Start Solutions AI Scores Expert Visibility Across ChatGPT and Gemini Press Services

Start Solutions AI Uses AI Engine Visibility Scores to Show Where Experts Are Missing From AI Answers

Plano, United States - August 28, 2026 / Start Solutions AI /

PLANO, Texas. Start Solutions AI, an AI search and visibility agency based in Plano, Texas, has introduced a service designed to measure and improve how subject-matter Experts are represented when buyers query AI engines for hiring recommendations.

The agency applies a specific definition to the term Expert: someone already recognized within their field whose reputation is established and documented, yet who does not appear when an AI engine is asked for a recommendation. Start Solutions AI quantifies that gap across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google's AI, then constructs the corroborating evidence trail needed to close it. The discipline is sometimes referred to as answer engine optimization or generative engine optimization. The Start Solutions AI approach treats it primarily as a measurement problem before it becomes a content or strategy problem.

The agency was founded by Fae Esparza, an AI visibility consultant whose background spans business operations in healthcare, nonprofit, and small business environments, as well as enterprise AI adoption at Microsoft - settings where outcomes were tracked against measurable benchmarks. That experience informs the agency's founding premise: AI engines evaluate a company's web presence as evidence to be weighed, not as fact to be repeated.

The gap between reputation and recommendation

Buyers who previously turned to a search engine now open a chat interface, ask which professional to hire, and act on the response they receive. The names surfaced in those responses are not necessarily the most qualified candidates - they are the ones AI engines can independently verify through third-party sources.

"Most businesses assume AI knows what their website says," said Fae Esparza, founder of Start Solutions AI. "What AI actually does is check whether anyone else confirms it. A reputation that lives entirely on your own domain is a claim. A reputation corroborated somewhere the engines already read is evidence. Those two things produce very different answers."

The Recommendation Baseline

The agency's core methodology is The Recommendation Baseline. A standardized set of ten buyer questions is submitted to each AI platform, responses are captured verbatim, and the business is scored on what those responses actually contain: whether the business appears at all, whether it is described accurately, how it compares to competitors named in the same answers, and whether the technical foundations that allow an AI engine to resolve the entity are present. The output is the AI Visibility Score, reported to clients and re-measured on a fixed schedule so genuine movement can be distinguished from platform-level variation.

Scoring is derived from reading the answer text directly rather than from a platform dashboard. Esparza notes that distinction surfaces one of the more consistent findings the AI recommendation service encounters in practice.

"We see businesses that are the single most-cited source in a run and still appear in zero buying answers," Esparza said. "The engine reads their site, uses their material, and recommends somebody else. A dashboard reports that as visibility. The transcript shows it as being cited but never named. You only catch it if you read what the answer actually said."

Service structure

Every engagement begins with a free AI Visibility Snapshot, a measured baseline of where a business currently stands across AI platforms. Two service packages follow.

AI Visibility Foundation: the core engagement. Monthly AI engine visibility tracking, technical groundwork, two pieces of content each month structured for how AI engines read and cite sources, a monthly progress report measured against the baseline, and a monthly strategy call.
Authority Acceleration: everything included in Foundation, plus active citation and authority building on third-party sources that AI engines reference, expanded content addressing a broader range of buyer questions, and additional strategy time.

The agency is also direct about who the service is not designed for: individuals still building an initial audience, buyers seeking social media management or paid advertising, and brands without a named expert at the center of their positioning.

About Start Solutions AI

Start Solutions AI is an AI search and visibility agency headquartered in Plano, Texas, serving Plano, Frisco, McKinney, Allen, and the wider Dallas area. Founded by Fae Esparza, the agency measures and improves how Experts are represented in AI-generated answers. Businesses can request a free AI Visibility Snapshot at startsolutions.ai, or take the Visibility Scorecard, an eight-question self-assessment that takes approximately 90 seconds and returns a result immediately. Contact: hello@startsolutions.ai.

Media contact: Fae Esparza, Founder, Start Solutions AI. hello@startsolutions.ai. +1-903-776-4174.