July 2026 edition

Professional Services: AI visibility benchmarks

Trust and expertise prompts favor firms with published thought leadership and clear entity signals.

Percentile benchmarks

p50 = industry median · p90 = what the top decile achieves.

Metricp50 (median)p75p90 (top decile)
AI Visibility Index

Composite 0–100 score of how visible brands are across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini answers.

733.447.4
AI Crawler Access

How accessible the site is to AI crawlers (robots policies, WAF, render blockers).

758697
Brand Accuracy

How factually correct AI engines are when describing the brand.

100100100
Positive Sentiment

Share of AI answers describing the brand positively.

0%0%0%
Brand Mention Rate

Share of buyer-intent prompts where the brand is mentioned in the AI answer.

0%25%40%
Citation Share

Share of AI answer citations that point to the brand's own domain.

0%25%40%

What AI engines cite here

  • Industry publications
  • Firm websites
  • Professional directories
  • Research reports

Key insight

Professional services show the highest brand accuracy scores — AI engines rarely hallucinate about firms with consistent entity data — but citation share is the lowest, showing how few firms publish the kind of reference content AI engines cite.

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Source: AEOArc AI Visibility Index, July 2026 edition. Anonymized aggregates from search-grounded measurement runs; no individual customer identifiable. CC BY 4.0 — cite with a link to this page. AI answers vary by engine, prompt, region, and time.

Measurement methodology · JSON dataset · All industries

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