# 2026 GetVisus AI Citation Surface Benchmark: Round 3

Audit date: 2026-05-31

Sample: 60 businesses: 20 local, 20 national, 20 international.

This round expands beyond website readiness to check directional evidence across Reddit, YouTube, Wikipedia, Wikidata, review/category platforms, directory profiles, publisher links, and sampled AI recommendation/citation behavior.

## Category Averages

- local: 50.7/100 external citation-surface average; website readiness average 83.5/100
- national: 74.1/100 external citation-surface average; website readiness average 77.8/100
- international: 72.3/100 external citation-surface average; website readiness average 92.6/100

## Most Common Evidence Gaps

- No AI citation in sampled recommendation prompt: 54/60
- No Reddit/community evidence detected: 50/60
- No review/category platform evidence detected: 47/60
- No news/publisher evidence detected: 40/60
- No Wikipedia or Wikidata evidence detected: 9/60
- No directory/profile evidence detected: 2/60
- No YouTube/video evidence detected: 0/60

## Commercial Takeaway

The audit suggests that businesses do not only need a clear website. They also need corroborating evidence surfaces that AI systems can use to verify the entity, compare alternatives, and support recommendations.

## Disclaimer

This is a directional benchmark based on a controlled sample, not a complete social listening crawl, market-wide study, ranking guarantee, or proof of exact commercial causation.