What does AI visibility mean?
AI visibility means whether, and in what role, a company appears in answers to specified questions. Housecall Pro was named in 108 of 150 field service answers captured on 22 September 2026; 43 of those answers also cited its own domain. Those are different events, so an unqualified visibility score leaves out what you need to interpret it.
What we measured
Measured. The Absence Index’s field service collection asked ten fixed buyer questions three times on ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode. It retained 150 valid answers from 22 September 2026. The record is part of release 2026-09, published 23 September 2026 under DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22907695.
Housecall Pro’s 108 named answers give a 72.0 percent naming rate, with a Wilson 95 percent interval of 64.3 to 78.6 percent. Its 43 own-domain-cited answers give 28.7 percent, with an interval of 22.0 to 36.4 percent. The September citation measure requires the company to be named and its own domain cited in the same answer.
Each answer counts once for an event. Repeating the company’s name several times in one answer does not create several observations. Nor does a name automatically establish a recommendation: it could appear in a comparison or as the publisher of evidence. You need the surrounding sentence to determine its role.
These figures describe captured answers, not product quality, purchases or future appearances.
What this means for you
Reasoned. Start by asking what the number counts. A naming rate answers whether the company appeared; an own-domain citation rate answers a narrower source question. Neither tells you whether the answer proposed the product for your particular need.
- If you sell software: keep the buyer questions beside the score. An answer about dispatching field technicians covers a different need from an answer about running a dental practice.
- If you buy software: read why a product was named before adding it to your evaluation. The naming count cannot replace checking the features, price and constraints that matter to you.
- If you report results: label the engine set, date, event and valid base. Write “108 of 150 field service answers named Housecall Pro” before reducing the result to 72.0 percent.
A later check can be useful, but first match its questions and conditions. If it adds an engine or changes the event definition, show the change rather than presenting the two percentages as one continuous series. That distinction is especially easy to lose when a dashboard displays a single large number.
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- Housecall Pro’s published field service record
- The three measured rates
- Selection and ranking
- What is a good AI visibility score?
- What a client report should contain
Next step
Use the Free 10-question check (one engine) as a small example of what your visibility measure counts. No email is needed; runs are limited per network and per day, and by the site's daily allowance.
If an answer uses your company name in the wrong context, Fix one answer, $490. Bring the answer and a dated product source so the particular page or fact change can be defined.
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