Namebeam
The Citation Ledger

We run our own product on ourselves and print the dated results, wins and losses at the same size.

Every AI visibility vendor promises they can get a business named by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini. We are the one that checks itself first and shows you the scoreboard, including the entries where the number is zero. This is that ledger.

First published 2026-07-29. Updated as checks re-run.
Why this page exists

The product is trust. So the receipts have to include our own.

Namebeam sells the discipline of checking whether AI names a business, fixing what is wrong, and proving the fix worked with a raw transcript instead of a claim. A company that sells receipts and hides its own receipts is a contradiction, not a business. So Namebeam is customer zero. We run the same checks we sell on ourselves, on the same dated schedule, and we publish every entry here whether the number went up or stayed at zero. No entry in this ledger is edited after the fact. If a score does not move, that gets printed too, at the same size as the entries where it does.

Each entry below states the method, names the raw files behind it, and discloses the honest limits of a single dated run. Nothing on this page is rounded up or smoothed over.

Entry 001, dated 2026-07-29

Namebeam self-check: named zero times out of twenty.

0 / 20
Namebeam named across four AI engines

Namebeam was named zero times out of twenty answers. Zero is the starting line, and we are publishing it because it is what we would tell a client to do with their own number.

Method

Four AI engines, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. Five questions a small business owner would plausibly ask about AI visibility tools, one fresh run per question per engine, answers recorded verbatim. Twenty answers total. Raw transcripts on file under corpus check NB-0001.

Who the engines named instead

Across all twenty answers, here is the shelf we are climbing onto, counted and dated.

Named insteadMentions across 20 answers
Profound12
Otterly11
Peec AI11
Semrush7
Scrunch AI4
SE Ranking4
ZipTie4

A tail of smaller, single mention tools followed these seven and is not itemized here. Source: CITATION_LEDGER_ENTRY_001_2026-07-29.md, corpus check NB-0001.

Honesty note, single-run variance. This is one engine run per question, on one date. AI answers vary from run to run and can change without notice. A zero today is not a permanent verdict. Later entries in this ledger will re-run the same check and print whatever the number is then, higher, lower, or unchanged.
Run 2, variance confirmation, 2026-07-29

Namebeam held at zero. The top three held too. The rest of the list did not.

We repeated the identical five questions on the same three engines, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, in brand new, memory free chats, to see whether the zero was a fluke of one conversation and whether the competitor names would repeat. Namebeam held at zero, now 0 of 35 across two runs. Claude's Run 2 leg could not be completed, the claude.ai chat surface would not submit the prompt across two separate fresh sessions, so those five rows are logged as failures rather than dropped, and Claude's only data point remains its Run 1 result.

What stayed the same, what did not

Profound, Otterly.ai, and Peec AI held the top of the leaderboard in both runs, that repeatability is a real signal. The names below the top three reshuffled noticeably between runs, Semrush and SE Ranking fell sharply from their Run 1 positions, and names like Ayzeo, Similarweb, and AthenaHQ appeared prominently in Run 2 with little or no presence in Run 1. Perplexity's named list changed the most of the three engines.

Full counts, per-engine detail, and the complete leaderboard now live on The Get-Picked Index. Source: NB-0001_run2_variance_summary.md, corpus check NB-0001, plus the per-engine Run 2 transcript files dated 2026-07-29.

Entry 002, dated 2026-07-29

Get-Booked self-audit: about 39 of 100.

39 / 100
Get-Booked Score, Namebeam audited against its own rubric

We ran our own paid $197 Get-Booked Audit and Score rubric against Namebeam itself. First pass scored 31 of 100. A same-day correction, verified against the live served bytes of namebeam.ai rather than internal logs, revised the number to about 39 of 100. The correction is printed here rather than the lower first pass, because the live artifact is what a customer and an AI engine actually see.

FactorScoreMax
Findable330
Reachable815
Quotable1620
Bookable1015
Trusted220
Total39100

Source: AUDIT_NB_SELF_001_2026-07-29.md, correction section, filed the same day against live-fetched bytes.

Why the number moved, named plainly

The score moved because we shipped four fixes the same week and re-verified against the live site, not against our own notes:

  • The AI-instructions page, ai-instructions.html, went live, giving an AI assistant a direct, quotable answer instead of forcing it to guess.
  • llms.txt went live and returns a real page rather than a missing file.
  • Schema.org structured data, including a FAQPage block, went live in the page source.
  • The $37 Get-Picked KIT button on the live homepage was rewired to its real Stripe checkout link instead of pointing at an anchor on the same page.

Before this week's deploy, the same rubric would have scored roughly 22 of 100. The honest read of the delta is about plus 17, driven mostly by Quotable and Bookable, the two factors the four fixes above touch directly. Findable and Trusted did not move this week, and they are printed here unchanged rather than rounded up.

Trunkline note, dated 2026-07-29

Sister brand, same discipline: also zero of twenty.

Trunkline, our crypto-education property, ran the identical four-engine check on 2026-07-29: Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and ChatGPT, five questions each, one run per question per engine. Result: Trunkline was named zero times out of twenty answers, a true zero with no false positives recorded.

0 / 20
Trunkline named across four AI engines

The gap finding

Two of the five questions, one on crypto education that shows real trading results including losses, and one on a site with verified, dated receipts for crypto and finance claims, returned no single, clear incumbent across all four engines tested. Each engine reached for a scattered list of partial fits, trading-journal tools, regulator trackers, fact-checking sites, block explorers, rather than naming one obvious answer. That pattern held across all four engines, not just one.

Framed honestly: this is one dated run across four engines, not a permanent map of the market. The gap is testable and, so far, confirmed on this single run. It will be re-checked, and any change will be printed here.

Source: TK-0001 four-engine summary, corpus files TK-0001 claude, perplexity, gemini, and chatgpt legs, dated 2026-07-29.

Standing line

This ledger updates as the checks re-run.

The number climbs, or we print that it did not. Either way, it goes in this ledger, dated, sourced, and at the same size.

Run my free check See the Get-Booked ladder
Related receipts

The Documented Climb: the running case study built from every dated check here and in the public index, starting at zero. The Recommendation Files: what the engines recommend in this category, counted and dated, our own miss included.