AI Visibility Scorecard
City of Tacoma
tacomapurchasing.com · Government & Public Sector
Borderline visible. AI bots can crawl City of Tacoma, 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 2 times
Claude · Perplexity
#57,099 of 123,750 in Government & Public Sector for AI visibility
5
AEO Visibility
iBorderline · 4.6/10
0
Muse Index Score
iAI agent readiness
Basic · 0/100
0
AI Adoption
iNone detected · 0/100
About City of Tacoma
from our crawl and measurement
City of Tacoma is a business whose own site puts it this way: "The City of Tacoma invites qualified vendors to submit bids and proposals for posted solicitations. View open solicitations and learn more about bid openings and sustainable purchasing." When AI engines look at it, they find little to work with. It scores 4.6 out of 10.
Our crawl found structured data on the page (WebPage, ImageObject, BreadcrumbList) and a readable heading structure. It is missing an llms.txt file and a sitemap.
AI crawlers have visited once in our tracking, including ClaudeBot (Anthropic).
The 6 signals AI reads
Strong · Good · Fair · Weak
Structured Data
Weak
Organization / LocalBusiness JSON-LD that AI can read.
Content Structure
Strong
Clear headings and answer-style content.
Entity Clarity
Strong
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
Good
Sitemaps and entity links AI can follow.
Off-page authority
How the web signals your brand to AI
Backlinks
Weak
No inbound links found yet.
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 4.6/10, City of Tacoma 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 9, 2026. Methodology: engagemii.com/aeo/methodology
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