AI-visibility reports now say when an engine could not be reached
An AI-visibility scan queries several answer engines, and until now an engine
that failed simply disappeared from the report — while the methodology footer
still listed it as queried. A three-engine scan could read as a five-engine one,
and nothing on the page or on the API said otherwise. Reports now show a tile for
every engine the scan attempted: the ones that answered carry their grade, and
the ones that did not carry a plain reason instead. A missing engine is excluded
from your score rather than counted as a zero, so a scan we could not complete
never looks like a brand that nobody mentions. On the v1 API the report body
gained engine_failures alongside engines_queried; if your integration shows
coverage, read engines for what was measured.