AI Blackout
AI visibility report for VideoFold · October 29, 2026
None of the 2 AI engines we asked could tell people what VideoFold is.Matt walks you through it, and the fix.
What we found, and questions
Your plan
Everything above, done for VideoFold.
54 things in 30 days, your live feed from day one, and the same questions asked again on day 30, side by side with today’s answers.
Agency range: Similarweb, June 2026
$285/mo · 6-month plan · your SCDB page free
No callsNo IT ticketsDay-30 proof
- What it is
VideoFold turns a company's offer into a custom 45-second video showcase for its website.
- What’s included
Each order is three films (16:9, 9:16 and 1:1), a thumbnail for each, and a signed commercial rights release.
- What’s included
Videos are made in 24 hours, with no discovery calls.
- Pricing
There's a free preview first; pricing comes by email before you decide, with no payment details needed.
- Who it’s for
It's built for high-growth product teams whose pages lose buyers to dense text and static screenshots.
- Team
Matt Hopkins is Head of Product & Design, and Shay Walker is Head of Operations.
What did AI get wrong about VideoFold?
None of the 2 AI engines we asked could tell people what VideoFold is. When a buyer asks AI about you, they get a shrug, or another company.
- ChatGPTDoesn't know you
VideoFold may refer to a video-related tool or app, but I couldn't verify a product with that exact name.
Your site: VideoFold turns a company's offer into a custom 45-second video showcase for its website. - GeminiDoesn't know you
In corporate gifting and consumer electronics, it refers to custom-made "video brochures" or greeting cards—often called video folds—which embed a small LCD screen, battery, and speakers inside a printed paper or leather-bound folder to play promotional video content automatically when opened.
Your site: VideoFold turns a company's offer into a custom 45-second video showcase for its website.
Where does AI get its information about VideoFold?
Not from your website. AI used 29 sources to answer, and none of them were videofold.com. Each one is a page we can fix, correct or get you onto.
Can AI read videofold.com?
Yes. Your site passes every check that stops AI from citing a page, so the gap isn’t your code: it’s what the rest of the web says about you.
- Your homepage opens for AI crawlers
- robots.txt lets AI answer engines in
- Your firewall doesn’t turn AI crawlers away
- Your words are readable without JavaScript
- Nothing tells AI to skip or hide your pages
- Your pages say when they were updated
- Every version of your address lands in one place
- A sitemap lists your pages
What are the 54 things?
54 things, one signature. Eleven phases over 30 days. You watch every one of them happen on your live tracker.
- 7Day 0: The AI Mirror
- 6The X-Ray
- 5The Census
- 4The Source of Truth
- 5The Listing Blitz
- 11The Cleanup Campaign
- 2Search Fast-Track
- 4The Film
- 3The Team Kit
- 4Day 30: The Proof
- 3The Last-Mile Kit
Show all 54
- Day 0: The AI Mirror
- AI report card. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity each get 10 questions about you, and every answer is graded right, wrong, missing or made up.
- Google’s AI answers. What AI Overviews and AI Mode say when someone searches your name.
- Hallucination log. Every fact an AI invented about you, word for word.
- Share of answers. How often you’re named across 20 questions your buyers actually ask.
- Who AI names instead. Every company named in your place, and how often.
- Citation map. Every source the AIs lean on for your name and your category, ranked.
- Your positioning, as AI tells it. The words AI uses for you, next to the words you use.
- The X-Ray
- The 14-crawler test. Every page fetched as the crawlers of ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google, Bing, Apple, Meta, DuckDuckGo and Common Crawl.
- Invisible-content finder. Text behind clicks, tabs or code that AI never sees.
- Bot-blocker check. robots.txt rules and firewall settings quietly turning AI away.
- Speed check. Against the roughly 5 seconds ChatGPT waits before giving up on a page.
- Index check. Which of your pages Google, Bing and Brave actually hold, and how they title them.
- Page-by-page fix list. Written step by step for whoever runs your site.
- The Census
- Mention map. Every page on the web that names you, tagged correct, outdated, wrong or missing a link.
- Stale-fact sweep. Old names, old prices, old features, former founders, retired products.
- Name-twin check. Other companies with your name that AI could mix you up with.
- Gap list. Every directory, list and review site others in your space are on and you aren’t.
- Writer list. Every journalist, blogger, newsletter and podcast that covers your category.
- The Source of Truth
- One-line definition. Plus 50- and 150-word versions, written the way AI quotes.
- Fact sheet. Founding year, founders, HQ, category, pricing, customers and the numbers that matter.
- Comparison sheets. You against your top three alternatives, fact-checked and sourced.
- Press kit at one link. Logos, screenshots, fact sheet and film, ready for anyone writing about you.
- The Listing Blitz
- 30 to 50 directories. Real directories and data sites, all saying the same thing and linking to you: Crunchbase, Product Hunt, AlternativeTo, SaaSHub, G2, Capterra and your industry’s own.
