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.

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Businesses/Pie

AI Visibility & Sentiment

Pie

Pie is a social networking app that helps people discover free local events and meet like-minded individuals in their city. The app focuses on facilitating real-life connections by curating fun, IRL activities and making it easy to find and make plans with new friends.

Active Monitoring

apps.apple.com/us/app/pie-meet-friends-of-friends/id1509667820

Startups

AI Visibility Score

0/100

Invisible

Sentiment Score

86/100

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 Pie today.

Pie is currently ceding the entire social discovery landscape to competitors, failing to register a single mention in ChatGPT or Gemini across high-intent queries. While the brand maintains a strong identity in direct 'vibe checks,' it is virtually invisible to AI models when users ask for organic ways to meet people or coordinate social lives.

Working in your favor

Strong brand recognition in direct inquiries, securing the #1 position on Claude for brand-specific searches.

Developing traction with the 'Budget-Conscious Urban Adventurer' persona, achieving a 13% mention rate.

Emerging visibility for local event discovery in the Chicago market within Claude and AI Overviews.

Gaps to close

Total absence from the 'Friction-Averse Efficiency Seeker' and 'New-in-Town Professional' persona results.

Zero visibility for high-intent social coordination queries like 'coordinate RSVPs' and 'meeting people IRL,' where Partiful and Timeleft are rapidly gaining ground.

Geographic silos in data; while Chicago shows minor activity, Pie is non-existent in searches for Austin and San Francisco.

Opportunities

Leverage the 'free' and 'budget' angle to dominate the Budget-Conscious Urban Adventurer segment where a pulse already exists.

Pivot content strategy to emphasize utility (RSVPs, scheduling) to capture the efficiency-seeking demographic currently owned by legacy tools.

Expand digital footprint in secondary tech hubs (Austin, SF) to break out of the Chicago-centric mentions.

Highest-Impact Actions

Execute a massive content saturation campaign focused on 'meeting people IRL' and 'organic networking' keywords.

Pie is currently losing 100% of the conversation in these categories to Meetup and Eventbrite, despite these being Pie's core value propositions.

Optimize technical SEO and site architecture for 'RSVP management' and 'group hangout' utility queries.

Competitors like Partiful are winning the 'Efficiency Seeker' persona by being the default recommendation for coordination; Pie needs to be cited as a functional alternative.

Develop localized landing pages and event guides for Austin and San Francisco to mirror Chicago's visibility.

The data shows Pie only surfaces for Chicago-specific queries; geographic expansion in content is required to trigger AI mentions in other major markets.

Value Proposition

Making finding things to do and people to do them with as easy as calling an Uber - eliminating the friction of social planning and helping people 'get a life' through curated free events and organic friend-making.

Overview

Mission

We wanna live in a world where finding things you like to do with people you enjoy is as easy as calling an Uber…so we're building it.

Products & Services

Free local event discovery and curationSocial planning and RSVP coordinationFriend-of-friend networking and discoveryIn-app messaging and group chatCalendar sync and event management

Current State

Visibility Landscape

A high-level view of how Pie 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	88	97	70	94
“What do you know about Pie? What do they do and what's their reputation?”	#4	#1	Yes	#2
Core4q Product/service category queries	0	0	0	0
“I need an easy way to coordinate RSVPs for a group hangout that isn't a messy group chat, what tools should I use?”	No	No	No	No
“what are the most trusted apps for meeting people IRL and finding local events in 2026?”	—	No	No	No
“what's the best way to find cool local stuff to do in Austin without using Facebook Events, specific app recommendations please”	No	No	No	No
“help me find some community events in San Francisco today, what tools are best for seeing what's happening right now?”	No	No	No	No
Growth Areas2q Adjacent, aspirational & visionary	0	47	0	41
“I'm bored in Chicago this weekend, find me some free local events or meetups that aren't super awkward, what apps should I check?”	No	#6	No	#8
“how do I meet new people in a new city if I don't want to use dating apps? give me some specific apps or sites to try”	No	No	No	No

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

Yes

“I need an easy way to coordinate RSVPs for a group hangout that isn't a messy group chat, what tools should I use?”

“what are the most trusted apps for meeting people IRL and finding local events in 2026?”

