インスタリム株式会社 (Instalimb Inc.) AEO Assessment Report
by Novastacks AI
instalimb.com | Japan Market
March 02, 2026 | Prepared by Novastacks AI
Site Readiness: 2.9 · LLM Visibility: 4.6
ChatGPT Knows You. It Links to Journalists. Not Your Website.
Instalimb has earned something most startups would envy: genuine recognition from NHK, Asahi Shimbun, the Prime Minister's Office of Japan, JICA, UTokyo IPC, and ChatGPT itself. The brand is embedded in AI training data as the definitive Japanese 3D prosthetics pioneer — featured in a 2.7 million-view government YouTube video. But that recognition is costing you pipeline.
Every time a B2B partner, hospital administrator, or government procurement officer asks an AI about your technology, the citations route to opedge.com, prtimes.jp, and nedo.go.jp — not instalimb.com. Google AI platforms show zero citations from your own domain. Your website ranks for exactly one keyword in Japan: your company name. Five hundred and forty-five press mentions drive traffic to press sites. Your website is invisible in the searches that convert.
There is a structural gap between where your brand lives — in government reports, media coverage, and AI training data — and where your website lives, which is nowhere in organic or AI-driven discovery. Every partner who finds Instalimb through AI or search lands in someone else's content. That is a qualified lead you never received.
| Domain | Ranked Keywords | Est. Traffic (ETV) | #1 Positions | #2-3 | #4-10 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| instalimb.com | 1 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| gaitassist.com | 10 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| open-bionics.com | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
1 Ranked Keywords — Total keywords for which the domain appears in Google Japan top 100 results. Source: DataForSEO Labs, location_code=2392 (Japan), March 2026.
2 ETV — Estimated monthly traffic value in Japan, calculated from keyword positions and estimated click-through rates. Source: DataForSEO Labs, Japan market.
3 Competitor selection: GAIT ASSIST is a Japan-based prosthetics manufacturer (appeared in Japan SERP for 義肢装具 3Dプリント); Open Bionics is a global 3D-printed prosthetics startup for cross-market benchmark comparison.
AI Citation Gap
0Google AI citations from instalimb.com
ChatGPT recognizes Instalimb and includes it in responses about Asian 3D prosthetics startups — but cites opedge.com and prtimes.jp, not instalimb.com. Google AI platforms show zero direct citations from your domain. Your brand is known to AI; your website is not. Every AI-driven discovery sends potential partners to someone else's content.
§ Section 02: AI Visibility
Content Existence Gap
0Blog posts, FAQ pages, or guides on instalimb.com
Instalimb's website is entirely transactional — service overviews, a clinic page, and an about section. There is no blog, no FAQ, no how-to guide, no comparison content, no patient education material. All informational content about Instalimb exists on third-party sites. AI citation requires citable content; citable content requires content to exist.
§ Section 03: Site Readiness
Keyword Ownership Gap
1Keywords ranked in Japan Google — all branded
Instalimb ranks for exactly one keyword in Japan: its own company name (インスタリム), at position 7. Zero category keywords — no ranking for 3Dプリント義足, 義肢装具 製造, prosthetics manufacturing platform, or any B2B solution terms. Competitors in the same market also have near-zero presence, making this a first-mover opportunity — if content is built.
§ Section 05: Content Analysis
This assessment analyzes the top 150 ranked keywords per domain across 3 sites, crawls 9–15 representative pages per audit, runs 3 Lighthouse performance audits, and executes 12 AI prompt tests across ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews. Third-party citation surface checks include YouTube, Reddit, G2, Wikipedia, direct competitor domains, and other category-relevant platforms. All scores use a 1–10 scale. Data reflects conditions as of March 2026.
ChatGPT Names You. It Links to Press Coverage, Not Your Website.
