Free tool · Answer engine optimization
To check whether AI assistants recommend your product, ask them the question your buyers ask and read whether your brand appears and where. Enter your brand and one real buyer question below to get the unedited answer, whether you appear in it at all, and which competitors were named instead of you.
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Enter your brand and a real buyer question to see whether an answer engine recommends you, and who it recommends instead.
Almost nobody fixes this by editing their homepage. Answer engines build category answers from third-party sources, so that is where the work is.
Look at what the answer leaned on: listicles, review-site category pages, forum threads. Being present and accurately described in those is the highest-leverage move available, and it is mostly outreach rather than writing.
Alternatives-to and versus pages exist because those are literal buyer prompts. If you have no page for the comparison a buyer asks about, the engine will use someone else's.
If your positioning is vague, an assistant will place you in whatever category it can infer, often the wrong one. A complete llms.txt file with a preferred descriptor is a cheap fix.
Run the same prompt set before you start and again a few weeks later. Without a baseline you cannot tell whether anything worked, and AEO is full of confident claims with no baseline behind them.
For the repeated, multi-prompt version, generate a set with the AEO Prompt Generator or see Answer Radar.
Step 1
The brand is what the checker looks for in the answer. Listing competitors lets it tell you which of them were recommended instead of you, and order everyone you named by where they first appear in the text.
Step 2
Use a full question, not a keyword. What is the best competitive intelligence tool for startups works; competitive intelligence does not, because nobody asks an assistant a bare noun phrase.
Step 3
The ordering table covers only your brand and the competitors you entered, so the answer may name products you did not list. Read it in full: what the engine reaches for first, and how it frames the category, are both findings.
Step 4
Answer engines vary between runs, phrasings, and regions. One check is a data point. Generate a full prompt set and run it repeatedly before you conclude anything about your visibility.
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FAQ
What this measures, what it cannot measure from one run, and what to do with a result you do not like.
Ask it the question your buyers ask, in a logged-out session, and read whether your brand appears and where. Doing it manually works but is easy to fool yourself with, because a logged-in assistant that has seen your site will flatter you. This tool runs the question with no system prompt steering the answer.
It sends your question to Google Gemini and returns the response verbatim, with no system prompt shaping it toward or away from any brand. The result names the engine so you know exactly what you are looking at. Other engines will give different answers, which is the point of the caveat shown with every result.
Usually because the sources the engine leans on for your category do not mention you: comparison articles, review-site listings, and forum threads rather than your own homepage. Being absent from those third-party sources is the most common cause of being absent from the answer.
Because these models are non-deterministic and their retrieved context changes over time and by region. That variance is exactly why a single manual check misleads people in both directions, and why measuring visibility means running a prompt set repeatedly rather than once.
It is the real, unedited response returned by the engine for your exact question, shown in full. Nothing is summarized, rewritten, or fabricated. If the engine gives a vague answer with no products named, you see that vague answer.
Every check costs real money to run against a model, and the tool has no signup to meter it against. So there is a per-visitor limit of a few checks a minute and about a dozen a day, plus an overall daily cap. Repeat questions are cached for a day, so sharing a result link costs nothing.
Get represented in the sources the engine already cites, make your own site unambiguous with a complete llms.txt file, and publish the comparison and alternative pages buyers ask for by name. Then re-run the prompt set to see whether any of it moved, because assuming it did is how AEO budgets get wasted.
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Generate the buyer prompts AI assistants actually get asked about your category, grouped by funnel stage.
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.