Free AI Visibility Checker: See if ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity recommend your startup
We ask six AI engines the questions your buyers ask, then show whether you're named, where you rank and who gets recommended instead.
Coverage
One scan. Six AI surfaces.
- ChatGPTLive chatgpt.com answer, web search onOpen the ChatGPT visibility checker
- ClaudeClaude via Anthropic's APIOpen the Claude visibility checker
- GeminiLive answer from the Gemini appOpen the Gemini visibility checker
- PerplexitySonar answer with its cited sourcesOpen the Perplexity visibility checker
- Google AI OverviewsThe AI Overview on a live Google searchOpen the AI Overview checker
- Google AI ModeGoogle's AI Mode answer and its linksOpen the AI Mode checker
How it works
Three steps. About two minutes.
- 1
Tell us who you are
Your website, brand name and what you sell. Add who you sell to and up to three competitors if you like. No account, no card.
- 2
We ask like a buyer would
Three unbranded buyer questions go to all six engines, plus a “What is brand?” question to ChatGPT and Perplexity. That's 20 live answers, collected in parallel.
- 3
See where you stand
Your AI Visibility Score and per-engine results fill in as answers land. Add your email to unlock every answer, the sources AI cites and your fix plan.
The exact prompts we send
Placeholders are filled from your scan. Only the three discovery prompts count toward your score.
- Buyer questionAll 6 engines
“What are the best category for audience? Give me a short ranked list with one line on why for each.”
- Buyer questionAll 6 engines
“I'm looking for a category. Which companies or products would you recommend, and why?”
- Buyer questionAll 6 engines
“What are the best alternatives to competitor for audience?”
No competitor given? We ask: “Which category do experts and users trust most right now? List the top options.”
- Brand questionChatGPT and Perplexity
“What is brand (domain)? What do they do, and are they a good choice for audience looking for category?”
What you'll see
Your report, before you give us anything
Ledgerly
ledgerly.example · expense management software · United States
AI Visibility Score
Named in 9 of 17 answered buyer questions.
- Mention rate
- 53%
- Citation rate
- 12%
- Average rank
- #2.7
- Share of voice
- 13%
Score by engine
- ChatGPT472/3 named
- Claude00/3 named
- Gemini502/3 named
- Perplexity803/3 named
- AI Overviews00/2 named*
- AI Mode432/3 named
Every buyer question × engine
| Engine | Q1Best-of list | Q2Recommendation | Q3Alternatives |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | Named, ranked #3 of 5 | Not named | Named, ranked #2 of 4 |
| Claude | Not named | Not named | Not named |
| Gemini | Named, ranked #3 of 4 | Named, ranked #1 of 3 | Not named |
| Perplexity | Named, ranked #2 of 3, site cited | Named, ranked #2 of 3, site cited | Named, ranked #4 of 4 |
| AI Overviews | Not named | No AI answer | Not named |
| AI Mode | Named, ranked #4 of 5 | Not named | Named, ranked #3 of 3 |
- Named (rank in list)
- Not named
- No AI answer
AI recommends these instead
- 1Fernpay17 mentions
- 2Quillstack17 mentions
- 3Ottercard14 mentions
Answers, sources and fix plan unlock with email
What you get
Numbers you can act on, not a vanity grade
AI Visibility Score
Mention rate
Average rank
Citation rate
What your score means
Engines with no AI answer for a question are left out of the average, not counted as zero.
- Invisible0–19
- Emerging20–44
- Visible45–69
- Leading70–100
Free, no email
- AI Visibility Score with its band
- A score and mention count for each engine
- Every prompt × engine result: named or not, and at what rank
- The top three brands AI recommends instead of you
With your email
- All 20 answers in full, with your brand highlighted
- The sources each engine cited: your outreach list
- A competitor table: mentions, engines, and how often they outrank you
- What ChatGPT and Perplexity say when asked about you
- The follow-up searches ChatGPT ran, when it shares them
- A prioritized fix plan built from your own results
Why this checker
Real answers, not a readiness score
Some free “AI visibility” checkers never ask an AI anything. They crawl your homepage, read your robots.txt and schema, and estimate a score. That tells you whether AI crawlers can read your site. It can't tell you whether AI recommends you when a buyer asks.
Readiness estimate
Guesses from your HTML
- Reads robots.txt, schema and meta tags
- Same score whatever your buyers ask
- No competitors, no sources, no answer text
Live answers
Asks the engines your buyers use
- Real answers from six AI surfaces
- Who gets named, and in what order
- The sources each engine cited
- Full answer text, so you can check our work
- For seed-stage SaaS startups, the expense management tools that come up most often are:
- Quillstack: Automates receipt matching and approvals; well suited to distributed teams.
- Ledgerly: A newer platform aimed at early-stage SaaS companies, praised for fast onboarding and transparent pricing.
- Fernpay: Combines corporate cards with expense policies and is often recommended for startups that plan to scale.
- Ottercard is another option if you mainly need virtual cards for subscriptions.
Sources
- 1reviewhub.example
- 2ledgerly.example· your site
- 3founderforum.example
Built for founders
If you've thought any of these, run the scan
“I have no idea what ChatGPT says about us.”
