AI Visibility Ranking
Top 10 Most AI-Visible Franchising & Licensing Suppliers
How ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and DeepSeek rate Franchising & Licensing suppliers. Updated June 3, 2026.
This ranking covers the 10 most AI-visible Franchising & Licensing suppliers we have audited, drawn from a pool of 11 companies in the category with a complete audit on file. Each supplier was put in front of five AI engines, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and DeepSeek, and asked the kind of questions a real buyer asks: who is this company, what do they make, can they be trusted, and would you recommend them. The Signal Score on this page is the smoothed average of those answers, from 0 to 100. Across this top 10, the average score is 34 out of 100, and the spread is telling: 1 sit at Moderate Signal, 2 land at Weak Signal and 7 are still Dark Signal.
What makes Franchising & Licensing interesting is not whether these are good suppliers, but how differently the AI models see them. Claude recognized the most companies in this set, while Perplexity recognized the fewest. Where engines did rate a supplier, Claude tended to give the highest marks. Notably, no supplier in this set was recognized by all five engines, which is the clearest measure of true cross-AI visibility: a supplier that only one or two models know is invisible to buyers using the others.
Use this list as a starting filter at the top of your sourcing funnel for Franchising & Licensing, not as a verdict on quality or commercial fit. A supplier high on this list is easy for an AI procurement assistant to find and describe accurately, which shortens your research and lowers the chance an agent quietly skips them. A supplier low on the list, or absent from it, may still be an excellent partner that simply has not made itself legible to AI yet. The per-supplier notes below explain what each engine did and did not know, so you can judge the gap yourself.
The ranking at a glance
Overall Signal Score plus each engine's overall verdict rating (1 to 10). Where an engine recognized the supplier but did not return a rating, the cell shows "knows"; where it did not recognize them at all, it shows "not found".
| # | Supplier | Signal Score | ChatGPT | Claude | Perplexity | Gemini | DeepSeek |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | MERCIS BVnl | 60 / 100Moderate | knows | 6/10 | not found | not found | not found |
| 2 | Nippon Animation Co Ltdjp | 59 / 100Weak | knows | knows | not found | knows | knows |
| 3 | Samg Animation Co Ltdkr | 47 / 100Weak | not found | knows | not found | not found | not found |
| 4 | Animasia Production Sdn Bhdmy | 38 / 100Dark | not found | knows | not found | knows | not found |
| 5 | LightLab Sweden ABxx | 38 / 100Dark | knows | knows | not found | not found | not found |
| 6 | FLUFFY HOUSE COMPANY LIMITEDhk | 27 / 100Dark | not found | knows | not found | knows | not found |
| 7 | CATNEVERDIE by Dimplehk | 24 / 100Dark | not found | not found | not found | knows | not found |
| 8 | HONG DANG MOOkr | 21 / 100Dark | not found | not found | not found | not found | knows |
| 9 | TakeOne Companykr | 19 / 100Dark | not found | not found | not found | knows | not found |
| 10 | Networld Technology Limitedhk | 8 / 100Dark | not found | not found | not found | knows | not found |
Supplier by supplier: what each AI model knows
1. MERCIS BV 60 / 100 · Moderate Signal
MERCIS BV scores 60 out of 100, a Moderate Signal, and ranks #1 in NL. ChatGPT and Claude recognized the company; Perplexity, Gemini and DeepSeek did not surface it, which is exactly the gap that costs visibility with buyers who default to those tools. Claude rated it 6 out of 10 on overall suitability.
AI engines have a strong, consistent picture of MERCIS BV, a Franchising & Licensing supplier in nl. Across recent queries the company scored 84 out of 100 (Strong Signal), with the strongest dimension being AI Recommendation Rate at 100 out of 100 and the weakest Digital Footprint at 50 out of 100. 2 AI engines (out of 3 tested: GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet, deepseek-chat) returned substantive information about the company across identity, sourcing, and trust prompts. Products surfaced by AI include ip licensing, brand management, rights management. No certifications or third-party validations surfaced in AI responses, which limits the Buyer Trust dimension at 70 out of 100 and the AI Recommendation Rate at 100 out of 100. The Improvement Roadmap below outlines how to close remaining gaps and push every dimension toward Strong Signal.