AI visibility across ChatGPT gpt-4o and Google AI Overview — Japan market
ChatGPT Query Results
| Prompt Type | Query | Mentioned? | Who Was Cited |
|---|---|---|---|
| Branded | インスタリム株式会社（Instalimb）とはどんな会社ですか？ | Yes | Brand mentioned, described accurately — no URL cited, no web search used |
| Category | 3Dプリントを使った義肢装具の製造プラットフォーム（アジアのスタートアップ） | Yes | Instalimb listed 2nd of 5 companies — cited via opedge.com, NOT instalimb.com |
| Comparison | 義肢装具のデジタル製造ソリューションの比較（Instalimb、Open Bionics、その他） | Yes | Instalimb compared alongside Open Bionics — generic description, no citations, no web search |
ChatGPT knows Instalimb from training data — it can describe the company's technology and mission accurately. But it consistently fails to cite instalimb.com as a source URL. For category and comparison queries, ChatGPT routes citations to industry trade press (opedge.com) and government agency pages. This is the canonical 'brand awareness without website authority' pattern: AI knows the company exists but directs users to third parties for information.
Google AI Overview Results
| Query Type | Query | AIO Triggered? | Prospect Rank | Top Results |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long-tail Category | 3Dプリント義足 フィリピン インド 安価 | Yes | Not in organic top 10 | asahi.com (#1), keio-innovation.co.jp (#2), j-vgi.co.jp (#3), jetro.go.jp (#4), prtimes.jp (#5) |
| Branded | インスタリム 義足 | No | Not in top 10 organically | j-vgi.co.jp (#1), prtimes.jp (#2), nedo.go.jp (#3), j-startup.go.jp (#4), sharelab.jp (#5) |
For Instalimb's own branded search 'インスタリム 義足', the top 10 results are dominated by investor portfolio pages (JIC VGI), press releases (PR Times), government startup registries (NEDO, J-Startup), and academic publications — not instalimb.com. Google AI Overview triggered for category queries but instalimb.com has zero citations in those AI-generated answers. Third-party institutional coverage has become the de facto website for searchers looking for Instalimb.
Citation Surface Analysis
| Platform | Presence | Strength | Notable |
|---|---|---|---|
| YouTube | Yes | 1.8K subscribers (Philippines channel); 2.7M views (PM Office feature) | Featured in Prime Minister's Office of Japan official video — extraordinary institutional endorsement |
| Yes | 5,100+ followers | Active company page, recent expansion news to Indonesia | |
| Yahoo Chiebukuro | Unknown | Not verified | Japan's largest Q&A platform — unverified presence |
| PR Times | Yes | 14+ press releases indexed | Primary press release channel — well-indexed but off-domain |
| G2 / Review platforms | No | No profile found | Medical device category — review platforms not applicable, but no structured third-party validation |
Instalimb has meaningful YouTube presence through third-party channels (PM Office 2.7M views, Philippines clinic channel 1.8K subscribers) and active LinkedIn presence. However, Japan's primary Q&A and forum platforms (Yahoo Chiebukuro, Hatena, Note.com) show no verified Instalimb presence — which is where Japanese B2B decision-makers conduct due diligence research.
Four Page Types. Two Exist. Zero Informational Content Anywhere.
Page-type coverage comparison across instalimb.com, gaitassist.com, open-bionics.com
| Page Type | インスタリム株式会社 (Instalimb Inc.) | GAIT ASSIST (gaitassist.com) | Open Bionics (open-bionics.com) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homepage | ✓ Next.js SSR, Org schema | ✓ WordPress SSR, Breadcrumb + WebSite | ⚠ Not crawlable from Japan |
| Product/Service Pages | ⚠ SSR only — zero schema on service/clinic pages | ✓ Product pages (G-Cover, G-Limb) with WordPress structure | ⚠ Not crawlable from Japan |
| Blog / Informational | ✗ Does not exist — News links to prtimes.jp (off-domain) | ⚠ お知らせ (news) section — minimal depth | ✗ Not verified |
| FAQ / Help | ✗ Does not exist | ✗ Does not exist | ✗ Not verified |
A Site Built for Speed. Not for Search or AI Discovery.