What the scan shows
There's no Search Console for AI answers. The scan shows the exact answers six engines give to your buyers' questions, side by side.
“A prospect told me ChatGPT recommended our competitor.”
What the scan shows
See who gets named instead of you, on which engines, and how often they rank above you.
“AI describes us wrong.”
What the scan shows
We ask ChatGPT and Perplexity what you do and show their exact words, so you can spot old positioning, the wrong category or a pre-pivot product.
“Investors and candidates research us through AI now.”
What the scan shows
Know the answer before they ask. Use your score as a baseline before a raise, a launch or a board update.
“Checking by hand is tedious and unreliable.”
What the scan shows
Twenty answers with consistent settings in about 1–2 minutes, saved in one report instead of twenty browser tabs.
“GEO advice is noise.”
What the scan shows
Get a short fix list built from your own results, not a generic checklist. No acronyms and no ranking promises.
Manual check vs this tool
You could ask ChatGPT yourself. Here's what you'd miss.
| Compared on | Asking AI yourself | AI Visibility Checker Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Engines | Asking AI yourself: Whichever apps you happen to use | This tool: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, AI Overviews and AI Mode |
| Questions | Asking AI yourself: Whatever you think to type | This tool: Three buyer-intent questions on every engine, plus a brand question on ChatGPT and Perplexity |
| Consistency | Asking AI yourself: Shaped by your account, memory and chat history | This tool: Same questions and settings for every engine, not tied to your account |
| Competitors | Asking AI yourself: You spot them by eye | This tool: Every brand named is extracted, counted and compared with you |
| Sources | Asking AI yourself: Click through each citation, one by one | This tool: Every cited domain, counted across engines |
| Record | Asking AI yourself: Copy and paste into a doc | This tool: Full answer text saved in your report |
| Baseline | Asking AI yourself: None | This tool: A 0–100 score per engine to re-check against |
| Time | Asking AI yourself: 20 separate chats and searches across 6 tools | This tool: About 1–2 minutes |
Questions founders ask
It shows whether AI assistants and AI search mention your company when people ask them for recommendations. Think of questions like “What's the best expense tool for startups?” or “What are the alternatives to [your competitor]?”.
This one asks six AI surfaces those questions for you: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode. It then reports whether you were named, where you ranked, whether your site was cited as a source, and who was recommended instead.
From your website, brand name and category we write four prompts. Three are unbranded buyer questions (a “best {category} for {audience}” list, a “which would you recommend” question, and an alternatives question). Those three go to all six engines. The fourth asks “What is {your brand}?” and goes to ChatGPT and Perplexity.
That's 20 real answers, collected in parallel, usually in about 1–2 minutes. Only the three unbranded questions count toward your score, because a brand question names you by definition.
The scan is free and needs no account or card. You see your AI Visibility Score, the per-engine results and the brands AI recommends instead without giving us anything.
Your email unlocks the full report: every answer in full, the sources each engine cited, the competitor table and your fix plan. We send you the report link and occasional follow-ups, and you can unsubscribe anytime.
ChatGPT: a live answer captured from chatgpt.com with web search on. Gemini: a live answer captured from the Gemini app. Claude and Perplexity: their models queried through the official APIs (Perplexity's Sonar model searches the web by default). Google AI Overviews and AI Mode: live Google results for your prompt, including the cited links.
We use DataForSEO to run these requests. The full method for each engine, including fallbacks, is on our How it works page.
They're close, but no tool can promise identical answers. AI responses change between runs, model versions, locations and logged-in accounts, and the consumer apps add personal context (memory, past chats) that a clean check doesn't have.
That's why we keep the full answer text, show which model or mode answered, and treat the result as a snapshot. A pattern across six engines tells you far more than one answer in your own account.
Each answered buyer question on each engine gets a cell score. Named in the answer: 50 points. Ranked #1: +30, #2–3: +20, #4–5: +10. Your domain cited as a source: +20. The cap is 100. Cited but not named scores 20. Neither scores 0.
Your AI Visibility Score is the average of those cells, from 0 to 100. Bands: Invisible (under 20), Emerging (20–44), Visible (45–69) and Leading (70+). Surfaces that return no AI answer, such as a search with no AI Overview, are left out of the average rather than counted as zero.
AI answers are not fixed. The same question can produce a different list tomorrow, and engines update their models and search indexes all the time. Single answers are noisy; patterns are not.
If you're named on most engines, you're in good shape. If you're missing from all of them, it's a real gap. Re-checking monthly is the honest way to see whether your fixes are working.
Not in the free scan. The prompts are built from your category, your audience and your first competitor, so every scan is comparable. Custom prompt sets and weekly re-checks are part of the AI Visibility Tracker, which is in early access. You can join the waitlist on the tracker page.
Your scan isn't published, listed or indexed, and we never use your brand in our marketing. Your report lives at a private link with a random ID. Anyone you share that link with can open it, so treat it like a document link. Our privacy policy lists exactly what we store and for how long.
No, and you should be wary of anyone who does. Nobody controls what AI engines recommend. What we can do is show you where you stand today, which sources the engines lean on, and which fixes tend to matter most, so you spend your time on the right things.
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