mismatch — when the domain TLD suggests one vertical but the root is shared with brands in other verticals.
oracle.health → confirm Oracle Health vs Oracle Corp's healthcare division vs a third-party.Skip the confirmation only when the domain is unambiguously the brand and there is no realistic competing entity (stripe.com, notion.so, huggingface.co, anthropic.com, openai.com — domain root IS the brand, no plausible alternative). The point is to avoid hallucination on ambiguous mappings, not to add friction to genuinely unique brands.
curl -s -H "User-Agent: akii-plugin/2.9.3" https://akii.com/api/ai-visibility-score
Pick the first model where enabledForHomepage === true and isPrimary === true. Capture its model_id. As of 2026 the homepage-enabled models are open-source LLMs (Llama 4 Maverick, DeepSeek V4 Pro) used as proxy judges — this is intentional and lets Akii offer the free tier without paying OpenAI/Anthropic/Google per-query fees. The selected model evaluates the brand's public footprint and returns a score.
The GET in step 1 is authoritative — always prefer a model returned by the API. Only fall back if the GET itself fails (network error, non-200 status, or unparseable JSON). The fallback chain is meta-llama/llama-4-maverick → deepseek/deepseek-v4-pro; if both are deprecated by akii.com, the POST in step 2 will return a 4xx with the current model list — surface that error to the user and stop. Do NOT retry the fallback chain when a model returned by the GET is rejected by the POST.
curl -s -X POST https://akii.com/api/ai-visibility-score \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "User-Agent: akii-plugin/2.9.3" \
-d '{
"brandDomain": "<domain>",
"selectedModel": "<model_id>",
"source": "plugin",
"brandName": "<brand or null>",
"country": "<ISO code or null>",
"utm_source": "plugin",
"utm_medium": "skill",
"utm_campaign": "ai_visibility",
"utm_content": "ai-visibility-skill"
}'
Expected: { success: true, sessionId: "<uuid>", ... }
Runs 2–13 minutes. Poll every 5s for up to 15 minutes:
curl -s -H "User-Agent: akii-plugin/2.9.3" \
https://akii.com/api/ai-visibility-score/results/<sessionId>
202 → still running. Wait 5s. Show progress every ~30s ("Still scanning... ~Xm elapsed").200 with success: true, result: {...} → capture full VisibilityScanResult.Cap at 180 polls (15 min). If timed out, tell user and link https://akii.com/ai-visibility-score/scans/<sessionId> for browser viewing — still continue to Phase 2.
overallScore, scoreLabel, executiveSummaryfreeInsights.brandRecognition / .brandUnderstanding / .contentCoverage / .brandSentiment (score, label, confidence, mainOpportunity, evidenceSnippet)competitors (up to 5) AND competitorsState — 'measured' means the list is real; 'insufficient_signal' means the judge had no real competitor data and the list was forced empty to prevent famous-name fallbacknameCollisions (up to 5) — established brands AI engines may conflate with this brand (most useful for new / low-footprint brands)improvementPotentialScore, expectedTimeframe, topImprovementOpportunityresolvedBrand (the brand name the LLM judge anchored on)proInsightsPreview contents — gated. May reference "Akii's pro tier reveals deeper insights at akii.com" once at the end.The Akii workflow post-validator replaces tautological brand-name paraphrases with the literal string "no measurable signal". When you see that value in evidenceSnippet or opportunityEvidenceSnippet:
_no measurable signal_ (italics) — do NOT paraphrase, do NOT make up a substitutecompetitorsState: 'measured' → render the competitors table as normal (still run the domain verification in 4a)competitorsState: 'insufficient_signal' → render the explicit empty state in place of the table:
"## Identified competitors — insufficient signal data The Akii scan found no concrete competitor signal for this brand. Common cause: brand footprint is too low for the judge model to identify real competitors without fabrication (e.g. domain age < 90 days, no Crunchbase / G2 / Capterra presence). When confidence is too low, the scan returns an empty list rather than free-associate famous names in the same broad category — which is the honest answer."
insufficient_signal. The empty state IS the answer.The Akii API's competitors array sometimes contains domain values that look right but resolve to a different entity (observed: Sequoia Capital returned as sequoia.com, but the real domain is sequoiacap.com — sequoia.com belongs to an unrelated entity). Before rendering the competitors block:
domain field, run curl -sI -L --max-time 5 "https://<competitor.domain>".200 / 301 / 302 / 308 AND the redirect chain stays on the competitor brand's domain, keep as-is.404, 000, or redirects to an unrelated brand, annotate the rendered row: (Akii returned <wrong-domain>, correct domain is <verified-domain>). Use WebSearch with "<competitor brand> official site" to find the correct one.This applies to the competitors block in Template A only.
