Answer-visibility audit
What AI tells people about your business.
16Fold asks the questions a real buyer would type, captures the answers verbatim, and names who was recommended instead — then finds the checkable public-footprint cause and the one fix worth doing first. Every report is reviewed before it is sent. Not a score. Not the $1,000 AI Readiness Assessment.
What the report is
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The questions a buyer would type
16Fold derives five questions an actual customer would search — including occasion-framed and region-framed variants, not just category plus city.
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The answers, captured verbatim
Those questions are asked for real, search-enabled, across assistants. The transcript is the artifact.
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Named, linked, or absent
Presence is scored in the only way that matters: named in the body, a link at the bottom, or missing. Facts — services, service area, hours, phone — are checked against the public site.
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Who was recommended instead
When the business is not the answer, the report names who won — competitors by name, how often, in what position.
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The checkable cause
16Fold looks for a public-footprint difference a person can verify: a page that answers that question, a Google profile, reviews, service-area pages, structured data, citations, recent content. This is the step a score-and-stop tool does not perform.
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The one fix
A single highest-leverage change, concrete enough to act on Monday. Not a punch list. Not a verdict on the owner.
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