2. Nippon Animation Co Ltd 59 / 100 · Weak Signal
Nippon Animation Co Ltd scores 59 out of 100, a Weak Signal, and ranks #2 in JP. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and DeepSeek recognized the company; Perplexity did not surface it, which is exactly the gap that costs visibility with buyers who default to those tools.
AI engines have a strong, consistent picture of Nippon Animation Co Ltd, a Franchising & Licensing supplier in jp. Across recent queries the company scored 82 out of 100 (Strong Signal), with the strongest dimension being AI Recommendation Rate at 100 out of 100 and the weakest Buyer Trust at 50 out of 100. 4 AI engines (out of 4 tested: GPT-4o mini, Claude Haiku, gemini-2.5-flash, deepseek-chat) returned substantive information about the company across identity, sourcing, and trust prompts. Products surfaced by AI include animation production, licensing, production services. No certifications or third-party validations surfaced in AI responses, which limits the Buyer Trust dimension at 50 out of 100 and the AI Recommendation Rate at 100 out of 100. The Improvement Roadmap below outlines how to close remaining gaps and push every dimension toward Strong Signal.
3. Samg Animation Co Ltd 47 / 100 · Weak Signal
Samg Animation Co Ltd scores 47 out of 100, a Weak Signal, and ranks #3 in KR. Claude recognized the company; ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and DeepSeek did not surface it, which is exactly the gap that costs visibility with buyers who default to those tools.
AI engines have a strong, consistent picture of Samg Animation Co Ltd, a Franchising & Licensing supplier in kr. Across recent queries the company scored 80 out of 100 (Strong Signal), with the strongest dimension being AI Recommendation Rate at 100 out of 100 and the weakest Digital Footprint at 50 out of 100. One AI engine (out of 3 tested: GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet, deepseek-chat) returned substantive information about the company across identity, sourcing, and trust prompts. Products surfaced by AI include animation production services, content licensing, ip rights licensing. No certifications or third-party validations surfaced in AI responses, which limits the Buyer Trust dimension at 70 out of 100 and the AI Recommendation Rate at 100 out of 100. The Improvement Roadmap below outlines how to close remaining gaps and push every dimension toward Strong Signal.
4. Animasia Production Sdn Bhd 38 / 100 · Dark Signal
Animasia Production Sdn Bhd scores 38 out of 100, a Dark Signal, and ranks #4 in MY. Claude and Gemini recognized the company; ChatGPT, Perplexity and DeepSeek did not surface it, which is exactly the gap that costs visibility with buyers who default to those tools.
AI engines recognize Animasia Production Sdn Bhd, a Franchising & Licensing supplier in my. Across recent queries the company scored 77 out of 100 (Moderate Signal), with the strongest dimension being AI Recommendation Rate at 100 out of 100 and the weakest Product Clarity at 30 out of 100. 2 AI engines (out of 4 tested: GPT-4o mini, Claude Haiku, gemini-2.5-flash, deepseek-chat) returned substantive information about the company across identity, sourcing, and trust prompts. Products surfaced by AI include animation production, intellectual property (ip) creation and management, intellectual properties (ips). No certifications or third-party validations surfaced in AI responses, which limits the Buyer Trust dimension at 70 out of 100 and the AI Recommendation Rate at 100 out of 100. The Improvement Roadmap below outlines how to close remaining gaps and push every dimension toward Strong Signal.
5. LightLab Sweden AB 38 / 100 · Dark Signal
LightLab Sweden AB scores 38 out of 100, a Dark Signal, and ranks #5 in XX. ChatGPT and Claude recognized the company; Perplexity, Gemini and DeepSeek did not surface it, which is exactly the gap that costs visibility with buyers who default to those tools.
