AI Visibility Index: Metal Cutting Tools in Oregon

When a buyer asks an AI assistant for a metal cutting tools supplier in Oregon, these are the companies that get named. This is what we found when the cell was last measured.

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

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The headline numbers

Never named by AI

82 of 88

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.

6 named at least once
82 never named

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Cell average: 0.15of 15
Across all 88 tracked companies.
Top ten average: 3.8of 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 Oregon

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

Top 10 most AI-visible Metal Cutting Tools companies in Oregon, measured September 30, 2026
Rank	Company	Location	AI visibility
1	Cascade Carbide Oregon	Oregon	11 of 15 answers
2	Oregon Carbide Saw 8 employeesPortland, Oregon	Portland, Oregon	6 of 15 answers
3	Excalibur Tool, Inc. Oregon	Oregon	5 of 15 answers
4	Snook’s Saw Service Oregon 2 name variants Snook’s Saw Servicemost common4 Snook’s Saw Service, Inc.1	Oregon	5 of 15 answers
5	ABC Tool & Die Engineering 8 employeesEugene, Oregon	Eugene, Oregon	3 of 15 answers
6	CarbideToolSource.com Oregon	Oregon	3 of 15 answers
7	Carbide Tool Source Oregon	Oregon	2 of 15 answers
8	M K Tooling 4 employeesPortland, Oregon	Portland, Oregon	1 of 15 answers
9	Ran-Tech Engineering and Aerospace, Inc 20 employeesClackamas, Oregon	Clackamas, Oregon	1 of 15 answers
10	Sales Northwest Inc 5 employeesClackamas, Oregon	Clackamas, Oregon	1 of 15 answers

12 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 Oregon. They belong to that state's ranking, not this one.

Company	State	Mentions
R&J Tool and Grinding, Inc.	Michigan	4 of 15
General Tool & Supply	Massachusetts	3 of 15
Motion Industries / General Tool & Supply	California	3 of 15
CUTTING EDGE TOOLS LLC	Colorado	2 of 15
Cutting Tool Control	Washington	2 of 15
Industrial Supply Company	Indiana	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 metal cutting tool companies in Oregon”
2“Who supplies carbide indexable metal cutting inserts in Oregon”
3“I need a Oregon metal cutting tool partner for a high-volume CNC machining program, who should I talk to”
4“Top metal cutting tool suppliers in Oregon for precision machining buyers”
5“Which Oregon metal cutting tool specialists can support custom geometries for hard turning applications”
6“List 20 metal cutting tool companies in Oregon 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.

abtoolsinc.com
7 companies
snookssaw.com
3 companies
candltooling.qwestoffice.net
2 companies
carbidetoolsource.com
2 companies
carrlane.com
2 companies
meshertool.wixsite.com
2 companies
regalcuttingtools.com
2 companies
oregoncarbidesaw.com
1 company
abctool.com
1 company
almartool.com
1 company
bhid.com
1 company
cascadecarbide.com
1 company

29 sources were cited across this cell's answers from 28 domains. A directory page often stands behind several companies at once; a company's own site usually stands behind one.

Oregon in context

Oregon ranks 11th of 28 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 4%.

Oregon (this report)Other measured statesCategory average (4%)

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