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What the assistants searched

Getting recommended instead of a competitor 2026-10-21 19:53 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

80/80answers searched
140searches
133distinct queries
21%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
AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Semrush AI toolkit comparison 2026 +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit9 1730/3Semrush AI Toolkit ×2 0/3
answer engine optimization B2B SaaS content strategy 2026920/20/2
llms.txt adoption AI crawlers evidence 20261420/20/2
llms.txt adoption developer documentation AI assistants 20261020/20/2
most cited domains AI search ChatGPT Perplexity Google AI Overviews study 20261120/20/2
schema markup structured data AI Overviews ChatGPT citations study 20261520/2Ahrefs Brand Radar ×2 0/2
AI brand visibility tools track LLM mentions Profound Peec AI 2026 +Peec AI +Profound610/10/1
AI crawler robots.txt GPTBot ClaudeBot training opt-in brand visibility LLM610/10/1
AI search most cited domains 2026 ChatGPT Google AI Overviews Perplexity citations study | Ahrefs most cited domains AI search Reddit YouTube Wikipedia 2026 +Ahrefs Brand Radar1110/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
AI search most cited domains ChatGPT Perplexity Google AI Overviews 2026 citation sources Ahrefs | 2026 AI citations third party sites Reddit YouTube LinkedIn G2 Wikipedia study +Ahrefs Brand Radar1110/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
AI search "raw search results" "Peec" | AI search "retrieval" "scrunch" sources | site.tryprofound.com "search results" "Query" fanout +Peec AI +Profound1310/1Profound ×1 0/1
AI search visibility GEO quick wins brands 20261710/10/1
AI search visibility tools brand mentions ChatGPT competitor share of voice 2026210/10/1
AI search visibility tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity competitor analysis 2026210/10/1
AI search visibility tools brand monitoring ChatGPT Perplexity 2026 (Profound, Peec AI, Scrunch) +Peec AI +Profound1610/10/1
AI search visibility tools brand sentiment ChatGPT caveats GEO 2026410/10/1
AI search visibility tools brand sentiment ChatGPT Perplexity monitoring 2026410/10/1
AI search visibility tools ChatGPT brand mentions GEO 2026110/10/1
AI search visibility tools track citations ChatGPT Perplexity 2026 Profound Peec AI +Peec AI +Profound1210/10/1
AI search visibility tracking tools 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly Semrush AI toolkit +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit510/10/1
AI visibility tools actionable content recommendations Profound AirOps Scrunch content optimization | Peec AI content recommendations Otterly AI content optimization recommendations +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound2010/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Elmo ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
AI visibility tools content recommendations create content Profound AirOps Scrunch Athena action center | site.tryprofound.com content briefs agents AI visibility | site.scrunch.com content recommendations AI visibility +Profound2010/1Profound ×1 0/1
AI visibility tools content recommendations GEO optimization actionable 20262010/10/1
AI visibility tools content recommendations optimization GEO 2026 Profound AirOps Scrunch +Profound2010/10/1
AI visibility tools track brand in ChatGPT answers 2026 Profound Peec AI Scrunch +Peec AI +Profound310/10/1
AI visibility tools track citations brand mentions Profound Peec AI Semrush AI toolkit 2026 +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit1210/10/1
AI visibility tracking tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Google AI Mode 20261710/10/1
AI visibility tracking tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Profound Peec AI 2026 +Peec AI +Profound710/10/1
AI visibility tracking tools ChatGPT brand mentions Profound Peec AI Semrush 2026 +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit110/10/1
AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Otterly 2026 +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound510/10/1
AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Scrunch comparison 2026 +Peec AI +Profound1610/1Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
Anthropic Claude no ads ad-free announcement 2026 Claude-SearchBot OAI-SearchBot robots.txt510/10/1
B2B software AI citations G2 Reddit LinkedIn source analysis LLM visibility1110/10/1
B2B software LLM citations sources G2 Reddit review sites study1110/10/1
best AI search visibility platforms actionable content recommendations not just tracking 20262010/10/1
ChatGPT ads shopping product listings merchants 2026510/10/1
ChatGPT ads shopping product listings merchants 2026 OpenAI510/10/1
ChatGPT search_query fan-out queries inspect devtools sources Perplexity Gemini grounding1310/1Peec AI ×1 0/1
comparison pages AI search citations ChatGPT Perplexity study 2026810/10/1
comparison pages AI search visibility ChatGPT citations study 2026810/10/1
docs MCP server Context7 Mintlify AI-ready documentation 20261010/10/1
docs MCP server developer tools AI coding agents documentation best practices 20261010/10/1
generative engine optimization AI search visibility quick wins 20261710/10/1
generative engine optimization best practices 2026 get brand cited ChatGPT Claude510/10/1
generative engine optimization ChatGPT brand recommendations tactics 2026110/10/1
generative engine optimization developer tools how LLMs choose which library to recommend1010/10/1
generative engine optimization how LLMs describe brands inaccurate fix sources 20261610/10/1
generative engine optimization how to fix AI assistant brand inaccuracies 20261610/10/1
generative engine optimization how to get brand cited in ChatGPT Claude 2026510/10/1
generative engine optimization what content gets cited by ChatGPT AI assistants research 2026710/10/1

