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What the assistants searched

Getting recommended instead of a competitor 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

160/160answers searched
289searches
267distinct 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 1740/4Semrush AI Toolkit ×3 0/4
answer engine optimization B2B SaaS content strategy 2026940/40/4
llms.txt adoption AI crawlers evidence 20261430/30/3
llms.txt adoption developer documentation AI assistants 20261030/30/3
most cited domains AI search ChatGPT Perplexity Google AI Overviews study 20261130/30/3
AI visibility tracking tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Profound Peec AI 2026 +Peec AI +Profound3 720/20/2
AI search visibility tools brand sentiment ChatGPT Perplexity monitoring 2026420/20/2
AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Scrunch comparison 2026 +Peec AI +Profound1620/2Peec AI ×2 Profound ×2 0/2
comparison pages AI search citations ChatGPT Perplexity study 2026820/20/2
comparison pages AI search visibility ChatGPT citations study 2026820/20/2
how ChatGPT chooses which brands to recommend sources citations study 2026120/20/2
influence LLM training data brand perception Common Crawl Wikipedia 2026620/20/2
schema markup structured data AI Overviews ChatGPT citations study 20261520/2Ahrefs Brand Radar ×2 0/2
schema markup structured data AI Overviews citations study 20261520/2Ahrefs Brand Radar ×2 0/2
why does ChatGPT recommend competitor generative engine optimization citation sources analysis220/20/2
'24 hours'1910/10/1
AI brand visibility tool analyze sources citations competitor recommendations Profound Peec AI | Google Search Central AI features website best practices AI Overviews | OpenAI ChatGPT search ranking factors no guarantee top placement +Peec AI +Profound210/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI brand visibility tools track LLM mentions Profound Peec AI 2026 +Peec AI +Profound610/10/1
AI brand visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Scrunch 2026 +Peec AI +Profound610/1Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI crawler robots.txt GPTBot ClaudeBot training opt-in brand visibility LLM610/10/1
AI search citation domains study 2026 ChatGPT Google AI Overviews Perplexity most cited websites | Ahrefs AI citations most cited domains Reddit YouTube Wikipedia 2025 2026 +Ahrefs Brand Radar1110/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
AI search citation domains study 2026 ChatGPT Google AI Overviews Perplexity Reddit LinkedIn | Ahrefs most cited domains AI search 2025 2026 third party sources +Ahrefs Brand Radar1110/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
AI search citations Reddit review sites listicles strategy GEO 20261210/10/1
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 quick wins GEO 2026 brand ChatGPT citations1710/10/1
AI search visibility tool "search results" "fanout" retrievability | site.usehall.com search results query fan out | site.tryprofound.com "search results" "Query" +Profound1310/1Profound ×1 0/1
AI search visibility tools brand mentions ChatGPT competitor 2026210/10/1
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 LLM answers 2026 Profound Peec Scrunch +Peec AI +Profound410/10/1
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 search visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Otterly comparison 2026 +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound510/1Profound ×1 0/1
AI search visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Scrunch comparison 2026 +Peec AI +Profound910/1Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI visibility monitoring tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Profound Peec AI 2026 +Peec AI +Profound310/10/1
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 citation source tracking Profound Peec AI Semrush AI toolkit 2026 +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit1210/10/1
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 20262010/10/1
AI visibility tools content recommendations GEO optimization 2026 Profound AirOps Scrunch +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 content recommendations Profound Scrunch AirOps actionable content optimization | AthenaHQ AI visibility content optimization recommendations Peec +Peec AI +Profound2010/1Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI visibility tools track brand in ChatGPT answers 2026 Profound Peec AI Scrunch +Peec AI +Profound310/10/1

Showing the 50 run by the most answers; 217 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
Profound534814“site.profound.com AI visibility prompt citations competitors | site.otterly.ai AI search monitoring citations brand competitors | site.platform.openai.com docs web search citations responses sources”; “AI brand visibility tool analyze sources citations competitor recommendations Profound Peec AI | Google Search Central AI features website best practices AI Overviews | OpenAI ChatGPT search ranking factors no guarantee top placement”; “AI visibility tracking tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Profound Peec AI 2026”
Peec AI424213“AI brand visibility tool analyze sources citations competitor recommendations Profound Peec AI | Google Search Central AI features website best practices AI Overviews | OpenAI ChatGPT search ranking factors no guarantee top placement”; “AI visibility tracking tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Profound Peec AI 2026”; “AI visibility monitoring tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Profound Peec AI 2026”
Ahrefs Brand Radar17137“sitedevelopers.google.com search AI features your website helpful content AI overview | site:help.openai.com publishers product discovery ChatGPT search shopping | site:ahrefs.com AI brand monitoring sentiment citations objections”; “site.bing.com webmaster AI Performance citations dashboard | site.google.com search central AI features no special optimization schema llms txt | site.ahrefs.com brand radar ChatGPT Claude tracking”; “site.bing.com webmaster AI Performance comparison content citations AI answers | site.developers.google.com search AI features website content best practices | site.ahrefs.com comparison pages AI citations research”
Semrush AI Toolkit16167“AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Semrush AI toolkit comparison 2026”; “site.semrush.com AI citations study G2 review sites 2026 | site.ahrefs.com/blog AI citations YouTube LinkedIn listicles 2026 | site.tryprofound.com LinkedIn cited domains 2026”; “AI visibility tools citation source tracking Profound Peec AI Semrush AI toolkit 2026”
Otterly.AI773“site.profound.com AI visibility prompt citations competitors | site.otterly.ai AI search monitoring citations brand competitors | site.platform.openai.com docs web search citations responses sources”; “AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Otterly comparison 2026”; “AI search visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Otterly comparison 2026”

