AI Visibility Index: Contract Machining & Machine Shops in North Carolina

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

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

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The headline numbers

Never named by AI

229 of 246

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.

17 named at least once
229 never named

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Cell average: 0.24of 15
Across all 246 tracked companies.
Top ten average: 6.9of 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 North Carolina

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

Top 10 most AI-visible Contract Machining & Machine Shops companies in North Carolina, measured September 30, 2026
Rank	Company	Location	AI visibility
1	North Carolina Manufacturing Inc 8 employeesGoldsboro, North Carolina	Goldsboro, North Carolina	12 of 15 answers
2	Advanced Machining 5 employeesSalisbury, North Carolina	Salisbury, North Carolina	8 of 15 answers
3	Quality Contract Manufacturing, Inc. 5 employeesLouisburg, North Carolina	Louisburg, North Carolina	8 of 15 answers
4	Sherrill Contract Manufacturing North Carolina	North Carolina	8 of 15 answers
5	Tilson Machine, Inc. North Carolina	North Carolina	8 of 15 answers
6	Northeast Tool & Manufacturing 35 employeesMatthews, North Carolina	Matthews, North Carolina	6 of 15 answers
7	Turnamics Inc 70 employeesAsheville, North Carolina	Asheville, North Carolina	6 of 15 answers
8	NCX Concepts North Carolina	North Carolina	5 of 15 answers
9	JMC Tool & Machine Co 10 employeesSanford, North Carolina	Sanford, North Carolina	4 of 15 answers
10	Carolina Precision Technologies North Carolina	North Carolina	4 of 15 answers

30 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 North Carolina. They belong to that state's ranking, not this one.

Company	State	Mentions
Protodyne Manufacturing	Ontario	4 of 15
Advanced Manufacturing Solutions, Inc.	New Jersey	3 of 15
Quality Products, Inc.	Iowa	2 of 15
Alliance Precision Plastics – Spindale Facility	New York	1 of 15
AMI Machining	Idaho	1 of 15
Brown Tool & Mold	Alabama	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 contract machining and machine shop companies in North Carolina”
2“Who supplies precision CNC milled and turned components on contract in North Carolina”
3“I need a North Carolina 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 North Carolina for industrial OEM buyers”
5“Which North Carolina 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 North Carolina 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.

piedmontmachine.com
4 companies
amsncinc.com
2 companies
dexcoinc.com
2 companies
qcmfgnc.com
2 companies
advancedmachiningcnc.com
1 company
carolinaprecision.com
1 company
tilsonmachine.com
1 company
a64612ba-9027-4cbf-8684-bfd82e5f180b.filesusr.com
1 company
allianceppc.com
1 company
alotechinc.com
1 company
ami-machining.com
1 company
browntoolandmold.com
1 company

53 sources were cited across this cell's answers from 49 domains. A directory page often stands behind several companies at once; a company's own site usually stands behind one.

North Carolina in context

North Carolina ranks 24th 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%.

North Carolina (this report)Other measured statesCategory average (7%)

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