Showing the 50 run by the most answers; 83 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
Profound242212“AI visibility tracking tools ChatGPT brand mentions Profound Peec AI Semrush 2026”; “site.profound.ai answer engine optimization citations prompt tracking competitors | site.scrunchai.com AI search monitoring citations competitors | site.openai.com ChatGPT search ranking factors sources”; “AI visibility tools track brand in ChatGPT answers 2026 Profound Peec AI Scrunch”
Peec AI202012“AI visibility tracking tools ChatGPT brand mentions Profound Peec AI Semrush 2026”; “site.profoun d.ai answer engine optimization competitor citations prompts visibility | site.scrunchai.com monitor AI search competitor citations | site.peec.ai AI search analytics prompts sources competitors | site.arxiv.org language models explanations not faithful chain of thought”; “AI visibility tools track brand in ChatGPT answers 2026 Profound Peec AI Scrunch”
Semrush AI Toolkit887“AI visibility tracking tools ChatGPT brand mentions Profound Peec AI Semrush 2026”; “AI search visibility tracking tools 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly Semrush AI toolkit”; “AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Semrush AI toolkit comparison 2026”
Ahrefs Brand Radar654“site.bing.com webmasters tools AI performance citations | site.peec.ai AI search visibility ChatGPT Claude tracking | site.ahrefs.com brand radar Claude ChatGPT”; “site.bing.com webmaster AI answers comparison content citations | sitedevelopers.google.com search AI features content best practices | site.ahrefs.com AI citations comparison pages study”; “AI search most cited domains ChatGPT Perplexity Google AI Overviews 2026 citation sources Ahrefs | 2026 AI citations third party sites Reddit YouTube LinkedIn G2 Wikipedia study”
Otterly.AI332“AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Otterly 2026”; “AI search visibility tracking tools 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly Semrush AI toolkit”; “AI visibility tools actionable content recommendations Profound AirOps Scrunch content optimization | Peec AI content recommendations Otterly AI content optimization recommendations”

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
20267320
search5116
citations4717
chatgpt3812
visibility3215
oai-searchbot3112
tools3112
brand3011
webmaster2314
study238
features2211
optimization2110
websites2013
site.bing.com1812
best1811
performance1811
publishers1811
sources186
practices1610
tracking1510
perplexity159
site.openai.com159
engine158
site.developers.google.com1410
llm148

Dropped

Prompt words the searches left out.

WordSearchesPrompts
product448
assistant437
answers325
ai2313
sites234
change233
say223
gets162
competitor152
keeps152
write152
find132
help132
content124
visibility124
mention122
recommend122
web122
search114
engine112
chatgpt's111
claude's111
mentioned111
tool102
cited92

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.

“AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Semrush AI toolkit comparison 2026” — 3 answers · Semrush AI Toolkit

Append to prompt-sets/fix-ai-recommendations.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-visibility-tracking-tools-profound"
text = "AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Semrush AI toolkit comparison 2026"
“schema markup structured data AI Overviews ChatGPT citations study 2026” — 2 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar

Append to prompt-sets/fix-ai-recommendations.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "schema-markup-structured-data-ai"
text = "schema markup structured data AI Overviews ChatGPT citations study 2026"
“AI search most cited domains 2026 ChatGPT Google AI Overviews Perplexity citations study” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar

Append to prompt-sets/fix-ai-recommendations.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-search-cited-domains-2026"
text = "AI search most cited domains 2026 ChatGPT Google AI Overviews Perplexity citations study"
“Ahrefs most cited domains AI search Reddit YouTube Wikipedia 2026” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar

Append to prompt-sets/fix-ai-recommendations.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "ahrefs-cited-domains-ai-search"
text = "Ahrefs most cited domains AI search Reddit YouTube Wikipedia 2026"
“AI search most cited domains ChatGPT Perplexity Google AI Overviews 2026 citation sources Ahrefs” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar

Append to prompt-sets/fix-ai-recommendations.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-search-cited-domains-chatgpt"
text = "AI search most cited domains ChatGPT Perplexity Google AI Overviews 2026 citation sources Ahrefs"
“2026 AI citations third party sites Reddit YouTube LinkedIn G2 Wikipedia study” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar

Append to prompt-sets/fix-ai-recommendations.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "2026-ai-citations-third-party"
text = "2026 AI citations third party sites Reddit YouTube LinkedIn G2 Wikipedia study"
“AI visibility tools actionable content recommendations Profound AirOps Scrunch content optimization” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Elmo, Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound, Semrush AI Toolkit

Append to prompt-sets/fix-ai-recommendations.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-visibility-tools-actionable-content"
text = "AI visibility tools actionable content recommendations Profound AirOps Scrunch content optimization"
“Peec AI content recommendations Otterly AI content optimization recommendations” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Elmo, Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound, Semrush AI Toolkit

Append to prompt-sets/fix-ai-recommendations.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "peec-ai-content-recommendations-otterly"
text = "Peec AI content recommendations Otterly AI content optimization recommendations"
“AI visibility tools content recommendations create content Profound AirOps Scrunch Athena action center” — 1 answers · Profound

Append to prompt-sets/fix-ai-recommendations.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-visibility-tools-content-recommendations"
text = "AI visibility tools content recommendations create content Profound AirOps Scrunch Athena action center"
“AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Scrunch comparison 2026” — 1 answers · Peec AI, Profound

Append to prompt-sets/fix-ai-recommendations.toml:

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-visibility-tracking-tools-profound-2"
text = "AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Scrunch comparison 2026"

Prompt by prompt

#PromptSearchedSearches per answerDistinctFrom promptPrompt kept
1ChatGPT keeps recommending our competitor instead of us. What can we actually do about it?4/41.8710%17%
2How can I find out why an AI assistant prefers a competitor's product over ours?4/41.565%7%
3ChatGPT gets our features and pricing wrong. How do we correct what AI assistants say about our product?4/42.0821%25%
4AI assistants mention our product but add caveats that steer buyers away. How do we address the objections they raise?4/41.5612%14%
5How do I get my product mentioned in Claude's and ChatGPT's answers?4/42.8114%7%
6How do we change what an AI model says about us from its training data, not just what it finds when it searches the web?4/41.8716%24%
7What kind of content makes AI assistants more likely to recommend a product?4/41.5615%25%
8Do comparison pages help a product show up in AI answers?4/41.5626%35%
9What does an answer engine optimization content strategy look like for a B2B SaaS company?4/41.5431%30%
10How should we write and structure our documentation so AI assistants recommend our developer tool?4/41.8631%36%
11Which third-party sites matter most for getting cited by AI search engines?4/41.8620%32%
12AI answers in our category keep citing Reddit threads, review sites and listicles that only mention our competitors. How do we get onto those sources?4/42.0824%25%
13How can I see the web search results an AI assistant gets for a question before it writes its answer, to understand why we're missing?4/42.0818%19%
14Is llms.txt worth adding to our site for AI visibility?4/41.8626%36%
15Does structured data or schema markup help a site get cited in Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT search?4/41.8657%50%
16How should we prioritize fixes to improve how AI assistants describe our product?4/41.5611%17%
17What are the quickest wins for improving our brand's visibility in AI search?4/41.8725%35%
18Who should own AI visibility work: SEO, content, product marketing or the docs team?4/41.0431%33%
19How long does it take for new content to change what ChatGPT and Perplexity say about us?4/41.8719%30%
20Which AI visibility tools tell you what content to create or change, not just where you rank?4/42.2929%44%
1. ChatGPT keeps recommending our competitor instead of us. What can we actually do about it? — 7 queries

