What does "AI visibility" mean for my business?

When someone asks ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini "what is the best..." or "where can I find...", AI gives specific recommendations. AI visibility is a measure of how often — and how positively — these AI platforms mention your business. It's the new version of being on the first page of Google, except now there are no pages — just one answer.

Which AI platforms do you monitor?

Pendium monitors ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Perplexity, DeepSeek, and Google AI Overviews — seven major AI platforms that consumers use to research local services. We run real queries that your customers actually ask and analyze the responses for mentions of your business, competitors, and industry topics.

How does Pendium improve my visibility?

Three ways. First, we identify the exact queries and topics where you're invisible. Second, we generate AI-optimized content — articles, guides, social posts — designed to help AI agents understand your business and recommend your services to the right people. Third, we continuously monitor to track improvement and find new opportunities. Most clients see measurable improvement within 60 days.

How long until I see results?

You'll get your first visibility report within minutes of signing up. Actual visibility improvement varies, but our clients typically see a 47% average improvement within 60 days. Some see results faster — it depends on your current online presence and how competitive your local market is.

Do I need to be technical to use this?

Not at all. Enter your website URL and Pendium handles everything: scanning AI platforms, analyzing your visibility, generating content, and tracking improvement. The dashboard is designed for business owners, not engineers. If you can check your email, you can use Pendium.

What makes this different from SEO?

Traditional SEO optimizes for Google's search rankings — blue links on a results page. AI visibility is different: AI doesn't show links, it gives direct answers. Even if you rank #1 on Google, ChatGPT might recommend a competitor. Pendium optimizes for the new paradigm — making sure AI platforms know about, trust, and recommend your business.

Pricing

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Mercor

Visibility50

Vibe88

Businesses/Human Resources Technology/Mercor

AI Visibility & Sentiment

Mercor

Mercor is an AI-powered talent marketplace that connects skilled professionals with high-paying, remote AI roles. The platform specializes in matching domain experts—from physicians and lawyers to software engineers and researchers—with companies building AI systems, offering competitive hourly rates and daily payouts.

Active Monitoring

mercor.com

Human Resources Technology

AI Visibility Score

50/100

Moderate

Sentiment Score

88/100

Score by Priority

How often this business is recommended to users across different types of conversations — from direct product queries to broader open-ended conversations where AI could recommend this company's products and services

core

adjacent

aspirational

visionary

AI Perception

Key Takeaways

How AI platforms collectively perceive and describe Mercor today.

Mercor has established itself as the definitive high-end alternative to legacy platforms like Outlier and Remotasks, frequently securing the #1 spot in AI Overviews for elite expert marketplace searches. While the brand dominates the AI Research Academic persona with a 68% mention rate, it suffers from a massive visibility vacuum in the medical and legal professional sectors where competitors like Scale AI currently hold court.

Working in your favor

Top-tier authority in AI Overviews with an average position of 3.1, specifically outperforming competitors on 'high-end alternative' and 'best reviewed marketplace' queries.

Strongest resonance with the AI Research Academic persona, achieving a 68% mention rate and solid top-of-page placement (5.4 average position).

Excellent 'brand vibe check' performance across all major models, indicating that when the brand is known, the sentiment is consistently accurate and authoritative.

Gaps to close

Near-total invisibility in the Marketplace Financials & Payouts category, missing critical queries regarding 'daily payouts' and 'high hourly rates' that competitors are capturing.

Critical underperformance on the Gemini platform with only a 15% mention rate, significantly trailing behind Claude and ChatGPT performance.

Weak penetration into the Specialized Medical Consultant persona (18% mention rate), representing a missed opportunity for high-value expert acquisition.

Opportunities

Leverage the brand's current #1 ranking for 'high-end alternatives' to target dissatisfied users of Scale AI and Invisible Technologies through direct comparison content.

Bridge the 'Productivity & Insights' gap by publishing data-driven reports on how expert-in-the-loop workflows actually improve LLM performance to capture engineering-focused queries.

Expand into the legal domain by optimizing content for 'Big Law' alternatives, where there is currently high interest but mixed brand sentiment.

Highest-Impact Actions

Optimize technical documentation for Google's Gemini/SGE signals.

