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Product of our own products

We sell an AI-visibility score. So we ran it on ourselves — and published the honest grade.

Anyone can say "trust us." We'd rather show you. Here is Carter Studio's own dated AI-visibility score — low, honest, and unflattering on purpose — and the public climb from invisible to recommended. We run our whole business on the exact thing we'll do for you. Watch.

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Our starting grade (and yes, it's low)

≈ 15/100GRADE F
Why publish a low score? Because a fake-high one would break the only thing we sell: the truth. A brand-new business starts at the bottom — like nearly every local owner does. That's not embarrassing; it's the starting line. The product is the climb from here, in public. "We scored ourselves 15/100 in June — here's where we are now" is a sentence we want to earn.

The honest breakdown — same 5 things we'll measure for you

Same scoring our free check and $297 audit use: can AI find you, reach you, quote you, book you, and does it trust you (reviews + consistent info). Scored conservatively on ourselves — when in doubt, we scored ourselves down, not up.

What AI checksOur score
Findable — does AI name us for "AI marketing / get found by AI in St. Louis"?0 / 25
Google Business Profile — claimed & 100% complete?4 / 20
Reviews — recent, real, steady? (brand-new, none yet)0 / 15
NAP consistency — name/address/phone identical everywhere?6 / 15
Bookable — can a customer (or an AI) book us in one tap?2 / 15
Citations — on chambers & trusted "best-of" lists?3 / 10
Total — June 29, 2026 baseline15 / 100

A low, dated, honest start beats a fake-high one every time. It proves three things at once: we don't fake numbers, we started where you are, and the product works — because you can watch the same fixes move our own score.

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Our public fix-list — the climb, in real time

This is us running our own ladder on ourselves: the $37 KIT checklist and the $497 BUILD, done on Carter Studio first. Each step is a dated receipt. Here's exactly where we are:

✓ DONE  Ran our own dated AI-citation test — asked AI "best [category]" for our buyer queries; published the result honestly (AI named other businesses, not us yet). Live on our case study, June 26.
✓ DONE  Added the code AI reads (LocalBusiness schema) to the site, so engines can parse who/what/where we are.
✓ DONE  Started our authoritative-citation list — emailed the Greater St. Charles County Chamber to get listed and contribute member value (June 29). Chambers are a top "best-of" citation source AI reads.
● IN PROGRESS  Claiming & 100%-completing our own Google Business Profile — the #1 source of truth AI uses. The single highest-leverage lift on the board.
● IN PROGRESS  Making ourselves agent-bookable — adding a one-tap "book a 15-min AI-visibility chat" link so a customer (or an AI agent) can book us directly. We practice the exact thing the market is about to need.
● IN PROGRESS  Locking our canonical NAP — one exact name/address/phone, identical everywhere, so AI never distrusts our data.
● NEXT  Standing up our own AI Front Desk — an AI receptionist on our line so "call us, the receptionist is the product" becomes living, callable proof — not a claim.
● ONGOING  Re-scoring monthly, in public — every re-test is a dated receipt. Watch the number climb from 15.
Each line above becomes a before/after the day it's done. That climbing scoreboard is our proof — and it's the same ladder we'll run for you.

Why this matters for you

Most marketers tell you they're good. We'd rather be the example. When we say we can help you get found and recommended by AI, the honest answer to "prove it" is right here: we run our own business on it, in public, with a dated number you can watch move.

If you want the same — start with the free check. It shows you your own starting line today, no card, no pitch, yours to keep.

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Educational service — not a guarantee of rankings or bookings. Our score is a conservative self-assessment, dated and re-tested monthly.

CARTER STUDIO — a brand of Carter Enterprise LLC · St. Charles, MO · Built and run by Terry Carter.
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