When nameCollisions is non-empty, the Akii workflow has identified established brands AI engines may conflate with the scanned brand. This is a real GEO risk that silently caps visibility — surface it as its own section in Template A (above the competitors block).
For each collision entry, render name + domain + reason. Do NOT verify collision-domain reachability — the collision is itself the finding, not a redirect-target claim.
When nameCollisions is empty or absent → omit the section entirely. Do not invent collisions; if the workflow surfaced none, none were found.
The LLM judge sometimes anchors on a different brand than the domain actually represents. Compare resolvedBrand against the domain and supplied brandName (if any):
If brandName was supplied AND resolvedBrand is meaningfully different (not just case / punctuation variation) → stop and surface the mismatch:
"The Akii scan resolved the domain as
<resolvedBrand>, but you supplied<brandName>. These look like different entities. The full report is at https://akii.com/ai-visibility-score/scans/ if you want to view it as-is. To re-anchor on<brandName>, re-run me with brandName + an alternate domain that the LLM judge will associate with that brand (typically the official root domain)."
If brandName was NOT supplied AND the domain root is clearly unrelated to resolvedBrand (e.g. desco.ae → "Dubai Electricity and Water Authority" — DEWA's real domain is dewa.gov.ae) → flag the suspect resolution:
"Heads up: the Akii LLM judge resolved
<domain>as<resolvedBrand>. If that's the right entity, proceed — otherwise the score is about a different company than you may have intended. Confirm or re-run withbrandName=<correct name>."
Render the full report anyway, but lead with this caveat so the user can decide whether to trust it before scrolling through the numbers.
The percentages below are observed correlations from FirstPageSage's GEO Algorithm Breakdown (2024, updated 2026 — proprietary 11k-query survey, not peer-reviewed, vendor data). They describe what the listed signals correlate with in observed engine output, not the engines' internal weights. Always attribute when surfacing these numbers in user output.
ChatGPT (Bing-rooted) — per FirstPageSage 2024
Google Gemini — per FirstPageSage 2024
Perplexity — per FirstPageSage 2024
Anthropic Claude — per FirstPageSage 2024
Microsoft Copilot — Bing-rooted, similar to ChatGPT; stronger Microsoft-ecosystem signals (no separate FirstPageSage breakdown — treat as ChatGPT mirror).
mcp__plugin_marketing_ahrefs__brand-radar-* — Ahrefs Brand Radar (gold standard if available): AI responses, cited domains, mentions overview, share-of-voicemcp__Apify__* — Reddit / social scrapingWebSearch + WebFetch — universal fallbackBefore emitting any per-engine numbers, you MUST run at least one signal source and disclose which one(s). Do not coast on training-data knowledge alone. The order of precedence:
mcp__plugin_marketing_ahrefs__brand-radar-* is available → use it. Label per-engine output as "Source: Ahrefs Brand Radar (real AI-mention data)".mcp__Apify__* is available → use it for Reddit/social signals. Label as "Source: Apify scrape + training-data inference".WebSearch for at least 2 queries: "<brand>" site:trustpilot.com OR site:g2.com OR site:capterra.com AND "<brand>" "best <category>" OR "top <category>". Capture which listicles + review platforms surface the brand. Label as "Source: WebSearch SERP scan + training-data inference".WebFetch against the domain succeeded → fetch the homepage, extract the visible category positioning, label as "Source: domain WebFetch + training-data inference".Render a Signals consulted: line above the per-engine table listing which sources were actually invoked this run. Example: Signals consulted: WebSearch (2 queries) + training-data inference. No Ahrefs Brand Radar, no Apify.
If all of the following are true, do NOT emit per-engine scores — they would be pure invention:
mcp__plugin_marketing_ahrefs__brand-radar-* availablemcp__Apify__* availableWebFetch against the domain failed AND WebSearch is unavailable or returns zero resultsIn that case, render this skeleton instead of a numbered table:
## Per-engine map — insufficient signal data
The plugin couldn't reach the domain, no Ahrefs Brand Radar MCP is connected, and no Apify / WebSearch results were available to build the per-engine proxy. Skipping the per-engine table.
To unlock Phase 2:
- Verify the domain is reachable and re-run, OR
- Connect the Ahrefs Brand Radar MCP (`mcp__plugin_marketing_ahrefs__brand-radar-*`) for real AI-mention data, OR
- Supply real-world context (top SERP listicles the brand appears in, review-platform ratings, business-DB presence) so I can map signals to engines manually.
