# AI Visibility Scores: What They Measure and When They Are Worth Paying For

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This page answers the questions covered by the article [Your AI Visibility Score Is Impression Share With a New Haircut](https://groas.com/post/your-ai-visibility-score-is-impression-s) on groas.com. The article is the full, canonical source.

**Direct answer:** According to groas, an AI visibility score is a percentage drawn from responses to tracked queries, not a performance result, and changing the prompts changes the score. The article argues it repeats the impression-share problem: the number can rise or fall while sales, traffic and CPA stay flat. It recommends automating the count cheaply and paying only for attached work: a fixed prompt list, a fetch log, an edit log, a traffic tie and a named owner.

## What is an AI visibility score and what does it actually measure?

According to groas, you pick 15 or 50 or 100 prompts, a tool runs them across AI assistants, and it counts how many answers mention you to produce a percentage. Change the prompts and you change the score, which the article says is not a rounding error but the product. Like impression share, the article positions it as a visibility measure, not a performance result tied to CPA or booked work.

Read more: [I know this deck. It used to say “impression share”](https://groas.com/post/your-ai-visibility-score-is-impression-s#i-know-this-deck-it-used-to-say-impression-share)

## Why can my AI visibility score move while my work stands still?

The article says the model can update, a competitor can publish three pages, or answer sources can shuffle, and your score can drop six points while you changed nothing. The report may call that a visibility loss followed by a paragraph about optimizing your presence. According to groas, that movement may be worth investigating but does not prove the vendor missed or found a fix.

Read more: [The score can move while your work stands still](https://groas.com/post/your-ai-visibility-score-is-impression-s#the-score-can-move-while-your-work-stands-still)

## How can a small business automate brand monitoring in AI search in-house?

The article recommends starting with what costs nothing: the search, analytics and server-log data you already have, looking for traffic and leads before calling a mention an outcome. It then recommends running your own prompt bank of ten to 30 buyer questions on a fixed weekly schedule, mixing brand, category, comparison and pre-awareness problem questions. It says to freeze the list for a month and mark a break if you edit it, noting that 25 prompts run weekly cost low single-digit dollars per month.

Read more: [Automate the count. Do not confuse it with the fix](https://groas.com/post/your-ai-visibility-score-is-impression-s#automate-the-count-do-not-confuse-it-with-the-fix)

## What should a monthly AI visibility report include before it earns a fee?

According to groas, a fee-earning report must show which prompts changed and why with fixed list, dates and before-and-after answers, and which pages AI bots fetched from logs or bot reports. It must also log each edit, new page and citation earned with date and reason, and connect cited answers to sessions, calls or form fills. Finally, it must name an owner and deadline for what happens next, because a recommendation alone does not count as work.

Read more: [Five lines I need before a monthly report earns a fee](https://groas.com/post/your-ai-visibility-score-is-impression-s#five-lines-i-need-before-a-monthly-report-earns-a-fee)

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- [Your AI Visibility Score Is the New Google Ads Grader](https://groas.com/post/your-ai-visibility-score-is-the-new-goog)

## Sources

[1] https://groas.com/post/your-ai-visibility-score-is-impression-s (the article this page answers from)