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.

Businesses/Salad

AI Visibility & Sentiment

Salad

Salad operates SaladCloud, a distributed cloud computing platform that harnesses idle consumer GPUs worldwide to provide affordable AI/ML inference at scale. The platform connects businesses needing GPU compute with individual PC owners who earn rewards by sharing their unused processing power.

Active Monitoring

salad.com

Startups

AI Visibility Score

34/100

Low

Sentiment Score

97/100

Score by Reach

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 Salad today.

Salad dominates the hardware monetization niche with top rankings on Gemini and AI Overviews, yet faces a critical visibility blackout on ChatGPT and within the bootstrapped founder persona. While the brand successfully disrupts high-volume inference cost discussions, it is currently losing the broader 'reliable GPU cloud' narrative to competitors like RunPod and Vast.ai.

Value Proposition

The world's most affordable GPU cloud, offering up to 90% cost savings compared to traditional cloud providers by leveraging a distributed network of over 1 million consumer GPUs across 191 countries

Overview

Mission

To democratize cloud computing by utilizing latent consumer resources to power a sustainable, affordable, environmentally friendly cloud for everyone

Products & Services

SaladCloud GPU Cloud PlatformSalad Container Engine (SCE)Salad Transcription APISalad Gateway ServicePC Rewards Program for GPU Owners

Current State

Visibility Landscape

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

	ChatGPT	Claude	Gemini	AI Overviews
Reputation Brand recognition & direct queries	0	40	42	38
Core Topics Product/service category queries	0	0	45	0
Growth Areas Adjacent, aspirational & visionary	—	—	—	—

ChatGPT

Claude

Gemini

AI Overviews

Reputation

Brand recognition & direct queries

Core Topics

Product/service category queries

Growth Areas

Adjacent, aspirational & visionary

—

Competitive Landscape

RunPod

45 mentions

Vast.ai

35 mentions

AWS

34 mentions

Lambda Labs

31 mentions

CoreWeave

24 mentions

Azure

20 mentions

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Analysis

Insights & Recommended Actions

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

Key Findings

Strength

Market-leading visibility for hardware monetization and gaming PC ROI queries, securing #1 positions on Gemini and AI Overviews.

Strength

Effective penetration of the Enterprise ML Infrastructure Lead persona with a 38% mention rate, indicating strong technical resonance.

Strength

Strong performance on cost-specific queries such as 'affordable speech to text' and 'cheapest way to run stable diffusion'.

Recommended Actions

Execute a ChatGPT-specific optimization campaign to secure presence in the platform's training and retrieval paths.

With a 0% mention rate on the world's most-used AI platform, Salad is effectively non-existent to a vast segment of the market.

Develop and distribute high-authority content focused on 'GPU Reliability' and 'Enterprise SLAs' for decentralized clouds.

Salad is currently ignored in trust-based queries, allowing competitors like RunPod and Lambda Labs to dominate the professional market.

Tailor content specifically for the 'Bootstrapped AI Startup Founder' persona focusing on scalability and ease of deployment.

This persona currently shows 0% visibility for Salad, representing a massive untapped segment of the AI model inference market.

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

Cost Effective AI Inference Scaling(3 queries)

“how can i lower my cloud gpu bill for ai model inference”

0/4 platforms mentioned

Core

ChatGPT

1.TensorRT

2.ONNX Runtime

3.NVIDIA TensorRT

4.Hugging Face

5.Olive

+29 more

Claude

1.Atlassian

2.Kubernetes

3.Runpod

4.Hyperstack

5.Modal

Gemini

1.AWS

2.Google Cloud

3.Azure

4.RunPod

5.Lambda Labs

+14 more

AI Overviews

1.GMI Cloud

2.NVIDIA TensorRT-LLM

3.NVIDIA

4.RunPod

5.Modal

+6 more

“cheapest way to run stable diffusion or llama 3 at scale, specific platforms please”

0/3 platforms mentioned

Core

The Bootstrapped AI Startup Founder · CEO & Lead Engineer

Claude

1.Stable Diffusion

2.RunPod

3.VastAI

4.ThinkDiffusion

5.Replicate

+12 more

Gemini

1.AWS

2.GCP

3.SDXL

4.Llama 3

5.DeepInfra

+6 more

AI Overviews

1.Llama 3

2.Groq

3.SiliconFlow

4.DeepInfra

5.Fireworks AI

+13 more

“i'm burning too much money on aws g5 instances, what are some cheaper alternatives for inference”

