AI Visibility Audit — Weskaap Solar

Your score

58 / 100

Visible but underperforming

Good news first: this business is already winning the hardest part, being genuinely recommended by AI. ChatGPT called it "my top recommendation" and "probably my first call." That's rare, most audits in this project start from zero recommendation. But the website itself is thin and under-supported technically, and there's a two-domain situation that one engine handled well and the other didn't, worth fixing before it becomes a real problem.

Before we start: what changed

For 20 years, "getting found online" meant Google. You optimized your website so it ranked in Google search and showed up on Google Maps. That's called SEO, and most businesses have at least done the basics.

But more and more people now ask AI assistants like ChatGPT and Gemini instead of typing into Google. "Who's a reliable electrician and solar installer in St Helena Bay?" used to go to Google. Now it increasingly goes straight to an AI, which gives one direct answer instead of a list of links.

The problem is that SEO doesn't carry over. An AI reads your website completely differently to Google, and most sites, even ones that rank well on Google, are invisible or under-supported when an AI is asked about them directly. This is a new discipline (AEO/GEO), and it is not covered by traditional SEO work. That is not a criticism of whoever built your site. The rules simply changed, recently, and almost nobody has caught up yet.

Below, we asked ChatGPT and Gemini about your business, live, today, so you can see exactly what your customers see when they ask AI instead of Google.

What ChatGPT and Gemini say about you right now (tested live, 20 July 2026)

Open ChatGPT or Gemini and type exactly this. It's the same natural question a real customer looking for an electrician or solar installer on the West Coast would type:

The exact question we asked

“Who is a reliable electrician and solar installer in St Helena Bay or Vredenburg, on the West Coast of South Africa?”

You'll see the same result shown below. This isn't a claim to take on trust. It's repeatable.

ChatGPT YES

Yes, ranked #1 of 5, called "⭐ My top recommendation": "Over 30–35 years of electrical industry experience... registered electricians and accredited solar installers... this would probably be my first call if I lived in St Helena Bay." Correctly listed the inverter brands installed, the address, phone and hours

Gemini YES

Yes, but ranked 3rd, well behind two other names, with much less detail: "Comprehensive electrical maintenance, fault finding, and residential/commercial solar systems." No phone number given, no mention of your 30+ years' experience or accredited installer brands

The important finding.

You operate under two domains, same phone number, same owners, same address. ChatGPT figured this out itself and correctly merged the two into one confident recommendation. Gemini did not. It only knows the other domain, gives it far less detail than ChatGPT gave, and ranks it lower against competitors it clearly knows more about. This is a real domain-fragmentation risk, worth fixing now, before it costs you more than ranking and detail on one engine.

Note: this reflects one live test, today. AI assistant answers can vary between sessions, accounts, and over time, so treat this as a real, current snapshot of what customers see, not a permanently fixed score.

Scorecard

AI crawler access 8/10

Nothing harmful is blocked, though there's no explicit welcome for AI crawlers either, just a simple default allow

AI guide layer 0/10

Missing. The dedicated layer AI systems check for a plain statement of who you are, what you do, and your service area does not exist, requesting it returns your homepage instead of a real answer

Machine-readable business facts 2/10

Only a bare, generic structured block exists, and it names the business under a different brand name to the one shown elsewhere on the page. Nothing about your address, phone, or services exists in a form AI can read directly

Answer-first content 4/10

The homepage heading is empty. The real facts (35 years' experience, accreditations, contact) are present but come after the heading, in fairly thin copy

Question coverage 0/10

None. For a solar and electrical business, answering how long installation takes, what's covered by the compliance certificate, and which inverter brands you install is exactly what both engines are currently guessing at from elsewhere

Essential facts on site 6/10

Phone, email and address are all present as real text, a solid foundation

Site readability for AI 7/10

Real content is present and readable, and the sitemap genuinely lists multiple real pages (About, Contact, Registrations, Gallery), better hygiene than most sites we've audited

Independent reputation signals 9/10

This is the strongest part: a 5.0 rating on your Google Business Profile, multiple positive testimonials, both AI engines independently found and trust the business

Live AI test 8/10

Genuinely recommended by both engines, a rare result. Points lost only for the domain-split inconsistency and thinner detail on one engine

Freshness & trust 6/10

Content reads as an established, real business, though the site itself feels thin and dated relative to the reputation behind it

The proof this is fixable

We recently audited a South African business already winning the hardest part, genuine AI recommendation, but held back by exactly this kind of thin technical structure underneath. They took our fix. On re-audit their score reached 90/100, and their recommendation became stronger and more consistent across both engines. Same starting point, same fix, measured before and after.

How the fix works

We don't send you a to-do list. We build the complete fix for your specific business: every missing piece above, written and ready to install. It goes to whoever manages your website as a ready-made package. Installation typically takes under an hour, and nothing about your site's design or content changes visibly beyond what's needed to correct these issues.

Then we re-run this exact audit and show you the new score next to the old one.

If your score doesn't improve substantially, you get your money back in full. And if your web team hits any snag installing it, we step in and complete the installation ourselves at no extra charge.

Given that you're already being recommended, and by ChatGPT specifically as its top pick, this is a case of protecting and strengthening a lead you've already earned, including making sure both engines see the same, complete picture of your business under one consistent identity.

_Note: this reflects one live test, today. AI assistant answers can vary between sessions, accounts, and over time, so treat this as a real, current snapshot of what customers see, not a permanently fixed score._

Need a hand with any of this?

If any of this feels like more than you want to take on yourself, or you don't have someone who can implement it, reach out and we'll handle it for you remotely, wherever you're based.

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