When someone asks an AI assistant who to call, it weighs five things about your business, then names a handful of names, sometimes yours, sometimes not. Here is what those five factors are, and what our dated captures show the engines actually read before they answer.
Not a black box. These are the five plain factors behind whether an engine can find you, reach you, quote you, book you, and trust you.
On our Perplexity capture logged 2026-07-31, the engine showed its work: 15 cited sources behind one answer, including Reddit threads, a Yelp top ten list, a roundup article, and Facebook group threads. Not one of those sources was a business homepage alone.
That is the pattern across every capture we have run: engines pull names from community threads, directory listings, and roundup articles, not just search rank. We do not sell a score. We sell the receipt. And we prove it works by running it on ourselves in public first, losses included, at namebeam.ai.
We ask three AI engines plus Google result pages the question your customers ask, and send you the raw dated transcript of who they name, and whether that is you.
How this page was built. The five-factor rubric reflects the categories Namebeam scores: Findable, Reachable, Quotable, Bookable, and Trusted. The citation pattern described above reflects our Perplexity capture logged 2026-07-31, which listed 15 sources behind a single answer. This is a description of one engine's behavior on one date, not a guarantee of how any engine will answer in the future. Namebeam is an educational and marketing service and does not guarantee rankings, traffic, or revenue.