Aigentic

Sample · 2026

AI Visibility Snapshot

Reynolds & Co

How Reynolds & Co appears in AI answers right now, tested against the competitor they named.

Prepared for

Reynolds & Co

Prepared by

Aigentic

Date

August 2026

Aigentic

rq@aigentic.co.uk

aigentic.co.uk

Illustrative sample. Reynolds & Co and Meridian Structures are fictional, used to show the exact format of a real Snapshot without exposing a client's numbers. Yours is free, runs on your own brand against a competitor you name, and comes back within 24 hours.

Visibility Score

PARTIALLY VISIBLE · Score 4 / 9

AI knows Reynolds & Co exists and can describe it correctly, but only when asked about "Reynolds & Co" by name. When buyers ask for the best steel structure contractors, Reynolds appears on ChatGPT but not Perplexity. When they ask for alternatives to the big fabricators, Reynolds appears on neither. Meridian appears in all three.

Reynolds & Co vs. the competitor they named

Signal	Reynolds & Co	Meridian Structures
Appears in "best steel contractors" queries	Partial	Featured
Structured knowledge-base entry (Wikidata / Wikipedia)	None	Established
Cited by third-party trade sources	None found	Extensive
Clear, correct description of what they do	Yes	Yes
Source-backed AI description	Own site only	Multi-source

Assessed across ChatGPT and Perplexity on three buyer-language queries. The full Audit scores ten questions across four AI systems.

What AI Systems Say

Three buyer-language queries assessed across the major AI surfaces. The prompts use the words buyers use, not the words the industry uses.

"Best steel structure contractors UK 2026"

Reynolds & Co: Listed on ChatGPT (position 5 of 8) but absent from Perplexity.

Meridian: Featured on ChatGPT at position 2 with citations, and named by Perplexity.

"Alternatives to the large steel fabricators for civil engineering"

Reynolds & Co: Not mentioned on either platform. Both list 5 to 8 other firms instead.

Meridian: Named on both as a specialist alternative.

"What does Reynolds & Co do?"

Reynolds & Co: Both platforms describe a steel structures contractor correctly, but the sources are almost entirely Reynolds' own website, with no third-party validation.

Meridian: Described from trade press, directories and a Wikipedia entry.

The Gap in Plain English

Three findings explain why Meridian appears and Reynolds & Co does not, and why that absence is an opening.

1

AI cannot place Reynolds in the market. There is no structured entry (Wikidata, Wikipedia, a complete Companies profile) that tells a model what Reynolds is and where it fits. Meridian has that scaffolding, so every platform can resolve them cleanly and confidently list them.

2

One platform sees them, the other does not. Reynolds shows up on ChatGPT's "best contractors" list but is invisible to Perplexity, which many engineers and buyers now use. The difference is citations: the only sites linking to Reynolds are Reynolds' own. Meridian is referenced by trade publications and directories, so every AI platform finds them.

3

The specialist question is where it hurts most. When a buyer asks for alternatives, Reynolds does not appear anywhere, despite being exactly the kind of specialist those buyers want. Their genuine strengths only surface when someone already knows to ask for "Reynolds & Co" by name.

What the Full Audit Delivers

This Snapshot tested three queries across two AI engines. The full AI Search Audit tests ten buyer questions across all four major AI systems, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, with verbatim live testing. It produces a document you keep, and a dated 90-day plan to close the gap.

Weeks 1 to 2

Fix the entity base so AI can resolve you: schema, a structured knowledge-base entry, a tightened About page. The cheapest, highest-leverage move.

Weeks 3 to 6

Publish answer-shaped content for the buying-intent questions your customers actually ask, built so a model will lift and cite it.

Weeks 7 to 10

Earn third-party citations, the trade titles, directories and mentions the AI platforms already trust in your sector.

Weeks 11 to 12

Re-test the same questions and measure the before and after, so the movement is proven, not assumed.

Ready to be the name AI recommends?

The full AI Search Audit shows exactly what to change, and in what order, so buyers hear your name when they ask an AI who should do the work. rq@aigentic.co.uk

Snapshot methodology: AI-answer analysis using two engines, ChatGPT and Perplexity, on three queries written in buyer language rather than industry language. Scored 0 to 3 per query for presence, position and source quality, giving the 9-point scale. LLMs are probabilistic, so this is a directional baseline rather than a guaranteed reproduction. Reynolds & Co and Meridian Structures are fictional and the scores are illustrative; the format is exactly what you receive. The full Audit widens this to ten questions across four systems and adds the 90-day plan.