With a mere 15% mention rate on Gemini compared to 47% on Claude, there is a fundamental disconnect in how Google's models are indexing Mercor's expert authority.

Develop and deploy a 'Financial Transparency' content pillar.

The brand is currently 'NOT MENTIONED' in key queries regarding payout speed and hourly rates; capturing this intent is vital for attracting top-tier freelance talent.

Launch a targeted Medical & Legal Expert visibility campaign.

The specialized medical persona is the brand's weakest link (18% mention rate). Mirroring the successful strategy used for the AI Research Academic persona can close this gap.

Value Proposition

Access exclusive, top-tier remote AI roles with premium pay rates ($60-$300/hr), daily payouts, and the opportunity to shape the future of artificial intelligence using your domain expertise

Overview

Mission

Shape the future of AI by connecting world-class domain experts with cutting-edge AI development opportunities

Products & Services

AI talent marketplace for domain expertsRemote AI job matching and placementAPEX - AI Productivity Index researchDaily payout payment systemSkill-based role matching across medical, legal, finance, and tech domains

Current State

Visibility Landscape

A high-level view of how Mercor performs across AI platforms, broken down by strategic priority level — from core brand queries to growth opportunities.

	ChatGPT	Claude	Gemini	AI Overviews
Reputation1q Brand recognition & direct queries	97	97	97	97
“What do you know about Mercor? What do they do and what's their reputation?”	#1	#1	#1	#1
Core3q Product/service category queries	95	93	47	95
“most trusted sites for expert-level remote AI work that aren't just for general tasks”	#1	#1	#11	#3
“best reviewed marketplaces for domain experts like doctors and lawyers to do ai consulting”	#1	#5	#11	#1
“high-end alternatives to Outlier or Remotasks for senior professionals and phds”	#3	#1	No	#1
Growth Areas7q Adjacent, aspirational & visionary	63	86	40	54
“how can i use my medical degree to get a remote job in AI training, any specific platforms?”	#1	#4	No	#2
“remote tech jobs that offer daily payouts instead of waiting two weeks”	#3	#1	No	No
“how can I measure my productivity as an engineer using an AI productivity index”	No	#1	No	#3
“remote work for lawyers that pays as much as big law, maybe in legal AI development”	#17	#10	#4	#1
“best way for a phd researcher to find high paying freelance work in ai alignment or training”	#7	#6	#15	No
“platforms with high hourly rates for experts, like $100 to $300 an hour, for remote work”	#1	#4	#14	No
“latest research on how domain experts are actually helping build better ai models”	No	#6	#14	No

“What do you know about Mercor? What do they do and what's their reputation?”

“most trusted sites for expert-level remote AI work that aren't just for general tasks”

#11

“best reviewed marketplaces for domain experts like doctors and lawyers to do ai consulting”

#11

“high-end alternatives to Outlier or Remotasks for senior professionals and phds”

“how can i use my medical degree to get a remote job in AI training, any specific platforms?”

“remote tech jobs that offer daily payouts instead of waiting two weeks”

“how can I measure my productivity as an engineer using an AI productivity index”

“remote work for lawyers that pays as much as big law, maybe in legal AI development”

#17

#10

“best way for a phd researcher to find high paying freelance work in ai alignment or training”

#15

“platforms with high hourly rates for experts, like $100 to $300 an hour, for remote work”

#14

“latest research on how domain experts are actually helping build better ai models”

#14

Competitive Landscape

Scale AI

95 mentions

Invisible Technologies

64 mentions

Outlier

56 mentions

Mercor

56 mentions

Surge AI

53 mentions

Toptal

48 mentions

Braintrust

47 mentions

GLG

46 mentions

Remotasks

43 mentions

Upwork

43 mentions

AlphaSights

39 mentions

Analysis

Insights & Recommended Actions

What's working, what's not, and specific steps to improve Mercor's AI visibility.

Key Findings

Strength

Top-tier authority in AI Overviews with an average position of 3.1, specifically outperforming competitors on 'high-end alternative' and 'best reviewed marketplace' queries.

Strength

Strongest resonance with the AI Research Academic persona, achieving a 68% mention rate and solid top-of-page placement (5.4 average position).

