Free tool · Answer engine optimization
AI assistants get asked a predictable set of question shapes about any product category: best-in-category, head-to-head, is-it-worth-it, and alternatives-to. This tool expands your category, brand, and competitors across all of them, so you get a prompt set worth tracking instead of the three prompts everyone thinks of first.
Free, no account required.
Your prompt set will appear here, grouped by funnel stage, with links to run each prompt in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google.
Most teams track the first two and never look at the last three, which is where the highest-intent buyers are.
| Stage | Pattern | What losing it costs you |
|---|---|---|
| Discovery | best {category}, best {category} for {segment}, top {category} in 2026 | You are not in the answer at all. Highest ceiling, hardest to win. |
| Comparison | {you} vs {competitor}, should I use {you} or {competitor} | You are in the shortlist and losing the verdict. Usually fixable with one good page. |
| Evaluation | is {you} worth it, {you} pricing, what do users complain about with {you} | Answered from stale reviews and old threads more often than from your site. |
| Switching | alternatives to {competitor}, why do people leave {competitor} | The highest-intent prompts in the set. Their churn is your pipeline. |
| Jobs to be done | how do I {job}, what tool should I use to {job} | No category named. Winning these means being recommended before a category exists. |
An assistant that remembers you, or has your site in its context window, will recommend you. Use a fresh session with no history so you see what a stranger sees.
The same prompt returns different products on different days. One run is an anecdote. The same set run weekly is a trend you can act on.
Note which sources the assistant leaned on. Those pages, not the competitor's homepage, are what you actually have to displace or get included in.
To spot-check a single prompt right now, use the AI Visibility Checker. To make your site easier for assistants to read and cite correctly, generate an llms.txt file.
Step 1
Use the phrase a buyer would type, not your internal category name. If people search for competitive intelligence tool, do not enter market signal platform. The category drives every discovery prompt.
Step 2
Your brand unlocks the comparison and objection prompts. Each competitor generates head-to-head prompts and a set of switching prompts that their unhappy customers are already asking.
Step 3
Segments become the qualifier in best X for ___, which is where most category-level competition actually happens. Jobs generate the prompts where a buyer describes the problem without naming your category at all.
Step 4
Click through to ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Google from any prompt, in a fresh logged-out session. Note whether you appear, in what position, and which competitors are named instead. That list is your AEO backlog.
When you outgrow this tool
This tool is free and complete on its own, with no account and no limits worth mentioning. Linkeddit is what you use when the job stops being a one-off and starts needing to run every week without you.
FAQ
What to track, how to run it honestly, and what to do with the prompts you lose.
Answer engine optimization is the practice of getting recommended and cited by AI assistants like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, rather than ranking for a blue link. The unit of work is a prompt rather than a keyword, and the outcome you want is being named in the answer.
Between 30 and 60 for a single category is a workable starting set. Fewer than 20 and you are measuring noise, because answer engines vary between runs. More than 100 and you will not act on the results. Cover all five stages rather than loading up on the one you find most flattering.
Because losing them means different things. Losing discovery prompts means you never enter the shortlist. Losing comparison prompts means you are being beaten in deals you were already in. Losing switching prompts means a competitor's unhappy customers are being handed to someone else. The fixes are not the same.
Logged out, in a fresh session, every time. An assistant with memory of your account, your previous chats, or your own site in its context will flatter you. What you want to see is the answer a stranger with no history gets, because that is the buyer you are losing.
Yes, and that is the main reason one-off manual checks mislead people. The same prompt can name different products across runs, days, and regions. A single check tells you almost nothing; a set of prompts checked repeatedly over weeks tells you your actual share of recommendations.
Look at what the assistant cited instead. Usually it is a comparison page, a review site listing, or a forum thread, not the competitor's homepage. That tells you which asset to create or which third-party source to get represented in. Winning AEO is mostly about being present in the sources answer engines already trust.
Yes. It runs entirely in your browser with no account and no limits, and nothing you type is sent to Linkeddit. Tracking a prompt set on a schedule and grading the results over time is what the paid Answer Radar feature does.
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Check whether AI assistants recommend your product for a real buyer question, and see which competitors they name instead.
Build a valid llms.txt file for your site, including the citation and safety blocks most generators leave out.
Turn your category into ready-to-run searches that surface people actively asking for a product like yours.
Get every switching-intent search for a competitor, live-linked across review sites, forums, and Google.