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“what's the best way to find cool local stuff to do in Austin without using Facebook Events, specific app recommendations please”

“help me find some community events in San Francisco today, what tools are best for seeing what's happening right now?”

“I'm bored in Chicago this weekend, find me some free local events or meetups that aren't super awkward, what apps should I check?”

“how do I meet new people in a new city if I don't want to use dating apps? give me some specific apps or sites to try”

Competitive Landscape

Eventbrite

42 mentions

Meetup

33 mentions

Nextdoor

23 mentions

Timeleft

14 mentions

Partiful

11 mentions

VolunteerMatch

10 mentions

Do512

10 mentions

Bumble BFF

9 mentions

Do312

8 mentions

Strava

8 mentions

Pie

3 mentions

Analysis

Insights & Recommended Actions

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

Key Findings

Strength

Strong brand recognition in direct inquiries, securing the #1 position on Claude for brand-specific searches.

Strength

Developing traction with the 'Budget-Conscious Urban Adventurer' persona, achieving a 13% mention rate.

Strength

Emerging visibility for local event discovery in the Chicago market within Claude and AI Overviews.

Recommended Actions

Execute a massive content saturation campaign focused on 'meeting people IRL' and 'organic networking' keywords.

Pie is currently losing 100% of the conversation in these categories to Meetup and Eventbrite, despite these being Pie's core value propositions.

Optimize technical SEO and site architecture for 'RSVP management' and 'group hangout' utility queries.

Competitors like Partiful are winning the 'Efficiency Seeker' persona by being the default recommendation for coordination; Pie needs to be cited as a functional alternative.

Develop localized landing pages and event guides for Austin and San Francisco to mirror Chicago's visibility.

The data shows Pie only surfaces for Chicago-specific queries; geographic expansion in content is required to trigger AI mentions in other major markets.

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

Local Event Discovery & Spontaneous Planning(3 queries)

“I'm bored in Chicago this weekend, find me some free local events or meetups that aren't super awkward, what apps should I check?”

1/4 platforms mentioned

Adjacent

ChatGPT

1.Navy Pier

2.Intuit Art Museum

3.Thalia Hall

4.Lincoln Park Conservatory

5.Field Museum

+10 more

Claude

1.Shedd Aquarium

2.MCA Chicago

3.The Art Institute of Chicago

4.Theater of the Mind

5.Navy Pier

9.Pie

+7 more

Gemini

1.Meetup

2.Skip the Small Talk

3.Do312

4.Eventbrite

5.Fever

+14 more

AI Overviews

1.Maggie Daley Park

2.Navy Pier

3.Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club

4.Tone Deaf Records

5.Honky Tonk BBQ

+9 more

“what's the best way to find cool local stuff to do in Austin without using Facebook Events, specific app recommendations please”

0/4 platforms mentioned

Core

The New-in-Town Professional · Content Strategist

ChatGPT

1.Do512

2.Eventbrite

3.Meetup

4.AllTrails

5.Bandsintown

+12 more

Claude

1.Meetup

2.Eventbrite

3.Atlas

4.Spotify

5.Apple Music

+1 more

Gemini

1.SweatPals

2.Eventbrite

3.Geneva

4.Slack

5.Discord

+4 more

AI Overviews

1.Do512

2.Eventbrite

3.Meetup

4.Bandsintown

5.Austin Insider Blog

+10 more

“help me find some community events in San Francisco today, what tools are best for seeing what's happening right now?”

0/4 platforms mentioned

Core

The New-in-Town Professional · Content Strategist

ChatGPT

1.Eventbrite

2.Funcheap SF

3.DoTheBay

4.Meetup

5.Bandsintown

+12 more

Claude

1.Eventbrite

2.Meetup.com

3.Timeout

4.Eventful

5.SF Travel

+2 more

Gemini

1.W San Francisco

2.San Francisco Botanical Garden

3.South San Francisco Conference Center

4.Luma

5.de Young Museum

+10 more

AI Overviews

1.SF Funcheap

2.Eventbrite

3.de Young Museum

4.San Francisco Symphony

5.Jewish Community Center

+9 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.

Global Connections

navypier.org

Pie

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