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What the assistants searched

Finding out whether AI assistants recommend us 2026-10-21 19:43 pooled with the set's finished runs before it that were asked and graded the same way: 1 run · search track only, from the stored answers · this run alone · JSON

60/60answers searched
102searches
100distinct queries
22%from prompt
27%prompt kept

Top queries

Queries counted together whatever their case, quotes or spacing. Cheap Seats's sites: searches whose results included a page on one of them. Competitors: named in a result's title, or its site. Named Cheap Seats: of the graded answers that ran the query, those that named Cheap Seats.

QueryPromptsAnswersCheap Seats's sitesCompetitors in resultsNamed Cheap Seats
Profound vs Peec AI vs Semrush AI Toolkit vs Ahrefs Brand Radar pricing 2026 +Ahrefs Brand Radar +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit3 620/2Ahrefs Brand Radar ×2 Profound ×2 Semrush AI Toolkit ×2 0/2
best AI visibility tracking tools ChatGPT brand mentions 2026320/20/2
AI brand visibility tracking tools ChatGPT Claude Perplexity Gemini Profound Peec Athena Otterly | site.peec.ai Claude Gemini ChatGPT Perplexity tracking | site.tryprofound.com Claude Gemini Perplexity ChatGPT answer engine +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound510/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI Overviews AI Mode brand mention tracking tools 2026710/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Dageno AI ×1 0/1
AI search citation monitoring Ahrefs Brand Radar citations website Profound Otterly AI | Bing Webmaster Tools AI performance citations dashboard Google Search Console AI Overviews reporting +Ahrefs Brand Radar +Otterly.AI +Profound810/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 0/1
AI search citation monitoring tools Ahrefs Brand Radar Profound Otterly Peec website citations +Ahrefs Brand Radar +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound810/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
AI search referral traffic B2B buyers ChatGPT research vendors 2026 survey210/10/1
AI search visibility citation tracking tools 2026 ChatGPT Perplexity sources (Profound, Peec AI, Semrush AI Toolkit) +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit1210/10/1
AI search visibility share of voice tools ChatGPT brand mentions 2026610/10/1
AI search visibility tools 2026 Profound Peec AI Scrunch prompt tracking comparison +Peec AI +Profound1110/1Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI search visibility tools track citations sources ChatGPT Perplexity 20261210/10/1
AI search visibility tracking tools 2026 brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini1410/10/1
AI search visibility tracking tools 2026 brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini (Profound, Peec AI, Semrush AI) +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit1510/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
AI search visibility tracking tools 2026 ChatGPT Perplexity citations brand monitoring810/10/1
AI search visibility tracking tools 2026 ChatGPT Perplexity citations monitoring810/10/1
AI search visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Semrush AI Toolkit 2026 +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit210/10/1
AI visibility metrics share of voice citations LLM brand mentions tools 20261010/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
AI visibility metrics share of voice LLM answers tools 20261010/10/1
AI visibility share of voice tools ChatGPT Perplexity tracking 2026610/10/1
AI visibility tools brand mention vs recommendation share of voice LLM tracking 2026410/10/1
AI visibility tools mention vs recommendation share of voice LLM tracking 2026410/10/1
AI visibility tracking how many prompts statistically significant LLM answer variance1110/10/1
AI visibility tracking prompts sample size repeated runs variability brand visibility study | site.pewresearch.org AI summaries search browsing March 2025 9001110/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
AI visibility tracking tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini 2026510/10/1
AI visibility tracking tools ChatGPT citations 2026 Profound Semrush Ahrefs Brand Radar +Ahrefs Brand Radar +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit110/10/1
AI visibility tracking tools ChatGPT Claude brand mentions 2026 Profound Peec Otterly Scrunch +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound1310/10/1
AI visibility tracking tools ChatGPT Google AI Mode Search Console AI Mode report 2026110/10/1
AI visibility tracking tools comparison Profound Peec AI Scrunch Semrush AI toolkit 2026 +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit1110/1Profound ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
AI visibility tracking tools LLM brand mentions 2026 Profound Peec Scrunch comparison +Peec AI +Profound1510/10/1
AI visibility tracking tools LLM brand mentions ChatGPT 20261410/10/1
AI visibility tracking tools LLM brand share of voice comparison 2026910/10/1
"answer engine optimization" "featured snippets" definition | "LLM SEO" "GEO" definition210/10/1
Anthropic API web search tool and OpenAI Responses API web_search tool documentation1310/10/1
best AI visibility tracking tools 2026 brand share of voice ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini competitors910/10/1
best AI visibility tracking tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini Claude 2026510/10/1
best generative engine optimization GEO tools comparison Profound Peec AI Otterly Semrush AI toolkit +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit510/10/1
best generative engine optimization GEO tools Profound Peec AI Semrush AI toolkit pricing 2026 +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit910/1Profound ×1 0/1
best generative engine optimization GEO tracking tools comparison Profound Peec AI Semrush AI toolkit pricing +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit610/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
Bing Webmaster Tools AI performance report citations Copilot 20261210/10/1
Bing Webmaster Tools AI Performance report citations Copilot; Google Search Console AI Mode reporting 2026810/10/1
brand visibility AI answers benchmarking competitors Profound Peec AI Otterly methodology | Ahrefs Brand Radar AI visibility share of voice prompts competitors +Ahrefs Brand Radar +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound910/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
diagnose organic traffic loss AI Overviews Search Console impressions clicks 2026110/10/1
GA4 track ChatGPT referral traffic utm_source=chatgpt.com regex 2026110/10/1
generative engine optimization GEO tools comparison Profound Peec AI Otterly Scrunch pricing 2026 +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound510/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
generative engine optimization measurement citation rate AI referral traffic GA41010/10/1
GEO AEO LLM SEO B2B AI search visibility tools 2026210/10/1
GEO AEO LLM SEO difference B2B 2026210/10/1
Google Search Console AI Mode AI Overviews data report 2026110/10/1
Google Search Console AI Mode AI Overviews reporting data 2026710/10/1
Google Search Console AI Mode data reporting 2026710/10/1

