Steadily Appears in 4.7% of AI Answers. Here's Our Five-Step Plan to Improve Its AI Visibility.

Mark HuntleyBy Mark HuntleyFounder and CEO
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Key Takeaways

  • Steadily appeared in a small share of benchmark answers, but every mention was also a recommendation with positive wording.
  • The main issue is placement: the brand rarely appears in top positions and had no first-place recommendations in November.
  • Monthly results were volatile, with October much stronger than November, so each sample needs to be read separately.
  • The action plan centers on verifying claims, aligning site pages and third-party references, and building content around buyer questions.

Answer Capsule

In November 2026, Steadily appeared in 4 of 85 AI answers included in the Landlord Insurance benchmark (4.71%). It received 4 recommendations (4.71%), with 2 Top 3 placements and 0 first-place recommendations. A mention means the company appeared in an answer; a recommendation means the answer affirmatively endorsed it.

Our plan compares the company with its competitors, checks conflicting AI claims against reliable sources, and identifies website pages, third-party sources and buyer questions to address. The historical results show how the figures changed across available months. Different monthly samples limit those comparisons, and conflicting AI claims require verification before corrections are proposed.

Current AI visibility

Questions This Section Answers

  • How do Steadily mentions, recommendations and placements compare with its Landlord Insurance peers?

Steadily recorded 4 mentions (4.71%) and 4 recommendations (4.71%) across 85 answers included in the benchmark. Top 3 placements numbered 2; first-place recommendations numbered 0. Framing among its mentions was 4 positive, 0 neutral and 0 negative.

Rank

Company

Mentions

Mention rate

Recommendations

Recommendation rate

Top 3

Top 3 rate

#1

#1 rate

1

State Farm

83

97.65%

48

56.47%

40

47.06%

23

27.06%

1

USAA

80

94.12%

48

56.47%

19

22.35%

8

9.41%

3

Travelers

74

87.06%

44

51.76%

10

11.76%

2

2.35%

4

Allstate

81

95.29%

39

45.88%

13

15.29%

3

3.53%

5

Nationwide

73

85.88%

29

34.12%

4

4.71%

0

0.00%

6

Farmers

63

74.12%

28

32.94%

1

1.18%

0

0.00%

7

American Family Insurance

45

52.94%

22

25.88%

3

3.53%

0

0.00%

8

Liberty Mutual

53

62.35%

20

23.53%

3

3.53%

0

0.00%

9

Steadily

4

4.71%

4

4.71%

2

2.35%

0

0.00%

10

Obie

2

2.35%

2

2.35%

1

1.18%

1

1.18%

Steadily appears in a small share of the benchmark answers, yet every mention recorded was also a recommendation with positive wording. That pattern suggests the brand is not being discussed neutrally or negatively when it surfaces; it is being endorsed. The practical question is reach, not sentiment.

Placement is the weaker part of the picture. Steadily's appearances sit mostly outside the leading positions, and no first-place recommendation was recorded. Because first-place and top-three placements are contained within recommendations, the gap points to where the brand lands in an answer rather than whether it is endorsed at all.

For the agency, this argues for work aimed at earning earlier placement in answers where Steadily already qualifies, rather than chasing broad awareness. A visibility comparison against the leading insurers would show which question types and answer formats favor Steadily and which consistently leave it out.

What changed since last month

Questions This Section Answers

  • How did Steadily counts and coverage differ across the available monthly snapshots?

Metric

Aug 2026

Sep 2026

Oct 2026

Nov 2026

Mentions

23 / 221 (10.41%)

25 / 240 (10.42%)

34 / 189 (17.99%)

4 / 85 (4.71%)

Recommendations

23 / 221 (10.41%)

24 / 240 (10.00%)

34 / 189 (17.99%)

4 / 85 (4.71%)

Top 3 recommendations

9 / 221 (4.07%)

10 / 240 (4.17%)

14 / 189 (7.41%)

2 / 85 (2.35%)

#1 recommendations

4 / 221 (1.81%)

4 / 240 (1.67%)

9 / 189 (4.76%)

0 / 85 (0.00%)

Only months with verified results are shown. Monthly sample coverage is listed in Methodology.

From October 2026 to November 2026, Steadily's mention count fell from 34 to 4, while its recommendation count fell from 34 to 4. The recommendation rate was 17.99% and 4.71% respectively.

The monthly record shows a sharp drop between the October and November samples, in both mentions and recommendations. The earlier months were comparatively stable, with October standing out as the strongest. November's figures are the weakest in the series.

The samples differ between months, so the November result should be read as a separate observation rather than a continuation of a trend. A different answer total does not establish why counts or rates moved, and the report does not attribute the change to any cause.