Strength

Excellent 'brand vibe check' performance across all major models, indicating that when the brand is known, the sentiment is consistently accurate and authoritative.

Recommended Actions

Optimize technical documentation for Google's Gemini/SGE signals.

With a mere 15% mention rate on Gemini compared to 47% on Claude, there is a fundamental disconnect in how Google's models are indexing Mercor's expert authority.

Develop and deploy a 'Financial Transparency' content pillar.

The brand is currently 'NOT MENTIONED' in key queries regarding payout speed and hourly rates; capturing this intent is vital for attracting top-tier freelance talent.

Launch a targeted Medical & Legal Expert visibility campaign.

The specialized medical persona is the brand's weakest link (18% mention rate). Mirroring the successful strategy used for the AI Research Academic persona can close this gap.

Content Engineering

Content Ideas

Content designed to help AI agents learn about your category and recommend your brand.

Programmatic Testing

Sample Conversations

We programmatically analyze questions that real customers are asking to AI agents and chatbots, extract brand mentions and sentiment, analyze every response, and synthesize the data into an action plan to increase AI visibility.

ChatGPT

Claude

Gemini

AI Overviews

High Value Expert Career Pivots(3 queries)

“how can i use my medical degree to get a remote job in AI training, any specific platforms?”

1/4 platforms mentioned

Aspirational

ChatGPT

1.Scale AI

2.Surge AI

3.Outlier AI

4.Remotasks

5.Invisible Technologies

+11 more

Claude

1.Scale AI

2.Remotasks

3.Surge AI

4.Appen

5.Invisible Technologies

+7 more

Gemini

1.Outlier

2.Scale AI

3.Invisible Technologies

4.DataAnnotation.tech

5.Appen

+11 more

AI Overviews

1.Handshake

2.Outlier

3.Scale AI

4.Handshake AI

5.Invisible Technologies

8.Mercor

+4 more

“remote work for lawyers that pays as much as big law, maybe in legal AI development”

1/4 platforms mentioned

Aspirational

The Specialized Medical Consultant · Physician / Medical Domain Expert

ChatGPT

1.Harvey

2.Casetext

3.Thomson Reuters

4.EvenUp

5.Ironclad

+12 more

Claude

1.Scale AI

2.Appen

3.Invisible Technologies

4.Surge AI

5.MMLU-Law

+15 more

Gemini

1.Scale AI

2.Invisible Technologies

3.Labelbox

4.Harvey AI

5.PwC

+9 more

AI Overviews

1.Harvey AI

2.Litera

3.Lovable

4.Tandem

5.Mercor

+4 more

“best way for a phd researcher to find high paying freelance work in ai alignment or training”

0/4 platforms mentioned

Aspirational

The Specialized Medical Consultant · Physician / Medical Domain Expert

ChatGPT

1.Google DeepMind

2.Conjecture

3.METR

4.Apollo Research

5.ARC Evals

+15 more

Claude

1.Scale AI

2.Surge AI

3.Appen

4.Invisible Technologies

5.Redwood Research

+14 more

Gemini

1.GLG

2.Gerson Lehrman Group

3.Guidepoint

4.AlphaSights

5.Remotasks

+11 more

AI Overviews

1.Alignerr

2.Labelbox

3.Outlier

4.Scale AI

5.DataAnnotation.tech

+14 more

Source Intelligence

Citations

The sources AI platforms cite when recommending this brand. Pendium reverse-engineers what's already proven to be catnip to AI agents, then engineers content that fills gaps and helps agents do their job — which means more citations for you.

Scale AI

scale.com

Mercor

Key Takeaways

Visibility Landscape

Insights & Recommended Actions

Content Ideas

Sample Conversations

Citations

Brand Voice & Style

Investors

Engineer content that makes AI agents recommend you

Explore Human Resources Technology

Start gettingrecommended by AI.

Frequently asked questions

Mercor

Key Takeaways

Visibility Landscape

Insights & Recommended Actions

Content Ideas

Sample Conversations

Citations

Brand Voice & Style

Investors

Engineer content that makes AI agents recommend you

Explore Human Resources Technology

Start gettingrecommended by AI.

Frequently asked questions

Start getting
recommended by AI.

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recommended by AI.