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
202614420
search10416
citations10118
chatgpt7813
visibility6215
oai-searchbot6213
tools6012
brand6011
optimization5114
webmaster4614
features4612
website4316
publishers4213
study419
engine3813
site.bing.com3712
performance3612
sources359
generative3412
site.developers.google.com3211
best3112
tracking3012
llm2910
recommendations294
site.openai.com2811

Dropped

Prompt words the searches left out.

WordSearchesPrompts
product908
assistant877
answers645
ai4915
sites484
change483
say463
gets322
help312
competitor302
keeps302
write292
visibility264
find262
recommend262
content254
mention252
search244
engine232
cited212
web212
tool202
chatgpt's201
claude's201
mentioned191

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” — 4 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"
“AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Scrunch comparison 2026” — 2 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"
“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"
“schema markup structured data AI Overviews citations study 2026” — 2 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar

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

[[prompts]]
id = "schema-markup-structured-data-ai-2"
text = "schema markup structured data AI Overviews citations study 2026"
“AI brand visibility tool analyze sources citations competitor recommendations Profound Peec AI” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Peec AI, Profound

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-brand-visibility-tool-analyze"
text = "AI brand visibility tool analyze sources citations competitor recommendations Profound Peec AI"
“Google Search Central AI features website best practices AI Overviews” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Peec AI, Profound

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

[[prompts]]
id = "google-search-central-ai-features"
text = "Google Search Central AI features website best practices AI Overviews"
“OpenAI ChatGPT search ranking factors no guarantee top placement” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Peec AI, Profound

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

[[prompts]]
id = "openai-chatgpt-search-ranking-factors"
text = "OpenAI ChatGPT search ranking factors no guarantee top placement"
“AI brand visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Scrunch 2026” — 1 answers · Peec AI, Profound

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-brand-visibility-tracking-tools"
text = "AI brand visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Scrunch 2026"
“AI search citation domains study 2026 ChatGPT Google AI Overviews Perplexity most cited websites” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-search-citation-domains-study"
text = "AI search citation domains study 2026 ChatGPT Google AI Overviews Perplexity most cited websites"
“Ahrefs AI citations most cited domains Reddit YouTube Wikipedia 2025 2026” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ahrefs-ai-citations-cited-domains"
text = "Ahrefs AI citations most cited domains Reddit YouTube Wikipedia 2025 2026"

Prompt by prompt

#PromptSearchedSearches per answerDistinctFrom promptPrompt kept
1ChatGPT keeps recommending our competitor instead of us. What can we actually do about it?8/81.91410%16%
2How can I find out why an AI assistant prefers a competitor's product over ours?8/81.5115%7%
3ChatGPT gets our features and pricing wrong. How do we correct what AI assistants say about our product?8/82.11723%27%
4AI assistants mention our product but add caveats that steer buyers away. How do we address the objections they raise?8/81.51111%13%
5How do I get my product mentioned in Claude's and ChatGPT's answers?8/82.5204%8%
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?8/81.81318%26%
7What kind of content makes AI assistants more likely to recommend a product?8/81.61314%24%
8Do comparison pages help a product show up in AI answers?8/81.81225%34%
9What does an answer engine optimization content strategy look like for a B2B SaaS company?8/81.5730%28%
10How should we write and structure our documentation so AI assistants recommend our developer tool?8/81.81229%34%
11Which third-party sites matter most for getting cited by AI search engines?8/81.91319%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?8/81.91525%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?8/81.91520%21%
14Is llms.txt worth adding to our site for AI visibility?8/81.91324%33%
15Does structured data or schema markup help a site get cited in Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT search?8/82.11554%46%
16How should we prioritize fixes to improve how AI assistants describe our product?8/81.51112%19%
17What are the quickest wins for improving our brand's visibility in AI search?8/81.91522%33%
18Who should own AI visibility work: SEO, content, product marketing or the docs team?8/81.0835%44%
19How long does it take for new content to change what ChatGPT and Perplexity say about us?8/81.91520%31%
20Which AI visibility tools tell you what content to create or change, not just where you rank?8/82.41928%41%
1. ChatGPT keeps recommending our competitor instead of us. What can we actually do about it? — 14 queries

