AI visibility for consumer brands
Shoppers ask assistants what to buy, and the answer is assembled from reviews and roundups rather than from your product pages.
- Consumer companies read
- 350
- Block an AI crawler
- 29
- Counted
- Aug 2026
What we counted in this sector
From our own census of the Y Combinator directory, run August 7, 2026.
Every company listed as Active in the Y Combinator public company directory, deduplicated by domain. The figure is crawler access read from robots.txt, which is whether an engine is allowed to fetch a site at all. It is not a visibility score: a site every crawler can reach can still go unmentioned, and that is the thing the free check measures. Both numbers above carry the same denominator so you can recompute the share yourself.
Why the answers differ here
Reasoning from how the engines behave, rather than a scan of this sector. We have not measured visibility by sector and do not imply that we have.
Consumer buying questions pull heavily on review platforms, marketplace listings and best-of roundups, because that is where an engine finds several options compared in one place. A brand with an excellent site and no presence on those sources is legible to a person and absent from the answer.
Where most people start
The same catalogue as everywhere else on this site, ordered for this sector rather than reinvented for it.
- you have never measured this and want a number with a range on itAI Visibility Audit$150 one-time
- assistants keep naming review platforms you have no profile onReview Platform Setup$600 one-time
- your profiles are claimed and the reviews have stopped arrivingReview Velocity Program$600 per month
- a page engines already quote in your category does not mention youAI Citation Insertion$400 per placement
Other sectors we counted
The sector figure is not your figure
A census tells you what is normal in your sector. It cannot tell you where you stand in it, and the two are different questions. The free check answers the second one on your own domain, with the interval it is accurate to.