AI engines recognize LightLab Sweden AB, a Franchising & Licensing supplier in xx. Across recent queries the company scored 65 out of 100 (Moderate Signal), with the strongest dimension being AI Recommendation Rate at 100 out of 100 and the weakest Digital Footprint at 20 out of 100. 2 AI engines (out of 3 tested: GPT-4o, Claude Sonnet, deepseek-chat) returned substantive information about the company across identity, sourcing, and trust prompts. Products surfaced by AI include electron/field emission technology, cold cathode light sources, x-ray technology. No certifications or third-party validations surfaced in AI responses, which limits the Buyer Trust dimension at 25 out of 100 and the AI Recommendation Rate at 100 out of 100. The Improvement Roadmap below outlines how to close remaining gaps and push every dimension toward Strong Signal.
6. FLUFFY HOUSE COMPANY LIMITED 27 / 100 · Dark Signal
FLUFFY HOUSE COMPANY LIMITED scores 27 out of 100, a Dark Signal, and ranks #6 in HK. Claude and Gemini recognized the company; ChatGPT, Perplexity and DeepSeek did not surface it, which is exactly the gap that costs visibility with buyers who default to those tools.
AI engines recognize FLUFFY HOUSE COMPANY LIMITED, a Franchising & Licensing supplier in hk. Across recent queries the company scored 65 out of 100 (Moderate Signal), with the strongest dimension being Identity and Presence at 80 out of 100 and the weakest Buyer Trust at 45 out of 100. 2 AI engines (out of 4 tested: GPT-4o mini, Claude Haiku, gemini-2.5-flash, deepseek-chat) returned substantive information about the company across identity, sourcing, and trust prompts. Products surfaced by AI include art toys, stationery, apparel. No certifications or third-party validations surfaced in AI responses, which limits the Buyer Trust dimension at 45 out of 100 and the AI Recommendation Rate at 70 out of 100. The Improvement Roadmap below outlines how to close remaining gaps and push every dimension toward Strong Signal.
7. CATNEVERDIE by Dimple 24 / 100 · Dark Signal
CATNEVERDIE by Dimple scores 24 out of 100, a Dark Signal, and ranks #7 in HK. Gemini recognized the company; ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and DeepSeek did not surface it, which is exactly the gap that costs visibility with buyers who default to those tools.
AI engines have a partial picture of CATNEVERDIE by Dimple, a Franchising & Licensing supplier in hk. Across recent queries the company scored 45 out of 100 (Weak Signal), with the strongest dimension being Product Clarity at 65 out of 100 and the weakest Buyer Trust at 20 out of 100. One AI engine (out of 4 tested: GPT-4o mini, Claude Haiku, gemini-2.5-flash, deepseek-chat) returned substantive information about the company across identity, sourcing, and trust prompts. Products surfaced by AI include franchising & licensing. No certifications or third-party validations surfaced in AI responses, which limits the Buyer Trust dimension at 20 out of 100 and the AI Recommendation Rate at 50 out of 100. The biggest opportunity for improvement is the Buyer Trust dimension; the Improvement Roadmap below lists concrete supplier-executable actions ranked by expected score uplift.
8. HONG DANG MOO 21 / 100 · Dark Signal
HONG DANG MOO scores 21 out of 100, a Dark Signal, and ranks #8 in KR. DeepSeek recognized the company; ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini did not surface it, which is exactly the gap that costs visibility with buyers who default to those tools.
AI engines have very limited information about HONG DANG MOO, a Franchising & Licensing supplier in kr. Across recent queries the company scored 11 out of 100 (Dark Signal), with the strongest dimension being Identity and Presence at 30 out of 100 and the weakest AI Recommendation Rate at 0 out of 100. One AI engine (out of 4 tested: GPT-4o mini, Claude Haiku, gemini-2.5-flash, deepseek-chat) returned substantive information about the company across identity, sourcing, and trust prompts. No specific products were surfaced by AI engines for this supplier, which contributes directly to the Product Clarity dimension at 10 out of 100. No certifications or third-party validations surfaced in AI responses, which limits the Buyer Trust dimension at 20 out of 100 and the AI Recommendation Rate at 0 out of 100. The biggest opportunity for improvement is the AI Recommendation Rate dimension; the Improvement Roadmap below lists concrete supplier-executable actions ranked by expected score uplift.
