What Does AI Really Think About Your Brand?

Why AI Might Be Misrepresenting Your Brand

AI tools don’t “understand” your brand the way humans do. They scan the web, pull signals from multiple sources, and then generate a single blended summary. If your online presence is messy, outdated, or inconsistent, that summary will reflect it.

Common issues include:

Old or retired services still appearing as active.
Outdated pricing or offers being repeated as current.
Reviews from years ago overshadowing recent improvements.
Confused positioning, where AI mixes your brand with competitors.
Missing details about who you serve and what you actually specialise in.

This matters because that AI-generated summary can easily become a prospect’s first impression of your brand.

A Simple Audit: What Does AI Think You Are?

You don’t need complex tools to get started. You can run a basic AI brand audit in a few minutes. The goal is to see how clearly AI can answer three questions about your business.

Open a few major LLMs and AI tools, and ask:

“Who is [Your Brand Name]?”
“What does [Your Brand Name] do?”
“Who is [Your Brand Name] a good fit for?”

Run this on platforms like:

ChatGPT
Google Gemini / AI Overview
Perplexity
Microsoft Copilot
Claude (if available in your region)

Screenshot or copy the responses and save them. This becomes your baseline: what AI currently “believes” about your brand.

What You’ll Learn From This Audit

Once you read the responses, you’ll quickly see patterns. AI might:

Describe the wrong niche or industry.
Highlight services you no longer offer.
Ignore your flagship products completely.
Place you in the wrong geography or market segment.
Use vague, generic language that doesn’t sound like you at all.

In some cases, it will even “fill in the gaps” and invent details that look plausible but aren’t true. That’s exactly why this audit is so important.

Why AI Gets Confused: The Signal Problem

AI models are pattern recognisers. They don’t pull from one official source; they blend signals. If your brand story is scattered across half-updated pages, random directories, and inconsistent profiles, the pattern looks fuzzy.

Put simply: if you send unclear signals, AI produces unclear summaries.

The good news is that you can influence this. You can’t control the model, but you can control the inputs it finds.

How To Strengthen Your Brand Signals For AI

The next step after your audit is to fix the underlying sources. The goal is to make it very easy for AI to find a clean, consistent version of who you are and what you do.

1. Clarify Your Website

Your website is still your strongest signal. Make sure it clearly answers:

Who you are.
What you do.
Who you serve.
Where you operate.
What makes you different.

Update any old service pages, sunset outdated offers, and make your current positioning visible on your homepage and key landing pages.

2. Use Schema Markup

Structured data (schema) helps search engines and AI systems understand your business. Add and maintain:

Organization or LocalBusiness schema.
Service schema for your main offerings.
Review and rating schema where applicable.

When your website is machine-readable, AI tools can pull cleaner, more accurate information.

3. Align Your Business Listings

Check and update:

Google Business Profile
Bing Places
Apple Business Connect
Yelp and main industry directories

Your name, address, phone number, website, and category should match across platforms. Inconsistent data not only confuses search engines, it also confuses AI models using that data.

4. Refresh Your Social Profiles

Even if social media isn’t your main channel, your profiles are still data sources. Update your:

Bio and “About” sections.
Link in bio to your current site or main offer.
Headline or tagline to match your current positioning.

AI tools often reference LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and X (Twitter) when summarizing brands.

5. Take Reviews Seriously

Reviews are a huge signal for how AI systems talk about your reputation. Encourage happy customers to leave reviews on the main platforms you care about. Respond to negative reviews with context and solutions. Over time, this shapes the sentiment AI picks up.

6. Standardize Your Language

You don’t need to copy-paste the same text everywhere, but your core description should be consistent. Use similar wording for:

Website “About” sections
Social bios
Business listings
Press releases and directory profiles

When the same message appears in many places, AI is more confident in repeating it.

Track Changes Over Time

After you clean up your brand signals, repeat the AI audit. Ask the same questions on the same platforms:

Who is [Your Brand Name]?
What does [Your Brand Name] do?
Who is [Your Brand Name] a good fit for?

Compare the new answers with your earlier screenshots. You should start to see tighter descriptions, clearer positioning, and fewer incorrect details.

This isn’t a one-time task. As your business evolves, your digital footprint needs to evolve with it.

The New Reality: You Don’t Just Have a Website, You Have an AI Profile

In the past, your homepage was often the first touchpoint. Now, your “AI profile” is becoming just as important: the composite story AI tools tell about you when someone searches your name.

You can’t write that profile directly, but you can shape it by aligning your public signals. Clear, consistent, up-to-date information will slowly push AI tools toward a more accurate picture of your brand.

If you ignore it, AI will keep guessing. And those guesses might be what your next customer believes.

Next Steps

Here’s a simple way to move forward this week:

Run the AI audit on 3–5 major tools.
Save the responses and highlight inaccuracies.
List the sources you need to update: website, schema, listings, socials, reviews.
Fix the biggest inconsistencies first.
Set a reminder to re-run the audit in 4–8 weeks.

Small, consistent improvements will compound. Over time, AI will introduce your brand in a way that actually matches who you are.

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