Part 2: What does your AI know about your company? A two-minute test
The test
Open an AI assistant, for example Claude, ChatGPT or Gemini, and ask two questions in a row. Fill in your company name and your domain:
- "What do you know about [company name] in [city]?"
- "What identity does the website [your-domain.com] have for AI agents? Does it really belong to this company?"
Read the answers carefully and note what they say.
What to look for
- Are name, place and services right? Or is something outdated, mixed up or made up?
- Is your domain assigned correctly? Or is it confused with another company?
- Does the assistant say openly when it does not know? Or does a guess sound confident?
- Ask again the next day and with a second assistant. The answers can differ.
The test proves nothing. It only shows how an assistant describes your company today. The answers depend on the provider, the model and the time, and an assistant can be wrong.
Why this question matters
When people and AI agents look for companies, they increasingly ask assistants instead of a search engine. An assistant assembles its answer from scattered sources. It cannot always tell which source comes from the company itself and which does not. A source that states who declared something and how far it was checked is better suited than text that happens to be somewhere on the web.
The second question: what identity does your website have?
An AI agent that works with your website or in your name needs to know: does this domain really belong to the company, and which agents belong to it? ID MANDAT answers that publicly and without sign-in, also in machine-readable form and with a digital signature (see Part 1). The levels:
- Verified: domain, imprint and commercial register or VAT ID are checked automatically and re-checked regularly.
- Registered: credential file and DNS record on your domain confirmed. The details are your own declarations.
- Listed: self-listed, details not checked.
- No entry: This is not by itself a sign of anything untrustworthy.
On the home page you can check your domain. Listing is free.
What we do not claim
- Whether and how a particular AI assistant uses ID MANDAT is up to its provider. We cannot promise it.
- An entry does not automatically change what an assistant says about you, and it does not improve a ranking.
- ID MANDAT confirms identity and authority, not creditworthiness, trustworthiness or quality. "May" and "may not" are the company's declarations.
Further reading: Part 1: ID MANDAT's answer is now also available as a signed token · Part 3: Is ID MANDAT safe?