AI Visibility Index: Contract Machining & Machine Shops in Iowa

When a buyer asks an AI assistant for a contract machining & machine shops supplier in Iowa, these are the companies that get named. This is what we found when the cell was last measured.

128 companies tracked
Last measured September 30, 2026
Next measurement October 30, 2026

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The headline numbers

Never named by AI

113 of 128

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.

15 named at least once
113 never named

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Cell average: 0.36of 15
Across all 128 tracked companies.
Top ten average: 5of 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 Iowa

These are the companies AI assistants named most often when Iowa buyers went looking for a supplier in this category.

Top 10 most AI-visible Contract Machining & Machine Shops companies in Iowa, measured September 30, 2026
Rank	Company	Location	AI visibility
1	JTV Manufacturing Inc 60 employeesSutherland, Iowa 2 name variants JTV Manufacturingmost common8 JTV Manufacturing, Inc.1	Sutherland, Iowa	9 of 15 answers
2	Blackhawk Engineering Inc 105 employeesCedar Falls, Iowa 2 name variants Blackhawk Engineeringmost common7 Blackhawk Engineering, LLC1	Cedar Falls, Iowa	8 of 15 answers
3	Bowe Machine Company 52 employeesBettendorf, Iowa	Bettendorf, Iowa	5 of 15 answers
4	Rapid Precision Machining, LLC Iowa	Iowa	5 of 15 answers
5	Xenium CNC Iowa	Iowa	5 of 15 answers
6	DW Screw Machine Products 46 employeesCedar Rapids, Iowa	Cedar Rapids, Iowa	4 of 15 answers
7	M's Machine & Mfg. Co., Inc. 30 employeesMonona, Iowa 4 name variants M’s Machine & Manufacturing Co.most common1 M’s Machine & Mfg. Co., Inc.1 M’s Machine & Manufacturing1 M’s Machine & Mfg. Co.1	Monona, Iowa	4 of 15 answers
8	Bensons CNC Iowa	Iowa	4 of 15 answers
9	Ameritec Machining, Inc. 28 employeesNew Hampton, Iowa 2 name variants Ameritec Machining, Inc.most common2 Ameritec Machining1	New Hampton, Iowa	3 of 15 answers
10	Sioux City Foundry Co 93 employeesSioux City, Iowa	Sioux City, Iowa	3 of 15 answers

26 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 Iowa. They belong to that state's ranking, not this one.

Company	State	Mentions
ESM	Pennsylvania	9 of 15
Advance Machine Technologies (AMT)	Alabama	8 of 15
Seaberg Industries	Illinois	5 of 15
Priority Custom Machining, Inc.	Pennsylvania	3 of 15
Rosko Manufacturing	Rhode Island	3 of 15
BensonsCNC	New York	2 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 contract machining and machine shop companies in Iowa”
2“Who supplies precision CNC milled and turned components on contract in Iowa”
3“I need a Iowa contract machining partner for a 2,000-unit stainless steel medical device run, who should I talk to”
4“Top contract machining and machine shop suppliers in Iowa for industrial OEM buyers”
5“Which Iowa contract machining and machine shop providers can handle 5-axis CNC work with tight tolerance requirements”
6“List 20 contract machining and machine shop companies in Iowa 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.

thomasnet.comDirectory
7 companies
ms-machine.com
5 companies
pcm-ia.com
3 companies
bensonscnc.com
3 companies
blackhawkengineering.com
2 companies
ameritecmachining.com
2 companies
esmquality.com
2 companies
jtvmfg.com
2 companies
m.siouxcityfoundry.com
2 companies
plastechtooling.com
2 companies
dwproducts.com
1 company
seabergindustries.com
1 company

47 sources were cited across this cell's answers from 38 domains. A directory page often stands behind several companies at once; a company's own site usually stands behind one.

Iowa in context

Iowa ranks 14th of 35 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 7%.

Iowa (this report)Other measured statesCategory average (7%)

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