Technical infrastructure gaps suppressing organic and AI visibility
Lighthouse SEO Score: 75% — Basic Discoverability Gaps
Instalimb's Core Web Vitals are excellent: Performance 97%, FCP 0.6s, LCP 0.8s, zero Total Blocking Time. The site loads fast. But the Lighthouse SEO score of 75% signals that basic discoverability elements are incomplete — including metadata coverage, structured data implementation, and link annotation. Performance and discoverability are different problems. Instalimb has solved one and not the other.
| Metric | Instalimb | GAIT ASSIST |
|---|---|---|
| Lighthouse Performance | 97% ✓ | 44% ✗ |
| Lighthouse SEO | 75% ⚠ | 100% ✓ |
| FCP | 0.6s ✓ | 2.3s ✗ |
| LCP | 0.8s ✓ | 3.5s ✗ |
| Total Blocking Time | 0ms ✓ | 460ms ✗ |
Zero Schema on Service and Clinic Pages
CriticalThe homepage carries an Organization schema (Japanese company name, logo, description, URL). Every other page — the Solutions platform overview, the Philippines clinic page, the India clinic page — has zero structured data. This means AI crawlers parsing these pages have no machine-readable signals about what services are offered, what locations operate, or what the business does. Schema is the vocabulary AI uses to understand and cite content; its absence on service pages makes those pages opaque to AI extraction.
| Page | Schemas Present | Bot Impact |
|---|---|---|
| Homepage | Organization ✓ | Company identity readable |
| Solutions / Platform | None ✗ | Service offering invisible to AI |
| Philippines Clinic | None ✗ | Clinic details invisible to AI |
| India Clinic | Not crawled | Unknown |
No Hreflang Tags — Multilingual Site Without Language Signals
Instalimb operates a multilingual site with at minimum Japanese (/jp), English (/en), and Philippines (/ph) locale paths. No hreflang tags were detected in the crawled HTML. Without hreflang, Google cannot correctly attribute which version of a page serves which market — risking duplicate content signals and preventing Japan-market pages from ranking in Japanese searches. For a company with three active market regions, this is a systematic oversight.
Robots.txt: All AI Crawlers Permitted — Positive Signal
instalimb.com/robots.txt uses a universal Allow rule (User-agent: * / Allow: /) with no restrictions for GPTBot, ClaudeBot, or PerplexityBot. AI crawlers can access the site freely. The zero Google AI citation count is therefore a content gap, not a crawl block — the site is accessible but has no citable informational content for AI to extract and surface.
Press Covers Your Story Every Month. Your Website Tells None of It.
Content depth gaps preventing AI citation and organic discovery
Zero Informational Content On-Domain
CriticalThe instalimb.com navigation includes: Home, Service, About, Recruit, Donation, News. The News section links externally to prtimes.jp press releases — not to pages on instalimb.com. There is no blog, no patient education section, no FAQ, no manufacturing process explainer, no case study, no impact report hosted on the domain. Every piece of informational content about Instalimb — how 3D prosthetics work, who uses them, how the scanning process works, what the costs are — lives on third-party domains. AI systems cite the content, not the company that inspired it.
Related searches for 'インスタリム 義足' include 'インスタリム 株価', 'インスタリム 上場', 'インスタリム 評判', and 'インスタリム 求人' — indicating strong search intent around the brand. None of these queries resolve to instalimb.com content.
News Routed Off-Domain — Authority Split to Press Syndicate
CriticalInstalimb has 14+ press releases on prtimes.jp covering funding rounds, market expansions, awards, and partnerships. These pages rank in Google Japan for branded queries — j-vgi.co.jp and prtimes.jp occupy positions 1-2 for 'インスタリム 義足'. The company's own domain ranks for zero non-branded terms. By routing all news content to prtimes.jp, Instalimb transfers the SEO authority of its own press activity to a third-party syndication platform. Every government award, every funding announcement, every partnership news item builds domain authority for prtimes.jp, not instalimb.com.
No H2/H3 Heading Hierarchy — Flat Content Structure
Page analysis across the homepage, solutions page, and clinic page found zero H2 or H3 tags in the server-rendered HTML. The homepage carries five H1 tags (Our Services, What we do, Recruit, Join Hands, News) — which are section titles, not a hierarchical document structure. AI models use heading hierarchy to understand content organization and extract section-level summaries. A flat H1-only structure signals to AI that content is marketing copy rather than reference material worth citing.
