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What the assistants searched

Finding out whether AI assistants recommend us 2026-10-22 04:31 pooled with the set's finished runs before it that were asked and graded the same way: 2 runs · search track only, from the stored answers · this run alone · JSON

120/120answers searched
204searches
192distinct 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
best AI visibility tracking tools ChatGPT brand mentions 2026330/30/3
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
AI search visibility tracking tools 2026 brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini1420/20/2
AI visibility metrics share of voice citations LLM answers GEO tools 20261020/20/2
AI visibility tools brand mention vs recommendation share of voice LLM tracking 2026420/20/2
AI visibility tracking tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini Claude 2026520/2Otterly.AI ×1 0/2
AI visibility tracking tools LLM brand share of voice comparison 2026920/20/2
best generative engine optimization GEO tracking tools comparison Profound Peec AI Semrush AI Toolkit pricing +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit620/2Ahrefs Brand Radar ×2 Otterly.AI ×2 Peec AI ×2 Profound ×2 Semrush AI Toolkit ×2 0/2
Google Search Console AI Mode data reporting 2026720/20/2
Profound vs Peec AI vs Semrush AI toolkit vs Ahrefs Brand Radar citation sources comparison +Ahrefs Brand Radar +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit1220/2Ahrefs Brand Radar ×2 Profound ×2 Peec AI ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/2
track brand mentions Google AI Overviews AI Mode tools 2026720/20/2
'AI'110/10/1
AI brand visibility tracking ChatGPT Claude Perplexity Gemini Profound Peec Otterly Athena +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound510/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
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 Overviews AI Mode brand visibility tracking tools 2026710/10/1
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 citation monitoring website Bing Webmaster Tools AI performance citations | Ahrefs Brand Radar cited pages AI search monitoring | Profound AI search citation monitoring prompts +Ahrefs Brand Radar +Profound810/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI search monitoring cited pages sources Profound Peec AI Otterly citation analysis | Ahrefs Brand Radar cited pages AI citations sources +Ahrefs Brand Radar +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound1210/1Ahrefs 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 mention vs recommendation share of voice metrics tools 2026410/10/1
AI search visibility metrics share of voice citations brand mentions methodology Ahrefs 2026 | site.semrush.com AI visibility metrics share of voice sentiment prompts | site.search.google.com AI features performance report AI overviews clicks impressions Search Console +Ahrefs Brand Radar +Semrush AI Toolkit1010/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
AI search visibility share of voice tools ChatGPT brand mentions 2026610/10/1
AI search visibility share of voice tools ChatGPT Perplexity tracking 2026610/10/1
AI search visibility tools 2026 Profound Peec AI Scrunch prompt tracking +Peec AI +Profound1110/1Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
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 ChatGPT Perplexity AI Overviews sources 20261210/10/1
AI search visibility tools track citations ChatGPT Perplexity Google AI Overviews 20261210/10/1
AI search visibility tools track citations sources ChatGPT Perplexity 20261210/10/1
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 brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity monitoring1410/10/1
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 ChatGPT brand mentions 2026310/10/1
AI search visibility tracking tools ChatGPT Perplexity citations 2026810/10/1
AI search visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Semrush AI Toolkit 2026 +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit210/10/1
AI search visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Semrush AI toolkit comparison 2026 +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit210/10/1
AI share of voice chatbot answers measurement Profound Scrunch AI Peec AI brand visibility methodology | Ahrefs Brand Radar AI share of voice methodology Semrush AI visibility toolkit +Ahrefs Brand Radar +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit610/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
AI share of voice tracking chatbot answers Profound Peec AI Otterly brand visibility measurement +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound610/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
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 brand tracking 2026610/10/1
AI visibility share of voice tools ChatGPT Perplexity tracking 2026610/10/1
AI visibility tools mention vs recommendation share of voice LLM tracking 2026410/10/1
AI visibility tracking how many prompts statistical significance variance LLM responses1110/10/1
AI visibility tracking how many prompts statistically significant LLM answer variance1110/10/1
AI visibility tracking prompts sample size repeated runs prompt monitoring methodology 2026 | site.pewresearch.org AI summaries search March 2025 methodology 900 searches | site.ahrefs.com brand radar prompts tracking AI visibility methodology prompts +Ahrefs Brand Radar1110/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
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

