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MeasuredAI Visibility Index: Air Compressors in California
When a buyer asks an AI assistant for a air compressors supplier in California, these are the companies that get named. This is what we found when the cell was last measured.
- 110 companies tracked
- Last measured September 30, 2026
- Next measurement October 30, 2026
The headline numbers
Never named by AI
102 of 110
companies never appeared in a single buying question
They were asked the same 5 buying questions as everyone else in this cell and were not named once.
- 8 named at least once
- 102 never named
- Cell average
- 0.35of 15
Across all 110 tracked companies.
- Top ten average
- 6.1of 15
The ten most visible companies in the cell.
A company's score is how many of the 15 measured answers named it.
The top ten in California
These are the companies AI assistants named most often when California buyers went looking for a supplier in this category.
| Rank | Company | Location | AI visibility |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Associated Compressor & Equipment 20 employeesFresno, California 3 name variants
| Fresno, California | 12 of 15 answers |
| 2 | California Compression California 3 name variants
| California | 11 of 15 answers |
| 3 | Cisco Air Systems 23 employeesSacramento, California | Sacramento, California | 10 of 15 answers |
| 4 | American Compressor Company 19 employeesSanta Fe Springs, California 2 name variants
| Santa Fe Springs, California | 5 of 15 answers |
| 5 | Kaeser Compressors, Inc. 8 employeesCypress, California | Cypress, California | 5 of 15 answers |
| 6 | Q Air‑California California | California | 5 of 15 answers |
| 7 | PCA Industrial, LLC California | California | 4 of 15 answers |
| 8 | Advanced Air & Vacuum California | California | 3 of 15 answers |
| 9 | CASEI California 2 name variants
| California | 3 of 15 answers |
| 10 | CASEI – Compressed Air Systems Engineering, Inc. California | California | 3 of 15 answers |
28 more companies were named at least once. Companies outside the top ten are counted in the averages but not named here.
Also named, based in another state
AI assistants named these companies too, but MacRAE'S lists them in a different state, not California. They belong to that state's ranking, not this one.
| Company | State | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| CASCO USA | Pennsylvania | 2 of 15 |
| Air Compressor Specialists (ACS) | Iowa | 1 of 15 |
| Atlas Copco Compressors USA | Pennsylvania | 1 of 15 |
| Atlas Copco Compressors – Los Angeles Service Center | Pennsylvania | 1 of 15 |
| Atlas Copco – California (Los Angeles Service Center) | Michigan | 1 of 15 |
| OTC Industrial Technologies (Gardner Denver Distributor) | North Carolina | 1 of 15 |
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The five questions we asked
Every company in this cell is measured on the same questions, written the way a buyer would type them. That is what makes the ranking a comparison rather than a collection of anecdotes.
- 1“Best air compressor companies in California”
- 2“Who supplies oil-free rotary screw air compressors in California”
- 3“I need a California air compressor partner for a continuous-duty manufacturing line installation, who should I talk to”
- 4“Top air compressor suppliers in California for industrial maintenance buyers”
- 5“Which California air compressor specialists can handle turnkey design, installation, and service of compressed air systems”
- 6“List 20 air compressor companies in California with their specialties.”the roster question
Each question is asked more than once, which is why a company's score is out of 15 answers rather than out of the number of questions.
Where AI drew its answers from
These are the sources the answers in this cell leaned on most, ranked by how many of the named companies each one stands behind.
- atlascopco.com7 companies
- ingersollrand.com6 companies
- californiacompression.com3 companies
- associatedcompressor.com3 companies
- casei.com3 companies
- americancompressor.com2 companies
- reddit.comDirectory2 companies
- airandlube.com2 companies
- danddcompressor.com2 companies
- sullairinfo.com2 companies
- advancedairvac.com1 company
- ciscoair.com1 company
55 sources were cited across this cell's answers from 34 domains. A directory page often stands behind several companies at once; a company's own site usually stands behind one.
California in context
California ranks 7th of 8 measured states in this category. Each bar is the share of that state's tracked companies that AI assistants named at least once; across every measured state in this category the share is 10%.
- Pennsylvania17%
- Illinois13%
- Ohio12%
- Florida11%
- Texas10%
- New York8%
- California7%
- New Jersey5%
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