0/4 platforms mentioned

Core

The Bootstrapped AI Startup Founder · CEO & Lead Engineer

ChatGPT

1.Vast.ai

2.Genesis

3.RunPod

4.Replicate

5.Banana

+15 more

Claude

1.AWS

2.G5

3.AWS Inferentia

4.g4dn

5.EC2

+9 more

Gemini

1.AWS

2.G5 instances

3.Modal

4.RunPod

5.Baseten

+8 more

AI Overviews

1.AWS

2.NVIDIA A10G

3.BentoML

4.Lambda Labs

5.RunPod

+13 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.

Best Practices

docs.nvidia.com

Web1 ref

vllm.ai

Web1 ref

Lower Cost And Latency For Ai Using Amazon Elasticache As A Semantic Cache With Amazon Bedrock

aws.amazon.com

Web1 ref

How Amazon Search Reduced Ml Inference Costs By 85 With Aws Inferentia

aws.amazon.com

Web1 ref

Aws Spot Instance Pricing

nops.io

Web1 ref

Sp Ris

docs.aws.amazon.com

Web1 ref

Accelerate Generative Ai Inference Performance With Nvidia Tensorrt Model Optimizer Now Publicly Available

developer.nvidia.com

Web1 ref

GPU Cloud Solutions for Scalable AI & Inference | GMI Cloud

gmicloud.ai

Web1 ref

AI and Cloud Infrastructure Provider | Runpod

runpod.io

Web1 ref

Best practices: AI inference on Cloud Run services with GPUs | Google Cloud Documentation

docs.cloud.google.com

Web1 ref

How to Reduce Cloud Costs from AI Inference - Fixstars Corporation Tech Blog

blog.us.fixstars.com

Web1 ref

Top 12 Cloud GPU Providers for AI and Machine Learning in 2026

runpod.io

Web1 ref

AI Inference at Scale: Bare-Metal GPU Cloud | CoreWeave

coreweave.com

Web1 ref

Modal: High-performance AI infrastructure

modal.com

Web1 ref

Pricing | Runpod

runpod.io

Web1 ref

Competitive Landscape

Brands and products that AI platforms mention alongside or instead of Salad.

RunPod45 mentions

Vast.ai35 mentions

AWS34 mentions

Lambda Labs31 mentions

CoreWeave24 mentions

Azure20 mentions

vLLM17 mentions

GCP17 mentions

GMI Cloud15 mentions

A10013 mentions

Salad13 mentions

Brand Identity

Brand Voice & Style

How AI perceives Salad's communication style and personality

Salad communicates with a confident, technically-informed voice that challenges the status quo of big cloud providers. The brand balances technical credibility with accessible explanations, using food-themed terminology (Chefs, Kitchen) to create a distinctive, approachable identity. Their messaging emphasizes democratization, sustainability, and community while backing claims with concrete data and benchmarks. The tone is optimistic about disrupting cloud monopolies while remaining practical and results-focused.

Core Tone Traits

Disruptive & Bold

Directly challenges big tech cloud monopolies with confident messaging about breaking free from overpriced alternatives

Data-Driven & Credible

Backs every claim with specific benchmarks, pricing comparisons, and real customer case studies

Community-Focused & Inclusive

Emphasizes the people-powered nature of the platform, celebrating both businesses and individual GPU contributors

Technically Accessible

Explains complex distributed computing concepts in clear terms while maintaining credibility with technical audiences

Backing

Investors

Origin Ventures

Engineer content that makes AI agents recommend you

Pendium analyzes how AI platforms perceive your brand, reverse-engineers what they already cite, and continuously publishes content designed to fill gaps and earn more mentions — on autopilot, with you in the loop.

Data generated by Pendium.ai AI visibility scanning. Last scanned March 3, 2026.

Salad

Key Takeaways

Visibility Landscape

Insights & Recommended Actions

Content Ideas

Sample Conversations

Citations

Competitive Landscape

Brand Voice & Style

Investors

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