AI Authority Analysis
Build confidence in how AI presents your business


Stakeholders are no longer discovering companies through search alone. Increasingly, they rely on AI tools to summarise, compare and recommend organisations before they visit a website or read a report.
This creates a new challenge for corporate communications. If AI platforms are shaping first impressions, you need to know whether they are accurate, complete and aligned with the story you want stakeholders to understand.
Black Sun’s AI Authority Analysis helps you see how your organisation appears across generative and conversational AI platforms, where your digital presence is working, and where your content and authority need to go further.
It provides a clear view of how AI understands your organisation today, and a practical roadmap to improve how your brand is surfaced, summarised and trusted.

Why It Matters

AI has become the intermediary between your content and your stakeholders. Even when optimised for search, corporate websites, sustainability reports and thought leadership can be rewritten or reframed by AI systems, often without your input.

As a result, your story may not appear, or may appear inaccurately, when stakeholders ask AI engines questions about your organisation.
 

  • 89% of B2B buyers now use generative AI tools during their decision-making process (Forrester, 2025).
  • 80% of investors say a company’s online perception influences their confidence (PwC, 2024).
  • Click-through rates for top organic search results have dropped by over 30% as AI summaries increasingly replace traditional listings (Search Engine Land, 2025).

Visibility equals credibility. Credibility equals trust.


What we analyse

A clearer view of your AI visibility

We assess how your organisation appears when stakeholders use AI tools to research your business, your sector, your strategy, your sustainability story, your investment case and your reputation.

Our analysis looks beyond whether your brand is mentioned. It examines how accurately AI platforms describe your business, whether they use your website as a trusted source, how your story compares with peers, and where your digital ecosystem may be limiting your visibility.

The result is a practical, evidence-based view of your current AI presence and the actions needed to strengthen it.


You’ll discover: Where AI is getting your story right, and where it is missing the point

A clear view of how AI platforms interpret your organisation across the questions that matter most to stakeholders.
 

  • How clearly AI explains who you are and what differentiates you
  • Where answers are incomplete, outdated or inconsistent
  • Whether your corporate narrative is understood across strategy, sustainability, leadership and investment story
  • How much AI relies on third-party sources versus your own website
  • Where gaps in content, structure or authority are limiting visibility

What it will reveal: The risks and opportunities in your AI presence

Where AI-generated answers are shaping perception, and where your digital presence is helping or holding you back.
 

  • Risks to stakeholder confidence from inaccurate or weak responses
  • Gaps in credibility, depth or consistency across platforms
  • Whether your website is recognised as a trusted, authoritative source
  • Inconsistencies in how your key messages are surfaced
  • Where competitors or third-party content are shaping the narrative
  • Clear opportunities to strengthen content, signals and structure

What you’ll receive: A practical roadmap to strengthen AI authority

  • A clear summary of how your organisation currently appears across AI platforms
  • An assessment of accuracy, completeness and sentiment in AI-generated responses
  • Identification of key risks, gaps and areas of missed visibility
  • A prioritised set of quick wins and longer-term recommendations
  • Guidance on improving website content, structure and authority signals
  • A structured action plan aligned to stakeholder priorities and business goals

Our approach

From visibility to authority

Our AI Authority Analysis combines corporate communications expertise with digital analytics, SEO, content strategy and AI testing.

We look at your organisation from five connected perspectives:

1. Visibility 

We establish how often and how clearly your organisation appears across AI-generated answers, and whether your website is being used as a trusted source.

2. Accuracy

We test whether AI platforms are reflecting your organisation correctly, including your business model, strategy, capabilities, locations, leadership, sustainability commitments and stakeholder priorities.

3. Snippet optimisation

We review your website’s semantic structure and optimisation against AI snippets.

4. Technical review

We review your website’s technical setup, focussing on key GEO elements like site speed and structured markup.

5. Competitor comparison

We examine up to 3 of your competitors' GEO performance to identify opportunities to outperform them in AI visibility.
 

This creates a practical picture of where your organisation stands today and what needs to change to build stronger AI authority.


Designed around stakeholder questions

Because AI visibility only matters if it reflects real stakeholder needs

We test the questions your audiences are likely to ask, not generic prompts.

This may include investors, analysts, employees, customers, partners, media, policymakers or sustainability stakeholders.

For each audience, we assess whether AI tools provide answers that are accurate, balanced, up to date and aligned with the information your organisation wants stakeholders to find.


From SEO to GEO

Optimising for the way people now find information

Traditional SEO is still important, but it is no longer the whole picture. As generative AI changes how information is found and summarised, organisations need to think about Generative Engine Optimisation, or GEO.

GEO is the practice of making content easier for AI platforms to understand, verify and cite. It depends on clear structure, authoritative evidence, consistent messaging, strong metadata, trusted sources and content that answers stakeholder questions directly.

You can read our full guide on making your website AI ready here.


Why Black Sun Global

Corporate storytelling, digital performance and AI discoverability in one place

Black Sun helps organisations communicate with clarity, credibility and impact across the channels that shape stakeholder opinion.

Our AI Authority Analysis brings together our experience in corporate websites, reporting, stakeholder engagement, analytics, SEO and digital content strategy, with specialist AI testing and performance insight.

We help you understand the issue, prioritise what matters and take action with confidence.

If you would like to find out more about our AI Authority Analysis please contact:

Abbie Dixon, Relationship Marketing Executive
adixon@blacksun-global.com


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