Ground Score

Ground Score, based in Portland, OR, describes itself simply: "Ground Score Association (GSA) is an association of informal recyclers, waste pickers, canners, dumpster divers, and other environmental workers who create and fill low-barrier waste." Its AI visibility score is 6.0 out of 10: the engines can find it, but they do not have much to hold on to.

On its own pages the site does well on a clearly stated business identity and crawler access and the files AI engines look for. It is passable on some structured data, a workable page structure and partial sitemap and link coverage. What holds it back is credibility markers like credentials or reviews.

Off the page, other sites link to it. There is some, but not much, sign that the domain is only lightly established. Beyond that, AI engines do not yet recognise it as a distinct business, there is no press coverage to draw on, nobody is discussing it where AI engines look and it does not come up on Reddit. None of that can be fixed on the page: it has to be earned.

AI crawlers have visited once in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic). It does link out to several social profiles, which helps engines tie the brand together.