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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Ockam

Visibility41

Vibe100

Businesses/Cybersecurity & Developer Tools/Ockam

AI Visibility & Sentiment

Ockam

Ockam is an open source library and toolkit that empowers developers to build secure-by-design applications with end-to-end encrypted, mutually authenticated communication channels. It enables secure connections between systems in private networks without exposing endpoints publicly, working across any transport topology including TCP, UDP, Kafka, and Bluetooth.

Active Monitoring

ockam.io

Cybersecurity & Developer Tools Startups

AI Visibility Score

41/100

Moderate

Sentiment Score

100/100

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

AI Perception

Key Takeaways

How AI platforms collectively perceive and describe Ockam today.

Ockam holds a commanding 75% mention rate on Gemini, yet it is nearly invisible to developers using ChatGPT and Claude for high-intent infrastructure planning. While the brand maintains perfect recall in direct vibe checks, it is consistently bypassed in favor of incumbents like WireGuard and Tailscale during the critical discovery phase for zero trust and secure networking categories.

Working in your favor

Exceptional performance on Gemini where it holds a 75% mention rate and top-tier positioning for distributed connectivity and Rust-based encryption.

Strong resonance with the Automation-First DevOps Lead persona, achieving a 50% mention rate and a high average position of 3.8.

Flawless brand recognition across all platforms, with the _brand_vibe_check query returning #1 positions and positive sentiment universally.

Gaps to close

Critical absence from 'Zero Trust Architecture' and 'Open Source Networking' category searches on ChatGPT and AI Overviews.

Resource-Constrained IoT Leads and High-Compliance Architects see significantly lower visibility in non-Gemini environments compared to competitors like Tailscale.

Failing to appear in the 'most trusted open source tools' discourse, allowing WireGuard and HashiCorp to dominate the narrative.

Opportunities

Bridge the 'Gemini Gap' by reverse-engineering why its technical content is indexing successfully there but failing on ChatGPT/Claude.

Aggressively target the 'Zero Trust for DevOps' query space where Ockam already shows potential with Claude and Gemini.

Leverage existing Rust-specific implementation strengths to capture broader 'Secure Tunneling' and 'Microservices' market share.

Highest-Impact Actions

Syndicate technical implementation guides to ChatGPT and Claude training sources through high-authority third-party technical publications.

Ockam's 25% and 17% mention rates on these platforms suggest its specific use cases are not sufficiently contextualized within their primary training data.

Develop and deploy a 'Zero Trust Architecture for DevOps Pipelines' content pillar specifically optimized for AI Overviews.

Ockam currently misses this category entirely on key platforms despite it being a core brand value proposition.

Optimize technical documentation for 'Open Source Secure Networking' keywords to challenge WireGuard's dominance in trust-based queries.

Competitors like WireGuard (29 mentions) are winning on 'trust' while Ockam remains sidelined in broader market comparisons.

Value Proposition

Ockam makes impossible connections possible by establishing end-to-end encrypted secure channels between systems in private networks without infrastructure changes, while ensuring cryptographic best practices are impossible to get wrong.

Overview

Mission

Empowering developers to build secure-by-design applications that can trust data-in-motion.

Products & Services

Open source secure channel libraryOckam Command CLI toolRust programming librariesEncrypted relay provisioningCredential and key management system

Current State

Visibility Landscape

A high-level view of how Ockam 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 Ockam? What do they do and what's their reputation?”	#1	#1	#1	#1
Core4q Product/service category queries	70	45	90	45
“how to connect a private database to an external app without exposing it to the public internet, recommend some tools”	#30	#1	#1	No
“how to implement end-to-end encryption in a rust application for service-to-service communication”	—	No	#1	#1
“most trusted open source tools for secure developer networking and end-to-end encryption”	#22	No	#9	No
“best way to set up secure tunnels for microservices across different cloud providers like aws and azure”	—	No	#3	No
Growth Areas1q Adjacent, aspirational & visionary	0	85	85	0
“how to implement zero trust architecture for my devops pipeline and internal services”	No	#5	#5	No

