AI Visibility Index · Cell report
AI Visibility Index: Aggregate & Stone Materials in California
74 companies tracked · Last measured September 18, 2026 · Next measurement October 18, 2026
When a buyer asks an AI assistant for a aggregate & stone materials supplier in California, these are the companies that get named. This is what we found when the cell was last measured.
The headline numbers
60 of 74
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.
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- Cell average
- 0.32of 15
- Top ten average
- 5.6of 15
Across all 74 tracked companies.
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 California
These are the companies AI assistants named most often when California buyers went looking for a supplier in this category.
| Rank | Company | Location | AI visibility |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | CalPortland13 employees4 name variants
| Turlock, California | 13 of 15 answers |
| 2 | Graniterock275 employees | Watsonville, California | 12 of 15 answers |
| 3 | Vulcan Materials Company | California | 8 of 15 answers |
| 4 | Granite Construction – Materials Division | California | 5 of 15 answers |
| 5 | CEMEX USA | California | 4 of 15 answers |
| 6 | Holliday Rock60 employees | Upland, California | 3 of 15 answers |
| 7 | West Coast Sand & Gravel Inc71 employees | Buena Park, California | 3 of 15 answers |
| 8 | BuySand.com2 name variants
| California | 3 of 15 answers |
| 9 | Vulcan Materials – Western Division | California | 3 of 15 answers |
| 10 | Clearlake Lava Inc15 employees | Clearlake Oaks, California | 2 of 15 answers |
54 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 California. They belong to that state's ranking, not this one.
| Company | State | Mentions |
|---|---|---|
| Granite Construction | New York | 5 of 15 |
| Martin Marietta | Texas | 4 of 15 |
| Western Materials | Washington | 4 of 15 |
| Martin Marietta Materials | Texas | 1 of 15 |
| Omya | Vermont | 1 of 15 |
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This is the first measurement of this cell, so there is nothing to compare it with yet. The next measurement will show what moved.
Stability is normal. AI answers in industrial categories change slowly, and a cell can go several measurements with no change in the top ten.
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 aggregate and stone materials companies in California”
- 2“Who supplies washed construction sand and gravel in California”
- 3“I need a California aggregate and stone materials partner for ongoing ready-mix concrete production, who should I talk to”
- 4“Top aggregate and stone materials suppliers in California for civil construction buyers”
- 5“Which California aggregate and stone materials suppliers can provide DOT-spec crushed stone and certified gradations”
- 6“List 20 aggregate and stone materials companies in California 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.
- mets.dot.ca.gov18 companies
- calcima.org8 companies
- en.wikipedia.orgDirectory7 companies
- dime.dot.ca.gov7 companies
- teichert.com3 companies
- hellogravel.com3 companies
- aggregatereviews.com2 companies
- buysand.com2 companies
- cemexusa.com2 companies
- dot.ca.gov2 companies
- martinmarietta.com2 companies
- vulcanmaterials.com2 companies
64 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.
California in context
California ranks 1st of 3 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 15%.
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Nearby cells
Aggregate & Stone Materials in other states
- Texas
- New York
- Florida — not measured yet
- Pennsylvania — not measured yet
- Ohio — not measured yet
- Massachusetts — not measured yet
- Michigan — not measured yet
- New Jersey — not measured yet
- Connecticut — not measured yet
- North Carolina — not measured yet
- Illinois — not measured yet
- Indiana — not measured yet
- Washington — not measured yet
- Louisiana — not measured yet
Underlined in ochre: measured and published. The rest are tracked and not measured yet.
Other categories in California
- Advertising Specialties & Promotional Products
- Abrasive Blasting Equipment & Services
- Acrylic Sheets & Products
- Metal Fabrication Services — not measured yet
- Lithographic, Offset & Letterpress Printing Services — not measured yet
- Commercial & Specialty Motor Trucks — not measured yet
- Retail, Trade Show & Advertising Display Fixtures — not measured yet
- Metal Cutting Machine Tools — not measured yet
- Contract Machine Work & Machining Services — not measured yet
- Motor Vehicle Parts & Accessories — not measured yet
- Food Products — not measured yet
- Plastic Packaging — not measured yet