Local content
Do German-speaking users understand what you offer, in their language and in their terms? This is the part translation covers, and the only part it covers.
Entering the German-speaking market
Your German website is live. Why do German AI answers still name someone else?
Localisation creates content. It does not automatically create local authority. When someone asks an AI system a question in German, the sources shaping that answer can differ substantially from those shaping an answer in English, and a translated website is not, by itself, one of them.
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Translation is not localisation
A German page is not the same as German-market evidence.
Most businesses entering Germany do the obvious thing first: they translate their website. That is necessary, and it is not enough.
A translated page can make your business accessible to AI systems in German. What translation does not create is the external evidence that supports your brand as a relevant option in a new market: the German-language sources that mention you, compare you, review you or list you alongside established names.
This is why a business can rank well in German search results and still be absent from German AI answers. Search results primarily present ranked pages; generative systems synthesise information from multiple sources and name or cite selected providers. The two draw on overlapping but different material.
What shapes a German-market answer
Four source signals can shape whether you appear.
Entity consistency
Is your business represented consistently across German sources: trade associations, industry registers and business databases? Same name, same address, same category description. Consistency matters: conflicting information across sources can make it harder for AI systems to identify and represent your business accurately.
Local authority
Do credible German-language sources mention you? Trade publications, industry registers, associations and awards visible on German pages, rather than only in your own newsroom.
Commercial evidence
Do comparison sites, category overviews and review platforms used in the German-speaking region include you? For commercial questions, this is often where the answer is assembled from.
Which of the four matters most depends on your category and the questions your customers actually ask. That is what the AI Visibility Assessment establishes.
Where the work sits
You are starting further back. That is measurable.
Established German competitors may have accumulated these signals over years without consciously planning to. You are entering a market where established sources already have established names.
That is not a weakness. It is your starting position, and it can be measured.
The AI Visibility Assessment shows where you stand in German AI answers today: whether you are named at all, whether your site is cited as a source, and which providers appear instead.
What we measure
Imagine a German buyer asks a question in your category.
They type something like:
„Welche Anbieter für [Kategorie] sind empfehlenswert?"
Which providers in this category would you recommend?
The answer names three businesses and links two sources.
| Your brand | not named |
|---|---|
| Competitor A | named |
| Competitor B | named, own site cited as source |
| Sources of the answer | a German comparison site and an industry directory |
| What we investigate | which German-language evidence exists for each named provider, and what is missing for yours |
That is one line of one measurement. The AI Visibility Assessment runs a full question catalogue across the relevant AI systems and identifies the pattern, not a single answer, which can change from one day to the next.
How we work with you
We are in the market you are entering.
We work exclusively on Generative Engine Optimization, and exclusively for the German-speaking region. Germany, Austria and Switzerland: one language, but different markets, sources and signals.
That means we know which German directories are worth being listed in and which are not, which trade publications carry weight in a given category, and how a German-language answer can differ from its English equivalent for the same question.
Two founders, both native German speakers and based in Leipzig. You work directly with the same two people who bring the German-market knowledge and technical expertise behind the work.
Common questions
What businesses entering Germany ask.
Do we need a German-language website first?
Not necessarily first, but eventually. What matters more at the start is knowing where you stand.
The AI Visibility Assessment measures your current position in German AI answers and shows whether the main constraint is content, consistency, authority or commercial evidence. Investing in the wrong one is a common mistake.
We already rank well in German search results. Is that not enough?
It is a good sign, but it is a different mechanism. Search results primarily present ranked pages, while generative systems can synthesise information from multiple sources and name or cite selected providers.
A page can rank on the first results page and still not be among the sources an AI answer draws on.
Our brand is well known in our home market. Does that transfer?
Not automatically. Recognition built primarily through English-language sources does not automatically transfer to German-language AI answers.
It is one of the most common surprises for businesses entering the German market.
Do you work with businesses that are not based in Germany?
Yes. Your business does not need to be based in Germany for us to measure and improve its visibility in German AI answers.
What matters is the language your customers use when they ask AI systems questions.
Which languages do you measure?
German is our focus. Depending on your situation, we can also examine other languages, for example if your customers in Switzerland ask questions in French.
How long does this take?
The AI Visibility Assessment takes three days after you approve the question catalogue.
Building a presence in German sources takes longer and develops gradually. We do not give you an arbitrary deadline because AI answers change continuously. Instead, we make that development measurable.
Every follow-up measurement is carried out under the same conditions as the first.
Start with the findings
Find out where you stand in German AI answers.
AI Visibility Assessment — €590 one-off.
The assessment measures your current position, identifies the providers appearing instead of you and sets out the actions in order of impact.
Your report is ready three days after you approve the question catalogue. If you continue with us, we credit the full €590 against your ongoing engagement.
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