GeoChina AI Visibility: Frequently Asked Questions
Straight answers to what global brands ask before measuring and growing their Share of Model across China's Big Six AI engines — product, measurement, pricing and services.
The basics
China GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) / AIVO (AI Visibility Optimization) is the practice of getting your brand retrieved, trusted and cited by Chinese generative AI engines — DeepSeek, Doubao, Yuanbao, Qwen, Kimi and Baidu — where buying decisions increasingly begin. Success is measured by Share of Model, the share of AI answers that recommend you, rather than by keyword rankings on a results page.
Because the entire stack is different. Google, Western social platforms and your existing SEO assets are blocked or irrelevant behind China's firewall. The engines that matter are the Big Six, and they source answers from Chinese platforms like Xiaohongshu, Zhihu, WeChat and Baidu Baike. Winning AI visibility in China means playing an entirely separate game with its own engines, sources and language.
It is real testing. Our AI_SEARCH module queries the live Chinese LLMs directly and records the actual answers and mentions — no modelling or extrapolation. All six engines are genuinely connected, and each audit runs real prompts against each one. If you want a number you can defend to your CMO, it has to come from real queries, and it does.
The AIVO Score is a single 0-100 index of your overall AI visibility health. It combines the results of our eight scoring modules — visibility, infrastructure, competition and sentiment — into one weighted number, with fixed weights such as Visibility 25% and Infrastructure 25%. Because the rubric is fixed, scores stay comparable across audits and against competitors, giving you one headline figure to report progress against.
How we measure
Share of Model is the percentage of relevant AI answers in which your brand is recommended versus competitors. GeoAIVO measures it by running hundreds of real, high-intent buyer questions across each engine and recording whether and how you are mentioned, then aggregating into a per-engine and overall Share of Model that is tracked over time. A strict rule applies: questions never contain your brand name, so we measure unprompted recommendation.
The Big Six: Doubao (ByteDance), Qwen/Tongyi (Alibaba), DeepSeek, Yuanbao (Tencent), Kimi (Moonshot) and Baidu/ERNIE. We also map the source platforms that feed them — Xiaohongshu, Zhihu, WeChat, Douyin and Baidu Baike — so you can see not just where you're missing but why.
Yuanbao is Tencent's AI assistant and one of the Big Six. It matters because it uniquely surfaces WeChat Official Account and Tencent-ecosystem content when it answers, so your WeChat authority publishing feeds Yuanbao visibility directly. Brands strong on WeChat often over-index on Yuanbao, which no other engine rewards the same way.
Your audit results are instant — a sample scan runs in about 60 seconds. Moving the needle on Share of Model takes longer, because it depends on new third-party content being published, indexed and reflected by the engines. We schedule an impact re-test roughly a week after content goes live and typically expect meaningful movement over one to three months of consistent seeding and authority building.
What it costs
The SaaS platform starts at $199/mo for Radar, $599/mo for Growth, with custom Enterprise pricing; annual billing saves 20%. Done-for-you work is separate: fixed-price content packs start at $2,900, and managed retainers start at $6,900/mo. Every plan begins with a free sample audit, so you see your Share of Model before paying anything. See the pricing page for full details.
SaaS subscriptions can be cancelled anytime and there is no long lock-in; you keep access through the period you've paid for. Content packs are fixed-scope with defined deliverables agreed up front, and managed retainers are billed monthly with no long commitment. Because you can run a free audit before subscribing, you always know what you're buying before you commit.
Yes. Our Enterprise plan includes white-label reports, and we offer white-label delivery on managed services so agencies can run China AI visibility for their own clients under their own brand. Talk to sales about volume, custom question sets and SLA arrangements.
Getting it done
The SaaS subscription is the self-serve platform that measures and tracks your AI visibility — your AIVO Score, Share of Model, competitor benchmarks and roadmap. The services are our China team executing the fixes: content development, 种草 seeding, authority sources and platform-specific optimization. Many clients subscribe to the tool to see where they stand, then add a content pack or managed retainer to close the gap.
No. You can audit your AI visibility immediately with nothing more than a brand name, and many clients build AI visibility before they have a Tmall store or a registered China entity. If you later want us to execute, our services handle account setup, cross-border considerations and content, so a missing China entity is not a blocker to getting started.
Yes. All content we produce is written to comply with China's Advertising Law (广告法), which restricts superlative and unverifiable claims such as absolute "best" or "number one" language. Our content generation and quality-check steps screen for prohibited claims, and our seeding is designed to build authentic, defensible consensus rather than fabricated hype that would create legal and reputational risk.
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