The category is young, loud, and full of dashboards. Cut through it with four questions. A provider worth hiring passes all four; most fail the first.
- Will they disclose the method? If the score is a black box, there's nothing to trust and nothing to check. Demand the tests, the engines queried, and the scoring — in writing.
- Do they freeze a baseline and re-measure? Without a before-and-after against a frozen starting point, "we improved your visibility" is unprovable. The lift has to be reproducible.
- Do you own what they build? The pages, profiles, and data should live on your own domain and accounts — not rented behind their platform, gone the day you leave.
- Do they refuse to over-claim? Anyone promising a score "predicts revenue" is selling a vanity metric. Honest providers measure whether AI names you and say plainly what the number can't tell you.
Don't buy the dashboard. Buy the disclosed method, the reproducible result, and the asset you own.
How PRAGMA answers the four.
PRAGMA is the neutral certifier for AI visibility, and it's built to pass its own checklist: the method is published, the baseline is frozen, the work lives on your domain, and we never claim the score predicts revenue.
We ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews your buyers' real questions, record who's named, and publish the result to a registry-verifiable record you can re-check. You own every page and profile. We report what the engines say — nothing we can't back.
We proved it on our own founder's 40-year business before offering it to anyone. Brand 9 Signs went from invisible to named on Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews — disclosed method, frozen baseline, reproducible before-and-after, weak pillars shown. If a provider can't show you that, keep looking.
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