Added: 2026 ×4 search ×4 brand ×3 recommendations ×3 site.help.openai.com ×3 tools ×3 ai ×2 citations ×2

Dropped: actually ×7 competitor ×7 instead ×7 keeps ×7 recommending ×7

2. How can I find out why an AI assistant prefers a competitor's product over ours? — 6 queries

Added: competitor ×5 chatgpt ×4 engine ×4 optimization ×4 search ×4 sources ×4 analysis ×3 citations ×3

Dropped: assistant ×6 competitor's ×6 find ×6 ours ×6 out ×6 over ×6 prefers ×6 product ×6

3. ChatGPT gets our features and pricing wrong. How do we correct what AI assistants say about our product? — 8 queries

Added: oai-searchbot ×5 2026 ×4 incorrect ×4 information ×4 search ×4 site.help.openai.com ×4 tools ×4 report ×3

Dropped: assistants ×8 gets ×8 say ×8 pricing ×7 product ×7 wrong ×7 correct ×6 features ×6

4. AI assistants mention our product but add caveats that steer buyers away. How do we address the objections they raise? — 6 queries

Added: brand ×4 citations ×4 search ×4 2026 ×2 chatgpt ×2 content ×2 features ×2 fix ×2

Dropped: add ×6 address ×6 assistants ×6 away ×6 raise ×6 steer ×6 buyers ×5 mention ×5

5. How do I get my product mentioned in Claude's and ChatGPT's answers? — 11 queries

Added: chatgpt ×8 2026 ×7 claude ×7 search ×5 merchants ×4 ads ×3 brand ×3 claude-searchbot ×3

Dropped: answers ×11 chatgpt's ×11 claude's ×11 mentioned ×11 product ×7

6. How do we change what an AI model says about us from its training data, not just what it finds when it searches the web? — 7 queries

Added: brand ×4 llm ×4 2026 ×3 claudebot ×3 gptbot ×3 site.anthropic.com ×3 common ×2 crawl ×2

Dropped: change ×7 finds ×7 says ×7 searches ×7 web ×6 ai ×5 model ×5 data ×3

7. What kind of content makes AI assistants more likely to recommend a product? — 6 queries

Added: chatgpt ×5 2026 ×4 engine ×3 generative ×3 optimization ×3 overviews ×3 visibility ×3 best ×2

Dropped: kind ×6 likely ×6 makes ×6 recommend ×6 assistants ×5 product ×4 content ×3

8. Do comparison pages help a product show up in AI answers? — 6 queries

Added: citations ×4 content ×4 search ×4 study ×4 2026 ×2 best ×2 chatgpt ×2 cited ×2

Dropped: help ×6 product ×6 show ×6 up ×6 answers ×3 ai ×2 comparison ×2

9. What does an answer engine optimization content strategy look like for a B2B SaaS company? — 4 queries

Added: 2026 ×6 ai ×2 best ×2 citations ×2 comparison ×2 features ×2 oai-searchbot ×2 overviews ×2

Dropped: company ×6 look ×6 answer ×4 b2b ×4 engine ×4 optimization ×4 saas ×4 strategy ×4