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

“how to connect a private database to an external app without exposing it to the public internet, recommend some tools”

#30

“how to implement end-to-end encryption in a rust application for service-to-service communication”

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“most trusted open source tools for secure developer networking and end-to-end encryption”

#22

“best way to set up secure tunnels for microservices across different cloud providers like aws and azure”

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“how to implement zero trust architecture for my devops pipeline and internal services”

Competitive Landscape

WireGuard

29 mentions

Tailscale

23 mentions

HashiCorp Vault

20 mentions

AWS

17 mentions

Istio

16 mentions

Ockam

15 mentions

Teleport

14 mentions

SPIRE

14 mentions

Azure

13 mentions

Linkerd

13 mentions

Cloudflare Tunnel

10 mentions

Analysis

Insights & Recommended Actions

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

Key Findings

Strength

Exceptional performance on Gemini where it holds a 75% mention rate and top-tier positioning for distributed connectivity and Rust-based encryption.

Strength

Strong resonance with the Automation-First DevOps Lead persona, achieving a 50% mention rate and a high average position of 3.8.

Strength

Flawless brand recognition across all platforms, with the _brand_vibe_check query returning #1 positions and positive sentiment universally.

Recommended Actions

Syndicate technical implementation guides to ChatGPT and Claude training sources through high-authority third-party technical publications.

Ockam's 25% and 17% mention rates on these platforms suggest its specific use cases are not sufficiently contextualized within their primary training data.

Develop and deploy a 'Zero Trust Architecture for DevOps Pipelines' content pillar specifically optimized for AI Overviews.

Ockam currently misses this category entirely on key platforms despite it being a core brand value proposition.

Optimize technical documentation for 'Open Source Secure Networking' keywords to challenge WireGuard's dominance in trust-based queries.

Competitors like WireGuard (29 mentions) are winning on 'trust' while Ockam remains sidelined in broader market comparisons.

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

Secure Distributed Connectivity(2 queries)

“how to connect a private database to an external app without exposing it to the public internet, recommend some tools”

0/4 platforms mentioned

Core

ChatGPT

1.AWS PrivateLink

2.VPC Peering

3.Transit Gateway

4.AWS

5.RDS

+48 more

Claude

1.OpenVPN

2.WireGuard

3.Tailscale

4.AWS VPC Peering

5.Google Cloud VPC Peering

+8 more

Gemini

1.Tailscale

2.WireGuard

3.ZeroTier

4.Cloudflare Tunnel

5.Argo Tunnel

+9 more

AI Overviews

1.Azure Private Link

2.AWS PrivateLink

3.Cloudflare Tunnels

4.Tailscale

5.ZeroTier

+6 more

“best way to set up secure tunnels for microservices across different cloud providers like aws and azure”

1/3 platforms mentioned

Core

The High-Compliance Enterprise Architect · Chief Security Architect

Claude

1.AWS

2.Azure

3.Istio

4.Linkerd

5.Envoy

+5 more

Gemini

1.AWS

2.Azure

3.Ockam

4.Ockam Protocol

5.Noise Protocol Framework

+12 more

AI Overviews

1.AWS

2.Azure

3.Equinix

4.Megaport Cloud Router

5.Megaport

+7 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.

How to connect to the local area network database external ...

tencentcloud.com

Ockam

Key Takeaways

Visibility Landscape

Insights & Recommended Actions

Content Ideas

Sample Conversations

Citations

Brand Voice & Style

Investors

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Frequently asked questions

Ockam

Key Takeaways

Visibility Landscape

Insights & Recommended Actions

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Sample Conversations

Citations

Brand Voice & Style

Investors

Engineer content that makes AI agents recommend you

Start gettingrecommended by AI.

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recommended by AI.

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