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FREE AI Visibility for Experts, Coaches, and Educators

July 15, 2026

By Fae Esparza, Start Solutions AI

When someone is ready to hire a coach, join a program, or choose an expert, a growing share of that decision starts with a question to an AI assistant. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, or Google's AI answers with a short list of names. Everyone else is absent, and no one who is absent gets a notification.

The free AI Visibility Snapshot answers one question: when your future clients ask AI who to trust in your category, do you show up, or does someone else?

Key Takeaways

  • The Snapshot is a free baseline measurement of how you appear in AI-generated answers across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google's AI.
  • It tests the actual questions your future clients ask before choosing a provider, not your keywords.
  • You receive four findings: where you appear, which competitors appear instead, which sources AI pulls from, and how you are described when you are mentioned.
  • It is a baseline, not a verdict, and it comes with no obligation.

What the Snapshot Measures

Most experts have never seen how AI systems describe them, or whether those systems mention them at all. Traditional analytics do not capture it. Search rankings do not predict it. A business can hold the top organic spot on Google and still be missing from the AI answer for the same question.

The Snapshot makes that gap visible. We take the real buying questions your future clients ask, questions like "best wealth coach for women entrepreneurs" or "who teaches creative financing for real estate," and run them across the major AI platforms. Then we record who gets named, how often, and why.

The Questions Are the Craft

A snapshot is only as useful as the questions it tests. We build a set of eight to fifteen buying-intent questions specific to your category and audience, drawn from three types: category questions ("best mentorship program for new real estate investors"), problem questions ("how do I scale a rental portfolio without a high income"), and recommendation questions ("who are the top educators in this field"). These are your clients' questions, not your marketing language, which is exactly why the results are often surprising.

What You Receive

The Snapshot reports four findings in a short, readable format.

  • Where you stand: how often you appear in AI answers for your category's buying questions, the number most experts have never seen.
  • Who is winning instead: the competitors and sources AI currently names for the questions that should bring you business. This is usually the most clarifying page in the report.
  • Why: which sources the AI engines pull from when they answer, and whether you are part of them. This points directly at where your authority needs to live.
  • How you are described: when you do appear, whether the description is accurate and favorable, because being mentioned incorrectly is its own problem.

What the Snapshot Is Not

It is not a promise of placement, and it is not a sales document dressed up as research. AI platforms control their own output, and anyone guaranteeing a specific result is overstating what is knowable. The Snapshot is a measured starting point. What you do with it is your call, and the report is yours either way.

What Happens After

Many recipients take the findings and act on them independently. For those who want help closing the gaps, Start Solutions AI offers two ways to work together: AI Visibility Foundation, ongoing monthly measurement and optimization of the signals AI engines read, and Authority Acceleration, for experts who want to build third-party authority faster. The Snapshot conversation is where we recommend one, the other, or neither.

How to Request Yours

Request the free Snapshot at startsolutions.ai. We ask for your name, email, website, and a sentence about what you do and who your clients are, enough to build a question set that reflects your actual buyers. No credit card, no obligation.

The experts AI recommends are not always the most qualified. They are the ones AI can find, understand, and trust. Knowing where you stand is the first step to becoming the answer.

Fae Esparza

Fae Esparza

Frances "Fae" Esparza. Her background is in operations and AI implementation rather than marketing. She led customer adoption of AI products at Microsoft, built lead pipelines and CRM automation for a mortgage brokerage, and ran AI-powered operations for her own real estate company. She holds an MBA from the University of Massachusetts Lowell and a BS in Health Management from Northeastern University. Her thesis for the company is that AI visibility is the same surfacing problem she solved inside those businesses, applied to the AI engines that clients now use to find experts.

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