Showing the 50 run by the most answers; 50 more in the JSON.

Names the assistants added

Searches that named a product the prompt hadn't: the assistant added it to the search.

NameSearchesAnswersPromptsFor example
Profound353013“AI visibility tracking tools ChatGPT citations 2026 Profound Semrush Ahrefs Brand Radar”; “AI search visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Semrush AI Toolkit 2026”; “Profound vs Peec AI vs Semrush AI Toolkit vs Ahrefs Brand Radar pricing 2026”
Peec AI332712“AI search visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Semrush AI Toolkit 2026”; “Profound vs Peec AI vs Semrush AI Toolkit vs Ahrefs Brand Radar pricing 2026”; “site.openai.com ChatGPT search shopping recommendations publishers referral analytics | Profound ChatGPT visibility tracking prompts brand mentions | Peec AI ChatGPT brand visibility tracking”
Ahrefs Brand Radar212112“AI visibility tracking tools ChatGPT citations 2026 Profound Semrush Ahrefs Brand Radar”; “site developers.google.com search AI Overviews Search Console traffic clicks reporting | site help.openai.com ChatGPT search referral utm_source chatgpt.com publishers | site ahrefs.com AI Overviews click through rate 2026 study”; “Profound vs Peec AI vs Semrush AI Toolkit vs Ahrefs Brand Radar pricing 2026”
Semrush AI Toolkit201912“AI visibility tracking tools ChatGPT citations 2026 Profound Semrush Ahrefs Brand Radar”; “site semrush.com AI Overviews position tracking SERP features tracking”; “AI search visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Semrush AI Toolkit 2026”
Otterly.AI12106“site.openai.com ChatGPT search shopping recommendations sources | site.prof ound.com ChatGPT brand visibility tracking | site.otterly.ai ChatGPT brand monitoring prompts | site.peec.ai ChatGPT visibility monitoring”; “site.prof ound.com AI brand mentions recommendations share of voice | site.otterly.ai brand mentions recommendations AI search tracking | site.peec.ai brand visibility position sentiment AI recommendations”; “best generative engine optimization GEO tools comparison Profound Peec AI Otterly Semrush AI toolkit”

