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What your Viizable Score is made of

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J. Brent Tuttle
Jun 22, 2026 · 6 min read
What your Viizable Score is made of — and how it's measured — Viizable
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What your Viizable Score is made of

One number tells you how likely AI is to recommend your business. Here is exactly what goes into that number — and how it's measured the same way, every time.

Your Viizable Score is free for a reason: a score you can run again is a yardstick. Make changes, re-scan, and watch the number move.

May 20, 2026 141 criteria · 12 categories 6 min read

Ask most business owners whether AI would recommend them, and you'll get a shrug. They don't know — and until recently there was no clean way to find out. The Viizable exists to replace that shrug with a number. Here's what's behind the number, and how it's produced.

The core idea

Your Viizable Score isn't an opinion about your website. It's 141 separate measurements.

Most "website audits" are a consultant's judgment call — useful, but unrepeatable. The Viizable Score is built differently. It runs the same 141 checks on every business, grades each one the same way, and rolls them into a single score. Because nothing about it is subjective, running it again next month tells you something real.

1What we scan

Five pillars of analysis — because that's where AI looks

An AI assistant doesn't decide whether to recommend you from your homepage alone. It assembles a picture of your business from several sources at once. So our engine runs over 100 distinct analyses across five pillars — the same five places AI looks.

1
On-site congruency
We read your site the way an AI crawler does — your HTML, content, headings, schema markup, navigation, contact details and on-page trust signals. Everything an AI engine can see when it visits your site directly.
2
External data
How your business is referenced across the rest of the web — directories, citations, review platforms and third-party data sources that AI cross-references. AI trusts independent sources far more than your own marketing copy.
3
Contextual API analysis
We go directly to the AI systems and interrogate how they actually perceive and classify your business when they process a recommendation query — a direct read, not a guess at what AI thinks.
4
Recency signals
Freshness of your content, reviews, updates and engagement. AI systems favor businesses that show active, current operations — and quietly discount the ones that look dormant.
5
Recommended-site comparison
We benchmark your domain against the sites AI already recommends in your category and area — so the score reflects the real bar in your market, not a generic standard.
2How it's scored

How a thousand small signals become one number

Those five pillars generate over 100 distinct analyses — far more raw data points than anyone could act on. We don't hand you a hundred numbers. Every signal maps to one of 141 proprietary criteria. Each criterion is graded pass, partial or fail, the criteria roll up into 12 categories, and the categories roll up into one score.

Criteria checked
141
individual trust signals
Scoring categories
12
grouped by what AI weighs
Your result
0–100
one score, re-runnable

The 12 categories are the same for every business we scan:

1Reputation Signals
2Content Quality & Expertise
3Business Identity
4Website Contactability
5Local SEO & GBP
6Technical SEO & Schema
7Trust & Safety
8UX & Conversion
9AI Discoverability
10Performance & Speed
11LSA Eligibility
12Social Presence

A plumber and a law firm are measured against the same 141 criteria. What changes is how each business performs — not the test. That's what makes one score comparable to the next.

3Staying accurate

Why the score doesn't go stale

Here's the hard part. What AI engines reward is a moving target. A criterion that barely mattered last quarter can turn critical when an engine updates. A score frozen in time would slowly drift away from reality — and a yardstick that's quietly wrong is worse than no yardstick at all.

So we don't freeze it. On a regular cycle we go back to the AI engines themselves and have them re-rank what matters. Those answers re-weight the 141 criteria, so the score keeps reflecting what actually earns a recommendation today — not what did a year ago.

It's the same method behind our published weighting study. When competing AI systems independently agree on what matters, that consensus moves the criteria — and your score moves with it.

4Why it's free

Why the scan is free

The scan is free, and that's deliberate. A score you see once is a verdict. A score you can run again is a yardstick — and a yardstick is only useful if you can pick it up whenever you want. Here's how owners actually use it:

1
Scan — get your baseline
Run the free scan and you have a number: exactly where you stand today, and which categories are dragging you down. No guessing, no "I think the site's fine."
2
Fix — hand the gaps to whoever works on your site
You, your web person, or your SEO agency works through the failed criteria. The score turns vague instructions into a concrete checklist — and a clear order to tackle it in.
3
Re-scan — watch the number move
Run it again. The score went from 41 to 63, or it didn't. Either way you now know — instead of taking someone's word for it.
This is the part that protects you. If you're paying someone to improve your AI visibility and the score isn't climbing, they don't have the right formula. The number doesn't argue, and it doesn't take sides.
The takeaway

Your Viizable Score is 141 measurements, re-weighted so it stays honest. Run it free, make your changes, run it again. If the number is climbing, you're getting recommended more. If it's flat, you've learned something just as valuable: whatever you're doing isn't the formula.

Footnote · How the Viizable Score works

The short version

The Viizable Score measures your business against 141 trust signals — across the 12 categories above — that AI assistants weigh when deciding which businesses to recommend. The model is built by reverse-engineering what the AI engines reward and what they ignore, calibrated against nearly 30,000 business scans, and continuously re-weighted through direct interaction with the AI platforms as their requirements shift.

Your score is a baseline you can re-measure any time. The first scan is free.

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