AI Visibility Scorecard
techtrend.com · Media & Entertainment
Somewhat visible. AI bots can read Phil McKinney — Innovation Decision Expert, but it is missing the structured signals that push citation rate above competitors.
AI engines read this profile 3 times
Meta AI · Claude
#222,326 of 1,965,689 in Media & Entertainment for AI visibility
6
AEO Visibility
iBorderline · 5.7/10
35
Muse Index Score
iAI agent readiness
Agent-ready · 35/100
0
AI Adoption
iNone detected · 0/100
from our crawl and measurement
Phil McKinney Innovation Decision Expert describes itself simply: "Learn innovation decision making from former HP CTO & CableLabs CEO Phil McKinney. 40 years of breakthrough choices, billion-dollar decisions, and frameworks that work under uncertainty." Its AI visibility score is 5.7 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 clear heading structure, crawler access and the files AI engines look for and sitemaps and entity links AI can follow. It is passable on a partly stated business identity. What holds it back is structured data describing the business and 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. The business dates to 1996.
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
Fair
How clearly your brand identity reads to AI.
E-E-A-T Signals
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust
Weak
Experience, Expertise, Authority, Trust markers.
Technical AEO
Good
robots.txt, llms.txt, and AI-bot crawl access.
AI Discoverability
Strong
Sitemaps and entity links AI can follow.
How the web signals your brand to AI
Backlinks
Strong
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.
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 5.7/10, Phil McKinney — Innovation Decision Expert has a working base to build on - fixable, and the signals above are where to start.
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Scored by Engagemii on July 31, 2026. Methodology: engagemii.com/aeo/methodology
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