10. How should we write and structure our documentation so AI assistants recommend our developer tool? — 6 queries

Added: 2026 ×4 docs ×4 llms.txt ×4 adoption ×2 bots ×2 data ×2 features ×2 mcp ×2

Dropped: structure ×7 write ×7 recommend ×6 assistants ×5 tool ×5 developer ×3 ai ×2 documentation ×1

11. Which third-party sites matter most for getting cited by AI search engines? — 6 queries

Added: study ×6 2026 ×5 domains ×5 reddit ×5 chatgpt ×4 citations ×4 g2 ×4 google ×4

Dropped: engines ×7 getting ×7 matter ×7 third-party ×7 sites ×4 search ×3 cited ×2 ai ×1

12. AI answers in our category keep citing Reddit threads, review sites and listicles that only mention our competitors. How do we get onto those sources? — 8 queries

Added: 2026 ×5 citations ×3 best ×2 brand ×2 business ×2 chatgpt ×2 cited ×2 engagement ×2

Dropped: category ×8 citing ×8 competitors ×8 keep ×8 threads ×8 mention ×7 sites ×7 answers ×6

13. How can I see the web search results an AI assistant gets for a question before it writes its answer, to understand why we're missing? — 8 queries

Added: query ×6 sources ×6 fan-out ×5 visibility ×5 queries ×4 api ×3 chatgpt ×3 citations ×3

Dropped: answer ×8 assistant ×8 before ×8 gets ×8 missing ×8 question ×8 understand ×8 writes ×8

14. Is llms.txt worth adding to our site for AI visibility? — 6 queries

Added: 2026 ×5 adoption ×4 study ×4 citations ×3 site.bing.com ×3 300000 ×2 crawlers ×2 dashboard ×2

Dropped: adding ×7 worth ×7 site ×6 visibility ×6 ai ×1

15. Does structured data or schema markup help a site get cited in Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT search? — 6 queries

Added: features ×4 oai-searchbot ×3 special ×3 2026 ×2 citations ×2 guidance ×2 required ×2 site.help.openai.com ×2

Dropped: cited ×7 help ×7 site ×6 google ×5 markup ×5 search ×4 chatgpt ×2 schema ×2

16. How should we prioritize fixes to improve how AI assistants describe our product? — 6 queries

Added: 2026 ×4 chatgpt ×3 search ×3 best ×2 brand ×2 citations ×2 engine ×2 features ×2

Dropped: fixes ×6 improve ×6 prioritize ×6 product ×6 assistants ×5 describe ×5 ai ×1

17. What are the quickest wins for improving our brand's visibility in AI search? — 7 queries

Added: 2026 ×4 chatgpt ×3 oai-searchbot ×3 tools ×3 citations ×2 features ×2 performance ×2 publishers ×2

Dropped: brand's ×7 improving ×7 quickest ×7 wins ×5 visibility ×3 search ×2 ai ×1

18. Who should own AI visibility work: SEO, content, product marketing or the docs team? — 4 queries

Added: 2026 ×2 aeo ×2 best ×2 citations ×2 features ×2 geo ×2 oai-searchbot ×2 org ×2

Dropped: content ×4 docs ×4 team ×4 work ×4 product ×3 marketing ×2 visibility ×2 seo ×1

19. How long does it take for new content to change what ChatGPT and Perplexity say about us? — 7 queries

Added: search ×6 indexing ×4 oai-searchbot ×4 perplexitybot ×4 citations ×3 freshness ×3 site.perplexity.ai ×3 study ×3

Dropped: change ×7 say ×7 take ×7 new ×5 perplexity ×5 long ×4 content ×3 chatgpt ×1

20. Which AI visibility tools tell you what content to create or change, not just where you rank? — 9 queries

Added: recommendations ×9 optimization ×5 2026 ×4 action ×4 center ×4 scrunch ×4 actionable ×3 airops ×3

Dropped: change ×9 rank ×9 tell ×9 create ×7 tools ×5 visibility ×1