AI Visibility Scorecard
Sanford Holshouser
shedc.com · Professional Services
Borderline visible. AI bots can crawl Sanford Holshouser, but the structured-data signals are thin - you are at real risk of being skipped when buyers ask ChatGPT, Claude, or Perplexity for a recommendation.
AI engines read this profile 4 times
Meta AI · Claude · ShapBot · Perplexity
#133,072 of 528,058 in Professional Services for AI visibility
<1
4
AEO Visibility
iBorderline · 4/10
5
Muse Index Score
iAI agent readiness
Basic · 5/100
0
AI Adoption
iNone detected · 0/100
About Sanford Holshouser
from our crawl and measurement
Sanford Holshouser is a Raleigh, NC business whose own site puts it this way: "For over 20 years, Sanford Holshouser Economic Development Consulting, LLC (SHEDC) has been known as a highly respected economic development consulting firm." When AI engines look at it, they find little to work with. It scores 4.0 out of 10.
Our crawl found structured data on the page (WebSite) and a sitemap. It is missing an llms.txt file and a heading structure that lays out what it offers.
The 6 signals AI reads
Strong · Good · Fair · Weak
Structured Data
Weak
Organization / LocalBusiness JSON-LD that AI can read.
Content Structure
Good
Clear headings and answer-style content.
Entity Clarity
Good
How clearly your brand identity reads to AI.
E-E-A-T Signals
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust
Fair
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust markers.
Technical AEO
Good
robots.txt, llms.txt, and AI-bot crawl access.
AI Discoverability
Fair
Sitemaps and entity links AI can follow.
Off-page authority
How the web signals your brand to AI
Backlinks
Good
Inbound links from other sites.
Domain Authority
Weak
Little domain authority yet.
Reference Presence
Weak
Not in AI knowledge graphs yet.
News & Press
Weak
No press coverage found yet.
Community
Weak
No community discussion yet.
Social Mentions
Weak
No social discussion found yet.
What this score means
Your AEO score measures whether AI search engines - ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini - can actually read your site and cite it in answers. Roughly two-thirds of sites are invisible to them. At 4/10, Sanford Holshouser is crawlable but under-signaled - fixable, and the signals above are where to start.
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Source & Attribution
Scored by Engagemii on August 8, 2026. Methodology: engagemii.com/aeo/methodology
Source URL: https://engagemii.com/aeo/brands/shedc
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