first10 — AI-visibility agency

Switzerland / DACH · free check; from CHF 4,800/yr

3.14/ 5

M1 · Own AI-visibility 2 · 9%

Absent from category recall on both engines. Brand recall weak, engines diverge: ChatGPT — 'keine belastbaren unabhängigen Informationen oder erkennbare Fachpräsenz' (abwesend/schwer verifizierbar); Claude — 'die Seite existiert (SEO auf Erfolgsbasis, eher älterer Auftritt) aber taucht in keiner der unabhängigen Schweizer SEO/GEO-Bestenlisten auf; keine unabhängige Bestätigung, kein erkennbarer GEO-Fokus' (selbst-bequellt-dünn). · provisional

M2 · Method transparency 5 · 16%

A published step-by-step method with named deliverables and measurements — "Research & Prompt-Set" (50–300 prompts), "Entity-Setup & Schema" (Wikidata/Zefix), "Content-Produktion mit Claude" (AI draft + human fact-check), "Deployment & llms.txt", "Monitoring & Weekly Report" ("jeden Montag läuft das Prompt-Set automatisch neu durch"), tracking brand mentions vs competitors across five models — plus an example tracker excerpt. source ↗

M3 · Evidence verifiability 2 · 23%

No named clients, case studies with URLs, or testimonials with real profiles — only an anonymised "Beispielhafter Ausschnitt" of LLM-citation data ("Ihre Marke 78%"). Checkable third-party proof not surfaced. source ↗

M4 · Pricing openness 5 · 12%

Full published prices — Quick-Check free, KMU CHF 4,800/year, Wachstum CHF 9,600/year, Enterprise custom; all annual and cancellable. (Paid tiers are started via a contact form, but the numbers are public.) source ↗

M5 · AI reachability 1 · 10%

A browser user-agent gets 200 but a GPTBot user-agent is refused on repeated probes (510/510); the site turns AI crawlers away at the edge.

E1 · Segment fit 4 · 12%

editorial — Built for "Schweizer KMU", tiered by headcount ("Bis 10 Mitarbeitende" / "Ab 10"), with an enterprise tier above — SMB-primary with an up-market option. source ↗

E2 · Promise cleanliness 4 · 18%

editorial — Largely cautious — "typischerweise erste Zitate… nach 3–6 Wochen", "klare Erfolge… brauchen 4–9 Monate konsequenter Arbeit", no ranking guarantee or money-back. One unsourced comparative claim ("10× schneller als Team-Agenturen") is mild puffery, not snake-oil. source ↗

◧ M1 cross-engine — ChatGPT: absent-or-wrong — no reliable independent info or recognizable professional presence · Claude: self-sourced-thin — site exists (older) but absent from independent Swiss SEO/GEO lists; no GEO focus · recorded, not averaged

One of the most transparent methods in the batch — a genuine step-by-step pipeline (prompt sets, entity setup, llms.txt, weekly tracking) with published prices and an honest "this takes months" framing. The gap is proof: no named, checkable client cases, only an anonymised tracker sample (M3). Own-visibility (M1) is provisional pending the Phase-2 probe.

Focus: SEO-led hybrid · -0.20 applied to composite

SMB-primary: pass

Self-serve offer: pass

GEO substance: pass

Live business: pass

What this ruler does NOT measure Track-record depth and the volume of named cases favour older incumbents we cannot fully see; NDA-bound outcomes are unscored. We weight reproducible, buyer-checkable signal on purpose — and we list ourselves on the same ruler.

Data as of 2026-06-30