Showing the 50 run by the most answers; 142 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
Profound726214“AI visibility tracking tools 2026 Profound Semrush AI toolkit Ahrefs Brand Radar GA4 ChatGPT referral”; “track AI visibility tools ChatGPT citations Profound Semrush AI toolkit Ahrefs Brand Radar 2026”; “AI search visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Semrush AI toolkit comparison 2026”
Peec AI655413“AI search visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Semrush AI toolkit comparison 2026”; “AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Semrush AI toolkit 2026”; “Profound vs Peec AI vs Otterly vs Semrush AI toolkit pricing comparison”
Ahrefs Brand Radar464614“AI visibility tracking tools 2026 Profound Semrush AI toolkit Ahrefs Brand Radar GA4 ChatGPT referral”; “track AI visibility tools ChatGPT citations Profound Semrush AI toolkit Ahrefs Brand Radar 2026”; “site.ahrefs.com AI Overviews rank tracker SERP history | site.support.google.com analytics AI traffic source chatgpt”
Semrush AI Toolkit424114“AI visibility tracking tools 2026 Profound Semrush AI toolkit Ahrefs Brand Radar GA4 ChatGPT referral”; “track AI visibility tools ChatGPT citations Profound Semrush AI toolkit Ahrefs Brand Radar 2026”; “site.semrush.com AI Overviews position tracking SERP features | site:ahrefs.com AI Overviews rank tracker SERP history”
Otterly.AI302410“Profound vs Peec AI vs Otterly vs Semrush AI toolkit pricing comparison”; “ChatGPT brand visibility tracking Profound Peec AI Otterly AI prompts recommendations | site.openai.com ChatGPT search shopping recommendations products”; “site.peec.ai ChatGPT visibility citations prompts | site.tryprofound.com answer engine insights ChatGPT visibility | site.otterly.ai ChatGPT brand monitoring | site.help.openai.com ChatGPT search utm_source chatgpt.com temporary chat memory”

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
visibility9913
20269615
tracking9115
tools7714
search6111
brand5811
citations5610
engine328
mentions328
monitoring3112
prompts299
chatgpt297
console296
share275
voice275
source255
site.peec.ai2310
answer228
vs228
llm226
ai224
webmaster217
performance207
perplexity186
site.ahrefs.com1711

Dropped

Prompt words the searches left out.

WordSearchesPrompts
whether876
assistants635
measure615
answer475
what's453
recommends403
track373
category272
questions272
care262
product262
marketing242
team242
llm222
often222
check201
down201
suspect201
taking201
chatgpt194
mention192
organic181
google172
web152
against151

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 visibility tracking tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini Claude 2026” — 2 answers · Otterly.AI

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-visibility-tracking-tools-brand"
text = "AI visibility tracking tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini Claude 2026"
“best generative engine optimization GEO tracking tools comparison Profound Peec AI Semrush AI Toolkit pricing” — 2 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound, Semrush AI Toolkit

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

[[prompts]]
id = "best-generative-engine-optimization-geo"
text = "best generative engine optimization GEO tracking tools comparison Profound Peec AI Semrush AI Toolkit pricing"
“Profound vs Peec AI vs Semrush AI toolkit vs Ahrefs Brand Radar citation sources comparison” — 2 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Profound, Peec AI, Semrush AI Toolkit

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

[[prompts]]
id = "profound-vs-peec-ai-vs-2"
text = "Profound vs Peec AI vs Semrush AI toolkit vs Ahrefs Brand Radar citation sources comparison"
“AI brand visibility tracking ChatGPT Claude Perplexity Gemini Profound Peec Otterly Athena” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-brand-visibility-tracking-chatgpt"
text = "AI brand visibility tracking ChatGPT Claude Perplexity Gemini Profound Peec Otterly Athena"
“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"

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?8/82.52033%28%
2GEO, AEO, LLM SEO: what are they, how do they differ from SEO, and which should a B2B marketing team care about?8/81.81424%27%
3How can I find out whether ChatGPT recommends my product when people ask about my category?8/81.8127%10%
4What's the difference between being mentioned and being recommended in an AI answer, and how do I measure each?8/81.299%12%
5What tools track how often AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini mention a brand?8/81.81342%48%
6Is there a way to measure our share of voice in AI chatbot answers?8/81.81325%49%
7How can I tell whether Google AI Overviews and AI Mode mention our brand for the topics we care about?8/81.51043%44%
8How do I monitor whether AI search engines cite our website?8/81.91517%31%
9What's the best way to benchmark my brand's visibility in LLM answers against competitors?8/81.91419%24%
10What metrics should a marketing team use to measure presence in AI assistant answers?8/81.2917%26%
11Which questions should we track to measure AI visibility, and how many prompts do we need before the numbers mean anything?8/81.81427%29%
12How can I see which web pages AI assistants rely on when they answer questions in my category?8/81.61212%16%
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?8/81.61327%25%
14How often should we re-check whether AI assistants recommend us, and how do we track changes over time?8/81.51115%17%
15How do I prove to leadership whether our content work is changing what AI assistants recommend?8/81.8148%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? — 20 queries

Added: 2026 ×12 console ×10 referral ×7 site ×6 source ×6 chatgpt.com ×5 mode ×5 tracking ×5

Dropped: check ×20 down ×20 suspect ×20 taking ×20 what's ×20 whether ×20 organic ×18 google ×14