- AI-tool directories. If you sell AI: There’s An AI For That, Futurepedia, Toolify and the rest.
- Wikidata entry. The open database Google and many AI systems draw on, marked as paid work as its rules require.
- Curated GitHub lists. If developers are your buyers.
- Old listings brought up to date. Every old listing we can reach, so it matches the new ones.
- The Cleanup Campaign
- Correction emails. To every site that gets you wrong, with the exact fix and the source.
- Update emails. To every page still showing your old prices, features or name.
- “Please link us” emails. To every page that mentions you without a link.
- “Best tools” pitches. To the writer of every “best tools” list in your category, with your press kit.
- List and review pitches. To every list and review page your category is on and you aren’t.
- Story pitches. To the journalists and newsletters that cover your market.
- Podcast pitches. Guest pitches for your founder, if you want the bookings.
- Most-cited pages first. The pages AI cites most go to the front of the queue.
- Follow-ups. Three business days later, from our own warmed-up inboxes.
- Every reply handled. We only bring you the ones that need you.
- Every win logged. With a before-and-after screenshot.
- Search Fast-Track
- Brave submission. Your key pages submitted to Brave, the search index Claude uses.
- Links from every listing. So Google’s and Bing’s crawlers find you faster.
- The Film
- Your film, three cuts. A short film made from your website, in widescreen, square and vertical.
- Published to YouTube. With your name in the title, description and captions.
- A YouTube Short. The vertical cut, posted as a Short.
- All three files are yours. For your site, your sales emails and your socials.
- The Team Kit
- The Staff Brief. One file your team loads into ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini, so every new model knows your company the day it launches.
- Assistant setup cards. One page for each assistant, with the prompts that get the best answers.
- Sales battle card. You against your top three alternatives, fact-checked.
- Day 30: The Proof
- Same questions, same AIs. Every answer on day 30, side by side with day 0.
- Your scorecard. Accuracy, share of answers and footprint, day 0 against day 30.
- Board-ready PDF. The whole engagement in one report.
- Day-90 re-check. Free, so you can see the results held.
- The Last-Mile Kit
- Upload-ready files. The IndexNow key, a robots.txt fix, schema and llms.txt.
- Google and Bing verification. Click by click, for your exact site builder.
- Paste-ready text. For your site, LinkedIn and socials.
What do I see after I sign?
A private live feed of the work, from day one. Every email, listing, reply and fix shows up the moment it happens, next to your files, what needs you, and all 54 things in their status. Day 30 puts every AI answer next to its day-0 version.
What is the SCDB?
Your company’s own page in the Supercitation database, free for as long as you’re on the plan. One page at supercitation.com/db/videofold with what VideoFold is, who it’s for, pricing and where you are, each fact taken from your own website. It will sit next to your website as the single source of truth AI reads about you, and we’ll keep it current. The SCDB is new: we reserve your page now, and it goes live as the database opens. That’s where Supercitation is going: the single source of truth for AI about every company, where you tell AI what you want people to know about you. Choose “Your page” above to see yours.
Will this affect my SEO?
No. We don’t edit your website, so we can’t hurt your rankings. We’re not an SEO agency: we assume you run your SEO your own way, and we stay out of it. Our work happens on the rest of the web, in the directories, review sites, lists and databases AI reads about you. If anything, that helps your SEO too, with more accurate mentions and more links back to you. The few files we hand you for your own site, like llms.txt, are yours to add or skip.
Why don’t I see any of this in my analytics?
Because an AI answer ends without a click. Someone asks ChatGPT about you, reads the answer and moves on: no visit, no ranking, nothing in your analytics, and no way for you or us to know it happened. That’s what makes AI different from search, and why we measure it the only way it can be measured: the same questions to the same AIs on day 0, day 30 and day 90, side by side.
How did you check?
We asked ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews on October 29, 2026, from the United States. ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews’s answers are what their apps show a person. Answers change from run to run, so ask the same question yourself and compare. Each answer was checked against videofold.com as it read that day.
What’s the pricing?
$285 a month, on a 6-month plan. Your own SCDB page is included, free for as long as you stay. No calls and no IT tickets: your part is one signature and a couple of clicks. Why this price: most AI answers end without a click, so no dashboard can show what they’re worth, and we don’t think you should have to bet big on them. GEO agency retainers run $2,000 to $10,000 a month. We’ve spent a lot of time, money and sweat learning what changes AI answers and what doesn’t; this is that, at a price we think is fair.
What keeps working when we’re done?
Everything we put out stays out. The listings stay live, the corrections stay corrected, your film stays on YouTube, and the files are yours to keep. AI keeps re-reading the web and new models keep launching, and each one finds the right version of you. On day 90 we ask the same questions again, free, so you can see it held. Your price is never raised, and we add services to your plan over time. Your SCDB page stays yours, free, for as long as you’re on the plan.
Can you promise AI will recommend us?
No one honestly can. We promise the work and we prove it: on day 30 we ask the same questions to the same AIs and put both answers side by side.