VisibAI launches at WMF 2026, targets AI search visibility battle

VisibAI is making its first public push at WE Make Future 2026 in Bologna, a move that says as much about the market as it does about the startup. The Prague-based company is staking its launch on a simple idea: brands are no longer fighting only for blue-link rankings, but for mentions inside AI-generated answers.

That pitch lands at a moment when the search landscape is shifting fast. WE Make Future says its 2026 edition will run June 24-26 at BolognaFiere in Bologna, Italy, and bring together companies, AI and digital agencies, software houses, startups, scale-ups, institutions and investors from 90 countries. VisibAI says it will use the event for its official launch, then show up again at Web Summit 2026 in Lisbon from November 9-12, a clear sign it wants both European visibility and a bigger investor audience.

The product itself is built around the pain point enterprise teams keep running into: they can rank well in traditional search and still disappear when customers ask an AI assistant for recommendations. VisibAI says its platform was in private beta before general availability at WMF 2026, runs more than 100 industry-tailored visibility checks per audit, identifies competitors being mentioned instead of a brand, and produces fix lists that include downloadable schema markup and robots.txt files. The company also says it reaches 99% reliability across audited AI engines and plans support for Google AI Overviews and Microsoft Bing Copilot.

Founder Francesco Bianchi is also using the Bologna stage to chase capital. A related report says he will pitch in the WMF startup competition and seek pre-seed funding to expand the engineering team and speed up the roadmap. That is the tell here: this is not just a product demo, it is a fundraise wrapped around a broader bet that AI visibility tooling is becoming a real software category.

The timing helps explain why. Google says AI Overviews now reach more than 200 countries and territories and more than 40 languages, and that the feature is used by more than a billion people. OpenAI has also made ChatGPT Search available across Free, Plus, Team, Edu and Enterprise tiers. With those products pushing more answers directly into AI interfaces, brands are starting to treat visibility inside generated responses as a competitive problem, not a novelty. VisibAI is trying to turn that pressure into software buyers, and the next test is whether enterprise budgets follow.