How the prompts were rewritten

Words compared without stopwords, plurals folded. From prompt is the share of a search's words that were in its prompt; prompt kept, the share of the prompt's words still in the search.

Added

The vocabulary the assistants search with.

WordSearchesPrompts
20264915
visibility4813
tracking4515
tools3914
search289
brand2711
citations279
engine207
mentions167
console164
monitoring148
chatgpt147
prompts146
share145
voice145
answer137
site.peec.ai137
source134
llm126
optimization96
site.tryprofound.com96
ai94
webmaster94
radar87
site.ahrefs.com87

Dropped

Prompt words the searches left out.

WordSearchesPrompts
whether436
assistants335
measure305
answer235
recommends213
track203
what's203
product142
care132
category132
questions132
marketing122
often122
team122
llm112
chatgpt104
mention102
against81
benchmark81
brand's81
changing81
check81
cite81
down81
leadership81

Add as prompt

Queries whose results named competitors and never reached Cheap Seats's sites. To measure one as a prompt of its own, paste its entry into the set's file in the config repo and reword it as the question a buyer would ask; prompt ids are permanent, so pick one you'll keep.

“Profound vs Peec AI vs Semrush AI Toolkit vs Ahrefs Brand Radar pricing 2026” — 2 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Profound, Semrush AI Toolkit

Append to prompt-sets/ai-search-visibility.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "profound-vs-peec-ai-vs"
text = "Profound vs Peec AI vs Semrush AI Toolkit vs Ahrefs Brand Radar pricing 2026"
“AI brand visibility tracking tools ChatGPT Claude Perplexity Gemini Profound Peec Athena Otterly” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound

Append to prompt-sets/ai-search-visibility.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-brand-visibility-tracking-tools"
text = "AI brand visibility tracking tools ChatGPT Claude Perplexity Gemini Profound Peec Athena Otterly"
“AI Overviews AI Mode brand mention tracking tools 2026” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Dageno AI

Append to prompt-sets/ai-search-visibility.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-overviews-ai-mode-brand"
text = "AI Overviews AI Mode brand mention tracking tools 2026"
“AI search citation monitoring Ahrefs Brand Radar citations website Profound Otterly AI” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Otterly.AI

Append to prompt-sets/ai-search-visibility.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-search-citation-monitoring-ahrefs"
text = "AI search citation monitoring Ahrefs Brand Radar citations website Profound Otterly AI"
“Bing Webmaster Tools AI performance citations dashboard Google Search Console AI Overviews reporting” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Otterly.AI

Append to prompt-sets/ai-search-visibility.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "bing-webmaster-tools-ai-performance"
text = "Bing Webmaster Tools AI performance citations dashboard Google Search Console AI Overviews reporting"
“AI search citation monitoring tools Ahrefs Brand Radar Profound Otterly Peec website citations” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound, Semrush AI Toolkit

Append to prompt-sets/ai-search-visibility.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-search-citation-monitoring-tools"
text = "AI search citation monitoring tools Ahrefs Brand Radar Profound Otterly Peec website citations"
“AI search visibility tools 2026 Profound Peec AI Scrunch prompt tracking comparison” — 1 answers · Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound

Append to prompt-sets/ai-search-visibility.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-search-visibility-tools-2026"
text = "AI search visibility tools 2026 Profound Peec AI Scrunch prompt tracking comparison"
“AI search visibility tracking tools 2026 brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini (Profound, Peec AI, Semrush AI)” — 1 answers · Semrush AI Toolkit

