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Query fan-out tool: see the searches behind an AI answer
How it works
Free, no signup. About 5 seconds, or 15 with a page.
Enter the question
Write it the way a buyer would ask ChatGPT or Google. Pick AI Overviews for a narrow fan-out or AI Mode for a wide one.
A model reads the web, then fans it out
Perplexity’s Sonar searches first, so the searches use the words people in your field use, then writes 8 or 14 of them, each labelled with what it adds.
Check your page against them
Optional. We read your page as a crawler does and mark each search answered, partly answered or not answered, with the passage from your page that shows it.
A real run
Example result
Our own post, “12 Best AI Search Visibility Tools (2026), Compared with Pricing”, fanned out for “best ai visibility tool for b2b saas” at AI Mode width on 9 October 2026. It answers 8 of the 14 searches and partly answers 3. The 3 it misses are what AI visibility tools cannot do and two head-to-head comparisons the post never makes.
Result · 14 simulated searches · AI Mode width
“best ai visibility tool for b2b saas”
A B2B SaaS marketer or SEO lead wants to choose the best AI visibility tool and decide whether to monitor, benchmark, or improve brand presence in AI search.
Your page answers 8 of 14, partly answers 3, and misses 3. 12 Best AI Search Visibility Tools (2026), Compared with Pricing
ai visibility software for b2b saas
Reformulation. Uses the category language a practitioner would likely search.
The best AI search visibility tool for most in-house B2B and SaaS marketing teams in 2026 is CueScout.
Answeredllm seo for b2b saas
Related. Covers the adjacent optimization discipline tied to visibility tools.
For raw prompt volume, SE Visible and LLMrefs. For an enterprise buying process with a sales team, Profound.
Partlyhow to track ai search visibility
Related. Adds the measurement problem behind the purchase decision.
An AI visibility tracker asks the same prompts on a schedule and records whether you were named, in what position, and which pages were cited.
Answeredai visibility tool pricing
Implicit. Checks budget fit and plan affordability.
Most self-serve entry plans sat between $29 and $99 a month: Otterly.AI at $29, CueScout at $49, LLMrefs at $79, Peec AI at $95, SE Visible, Rankscale Pro and Semrush (billed annually) at $99.
Answeredai visibility tool limitations
Implicit. Surfaces coverage gaps and constraints before buying.
Not answeredai visibility setup for saas
Implicit. Shows implementation effort and operational complexity.
Starter is $49 a month with no sales call, and the first check is free.
Answeredprofound ai visibility
Entity. Investigates a leading enterprise option in the category.
Most rivals have a catch in the pricing: Profound is…
Partlypeec ai visibility
Entity. Checks a known mid-market competitor tool.
Peec AI SEO and content managers starting out $95/mo Any 3 of ChatGPT, AI Mode, AI Overviews, Copilot, Gemini, Naver 50, daily Yes, length not stated
Partlyotterly ai pricing
Entity. Tests the lower-cost baseline option.
Otterly.AI Solo marketers and small teams $29/mo ($25 annual) ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot 15 Yes
Answeredprofound vs peec ai
Comparative. Compares two prominent tools directly.
Not answeredathenahq vs otterly ai
Comparative. Compares a fuller platform with a lighter baseline.
Not answeredbest ai visibility tools 2026
Recency. Captures current market leaders and recent shifts.
We rank CueScout first for in-house B2B and SaaS marketing teams. For $49 a month it checks ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews
Answeredai visibility tools 2026 pricing
Recency. Finds the latest plan changes and entry costs.
Most self-serve entry plans sat between $29 and $99 a month: Otterly.AI at $29, CueScout at $49, LLMrefs at $79, Peec AI at $95, SE Visible, Rankscale Pro and Semrush (billed annually) at $99.
Answeredgoogle ai overviews visibility tools 2026
Recency. Tracks current support for Google’s AI results surfaces.
For $49 a month it checks ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews daily, records the pages they cite, scans Reddit, Quora and Hacker News
Answered
Simulated. No engine publishes the searches it runs for a given person, so these are the ones a model that read the web for this question expects. Run it twice and some searches will differ, as they do for the engines.
What query fan-out is
When Google launched AI Mode in May 2025 it described the method as query fan-out: the question is broken into subtopics and many searches are run at once on the user’s behalf. AI Overviews do a smaller version of the same thing, and ChatGPT search and Perplexity also run several searches before they write.
For a page, that changes what ranking means. The engine picks sources for each sub-search, so a page that only answers the head question competes for one slot in the answer, and a page that also answers the price question, the limits question and the comparison competes for several.
The six kinds of search
- Reformulation. The same need in other words, the way someone else would type it.
- Related. A neighbouring question the answer would also cover.
- Implicit. What the person needs but did not ask: price, limits, setup, who it suits.
- Comparative. A versus or alternatives search.
- Entity. One named product, company or standard the answer has to mention.
- Recency. Current information: this year, the latest changes.
In the example above, all three misses are implicit or comparative searches. That is not surprising: a writer answers the question that was asked and stops. They are also the searches where an engine has to look past the vendor’s own page.
How to use the result
Run your most important buying question at AI Mode width, with the page you most want cited. Read the misses first. Then take a few of the searches to the AI Overview checker to see which sites Google links for them today: those pages are the competition for each slot, and often the places a mention of you would do the most good.
Every day, not once
AI citation tracking
The fan-out predicts what an engine might search. CueScout records the pages ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI actually cite for your buying questions, every day, and sorts them by the ones you could get onto.
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What is query fan-out?
The way AI search engines answer a question: instead of one search, they run several narrower ones (a reworded version, a price check, a comparison, a search about a named product) and write the answer from the pages those return. Google described AI Mode this way when it launched in May 2025, and ChatGPT search works the same way.
Are these the searches Google actually runs?
No one outside Google can see those for a given person, so this is a simulation, and the page says so on every result. The searches are written by Perplexity’s Sonar model, which reads the web before it answers, so they use the terms people in your field search with. Treat them as a well-informed list of what an engine is likely to look up, not a log.
What is the difference between the AI Overviews and AI Mode settings?
Width. An AI Overview is a short answer and fans out narrowly, so that setting writes 8 searches. AI Mode writes a longer, researched answer and fans out wider, so that setting writes 14.
How do you decide whether my page answers a search?
We read the page the way a crawler does, without running JavaScript, and a second model judges each search against the text. Any search it marks answered or partly answered has to come with a passage from your page, and we check that passage is really there before showing it. For a search about a named product, if the name is nowhere on your page, it is marked not answered whatever the model said.
What should I do with the searches my page misses?
Decide which ones a buyer reading your page would expect answered, then answer them where they would look: a price in plain numbers, a short section on limits, a fair comparison. Not every miss belongs on the same page; some are better as their own post that links back.
Why are the searches different when I run it again?
Because the engines vary too. A fan-out is written fresh for every question, so the exact wording shifts between runs while the types of search stay much the same. Run it two or three times if you want the fuller set.
Do you keep what I type?
Each run is logged with the question, the page URL if you gave one, and what came back, 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.