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Ask the AI what it says about you. Five questions, two languages.

This is the first thing we do for every client, written out so you can do it yourself today. Paste the five questions below into ChatGPT, DeepSeek and Google AI Mode, record what comes back on the sheet, and you will know where you stand before anyone sells you anything. Everything happens inside your own AI accounts. Nothing is sent to us unless you choose to send it.

Before you start

Write down your category phrase. The words a customer would type, not your tagline. For example: wound dressing supplier Singapore, office reinstatement contractor Singapore, postpartum hair care Singapore.
Write down your brand name exactly as it appears on your website.
Use a fresh chat with memory off. In ChatGPT use a temporary chat. In DeepSeek start a new conversation. In Google AI Mode sign out or use a private window. You want what the engine knows about you, not what it remembers from you.
Turn web search on where the engine offers it. Answers with search on cite sources, and the sources are the most useful part of the result.
Run the English questions in ChatGPT and Google AI Mode. Run the Chinese questions in DeepSeek and, if you can, Doubao. Chinese-speaking customers in Singapore ask in Chinese, and the answers are often different.

The five questions

Replace the words in square brackets. Keep everything else exactly as written, so that next month's rerun is comparable to this one.

Question 1 · Recommendation

Does the engine recommend you unprompted?

English

I am in Singapore. Which [category phrase] should I pick? Give me three names, say why, and list the sources you used.

中文

我在新加坡。[品类] 应该选哪一家？请给我三个名字，说明理由，并列出你参考的来源。

This is the question that wins or loses the customer. Record whether you are named at all, in which position, and who is named instead.

Question 2 · Facts

Does the engine know who you are?

English

What do you know about [brand]? Where is it based, what does it sell or do, and who runs it? Say so if you are not sure.

中文

你了解 [品牌] 吗？它在哪里、卖什么或做什么、由谁经营？如果不确定，请直接说明。

Wrong facts are a different problem from no facts. Write down every error: old address, wrong products, a founder's name that is not yours.

Question 3 · Comparison

How do you come out when named beside competitors?

English

Compare [brand] with two other [category phrase] options in Singapore. Which one would you recommend to a friend, and why?

中文

请把 [品牌] 和新加坡另外两家 [品类] 做比较。你会推荐哪一家给朋友？为什么？

Record the reasons given for and against you. These are the sentences the engine has learned to associate with your name.

Question 4 · Trust

What evidence does the engine weigh?

English

Is [brand] trustworthy? What evidence is there for and against, and where does that evidence come from?

中文

[品牌] 可信吗？有哪些支持和反对的证据？这些证据来自哪里？

Note every source the engine names. A page it trusts about you is a page worth getting right.

Question 5 · A real need

Do you appear when the question is specific?

English

I am in Singapore and I need [one specific product or problem, in a customer's words]. Who should I contact, and what should I check before I decide?

中文

我在新加坡，需要 [一个具体的产品或问题，用顾客的说法]。我应该联系谁？决定之前要先确认什么？

Pick the one need you most want to be known for. Specific questions are where small, well-documented businesses most often beat large ones.

The result sheet

One row per question per engine per language. Five questions, three engines, two languages is thirty rows at most, and most people do ten to fifteen on the first pass. That is enough to see the pattern.

Date	Engine	Lang	Q	Named?	Position	Named instead	Sources cited	Wrong facts
2026-11-09	ChatGPT, search on	EN	1	No	Absent	Three competitor names	Two directory pages, one competitor site	None (not named)
2026-11-09	DeepSeek, search on	ZH	2	Yes	n/a	n/a	Your old Facebook page	Old address

The two rows above are an example of how to fill the sheet, not a measurement of any business.

AI visibility check · [brand] · [date]
Category phrase: ...
Engine | Lang | Q | Named? | Position | Named instead | Sources cited | Wrong facts
ChatGPT | EN | 1 | | | | |
ChatGPT | EN | 2 | | | | |
ChatGPT | EN | 3 | | | | |
ChatGPT | EN | 4 | | | | |
ChatGPT | EN | 5 | | | | |
Google AI Mode | EN | 1 to 5 | ... 
DeepSeek | ZH | 1 to 5 | ...
Doubao | ZH | 1 to 5 | ...
Notes: what surprised you, and the one thing you will change this month.

How to read what you got

Not named anywhere

The engines do not have enough to say about you. Start with the facts: the same name, address, phone and one plain sentence about what you do, on every page of your site and every profile you own. Then make sure a visitor who lands on any page can tell within a sentence what you sell and where.

Named, but the facts are wrong

The engines know you from old or thin sources. Look at what was cited. Fix or retire the pages that are wrong, and make the correct facts easy to find on pages you control.

Named in one language, not the other

A language gap. If you serve Chinese-speaking customers and are absent in Chinese answers, the Chinese engines have nothing in Chinese to draw on. The reverse is also common.

Competitors named every time

Look at the sources cited for them. Those are the pages the engines trust in your category. That list is your work plan, and it is usually shorter than people expect.

One run is weather, not climate. Answers vary between runs, models, phrasing and days. Run each question twice if you can, record both, and judge by the pattern across the sheet rather than any single answer. There is no fixed AI rank, and anyone who sells you one is guessing. Every number we report to our own clients is a sampled observation of this kind, dated, with the exact question attached.

Rerun it monthly

Same five questions, same wording, same engines, a fresh chat each time. Add a new date column rather than overwriting.
Change one thing on your site or profiles at a time, and note the date you changed it. Otherwise you cannot tell what moved the answer.
Expect months, not weeks. Engines re-read the web on their own schedule.
Keep the sheet. A year of monthly rows is the most honest record of AI visibility a small business can have, and nobody can sell it to you.

What to do next

Most businesses can act on the sheet themselves. If you would rather have the whole playbook run against your site, the S$99 audit does that and the price comes off your first Authority month. If you send us your filled sheet at hello@ranklore.ai, we will tell you plainly whether the audit would help, even if the answer is no.

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