Append to prompt-sets/ai-search-visibility.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-search-visibility-tracking-tools"
text = "AI search visibility tracking tools 2026 brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini (Profound, Peec AI, Semrush AI)"
“AI visibility metrics share of voice citations LLM brand mentions tools 2026” — 1 answers · Semrush AI Toolkit

Append to prompt-sets/ai-search-visibility.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-visibility-metrics-share-voice"
text = "AI visibility metrics share of voice citations LLM brand mentions tools 2026"
“AI visibility tracking prompts sample size repeated runs variability brand visibility study” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar

Append to prompt-sets/ai-search-visibility.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-visibility-tracking-prompts-sample"
text = "AI visibility tracking prompts sample size repeated runs variability brand visibility study"

Prompt by prompt

#PromptSearchedSearches per answerDistinctFrom promptPrompt kept
1Our organic traffic is down and I suspect ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews. How do I check whether AI search is what's taking it?4/42.0830%29%
2GEO, AEO, LLM SEO: what are they, how do they differ from SEO, and which should a B2B marketing team care about?4/41.8727%29%
3How can I find out whether ChatGPT recommends my product when people ask about my category?4/41.867%10%
4What's the difference between being mentioned and being recommended in an AI answer, and how do I measure each?4/41.048%12%
5What tools track how often AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini mention a brand?4/42.0837%44%
6Is there a way to measure our share of voice in AI chatbot answers?4/41.8723%45%
7How can I tell whether Google AI Overviews and AI Mode mention our brand for the topics we care about?4/41.5645%47%
8How do I monitor whether AI search engines cite our website?4/42.0819%36%
9What's the best way to benchmark my brand's visibility in LLM answers against competitors?4/42.0820%25%
10What metrics should a marketing team use to measure presence in AI assistant answers?4/41.2518%25%
11Which questions should we track to measure AI visibility, and how many prompts do we need before the numbers mean anything?4/41.8727%30%
12How can I see which web pages AI assistants rely on when they answer questions in my category?4/41.5612%15%
13Do ChatGPT and Claude say different things about a product with web search on versus from training data alone, and how do I measure both?4/41.8728%25%
14How often should we re-check whether AI assistants recommend us, and how do we track changes over time?4/41.5614%15%
15How do I prove to leadership whether our content work is changing what AI assistants recommend?4/42.088%12%
1. Our organic traffic is down and I suspect ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews. How do I check whether AI search is what's taking it? — 8 queries

Added: 2026 ×6 console ×5 chatgpt.com ×3 referral ×3 site ×3 source ×3 tracking ×3 utm ×3

Dropped: check ×8 down ×8 suspect ×8 taking ×8 what's ×8 whether ×8 organic ×7 google ×5

2. GEO, AEO, LLM SEO: what are they, how do they differ from SEO, and which should a B2B marketing team care about? — 7 queries

Added: search ×5 2026 ×4 ai ×4 chatgpt ×3 citations ×2 engine ×2 features ×2 oai-searchbot ×2

Dropped: care ×7 differ ×7 marketing ×7 team ×7 aeo ×4 b2b ×4 llm ×4 geo ×3

3. How can I find out whether ChatGPT recommends my product when people ask about my category? — 6 queries

Added: tracking ×5 visibility ×5 brand ×4 search ×4 2026 ×3 mentions ×3 prompts ×3 publishers ×3

Dropped: ask ×7 category ×7 find ×7 out ×7 people ×7 product ×7 recommends ×7 whether ×7

4. What's the difference between being mentioned and being recommended in an AI answer, and how do I measure each? — 4 queries

Added: share ×4 visibility ×4 voice ×4 brand ×3 tracking ×3 2026 ×2 llm ×2 mention ×2

Dropped: answer ×4 between ×4 difference ×4 measure ×4 mentioned ×4 recommended ×4 what's ×4