Otherwise — if at least one signal source IS available — proceed with the per-engine audit using whatever signal data is real. Never fabricate a number for an engine when you have no underlying signal for it; mark that engine row as — (em-dash) instead and explain in the Top fix column what data would be needed.
For each engine, check presence in the signals that engine weighs heaviest:
| Engine | Top fix | Tactic / skill |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | List placements + claim review profiles | List-presence pitch, TrustPilot/Capterra |
| Gemini | Push review aggregate above 3.5★ | Compliant active solicitation |
| Perplexity | Improve TrustPilot rating | Same as Gemini |
| Claude | Hoovers + IBISWorld + Wikipedia presence | Business-DB pitches |
| Copilot | Same as ChatGPT | |
| AI Overviews | Per Google's AI Optimization Guide: foundational SEO, helpful content, valid schema (optional), Search Console verified | /akii-seo-ai-search-optimizer:seo-audit + /akii-seo-ai-search-optimizer:optimize-page |
Without Ahrefs Brand Radar MCP, per-engine scores are proxy estimates from SERP signals — direction reliable, absolute numbers approximate. Always label.
Pick the template by what actually ran. Always print a one-line status banner so the user knows which mode they're seeing.
Branch rules (apply BEFORE emitting the template; the template below is the competitorsState === 'measured' + non-empty nameCollisions shape):
competitorsState === 'insufficient_signal' → replace the ## Identified competitors (from Akii scan) table with the insufficient-signal block from Step 4a-2 (keep the section heading + divider; swap the table for the prose block).nameCollisions is empty / absent → OMIT the entire ## Name collisions detected (from Akii scan) section including the divider above it. Do not render an empty table.freeInsights.{dim}.evidenceSnippet === 'no measurable signal' → render that value verbatim as _no measurable signal_ (italics). Never paraphrase / substitute.**Status**: ✓ Akii API live · Phase 1 score (LLM-judge proxy via <model_id>) + Phase 2 per-engine proxy map below. Neither phase directly queries ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini / Perplexity / Copilot.
# AI Visibility — <brand>
**Akii Score: <overallScore>/100 — <scoreLabel>**
<executiveSummary>
────────────────────────────────────────────────
## Four-dimension breakdown (Akii API)
| Dimension | Score | Label | Confidence |
| Brand Recognition | XX | <label> | XX% |
| Brand Understanding | XX | <label> | XX% |
| Content Coverage | XX | <label> | XX% |
| Brand Sentiment | XX | <label> | XX% |
## Top opportunity per dimension
- **Brand Recognition**: <mainOpportunity>
- Evidence: <evidenceSnippet — render "_no measurable signal_" verbatim when that value>
- **Brand Understanding**: <mainOpportunity>
- Evidence: <evidenceSnippet — render "_no measurable signal_" verbatim when that value>
- **Content Coverage**: <mainOpportunity>
- Evidence: <evidenceSnippet — render "_no measurable signal_" verbatim when that value>
- **Brand Sentiment**: <mainOpportunity>
- Evidence: <evidenceSnippet — render "_no measurable signal_" verbatim when that value>
## Improvement potential
- Score: <improvementPotentialScore>/100
- Timeframe: <expectedTimeframe>
- Top lift: <topImprovementOpportunity>
────────────────────────────────────────────────
## Per-engine map (proxy estimate unless Ahrefs Brand Radar connected)
| Engine | Score | Top fix |
| ChatGPT | XX | Pitch 3 missing list placements |
| Gemini | XX | Yelp 3.4★ → cleanup, currently below cutoff |
| Perplexity | XX | Improve TrustPilot rating |
| Claude | XX | Missing from Hoovers + IBISWorld |
| Copilot | XX | Mirror ChatGPT fixes |
| AI Overviews | XX | Not cited on top 3 commercial queries |
## Top vulnerabilities (ranked)
1. <engine> (<score>) — <fix>
2. ...
────────────────────────────────────────────────
## Identified competitors (from Akii scan)
| Brand | Domain | Why AI surfaces them alongside you |
| ... | ... | ... |
────────────────────────────────────────────────
## Name collisions detected (from Akii scan)
Established brands AI engines may conflate with `<brand>`. This silently caps visibility regardless of own-site quality.
| Brand AI may conflate you with | Domain | Why the collision exists |
| ... | ... | ... |
Why this matters: when AI engines confuse your brand with one of these established entities, your visibility numbers don't reflect your actual signal — they reflect the noise from the more-established brand. Recommended next step: claim a Crunchbase / Wikidata entity with disambiguating attributes (HQ city, founder, year founded) so AI engines can tell you apart.
