---
name: "visibility_improve"
area: "visibility"
title: "How to improve AI visibility"
price: "free"
method: "POST"
url: "https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/visibility_improve"
mcp_server: "https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/visibility"
auth: "Authorization: Bearer <conecto_sk_ key>"
docs_url: "https://conecto.chat/tools/visibility/visibility_improve"
---

# How to improve AI visibility (`visibility_improve`)

What to do to be named more often: the actions from the latest check, highest impact first, with concrete steps.

What to do next to be named more often: the actions from the latest check, ordered by impact, each with the gap it closes and concrete steps (pages to write, sources to get listed on). Free.

Price: Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month for the whole account, then $0.50 per 10,000 reads. A call that fails costs nothing.

## Use it when

Someone asks how to show up more in AI answers.

## Say this to your agent

> What should we do so ChatGPT recommends us more often?

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description | Allowed values | Default |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| `website` | string | yes | The business website, e.g. https://acme.com (4 to 500 characters) |  |  |

## Example

Written for Halverson Cycle & Repair, a bike shop with a repair workshop in Portland, Oregon.

MCP: call `visibility_improve` on the MCP server `https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/visibility` with these arguments:

```json
{
  "website": "https://halversoncycle.example"
}
```

REST:

```bash
curl https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/visibility_improve \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CONECTO_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"website": "https://halversoncycle.example"}'
```

## Response

```json
{
  "call_id": "5f0c8a2e-3b7d-4c1e-9a64-2d8e1f7b0c93",
  "tool": "visibility_improve",
  "status": "succeeded",
  "replayed": false,
  "cost_usd": "$0.00",
  "balance_usd": "$19.75",
  "result": {
    "website": "https://halversoncycle.example",
    "visibility": 0.29,
    "actions": [
      {
        "title": "Get mentioned on bikeportland.org",
        "category": "earned",
        "impact": "high",
        "why": "bikeportland.org is cited in 6 of 14 answers, and names REI and Trek but not Halverson Cycle & Repair.",
        "steps": [
          "Send the editors the shop's address, opening hours and what the workshop does best.",
          "Offer a free winter tune-up clinic the site can write about."
        ],
        "domain": "bikeportland.org",
        "competitors": [
          "REI",
          "Trek"
        ],
        "id": "4be1c0a97d23"
      }
    ],
    "gaps": [
      {
        "domain": "bikeportland.org",
        "answers": 6
      },
      {
        "domain": "oregonlive.com",
        "answers": 4
      }
    ]
  }
}
```

`result`: The website and its visibility, the actions by impact (title, category, impact, why, steps, the site it targets and the competitors winning there), and gaps: the sites the assistants cite most.

## Errors

| Code | Status | When | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| `not_found` | 404 | The website is not set up for tracking yet. | Call visibility_setup first. |
| `invalid_input` | 400 | No business website was given. | Send it like https://halversoncycle.example. |
| `not_found` | 404 | No check has run for the website yet. | Start one with visibility_check. |

The refusals every tool can give (401 key, 402 balance, 429 limits) are on the errors page: https://conecto.chat/docs/errors.md

## Related

- [visibility_setup](https://conecto.chat/tools/visibility/visibility_setup.md): Chooses what to track for a website: the buyer questions, the competitors and the assistants to ask. $0.001 a call.
- [visibility_check](https://conecto.chat/tools/visibility/visibility_check.md): Asks every tracked question on each chosen assistant, with web search on, and measures how often and how well the business is named. $0.04 per answer (one question on one assistant).
- [visibility_report](https://conecto.chat/tools/visibility/visibility_report.md): The latest check: how often the business is named, its trend, each assistant, its rank against the competitors, the sites cited, and the next actions. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month.
- [visibility_answers](https://conecto.chat/tools/visibility/visibility_answers.md): The answers behind the latest check, page by page, optionally only the ones that named the business or only the ones that did not. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month.