5. What tools track how often AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini mention a brand? — 8 queries

Added: engine ×5 tracking ×5 visibility ×5 2026 ×3 answer ×3 site.peec.ai ×3 site.tryprofound.com ×3 supported ×3

Dropped: assistants ×8 often ×8 track ×8 mention ×6 brand ×4 chatgpt ×3 claude ×3 tools ×3

6. Is there a way to measure our share of voice in AI chatbot answers? — 7 queries

Added: visibility ×5 engine ×4 2026 ×3 chatgpt ×3 tools ×3 methodology ×2 monitoring ×2 pricing ×2

Dropped: chatbot ×7 measure ×7 answers ×4 share ×2 voice ×2 ai ×1

7. How can I tell whether Google AI Overviews and AI Mode mention our brand for the topics we care about? — 6 queries

Added: 2026 ×4 console ×4 reporting ×4 search ×4 tracking ×3 data ×2 site.semrush.com ×2 site.support.google.com ×2

Dropped: care ×6 tell ×6 topics ×6 whether ×6 mention ×4 brand ×2 google ×1 overviews ×1

8. How do I monitor whether AI search engines cite our website? — 8 queries

Added: tools ×6 2026 ×5 console ×5 monitoring ×5 performance ×5 citations ×4 google ×4 webmaster ×4

Dropped: cite ×8 monitor ×8 whether ×8 engines ×7 website ×5

9. What's the best way to benchmark my brand's visibility in LLM answers against competitors? — 8 queries

Added: 2026 ×4 share ×4 voice ×4 engine ×3 prompts ×3 tools ×3 ai ×2 benchmarking ×2

Dropped: against ×8 benchmark ×8 brand's ×8 what's ×8 llm ×7 best ×6 answers ×5 competitors ×3

10. What metrics should a marketing team use to measure presence in AI assistant answers? — 5 queries

Added: share ×4 visibility ×4 voice ×4 brand ×3 mentions ×3 2026 ×2 citation ×2 citations ×2

Dropped: assistant ×5 marketing ×5 measure ×5 presence ×5 team ×5 answers ×4 metrics ×1

11. Which questions should we track to measure AI visibility, and how many prompts do we need before the numbers mean anything? — 7 queries

Added: tracking ×5 2026 ×3 sample ×3 search ×3 2025 ×2 answer ×2 brand ×2 browsing ×2

Dropped: anything ×7 before ×7 mean ×7 measure ×7 numbers ×7 questions ×7 track ×6 many ×5

12. How can I see which web pages AI assistants rely on when they answer questions in my category? — 6 queries

Added: sources ×4 2026 ×3 citation ×3 citations ×3 search ×3 tools ×3 visibility ×3 analysis ×2

Dropped: answer ×6 assistants ×6 category ×6 questions ×6 rely ×6 see ×6 web ×6 pages ×4

13. Do ChatGPT and Claude say different things about a product with web search on versus from training data alone, and how do I measure both? — 7 queries

Added: responses ×4 tool ×4 brand ×3 2026 ×2 anthropic ×2 api ×2 automatically ×2 citations ×2

Dropped: alone ×7 different ×7 measure ×7 product ×7 say ×7 things ×7 versus ×7 data ×5

14. How often should we re-check whether AI assistants recommend us, and how do we track changes over time? — 6 queries

Added: visibility ×6 brand ×4 tracking ×4 2026 ×2 chatgpt ×2 daily ×2 llm ×2 mentions ×2

Dropped: assistants ×6 over ×6 re-check ×6 recommend ×6 time ×6 track ×6 whether ×6 changes ×5

15. How do I prove to leadership whether our content work is changing what AI assistants recommend? — 8 queries

Added: tracking ×6 visibility ×6 search ×4 2026 ×3 brand ×3 engine ×3 prompts ×3 site.peec.ai ×3

Dropped: assistants ×8 changing ×8 leadership ×8 prove ×8 recommend ×8 whether ×8 work ×8 content ×6