What the agency can do is treat November as a fresh baseline and watch whether the next sample returns toward the earlier level or holds near the current one. Repeating the same question set across months will make any movement easier to interpret.

AI recommendation trend

Observed recommendation rate (%), Aug 2026 to Nov 2026

0%5%10%15%20%Aug 2026Sep 2026Oct 2026Nov 202610.41%Aug 2026: 10.41%10.00%Sep 2026: 10.00%17.99%Oct 2026: 17.99%4.71%Nov 2026: 4.71%
  • Steadily4.71%

Separate selected monthly samples. Missing points are unavailable, not zero. Provider/prompt equivalence is unverified; rate movement does not demonstrate causation.

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Step 1. Measure

Questions This Section Answers

  • What should the agency measure and verify first for Steadily?

AI answers contained 0 conflicting claims about Steadily: 0 critical, 0 high, 0 medium, 0 low. Of these, 0 were rated critical or high priority; the critical claims are included in that total. These ratings help prioritize fact-checking. They do not establish that a company or publisher made an error.

No conflicting claims about Steadily were recorded in the captured answers, so there is no immediate fact-check queue tied to the company. That is a clean starting position, but it is also thin evidence: few answers discussed Steadily at all, so the absence of conflicts partly reflects limited coverage.

The useful first step is a visibility comparison that sets Steadily's reach and placement against the insurers that dominate the answers. Alongside it, the agency would build a short list of claims worth verifying from primary sources, so any future conflict has an owner and an evidence standard before it becomes urgent.

Step 2. Make the website consistent

Questions This Section Answers

  • Which recorded claim differences about Steadily should be verified before proposed page edits?

No results are available for this part of the analysis.

Both columns quote AI answers, not verified company facts. Resolve the entity, date and source before deciding whether a correction is warranted; different dates can explain an apparent conflict.

This part of the analysis returned no results, so there are no disputed topics to work from and no page-level conflicts to resolve. The agency would not invent them. Instead, the first pass would confirm which Steadily entity and which dates the answers refer to, since apparent conflicts often dissolve once those are pinned down.

Where a genuine question remains, the agency would draft conditional page briefs: each one tied to a specific claim, checked against current primary sources, and marked as either confirmed, corrected or left unchanged. Nothing would be rewritten on the strength of an AI answer alone.

Step 3. Align the external narrative

Questions This Section Answers

  • Which cited third-party pages are relevant to fact review for Steadily?

Cited page selected for review

Citation appearances in all captured answers

Answers mentioning the company

Conflicting claims linked to this page

https://cnbc.com/select/best-landlord-insurance-companies/

27

3

0

https://insuredbetter.com/landlord-insurance/compare-coverage/

11

2

0

https://askdoss.com/best-landlord-insurance-companies-2026/

12

1

0

https://policygenius.com/homeowners-insurance/best-landlord-insurance-companies/

12

1

0

https://fitsmallbusiness.com/best-landlord-insurance/

11

1

0

https://valuepenguin.com/best-landlord-insurance

11

1

0

These pages were selected because they relate to the company in the captured answers. Their current contents still need checking before any correction request. A page linked to a conflicting claim is not necessarily its cause, and the same answer may contribute to more than one row.

The cited pages selected for review are mostly comparison and roundup articles that discuss landlord insurance broadly. Several were cited many times across captured answers, but only a few of those answers mentioned Steadily, and none carried a conflicting claim linked to the page. Citation alone does not show that a page shaped an answer.

The agency would review each page's current contents before proposing anything, then prepare evidence-backed requests only where a specific, verifiable gap exists. Publishers control their own pages, so requests are framed as information and clarification, with responses and no-change decisions recorded separately.

Step 4. Optimize priority company pages

Questions This Section Answers

  • Which observed Steadily website pages should receive review briefs?

Company website page

Citation appearances in all captured answers

Benchmark answers citing the page

Recommending answers citing the page

https://steadily.com/

4

1

1

https://steadily.com/faq/how-much-does-landlord-insurance-cost

1

0

0

https://steadily.com/short-term

1

0

0

https://steadily.com/states/pennsylvania

1

0

0

The company's website was cited 7 times across 4 distinct page addresses; the table shows 4 pages selected for review. Zeros in the answer columns mean no matching answers were recorded. A cited page is not automatically a page that accompanied a recommendation.

Steadily's own site was cited across a handful of distinct pages, with the homepage carrying most of the appearances. The other pages selected for review cover cost, short-term rental and a state-specific topic. Citation counts on those pages are low, and some recorded no matching answers at all.

