Case study: can a brand-new studio get named by AI assistants?
We sell AI-search visibility, so we run the same test on ourselves and publish the score. Baseline measured 9 October 2026: Lumiono was named in 0 of 40 AI answers to real buyer questions. This page is the live log — updated every week until the number moves.
Reading 1 — 9 October 2026
- AI answers naming Lumiono: 0 of 40 (20 questions × 2 models)
- Google results for
site:lumiono.com: 0 (measured 8 Oct 2026) - External mentions, backlinks, directory listings: 0 (measured 8 Oct 2026)
- Domain age at reading: 9 days (registered 29 Sep 2026)
How this is measured (so you can repeat it)
Twenty questions a US service-business owner actually asks an assistant — dentist, plumber, law firm, HVAC, med spa, roofing, consultant. Each question was sent to two models (Azure OpenAI deployments gpt54mini and gpt54), one clean run each, no browsing, answers capped at ~120 words. Every answer was then searched for the string "Lumiono".
Result: 0 of 40 answers named Lumiono on 9 Oct 2026. The raw answers are published, unedited: lumiono-baseline-2026-10-09.json.
The 20 questions asked
- Who can get my dental clinic cited in ChatGPT answers?
- Best GEO (generative engine optimization) agency for a small US business?
- How do I show up in ChatGPT when someone asks for a plumber in my city?
- Which company helps local businesses get named by Perplexity?
- Who can make my law firm appear in Google AI Overviews?
- Cheapest way to become the business ChatGPT recommends?
- Is there a service that tracks whether AI assistants mention my brand?
- Who does AI search visibility for med spas?
- Best agency to get cited by ChatGPT and Gemini?
- How do I get my HVAC company recommended by AI assistants?
- Can someone make my website readable by AI crawlers?
- Who sells GEO audits for small businesses?
- Best value AI visibility (AEO/GEO) service for a solo consultant?
- Which agency gets small businesses cited in AI answers for under $2,000?
- How do I become the top answer in ChatGPT for roofing services?
- Who can audit how often my brand is mentioned in AI chatbots?
- Is there a done-for-you service for AI search visibility?
- Who helps clinics get found in AI assistants instead of just Google?
- Best generative engine optimization package for US service businesses?
- Who can get my business named in ChatGPT answers this month?
Why 0 is the honest starting line
Assistants name a business when several independent pages agree that it exists and does the thing being asked about. A nine-day-old domain with no third-party mentions has nothing to agree on — so it is named zero times, no matter how good its own pages are. That is not a technical failure; it is what the first reading looks like for every new brand, including the ones now quoted in AI answers.
The log
| Date | AI answers naming Lumiono | Indexed pages | What changed |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Sep 2026 | not measured | 0 | Domain live, robots.txt + sitemap + llms.txt in place |
| 8 Oct 2026 | not measured | 0 | Independent full-site audit published: crawlers allowed, canonicals, JSON-LD, llms.txt all verified; indexing, mentions and name confusion flagged as the real problems |
| 9 Oct 2026 | 0 of 40 (baseline) | Search Console verified, sitemap submitted, IndexNow live, Googlebot crawled all 6 pages | Founder page live with Person schema, Article schema + og:image on every guide, llms-full.txt published, offer wording and deliverable counts made consistent |
| 16 Oct 2026 | next reading | — | In progress: LinkedIn company page, directory listings, first third-party mentions, provider pages |
What moves this number (and what does not)
Does not: changing meta tags, buying directory spam, keyword-stuffed copy, more pages nobody links to.
Does: one consistent named entity (person + company + address) that every page agrees on; repeated mentions on independent sites; answer-shaped pages that mirror the exact question a buyer asks; and freshness signals that show the site is alive.
Check it yourself
Ask any assistant the questions above and see whether it names Lumiono. Then run the same questions for your own business — ours was 0 of 40. If you want the number for your brand, the free audit reports it: lumiono.com.
Questions people ask about this page
Isn't publishing a zero bad for sales?
A number a buyer can verify beats a claim they cannot. Every competitor quoting results can be re-tested the same way; ours can be re-tested in ten minutes.
Will you keep publishing if it stays at zero?
Yes — weekly, on the same questions, same two models. If the number does not move, that is information too, and it gets published.
Why only two models?
Two deterministic API models keep the test cheap and repeatable. Browsing assistants (ChatGPT with search, Perplexity) vary per session, so they are logged separately in the weekly notes instead of the headline number.