Who AI Actually Names
Bottom line, unedited
None of our own properties surfaced in a single audience-intent query that day. Composite grade roughly 9/100. We publish this before showing you anyone else's numbers, because a visibility company that hides its own visibility has already told you everything.
The query grid (2026-07-22, thereceiptsindex.com)
| Real query | Did we surface? | Who got named instead |
|---|---|---|
| "how to avoid crypto scams 2026" | No | AMLBot, Sumsub, ScamAdviser, Ledger Academy, Coin98, Yahoo Finance |
| "is stablecoin yield safe" | No | Medium/Coinmonks, Kraken Learn, Stripe, Watcher Guru, DEXTools, Eco |
| "does tokenization mean I own the asset" | No | iShares, BingX, Gemini Cryptopedia, Ledger, Britannica Money, Schwab |
| "can you trust AI for crypto/financial advice" | No | PBS News, The Conversation, Money.com, The Armchair Trader, phys.org |
| Brand search: "The Receipts Index" crypto | No, zero brand results | Unrelated "receipts" content |
What actually decides who gets named
From studying what the winners above have in common, the pattern that gets cited is consistent: year-stamped content updated within about 30 days, primary-source citations, a clear comparison table, and FAQ-structured answers, sitting on a domain other sites already mention. None of that is magic. Most of it is homework.
The same audit found our own plumbing failures: pages not indexed (1 of 24 URLs surfacing), a robots.txt that blocked the AI crawlers we wanted to be read by, and a brand split across old and new domain names. Self-inflicted, fixable, and being fixed in public. Progress lands on the Live Citation Ledger, dated.
The honest read for your business
If a company doing this work full time can be invisible to the engines, a busy business owner can be too, and never know it, because there is no click to track when an AI skips you. The way to find out is not a vague promise. It is a dated test.
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