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/Software/Q2Q

AI Visibility & Sentiment

Q2Q

Q2Q is a Y Combinator-backed AI deal sourcing engine that helps deal teams and private equity buyers get first calls booked with companies they want to acquire. The platform acts as a personal AI intern team that finds leads, runs personalized outreach, and books qualified meetings automatically.

Active Monitoring

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Software YC25-26

AI Visibility Score

0/100

Invisible

Sentiment Score

71/100

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

AI Perception

Key Takeaways

How AI platforms collectively perceive and describe Q2Q today.

Q2Q is currently a ghost in the generative AI landscape for deal sourcing, failing to appear in 100% of strategic lead discovery and M&A technology evaluation queries where competitors like Apollo and PitchBook dominate. While the brand maintains a clear identity during direct 'vibe checks,' it is completely absent from the conversational workflows of Private Equity partners and remains entirely unindexed by Gemini and Google AI Overviews.

Working in your favor

Maintains top-tier placement (Position #1) across ChatGPT, Claude, and AI Overviews when specifically queried about the brand, indicating a strong baseline brand identity.

Shows initial traction with the 'Efficiency-Obsessed Search Fund Operator' persona, achieving a 25% mention rate.

Demonstrates high-ranking potential in Claude for niche automation queries, specifically reaching position #6 for automating deal funnels.

Gaps to close

Total lack of visibility (0% mention rate) on Gemini and AI Overviews for all non-branded category searches.

Zero resonance with 'The Strategic Private Equity Partner' persona, a critical high-value demographic.

Consistently loses to established players like Apollo.io and Grata on high-intent industry queries such as 'Evaluating M&A Sourcing Tech' and 'Strategic Lead Discovery'.

Opportunities

Capitalize on existing ChatGPT visibility for 'Automating the Deal Funnel' to bridge the gap into broader M&A productivity topics.

Leverage the positive sentiment in Claude to build authoritative content clusters around 'proprietary deal sourcing' where competitors like SourceScrub are already entrenched.

Focus on the 'M&A Associate' persona by creating content specifically addressing time-intensive research tasks where the brand is currently underrepresented.

Highest-Impact Actions

Execute a targeted AI-optimization campaign for Gemini and AI Overviews focusing on 'proprietary deal sourcing' and 'M&A automation' keywords.

The brand currently has 0% visibility on these platforms, which are critical for capture at the top of the funnel during search-driven research.

Develop and distribute high-authority white papers and case studies specifically tailored to Private Equity Partners to address the 0% visibility gap in this persona.

Strategic partners rely on LLMs for high-level vendor landscapes; being absent from their persona-specific queries cedes the market to PitchBook and DealCloud.

Optimize technical documentation and product pages to emphasize 'deal team productivity' and 'automated lead discovery' to improve average position in ChatGPT.

While Q2Q is mentioned in ChatGPT, an average position of 21.0 is too low to influence decision-making; moving into the top 5 is essential for conversion.

Value Proposition

Q2Q eliminates the tedious manual process of deal sourcing by using AI to research buying theses, find matching companies and contacts, launch hyper-personalized outbound campaigns, and automatically book qualified meetings—reducing the typical 14-day manual process to just 2 days.

Overview

Mission

Search smarter. Connect faster. Helping deal teams personalize their outreach and reclaim their time.

Products & Services

AI-powered deal sourcing and lead discoveryAutomated personalized outbound email and call campaignsCompany and contact research with owner informationCalendar integration for automatic meeting bookingMulti-channel outreach orchestration

Current State

Visibility Landscape

A high-level view of how Q2Q 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	70	97
“What do you know about Q2Q? What do they do and what's their reputation?”	#1	#1	Yes	#1
Core2q Product/service category queries	0	0	0	0
“find companies that match my investment thesis and get me the owner contact info, any specific tools?”	No	No	No	No
“most trusted platforms for proprietary deal sourcing right now”	No	No	No	No
Growth Areas3q Adjacent, aspirational & visionary	41	35	0	0
“how to automate proprietary deal sourcing for a search fund”	#4	#6	No	No
“how can my pe deal team cut down time spent on company research and owner outreach?”	No	No	No	No
“best ways to get first calls with business owners without doing manual cold emailing”	No	No	No	No

“What do you know about Q2Q? What do they do and what's their reputation?”

Yes

“find companies that match my investment thesis and get me the owner contact info, any specific tools?”

“most trusted platforms for proprietary deal sourcing right now”

“how to automate proprietary deal sourcing for a search fund”

“how can my pe deal team cut down time spent on company research and owner outreach?”

“best ways to get first calls with business owners without doing manual cold emailing”

Competitive Landscape

Apollo.io

26 mentions

PitchBook

24 mentions

ZoomInfo

23 mentions

Grata

23 mentions

SourceScrub

23 mentions

Zapier

21 mentions

DealCloud

20 mentions

Lemlist

18 mentions

Axial

16 mentions

Clay

16 mentions

Q2Q

3 mentions

Analysis

Insights & Recommended Actions

What's working, what's not, and specific steps to improve Q2Q's AI visibility.

Key Findings

Strength

Maintains top-tier placement (Position #1) across ChatGPT, Claude, and AI Overviews when specifically queried about the brand, indicating a strong baseline brand identity.

Strength

Shows initial traction with the 'Efficiency-Obsessed Search Fund Operator' persona, achieving a 25% mention rate.

Strength

Demonstrates high-ranking potential in Claude for niche automation queries, specifically reaching position #6 for automating deal funnels.

Recommended Actions

Execute a targeted AI-optimization campaign for Gemini and AI Overviews focusing on 'proprietary deal sourcing' and 'M&A automation' keywords.

The brand currently has 0% visibility on these platforms, which are critical for capture at the top of the funnel during search-driven research.

Develop and distribute high-authority white papers and case studies specifically tailored to Private Equity Partners to address the 0% visibility gap in this persona.

Strategic partners rely on LLMs for high-level vendor landscapes; being absent from their persona-specific queries cedes the market to PitchBook and DealCloud.

Optimize technical documentation and product pages to emphasize 'deal team productivity' and 'automated lead discovery' to improve average position in ChatGPT.

While Q2Q is mentioned in ChatGPT, an average position of 21.0 is too low to influence decision-making; moving into the top 5 is essential for conversion.

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

Automating The Deal Funnel(2 queries)

“how to automate proprietary deal sourcing for a search fund”

0/4 platforms mentioned

Adjacent

ChatGPT

1.Crunchbase

2.PitchBook

3.ZoomInfo

4.Apollo.io

5.Clearbit

+41 more

Claude

1.ZoomInfo

2.Apollo.io

3.Hunter.io

4.RocketReach

5.Clearbit

+12 more

Gemini

1.Grata

2.SourceScrub

3.Apollo.io

4.Clay

5.BuiltWith

+10 more

AI Overviews

1.Carta

2.SourceCo

3.Grata

4.Inven

5.SourceScrub

+14 more

“best ways to get first calls with business owners without doing manual cold emailing”

0/4 platforms mentioned

Adjacent

The Strategic Private Equity Partner · Managing Partner

ChatGPT

1.BizBuySell

2.BizQuest

3.LoopNet

4.MicroAcquire

5.FE International

+20 more

Claude

1.Seamless.ai

2.ZoomInfo

3.Instantly

4.Lemlist

5.SignalFire

+1 more

Gemini

1.Grata

2.Cykic

3.Inven

4.PitchBook

5.Handwrytten

+6 more

AI Overviews

1.Leadinfo

2.Leadfeeder

3.Zapier

4.ZoomInfo

5.6sense

+8 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.

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