9. TakeOne Company 19 / 100 · Dark Signal
TakeOne Company scores 19 out of 100, a Dark Signal, and ranks #9 in KR. Gemini recognized the company; ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and DeepSeek did not surface it, which is exactly the gap that costs visibility with buyers who default to those tools.
AI engines have very limited information about TakeOne Company, a Franchising & Licensing supplier in kr. Across recent queries the company scored 19 out of 100 (Dark Signal), with the strongest dimension being Digital Footprint at 50 out of 100 and the weakest AI Recommendation Rate at 0 out of 100. One AI engine (out of 4 tested: GPT-4o mini, Claude Haiku, gemini-2.5-flash, deepseek-chat) returned substantive information about the company across identity, sourcing, and trust prompts. Products surfaced by AI include mobile game development, publishing. No certifications or third-party validations surfaced in AI responses, which limits the Buyer Trust dimension at 0 out of 100 and the AI Recommendation Rate at 0 out of 100. The biggest opportunity for improvement is the AI Recommendation Rate dimension; the Improvement Roadmap below lists concrete supplier-executable actions ranked by expected score uplift.
10. Networld Technology Limited 8 / 100 · Dark Signal
Networld Technology Limited scores 8 out of 100, a Dark Signal, and ranks #10 in HK. Gemini recognized the company; ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and DeepSeek did not surface it, which is exactly the gap that costs visibility with buyers who default to those tools.
AI engines have very limited information about Networld Technology Limited, a Franchising & Licensing supplier in hk. Across recent queries the company scored 22 out of 100 (Dark Signal), with the strongest dimension being Digital Footprint at 50 out of 100 and the weakest AI Recommendation Rate at 0 out of 100. One AI engine (out of 4 tested: GPT-4o mini, Claude Haiku, gemini-2.5-flash, deepseek-chat) returned substantive information about the company across identity, sourcing, and trust prompts. Products surfaced by AI include network infrastructure, cybersecurity, software development. No certifications or third-party validations surfaced in AI responses, which limits the Buyer Trust dimension at 0 out of 100 and the AI Recommendation Rate at 0 out of 100. The biggest opportunity for improvement is the AI Recommendation Rate dimension; the Improvement Roadmap below lists concrete supplier-executable actions ranked by expected score uplift.
How we built this ranking
Every supplier on this page was scored with the same locked Signal method. We send a fixed set of buyer-style prompts to ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and DeepSeek, in more than one buyer language, and parse each answer for whether the model recognized the company, what products and certifications it named, its sentiment, and an overall verdict from 1 to 10. Those signals roll up into five weighted dimensions and a single 0 to 100 Signal Score, smoothed over the three most recent audit runs to dampen model jitter. We do not adjust weights per supplier and we do not accept payment for placement. The Franchising & Licensing ranking is rebuilt automatically as audits refresh, so a supplier that improves its AI footprint can climb, and one that lets its data go stale can fall. Full detail on prompts, weights and refresh cadence is on the methodology page.
Read the full Signal methodology
Caveats
A few honest caveats. This is a measure of AI visibility, not product quality, price or delivery reliability, so always run your own due diligence before you commit to any Franchising & Licensing supplier. AI models change their answers over time and occasionally refuse to rate a company at all, which is why some cells in the table read as not found rather than a number. Coverage is also a function of which suppliers we have audited so far; a strong supplier we have not yet reached will not appear here yet. Treat the ranking as a live snapshot, dated below, rather than a final word.
Our recommendation
If you are sourcing Franchising & Licensing and want to move fast, start with MERCIS BV, Nippon Animation Co Ltd and Samg Animation Co Ltd. They are the easiest for an AI procurement assistant to find and describe correctly, which means less manual research and fewer surprises when you brief an agent to shortlist for you. Shortlist two or three, then verify each directly on price, capacity, certifications and references before you commit. If you are a supplier reading your own category, the gap between your score and the leaders is the gap an AI buyer sees first, and it is closeable: each supplier page on Reevol Signal shows exactly which engines miss you and what to fix.
Ranking as of June 3, 2026. Browse the full Franchising & Licensing leaderboard for every audited supplier in the category.