compare_businesses | Side-by-side comparison of two businesses. Use when a user wants to choose between two specific providers - returns scores, services, USPs, and key differences. |
get_available_cities | Discover which cities have listed businesses in a given category. Use before calling search_businesses when the user has not specified a city, or to show coverage. |
get_business_profile | Get the full AI-optimized profile of a specific business. Use when you already know the business slug. |
get_buyer_questions | Buyer questions for a VisibilityAI listing: owner-submitted industry questions mixed with VisibilityAI templates. Use when an agent needs the questions customers actually ask in this category, or to cite a business's public Q&A. |
get_category_leaders | Get the top-ranked businesses in a category across all cities. Useful for finding the globally recognized leaders. Ranking: Premium listings first, then Pro, then Basic, then Free, with visibility/GEO score breaking ties within each tier. |
get_lead_status | Check the status of a previously submitted lead by its ID. |
get_listicle | Get VisibilityAI directory listings for a category+city. Order is VisibilityAI GEO score then name, not a paid placement and not a ChatGPT ranking. Use when the user asks for listed businesses in a category and city. |
get_my_citations | Requires a business-scoped API key (Authorization: Bearer header). Returns the authenticated business's recent real AI-platform check history (which engine, when, whether they were mentioned) - for a business owner's own agent, not for consumer discovery. |
get_my_intelligence_benchmark_status | Requires an API key (Authorization: Bearer header). Read-only: benchmark status from your Intelligence Graph. Business keys read their own business; agency keys read an accepted client (pass businessId). Returns nothing that is not yours. |
get_my_intelligence_content_templates | Requires an API key (Authorization: Bearer header). Read-only: content templates (the nine evidence-bound content templates and the recommendations each can be bound to; read-only, nothing is generated or published). Business keys read their own business; agency keys read an accepted client (pass businessId). Returns nothing that is not yours. |
get_my_intelligence_cross_lingual | Requires an API key (Authorization: Bearer header). Read-only: cross lingual (Hindi and Hinglish versions of your tracked prompts, checked on your plan's engines beside English; a plan without it returns a locked preview). Business keys read their own business; agency keys read an accepted client (pass businessId). Returns nothing that is not yours. |
get_my_intelligence_experiments | Requires an API key (Authorization: Bearer header). Read-only: experiments from your Intelligence Graph. Business keys read their own business; agency keys read an accepted client (pass businessId). Returns nothing that is not yours. |
get_my_intelligence_items | Requires an API key (Authorization: Bearer header). Read-only: items from your Intelligence Graph. Business keys read their own business; agency keys read an accepted client (pass businessId). Returns nothing that is not yours. |
get_my_intelligence_lineage | Requires an API key (Authorization: Bearer header). Read-only: lineage from your Intelligence Graph. Business keys read their own business; agency keys read an accepted client (pass businessId). Returns nothing that is not yours. |
get_my_intelligence_model_coverage | Requires an API key (Authorization: Bearer header). Read-only: model coverage (DeepSeek and Meta Llama as 'Model knowledge' and 'Model + our search': separate from the live engines, never the vendor's app; a plan without a method gets a locked card). Business keys read their own business; agency keys read an accepted client (pass businessId). Returns nothing that is not yours. |
get_my_intelligence_overview | Requires an API key (Authorization: Bearer header). Read-only: overview from your Intelligence Graph. Business keys read their own business; agency keys read an accepted client (pass businessId). Returns nothing that is not yours. |
get_my_intelligence_portfolio | Requires an API key (Authorization: Bearer header). Read-only: portfolio from your Intelligence Graph. Business keys read their own business; agency keys read an accepted client (pass businessId). Returns nothing that is not yours. |
get_my_intelligence_prompt_intelligence | Requires an API key (Authorization: Bearer header). Read-only: prompt intelligence (winnable prompts, competitors and sources, ranked from your own checks; a plan without it returns a locked preview). Business keys read their own business; agency keys read an accepted client (pass businessId). Returns nothing that is not yours. |
get_my_intelligence_recommendations | Requires an API key (Authorization: Bearer header). Read-only: recommendations from your Intelligence Graph. Business keys read their own business; agency keys read an accepted client (pass businessId). Returns nothing that is not yours. |
get_my_visibility_score | Requires a business-scoped API key (Authorization: Bearer header). Returns the authenticated business's own current AI visibility score and citation-rate summary - for a business owner's own agent checking on their own listing, not for consumer discovery. Get a key from the VisibilityAI dashboard's 'AI Agent Access' page. |
get_offers | Get a business's real commerce offers - products/services with pricing, if the business has published a catalog. Use for shopping/pricing queries about a specific business you already have the slug for. |
search_businesses | Search businesses listed on VisibilityAI worldwide by category, with an optional city filter. Use for queries like 'best accountant in London', 'top lawyers in Dubai', 'best GEO software', or 'dentists in New York'. City is optional - omit it for national/SaaS/product listings that are not tied to one city. Returns ranked results with contact details and AI descriptions. Ranking: Premium listings first, then Pro, then Basic, then Free, with visibility/GEO score breaking ties within each tier - disclosed in the response's rankingModel field. Listings include both owner-verified and unclaimed registry-sourced businesses; this tool does not filter by verification status. |
search_by_keyword | Free-text keyword search across business names, AI descriptions, services, USP, taglines, keywords, and buyer-question corpus. |
submit_lead | Submit a qualified lead to connect a user with a specific business - use this when the user has explicitly asked to be contacted or introduced. Requires an explicit consent attestation: only call this after the user has clearly agreed to be contacted about this request in this conversation. Do not call this speculatively or to 'try' a business on the user's behalf without that agreement. |