Page briefs would use approved company facts and the questions buyers actually ask, then check what each page already covers before proposing changes. A cited page is not automatically a page that accompanied a recommendation, so the briefs would focus on clarity and completeness rather than chasing citation counts.

Step 5. Publish around buyer questions

Questions This Section Answers

  • Which observed buyer questions support content briefs for Steadily?

Question observed in the research

Benchmark answers to this question

Company mentions

Company recommendations

What company has the best landlord insurance?

3

3

3

What company has the cheapest landlord insurance?

1

1

1

These are recorded answer observations, not search volume, verified demand, or proof of missing website content.

The recorded questions are narrow: which company offers the best landlord insurance and which is cheapest. Steadily was mentioned and recommended in the answers to both, which is encouraging but based on very few observations. These are answer observations, not search volume or proof of demand.

The agency would check existing site coverage on cost and best-company questions before proposing new pages, then draft briefs that answer each question directly with approved facts. Where coverage already exists, the work becomes sharpening it rather than adding another page.

Our 90-day action plan

Questions This Section Answers

  • How should the agency sequence the proposed Steadily work and judge completion?

Period

Deliverable

Completion criterion

Days 1–30

Baseline scorecard, scoped fact-review register and page/source shortlist

Each record has an owner, evidence requirement and review status

Days 31–60

Approved page briefs and justified publisher requests

Separate confirmed edits, no-change decisions, requests and responses

Days 61–90

Buyer-content briefs and a fresh scorecard

Record work completed separately from measured answer outcomes and comparability limits

The first month establishes the baseline: a scorecard, a scoped fact-review register and a shortlist of pages and sources, each with an owner and a review status. This depends on confirming entity details and current page contents before anything is queued.

The second month produces approved page briefs and justified publisher requests, with confirmed edits, no-change decisions and responses kept separate. The third month adds buyer-question content briefs and a fresh scorecard. Completed work is recorded separately from measured answer outcomes, and no visibility gain is promised.

Methodology

Questions This Section Answers

  • How are Steadily answer metrics and citation populations defined?

This report covers 2026-11. The exact dates when the original AI answers were collected have not been verified. The visibility rates use 85 answers that met the benchmark's inclusion rules. A company is recommended only when the answer both endorses it and uses positive wording. Top 3 and first-place counts are part of those recommendations, not extra recommendations.

An answer can mention or recommend several companies, so company counts cannot be added to find the number of distinct answers. The net sentiment score is positive minus negative mentions, divided by all company mentions; it describes answer wording, not customer satisfaction.

The wider citation analysis covers 800 captured answers and 5347 appearances of cited URLs. Citation appearances across all captured answers differ from the number of benchmark answers citing a page and the number that also recommend a company. The current contents of cited pages and disputed company claims still need independent verification.

Monthly sample coverage:

Reporting month

Answers included

AI services covered

Services

Aug 2026

221

6

ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity

Sep 2026

240

6

ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity

Oct 2026

189

6

ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity

Nov 2026

85

6

ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity

July 2026 measured a different set of companies, so it is excluded from this comparison.

The answer samples differ between months. These comparisons show how the recorded results changed; they do not establish why they changed.

The benchmark covers answers that met inclusion rules, and the exact collection dates for the original answers have not been verified. A company counts as recommended only when an answer endorses it with positive wording; top-three and first-place counts sit inside those recommendations rather than adding to them.

Answers can mention several companies, so company counts cannot be summed into distinct answers. The wider citation analysis covers a larger set of captured answers than the benchmark, and cited pages still need independent checking. Monthly samples differ, so comparisons show what was recorded, not why it changed.

Our first three priorities

First, confirm the basics: which Steadily entity the answers describe, which dates apply, and what the selected pages currently say. This is the groundwork that keeps later corrections honest and keeps ambiguous matches out of any queue.

Second, build the visibility comparison and page briefs around the questions where Steadily already appears, focusing on earning earlier placement rather than wider but shallow reach. Approved facts and buyer questions should drive the briefs.

Third, prepare evidence-backed publisher requests only where a specific gap is verified, and pair them with buyer-question content on cost and best-company choices. Progress would be tracked through completed work and a fresh scorecard, not promised visibility gains.

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About The Author

Mark Huntley

Mark Huntley

Founder and CEO

Mark Huntley, J.D. is founder of CiteWorks Studio, a strategic advisory focused on visibility, authority, and recommendation presence in AI-shaped search environments. His work centers on embedding-level GEO, vector optimization, and cosine gap engineering — helping brands align their digital presence with the retrieval systems that increasingly shape discovery, interpretation, and choice.

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