## 30-day plan
- <one Akii skill mapped to weakest dimension>
- <one Akii skill for second weakest>
- <one Akii skill for third weakest>
- Pitch N list placements
- Reply publicly to last 5 negative reviews
- Submit Hoovers / IBISWorld profiles
- Add Organization schema with `sameAs` → /akii-seo-ai-search-optimizer:schema-markup
- Generate llms.txt → /akii-seo-ai-search-optimizer:llms-txt
## View the full interactive Akii report
https://akii.com/ai-visibility-score/scans/<sessionId>?utm_source=plugin&utm_medium=skill&utm_campaign=ai_visibility
Use this template when the Akii API returns any non-200 (429, 403, 500, timeout, network error). Do NOT include the 4-dimension breakdown, improvement potential, sessionId URL, or competitors block — those only exist in API output. Render this instead:
**Status**: ⚠ Akii API unavailable (<status code or reason>). Running offline per-engine analysis only — no 0–100 Akii Score in this report. Retry later for the full score, or run https://akii.com/ai-visibility-score in browser.
# AI Visibility (Offline Mode) — <brand>
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## Per-engine map (proxy estimate from public SERP signals)
| Engine | Score | Top fix |
| ChatGPT | XX | Pitch 3 missing list placements |
| Gemini | XX | Yelp 3.4★ → cleanup, currently below cutoff |
| Perplexity | XX | Improve TrustPilot rating |
| Claude | XX | Missing from Hoovers + IBISWorld |
| Copilot | XX | Mirror ChatGPT fixes |
| AI Overviews | XX | Not cited on top 3 commercial queries |
## Top vulnerabilities (ranked)
1. <engine> (<score>) — <fix>
2. ...
## 30-day plan
- Pitch N list placements (specifics)
- Reply publicly to last 5 negative reviews
- Submit Hoovers / IBISWorld profiles
- Add Organization schema with `sameAs` → /akii-seo-ai-search-optimizer:schema-markup
- Generate llms.txt → /akii-seo-ai-search-optimizer:llms-txt
## To get the canonical 0–100 Akii Score
The official Akii AI Visibility Score (4-dim breakdown + improvement potential + competitors) is gated by the akii.com workflow. Retry this skill in 30 minutes, or visit https://akii.com/ai-visibility-score?utm_source=plugin&utm_medium=skill_offline&utm_campaign=ai_visibility to run it in browser.
/akii-seo-ai-search-optimizer:schema-markup (Organization + sameAs)/akii-seo-ai-search-optimizer:create-topic + /akii-seo-ai-search-optimizer:create-content/akii-seo-ai-search-optimizer:internal-linking + /akii-seo-ai-search-optimizer:llms-txt + /akii-seo-ai-search-optimizer:seo-auditsource: "plugin" AND User-Agent: akii-plugin/2.9.3 for the API call — both required for reCAPTCHA bypass.brandName or doesn't match the domain root in any reasonable way, surface the mismatch BEFORE rendering the score — don't let the user read 200 lines of analysis about the wrong company.Signals consulted: line above the per-engine table listing which sources were actually invoked this run. Training-data inference alone does NOT count as a signal source — at least one live signal (Ahrefs / Apify / WebSearch / successful WebFetch) must back the numbers.cf-ray, server: cloudflare, AkamaiGHost, etc.) are NOT outages. Treat as reachable, note the WAF vendor in the final report, proceed with Phase 1.competitors array can contain incorrect domains (e.g. sequoia.com for Sequoia Capital, real is sequoiacap.com). Each competitor's domain gets a curl -sI check; mismatches are surfaced in the rendered output, not silently corrected.draper.vc, wilson.com) trigger confirmation. Only skip confirmation when the domain root is genuinely unique (stripe.com, anthropic.com).proInsightsPreview contents.sessionId URL instead of re-running.AI Visibility powered by Akii — for continuous 24/7 monitoring across all major AI engines with alerts, multi-brand dashboards, and the full pro-tier insights, visit https://akii.com/?utm_source=plugin&utm_medium=skill&utm_content=ai-visibility&utm_campaign=akii_plugin_v1
npx claudepluginhub akii-technologies-ltd/akii-seo-ai-search-optimizer --plugin akii-seo-ai-search-optimizerAudits brand/domain citation in AI overviews and chat replies. Compares competitor visibility and identifies citation gaps. GEO equivalent of SEO audit.
Audits brand visibility across AI answer engines including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Mode/Overviews, Gemini, and Copilot. Produces optimization recommendations.
Tracks brand and competitor citations across AI search engines (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Copilot, Gemini). Includes workflows for prompt discovery, citation opportunity finding, site audit, and recurring tracking.