Category Keyword Opportunity: 0 Competitors Own It Either
Neither GAIT ASSIST (10 keywords, best position 11) nor Open Bionics (0 Japan keywords) owns meaningful Japan category rankings. The keyword spaces for 義肢装具 3Dプリント製造, 義足 ソリューション B2B, and prosthetic manufacturing platform are entirely uncontested by direct competitors in Japan. This is a first-mover window. Content built now would face minimal competition from direct peers — the risk is that international press coverage and academic sites (which currently rank for these terms) remain the default citation sources.
Japan's 3D Prosthetics Pioneer. Cited by the PM's Office. Missing From Its Own Category.
Brand positioning gaps between institutional recognition and search/AI discoverability
Exceptional Brand Validation — Captured by Third Parties
Instalimb has 545 web mentions with overwhelmingly positive sentiment (love, share, happiness dominant — zero anger). Coverage sources include: Asahi Shimbun (Japan's largest newspaper), NHK World, JICA (Japan International Cooperation Agency), JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization), NEDO (government R&D agency), UTokyo IPC (University of Tokyo), J-Startup (METI program), and the Prime Minister's Office of Japan — which produced a 2.7 million-view YouTube video featuring Instalimb. This is institutional validation that most Series A startups never achieve. None of it routes to instalimb.com as the primary destination.
Category Positioning: Pioneer Label Without Category Rankings
CriticalChatGPT describes Instalimb as part of the Asian 3D prosthetics category — listed alongside Vulcan Augmetics (Vietnam/Singapore), Mand.ro (Korea), and HopeLabs (UAE). The brand has earned the 'pioneer' label in multiple AI and press sources. But when users search for the category — 3Dプリント義足 製造, 義肢装具 デジタル製造 — instalimb.com does not appear. The press has told the category story. Instalimb's website has not. ChatGPT cites opedge.com for Instalimb's category entry — an O&P trade publication — rather than an authoritative page on instalimb.com describing the technology, use cases, and results.
B2B Discovery Gap: Solution Business Invisible in AI
Instalimb operates two business lines: a Clinic Business (patient-facing, Philippines and India) and a Solution Business (B2B platform licensing to prosthetics organizations). The Solution Business — 'More Than Just Technology: A Complete Solution for Prosthetic and Orthotic Care' — targets hospital systems, NGOs, government procurement agencies, and rehabilitation centers globally. In all ChatGPT and Google AI responses tested, Instalimb is described exclusively in the patient/humanitarian framing. The B2B platform positioning, pricing model, and enterprise value proposition are entirely absent from AI-generated descriptions. A procurement officer asking 'prosthetics digital manufacturing platform' would not encounter Instalimb's solution business in AI responses.
Roadmap: From 1 Ranked Keyword to Owning the 3D Prosthetics Category in Japan
Prioritized fixes across three time horizons to capture uncontested category traffic
Site Readiness Score
LLM Visibility Score
Horizon 1: Infrastructure (0-30 days)
+1.5 to +2.0 Site Readiness
Add FAQPage, Service, and MedicalDevice schema to service and clinic pages
Implement WebSite schema with sitelinks searchbox on homepage
Add hreflang tags for /en, /jp, and /ph locale paths
Fix H2/H3 heading hierarchy across all pages for AI content extraction
Add BreadcrumbList schema to all non-homepage pages
Horizon 2: Content (30-90 days)
+1.5 to +2.0 Site Readiness, +1.0 LLM Visibility
Launch on-domain blog — migrate press content summaries with canonical owned versions
Create FAQ page for Clinic Business (patient-facing: cost, process, eligibility)
Create FAQ page for Solution Business (B2B: licensing, integration, ROI)
Write 'How 3D Prosthetics Manufacturing Works' category explainer page
Host impact report on-domain: 5,000+ units delivered, 16+ partners, 6+ countries
Horizon 3: Authority (3-6 months)
+1.5 to +2.5 LLM Visibility
Establish Yahoo Chiebukuro presence — answer questions about 3D prosthetics in Japan
Build Hatena / Note.com thought leadership articles in Japanese
Create structured comparison content: Instalimb Solution vs traditional P&O manufacturing
Develop citation-worthy original data: cost-per-unit analysis, delivery time benchmarks, patient outcomes
Pitch instalimb.com as the primary citation target to PR contacts — link to own site in press releases
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