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At the top of the AI Labs Audit dashboard, the 3 Hero Grades summarize an audit at a glance: visibility in AI answers, technical readiness of the site for generative engines, and structured-answer signals. These A+ to F ratings are derived from numeric scores, including the AGS, the AI visibility score.
The 3 Hero Grades
AI Visibility (A+ to F)
This rating summarizes the AGS, a composite score from 0 to 100 that measures the audited brand's presence in AI answers. It combines 6 indicators:
- Mention rate: is the brand cited?
- Share of voice: what place among cited brands?
- Position: cited early or late in the answer?
- Sentiment: is the tone favorable?
- Quality: is the brand presented accurately and usefully?
- Coverage: on how many topics does the brand appear?
GEO Technical (A+ to F)
This rating assesses the site's technical signals for AI crawlers: GEO checklist (38 items), SSR crawlability, entity health, and citation readiness. It covers the site, not brand popularity.
AEO Readiness (A+ to F)
This rating checks structured-answer signals: robots.txt, Schema.org (FAQ or HowTo), sitemap, AQA markup, OpenGraph, RSS feed, quotable blocks, content freshness, answer density, and entity consistency.
Hero Grade scale
| Grade | Score | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| A+ | 95 and above | Excellent |
| A | 85 to 94 | Very good |
| B+ | 75 to 84 | Good |
| B | 65 to 74 | Fair |
| C+ | 55 to 64 | Needs work |
| C | 45 to 54 | Weak |
| D | 35 to 44 | Very weak |
| F | below 35 | Nearly absent |
What the AGS measures, and its limits
The AGS is a calibrated composite score from 0 to 100, published with confidence intervals. With the same protocol and method, it is comparable over time: audit-to-audit tracking is the most reliable use. It is not absolute truth about brand awareness, nor market share: mention rate and share of voice depend on the scenario corpus, the models queried, the protocol, and the period. Treat them as a documented estimate, not a verdict. The full method is public on the AGS methodology page.
What to do with these grades
For agencies and consultants: use Hero Grades to frame a client audit readout, prioritize actions (visibility, technical, structured answers), and prove progress across audits. A weak grade is not a dead end: it is a measurable starting point for a GEO and AEO plan. Grades are stored at each audit, for a comparable history.
When your brand is absent from an AI answer, a competitor takes its place 37% of the time. AI Labs Audit data: sub-sample of our 3,002-answer study.