2. GEO, AEO, LLM SEO: what are they, how do they differ from SEO, and which should a B2B marketing team care about? — 14 queries

Added: search ×10 2026 ×9 ai ×8 engine ×5 optimization ×5 tools ×5 visibility ×5 chatgpt ×4

Dropped: care ×14 differ ×14 marketing ×14 team ×14 llm ×10 b2b ×8 aeo ×7 geo ×7

3. How can I find out whether ChatGPT recommends my product when people ask about my category? — 12 queries

Added: visibility ×11 brand ×10 tracking ×10 search ×8 prompts ×6 2026 ×5 mentions ×5 ai ×4

Dropped: ask ×14 category ×14 find ×14 out ×14 people ×14 recommends ×14 whether ×14 product ×13

4. What's the difference between being mentioned and being recommended in an AI answer, and how do I measure each? — 9 queries

Added: visibility ×10 share ×8 voice ×8 brand ×6 tracking ×6 vs ×6 2026 ×5 mention ×4

Dropped: answer ×10 between ×10 difference ×10 measure ×10 mentioned ×10 recommended ×10 what's ×10

5. What tools track how often AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini mention a brand? — 13 queries

Added: tracking ×10 visibility ×9 engine ×6 2026 ×5 supported ×5 answer ×4 monitoring ×4 scrunch ×4

Dropped: assistants ×14 often ×14 track ×14 mention ×10 tools ×6 brand ×5 chatgpt ×4 claude ×4

6. Is there a way to measure our share of voice in AI chatbot answers? — 13 queries

Added: visibility ×11 2026 ×6 engine ×6 tools ×6 tracking ×6 chatgpt ×5 pricing ×4 brand ×3

Dropped: measure ×14 chatbot ×12 answers ×8 share ×4 voice ×4 ai ×1

7. How can I tell whether Google AI Overviews and AI Mode mention our brand for the topics we care about? — 10 queries

Added: 2026 ×8 console ×8 search ×8 reporting ×7 tracking ×5 visibility ×5 site.support.google.com ×4 toolkit ×4

Dropped: care ×12 tell ×12 topics ×12 whether ×12 mention ×9 brand ×4 google ×3 overviews ×3

8. How do I monitor whether AI search engines cite our website? — 15 queries

Added: tools ×12 citations ×10 performance ×9 2026 ×8 webmaster ×8 monitoring ×7 bing ×6 console ×6

Dropped: cite ×15 monitor ×15 whether ×15 engines ×14 website ×10 search ×3

9. What's the best way to benchmark my brand's visibility in LLM answers against competitors? — 14 queries

Added: ai ×7 prompts ×7 share ×7 voice ×7 2026 ×6 brand ×5 engine ×5 tools ×5

Dropped: against ×15 benchmark ×15 brand's ×15 what's ×15 best ×12 llm ×12 answers ×10 competitors ×7

10. What metrics should a marketing team use to measure presence in AI assistant answers? — 9 queries

Added: visibility ×9 share ×8 voice ×8 2026 ×6 citations ×6 brand ×5 mentions ×5 tools ×5

Dropped: assistant ×10 marketing ×10 measure ×10 presence ×10 team ×10 answers ×7 metrics ×2

11. Which questions should we track to measure AI visibility, and how many prompts do we need before the numbers mean anything? — 14 queries

Added: tracking ×10 2026 ×6 search ×6 sample ×5 brand ×4 llm ×4 scrunch ×4 size ×4

Dropped: anything ×14 before ×14 mean ×14 measure ×14 numbers ×14 questions ×14 track ×12 many ×9

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

Added: sources ×10 citation ×8 search ×8 2026 ×5 analysis ×5 citations ×5 cited ×5 tools ×5

Dropped: assistants ×13 category ×13 questions ×13 rely ×13 see ×13 web ×13 answer ×12 pages ×8

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? — 13 queries

Added: tool ×8 brand ×6 responses ×6 2026 ×5 api ×5 citations ×5 automatically ×4 docs ×4

Dropped: alone ×13 different ×13 measure ×13 product ×13 say ×13 things ×13 versus ×13 data ×10

14. How often should we re-check whether AI assistants recommend us, and how do we track changes over time? — 11 queries

Added: visibility ×11 brand ×10 tracking ×8 search ×6 chatgpt ×5 mentions ×5 2026 ×4 daily ×4

Dropped: assistants ×12 over ×12 re-check ×12 recommend ×12 time ×12 whether ×12 track ×11 changes ×9

15. How do I prove to leadership whether our content work is changing what AI assistants recommend? — 14 queries

Added: tracking ×10 visibility ×10 2026 ×6 brand ×6 search ×6 citations ×5 prompts ×5 chatgpt ×4

Dropped: assistants ×14 changing ×14 leadership ×14 prove ×14 recommend ×14 whether ×14 work ×14 content ×10