AI Visibility Index: Metal Finishing Services in Indiana

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

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

Look up your company Get your monthly report

The headline numbers

Never named by AI

173 of 198

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.

25 named at least once
173 never named

Not sure whether you are one of them?Check your domain

Cell average: 0.36of 15
Across all 198 tracked companies.
Top ten average: 5.6of 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 Indiana

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

Top 10 most AI-visible Metal Finishing Services companies in Indiana, measured September 30, 2026
Rank	Company	Location	AI visibility
1	Job Shop Coatings 40 employeesGreenfield, Indiana	Greenfield, Indiana	9 of 15 answers
2	Industrial Anodizing Co. Inc. 50 employeesIndianapolis, Indiana	Indianapolis, Indiana	8 of 15 answers
3	Superior Metal Technologies 85 employeesIndianapolis, Indiana	Indianapolis, Indiana	8 of 15 answers
4	Pioneer Metal Finishing 75 employeesSouth Bend, Indiana 3 name variants Pioneer Metal Finishing – South Bendmost common5 Pioneer Metal Finishing – Nimet Division1 Pioneer Metal Finishing1	South Bend, Indiana	7 of 15 answers
5	Industrial Plating Inc 72 employeesLafayette, Indiana	Lafayette, Indiana	5 of 15 answers
6	Winona Powder Coating 40 employeesElkhart, Indiana	Elkhart, Indiana	5 of 15 answers
7	Craddock Finishing Corporation 200 employeesEvansville, Indiana 2 name variants Craddock Finishing Corporationmost common2 Craddock Finishing2	Evansville, Indiana	4 of 15 answers
8	Colors Incorporated Indiana	Indiana	4 of 15 answers
9	Beacon Industries 16 employeesEdinburgh, Indiana	Edinburgh, Indiana	3 of 15 answers
10	DeKalb Metal Finishing 60 employeesAuburn, Indiana	Auburn, Indiana	3 of 15 answers

33 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 Indiana. They belong to that state's ranking, not this one.

Company	State	Mentions
Northern Indiana Anodize	Virginia	2 of 15
Revelation Medical Devices (RMD)	Utah	2 of 15
American Bright Works	Minnesota	1 of 15
DOT America	California	1 of 15

One of these yours?

A complete Blue Book listing is one of the sources assistants read in this category. Confirming your details is free.

Get your monthly report

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 finishing services companies in Indiana”
2“Who supplies precision metal finishing for small stainless steel components in Indiana”
3“I need a Indiana metal finishing partner for a 10,000 piece medical device housing run, who should I talk to”
4“Top metal finishing services suppliers in Indiana for industrial OEM buyers”
5“Which Indiana metal finishing service providers can handle high-volume automated line finishing with tight cosmetic requirements”
6“List 20 metal finishing services companies in Indiana 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
4 companies
pioneermetal.com
3 companies
craddockfinishing.com
2 companies
trufabstainless.com
2 companies
beacon-industries.com
1 company
dancomed.com
1 company
industrialanodizing.com
1 company
winonapowder.com
1 company
americanbrightworks.com
1 company
arrowpowder.com
1 company
astropak.com
1 company
bdindustries.com
1 company

60 sources were cited across this cell's answers from 51 domains. A directory page often stands behind several companies at once; a company's own site usually stands behind one.

Indiana in context

Indiana ranks 16th of 27 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 11%.

Indiana (this report)Other measured statesCategory average (11%)

Look up a company

Enter a domain or a company name to see whether it is tracked in this cell, and whether the answers named it. This is a lookup against a measurement already taken, so it is instant.

Try jobshopcoatings.com or any other domain

The public Index publishes one measurement per cell. A monthly report covers your own company:

Every question it was named on
Every question it was not
What moved

Your own position is only ever shown to you.