AI visibility for small business
Your customers now ask an assistant before they buy — and act on the answer. steek.ai tells a small business whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews recommend them, ranks them against rivals, and gives one clear next fix — with a confidence interval on every number, from €19/mo (billed annually; €29.90 month-to-month).
The short version
- Affordable: from €19/mo, every engine, 10-day free trial, no card, no demo.
- Honest: a 95% confidence interval on every metric — no fabricated data.
- Simple: one-minute onboarding, a plain-language verdict, one next fix.
- Free to start: run the live AI-visibility checker with no signup.
The problem: AI is quietly sending customers to someone else
People used to scroll ten blue links. Now they ask ChatGPT or Google's AI Overview “what's the best [your category]?” and act on whatever it says. If the assistant names a competitor and not you, you never see the lost customer — there's no click to miss in your analytics. The tools built to measure this were priced for enterprise marketing teams (€89–$700/mo and up), so most small businesses fly blind.
What steek gives a small business
- Honest AI visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, with a confidence interval on every number.
- Real monthly search volume behind every prompt, so you chase real demand — not a 1–5 bar.
- An auto-written verdict in plain language: here's where you stand and what to do first.
- Co-mention gap analysis — which rivals get named beside you, and on which sources, so you know where to show up.
- An AI-crawler check — confirm GPTBot and friends can even reach your site (a surprising number of sites block them by accident).
How does steek work?
Enter your site — steek builds your business profile and reconstructs the real prompts customers ask before they buy. It asks the AI engines those questions on a schedule, honestly (real sampling, every metric with its interval). You get a verdict and a gap analysis showing exactly where rivals win the co-mention and what to change first. No dashboards to babysit.
A tool measures whether your efforts are working — it doesn't do the work for you. You'll still need to publish clear answers, earn a few third-party mentions, and keep your site crawlable. steek's job is to tell you, honestly, whether any of it is moving the needle.
Priced for a small business
One plan from €19/mo (billed annually; €29.90 month-to-month), every engine included, 10-day free trial with no credit card. No seat maths, no feature gates, no “contact sales.” If you want to see the landscape first, compare the best GEO tools for small business, read how to rank on ChatGPT, or see steek vs Peec.
FAQ
What is AI visibility for a small business?
AI visibility is how often — and how favourably — AI assistants like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews mention or recommend your business when a customer asks them what to buy or who to hire. For a small business it's the new word-of-mouth: if the assistant names a competitor instead of you, you lose the customer before they ever reach your site, with no lost click to spot in your analytics. steek measures that visibility across every major engine, with a confidence interval on every number.
How do I show up in ChatGPT and AI answers as a small business?
The fundamentals matter most for a small business: make sure AI crawlers (GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot) aren't blocked in your robots.txt, answer the real questions customers ask in clear, self-contained sections on your site, and earn mentions on third-party sources and communities like Reddit — brand mentions correlate more strongly with AI visibility than backlinks do. steek shows which prompts you're missing and gives one next fix at a time. See our guide on how to rank on ChatGPT.
How much does AI-visibility tracking cost for a small business?
steek.ai starts from €19/mo billed annually (€29.90 month-to-month), with every major AI engine included and a 10-day free trial that needs no credit card. Most rival tools start around €89–$700/mo and are aimed at enterprise marketing teams. You can also run steek's free live checker with no signup to see roughly where you stand before you pay anything.
Is GEO worth it for a small business?
It's worth measuring before it's worth investing heavily — which is exactly why steek prices it low. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) means getting AI engines to recommend you; for a small business the honest move is to run the free checker, confirm whether customers' questions already surface you, and only then decide how much to do. Because the entry price is from €19/mo and the trial is free, you can find out where you stand without an enterprise budget.
How do I know if ChatGPT recommends my business?
steek runs the real questions your customers ask — like 'best [your category] near me' or 'best [product] for [use case]' — against ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, and reports how often you're mentioned, where you rank, and which competitors get named instead. Every number carries a confidence interval so you can tell a real change from noise.
I don't have a marketing team. Is this too technical?
No. Onboarding takes about a minute — enter your site and steek builds your profile and the prompts customers ask. You get a plain-language verdict and a single 'next fix' to act on, not a dashboard to babysit.
See if AI recommends your business
Run the free checker with no signup, or start the 10-day trial — every number with its interval.