AI Visibility Index: Contract Machining & Machine Shops in Tennessee

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

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

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The headline numbers

Never named by AI

171 of 190

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.

19 named at least once
171 never named

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Cell average: 0.21of 15
Across all 190 tracked companies.
Top ten average: 4.6of 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 Tennessee

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

Top 10 most AI-visible Contract Machining & Machine Shops companies in Tennessee, measured September 30, 2026
Rank	Company	Location	AI visibility
1	Tier One Machine Tennessee	Tennessee	8 of 15 answers
2	Cupples' J&J Co Inc 44 employeesDyersburg, Tennessee	Dyersburg, Tennessee	6 of 15 answers
3	Tennessee Rand (A Lincoln Electric Company) Tennessee 4 name variants Tennessee Rand (Lincoln Electric – Machining Group)most common2 Tennessee Rand (A Lincoln Electric Company)2 Tennessee Rand (Lincoln Electric – Advanced Automation Solutions)1 Tennessee Rand (Lincoln Electric – Machining)1	Tennessee	6 of 15 answers
4	Tennessee Tool & Engineering 70 employeesOak Ridge, Tennessee	Oak Ridge, Tennessee	4 of 15 answers
5	Tennessee Tool Works LLC 3 employeesMurfreesboro, Tennessee 2 name variants Tennessee Tool Works LLCmost common3 Tennessee Tool Works1	Murfreesboro, Tennessee	4 of 15 answers
6	United Machine & Tool 6 employeesGoodlettsville, Tennessee 2 name variants United Machine & Toolmost common3 United Machine & Tool Company, Inc.1	Goodlettsville, Tennessee	4 of 15 answers
7	Kovai Technology Tennessee 2 name variants Kovai Technology, Inc.most common2 Kovai Technology2	Tennessee	4 of 15 answers
8	Scott’s Hotrods – CNC & Contract Manufacturing Tennessee	Tennessee	4 of 15 answers
9	Abston Machine Shop 9 employeesTaft, Tennessee	Taft, Tennessee	3 of 15 answers
10	Axis Fabrication & Machine Co 50 employeesRockford, Tennessee	Rockford, Tennessee	3 of 15 answers

36 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 Tennessee. They belong to that state's ranking, not this one.

Company	State	Mentions
Brackins Machine	Idaho	6 of 15
Advanced Machine, Inc.	New York	4 of 15
Modern Group	Texas	2 of 15
Blanda Inc.	Minnesota	1 of 15
Distinctive Manufacturing Group	Michigan	1 of 15
MISA Metal Fabricating	Kentucky	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 Tennessee”
2“Who supplies precision CNC milled and turned components on contract in Tennessee”
3“I need a Tennessee 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 Tennessee for industrial OEM buyers”
5“Which Tennessee 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 Tennessee 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
12 companies
tennrand.com
4 companies
scottshotrods.com
3 companies
umttn.com
2 companies
eod-gear.com
2 companies
reddit.comDirectory
2 companies
tntoolworks.com
2 companies
kovaitechnology.com
2 companies
axisfab.com
1 company
tenntool.com
1 company
abstonmachine.com
1 company
advancedmachineinc.com
1 company

55 sources were cited across this cell's answers from 45 domains. A directory page often stands behind several companies at once; a company's own site usually stands behind one.

Tennessee in context

Tennessee ranks 16th 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%.

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

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