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AI visibility checker: which engines name your brand?
How it works
Free, no signup. About 20 seconds, because four engines are answering.
Name your brand and one buying question
Write the question the way a buyer types it into ChatGPT, like “best CRM for a small sales team”, not your product category. Add your domain to check links, and up to three competitors.
Four engines answer at once
ChatGPT and Gemini with web search on, Perplexity, and the AI Overview on a live Google results page. Each answer is written for this question today.
Read it engine by engine
For each engine: whether it names you, whether it links your site, where you sit in the answer, which competitors it names, and the pages it drew on.
A real run
Example result
HubSpot, asked “best crm for a 10 person b2b startup” on 9 October 2026, with Pipedrive, Salesforce and Attio as competitors. Every engine named HubSpot, and none of them linked hubspot.com. The pages they cited instead are listed under each one.
Result · asked four engines
All 4 engines that answered name HubSpot.
“best crm for a 10 person b2b startup”None of them link hubspot.com.
ChatGPT
#1 in the answerHubSpot CRM – Free tier available, user-friendly, great for small teams, and includes marketing and sales tools
Also named: Pipedrive
No sources listed with this answer.
Perplexity
#2 in the answerHubSpot CRM — best if you want broad adoption, easy onboarding, and room to grow; startup guides commonly recommend it for seed-stage teams
Also named: Pipedrive, Attio
Cited: dupple.com, folk.app, magier.com, croclub.com and 15 more
Gemini
#1 in the answerHubSpot CRM: Often cited for its free tier, which is excellent for startups
Also named: Salesforce
Cited: foglift.io, tools.esearchlogix.com, pallasai.io, mtsoln.com and 1 more
Google AI Overviews
#1 in the answerHubSpot CRM — Best for inbound marketing and overall versatility
Also named: Pipedrive, Attio
Cited: zapier.com, helixstax.com, crmadvise.com, staging1.kasplo.com and 3 more
Why ask four engines at once
The engines do not agree. They search different indexes, cite different pages, and rank brands differently for the same question, so a brand can come first in one and be missing from the next. Checking one of them tells you about that one.
The comparison is also where the fix shows up. If Perplexity names you and ChatGPT does not, look at the pages Perplexity cited and ask why ChatGPT did not read them. If no engine names you, the problem is upstream of any one engine: the review sites, comparison posts and forum threads in your category do not mention you yet.
What the result shows
- Names you. Your brand appears in the answer text, matched on the name you typed.
- Links your site. One of the cited pages is on your domain. Fill in the domain field for this one.
- Position. Where you sit among the brands the answer lists, when it lists them in order.
- Also named. Which of your competitors appear in the same answer.
- Cited. The pages the engine drew on. These are the pages to get onto, whether through a correction, a comparison, or a listing.
What it leaves out
It asks one question, once, from the United States, without a logged-in user, so it cannot see the personalisation the apps add. Grok has its own checker, and Claude is in the paid product. For your site rather than your brand, the AI readiness checker tests whether the engines can read you at all.
Every day, not once
AI visibility tracking
One check is a snapshot. CueScout asks your buying questions on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google’s AI every day, so a real change stands out from a bad day.
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What is an AI visibility checker?
A tool that asks AI answer engines the questions your buyers ask and reports whether the answers name your brand and link your site. This one asks one question on four engines at once, so you can see where you show up and where you do not.
Which AI engines does it check?
ChatGPT and Gemini through their APIs with web search turned on (OpenAI’s gpt-4.1-mini and Google’s Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite), Perplexity through its Sonar API, and Google AI Overviews read from a live Google results page in the United States. The API answers are close to what the apps give a logged-out user, not identical to them, and none of them is personalised.
What is the difference between being named and being linked?
Named means your brand appears in the answer text. Linked means one of the pages the engine cited is on your domain. They fail for different reasons. Named but not linked usually means the engine learned about you from other sites, so those sites are where your next mention comes from. Linked but not named means your page was read and someone else was recommended.
Why does Google AI Overviews sometimes say there was no answer?
Google does not show an AI Overview for every search. Long, conversational questions often get none, while short head terms usually do. When there is no Overview there is nothing to be named in, which is a finding in itself. The AI Overview checker reads up to three keywords at once if you want Google on its own.
Why are Grok and Claude not in the list?
Grok costs about ten times what a Perplexity question costs, so it has its own free checker where you pick it on purpose. Claude is checked only for paying customers who add it. Neither is left out because it does not matter.
Will I get the same result if I run it again?
Often not exactly. AI answers are written fresh for every question, so the brands named and the order they come in can change within the same day. One run tells you where to look. Tracking the same questions daily is what shows a real change, and that is what the paid product does.
Do you keep what I type?
Each run is logged with what was typed, what came back, and the network it came from, so we can spot abuse and see which tools get used. It is not tied to an account and nobody emails you unless you ask for the report below the result.
Track it every day instead of once
CueScout runs these checks on a schedule and turns the gaps into To-dos.