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MeasuredAI Visibility Index: Industrial Pumps in North Carolina
When a buyer asks an AI assistant for a industrial pumps supplier in North Carolina, these are the companies that get named. This is what we found when the cell was last measured.
- 75 companies tracked
- Last measured September 30, 2026
- Next measurement October 30, 2026
The headline numbers
Never named by AI
61 of 75
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.
- 14 named at least once
- 61 never named
- Cell average
- 0.53of 15
Across all 75 tracked companies.
- Top ten average
- 5.3of 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.
| Rank | Company | Location | AI visibility |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carotek Inc - Carolinas 89 employeesMatthews, North Carolina 2 name variants
| Matthews, North Carolina | 10 of 15 answers |
| 2 | Truflo Pumps, Inc. North Carolina 2 name variants
| North Carolina | 9 of 15 answers |
| 3 | Brown & Morrison 25 employeesCharlotte, North Carolina | Charlotte, North Carolina | 7 of 15 answers |
| 4 | Tencarva Machinery Company 56 employeesGreensboro, North Carolina | Greensboro, North Carolina | 7 of 15 answers |
| 5 | Industrial Supply Solutions, Inc. 43 employeesSalisbury, North Carolina | Salisbury, North Carolina | 5 of 15 answers |
| 6 | Livingston & Haven North Carolina | North Carolina | 4 of 15 answers |
| 7 | OEC Fluid Handling North Carolina 2 name variants
| North Carolina | 3 of 15 answers |
| 8 | Procom / Process Components, Inc. North Carolina | North Carolina | 3 of 15 answers |
| 9 | Pump, Pipe, Sales & Service North Carolina | North Carolina | 3 of 15 answers |
| 10 | Pete Duty & Associates 7 employeesHillsborough, North Carolina | Hillsborough, North Carolina | 2 of 15 answers |
27 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 |
|---|---|---|
| E.W. Process | South Carolina | 3 of 15 |
| Air Power, Inc. | New Jersey | 1 of 15 |
| Apex Industrial, Inc. | New Brunswick | 1 of 15 |
| Combs & Associates | Wisconsin | 1 of 15 |
| Industrial Pump Sales | Louisiana | 1 of 15 |
| Southeast Pump Specialist | Georgia | 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 suppliers of industrial pumps in North Carolina”
- 2“Who supplies chemical-resistant centrifugal process pumps in North Carolina”
- 3“I need a North Carolina pump supplier for a continuous-duty wastewater treatment line, who should I talk to”
- 4“Top industrial pumps suppliers in North Carolina for plant maintenance and reliability buyers”
- 5“Which North Carolina industrial pump suppliers can handle high-viscosity fluids at high temperature”
- 6“List 20 industrial pumps 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.
- thomasnet.comDirectory7 companies
- carotek.com2 companies
- pumps.circor.com2 companies
- truflo.com2 companies
- procompumps.com2 companies
- brownandmorrison.com1 company
- clearwaterinc.net1 company
- ewprocess.com1 company
- weareissi.com1 company
- aandwelectric.com1 company
- arozone.com1 company
- carolinapumpx.com1 company
53 sources were cited across this cell's answers from 43 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 3rd of 22 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%.
- Virginia22%
- Missouri21%
- North Carolina19%
- Tennessee19%
- Washington17%
- Louisiana16%
- Oklahoma16%
- Georgia14%
- Massachusetts14%
- Connecticut13%
- Wisconsin12%
- Minnesota11%
- Indiana11%
- Pennsylvania10%
- Illinois10%
- Ohio9%
- New York8%
- Michigan7%
- Florida6%
- New Jersey6%
- California5%
- Texas5%
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