Added: 2026 ×8 search ×8 site.help.openai.com ×7 oai-searchbot ×6 recommendations ×6 brand ×5 tools ×5 ai ×4

Dropped: actually ×15 competitor ×15 instead ×15 keeps ×15 recommending ×15 chatgpt ×1

2. How can I find out why an AI assistant prefers a competitor's product over ours? — 11 queries

Added: chatgpt ×8 competitor ×8 sources ×8 search ×7 visibility ×7 brand ×6 citations ×5 engine ×5

Dropped: assistant ×12 competitor's ×12 find ×12 ours ×12 out ×12 over ×12 prefers ×12 product ×12

3. ChatGPT gets our features and pricing wrong. How do we correct what AI assistants say about our product? — 17 queries

Added: oai-searchbot ×9 search ×9 2026 ×8 information ×8 site.help.openai.com ×7 tools ×7 incorrect ×6 report ×5

Dropped: assistants ×17 gets ×17 say ×17 pricing ×14 product ×14 features ×13 wrong ×13 correct ×12

4. AI assistants mention our product but add caveats that steer buyers away. How do we address the objections they raise? — 11 queries

Added: brand ×9 search ×8 citations ×7 chatgpt ×6 2026 ×5 sentiment ×5 features ×4 fix ×4

Dropped: add ×12 address ×12 assistants ×12 away ×12 raise ×12 steer ×12 mention ×11 buyers ×10

5. How do I get my product mentioned in Claude's and ChatGPT's answers? — 20 queries

Added: chatgpt ×15 claude ×13 2026 ×12 search ×10 brand ×6 tracking ×6 claude-searchbot ×5 merchants ×5

Dropped: chatgpt's ×20 claude's ×20 answers ×19 mentioned ×19 product ×14

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? — 13 queries

Added: brand ×8 2026 ×6 llm ×6 site.anthropic.com ×6 gptbot ×5 claudebot ×4 common ×4 crawl ×4

Dropped: change ×14 finds ×14 says ×14 searches ×14 web ×11 ai ×9 model ×8 data ×6

7. What kind of content makes AI assistants more likely to recommend a product? — 13 queries

Added: chatgpt ×10 engine ×7 generative ×7 optimization ×7 2026 ×6 visibility ×6 citations ×5 overviews ×5

Dropped: kind ×13 likely ×13 makes ×13 recommend ×13 assistants ×11 product ×9 content ×6 ai ×1

8. Do comparison pages help a product show up in AI answers? — 12 queries

Added: citations ×11 content ×8 search ×8 study ×7 chatgpt ×5 site.bing.com ×5 webmaster ×5 2026 ×4

Dropped: help ×14 product ×14 show ×14 up ×14 answers ×10 ai ×4 comparison ×4

9. What does an answer engine optimization content strategy look like for a B2B SaaS company? — 7 queries

Added: 2026 ×11 search ×5 ai ×4 citations ×4 comparison ×4 features ×4 oai-searchbot ×4 overviews ×4

Dropped: company ×12 look ×12 answer ×8 b2b ×8 engine ×8 optimization ×8 saas ×8 strategy ×8

10. How should we write and structure our documentation so AI assistants recommend our developer tool? — 12 queries

Added: 2026 ×8 llms.txt ×8 docs ×7 adoption ×4 bots ×4 data ×4 features ×4 mcp ×4

Dropped: structure ×14 write ×14 recommend ×13 assistants ×10 tool ×10 developer ×7 ai ×4 documentation ×2

11. Which third-party sites matter most for getting cited by AI search engines? — 13 queries

Added: study ×13 2026 ×11 domains ×11 reddit ×10 chatgpt ×8 g2 ×8 google ×8 overviews ×8

Dropped: engines ×15 getting ×15 matter ×15 third-party ×14 sites ×9 search ×7 cited ×4 ai ×2

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? — 15 queries

Added: 2026 ×10 citations ×6 business ×5 search ×5 spam ×5 tools ×5 incentivized ×4 policy ×4

Dropped: category ×15 citing ×15 competitors ×15 keep ×15 threads ×15 mention ×14 answers ×12 sites ×12

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? — 15 queries

Added: query ×10 sources ×10 fan-out ×9 visibility ×9 queries ×8 citations ×7 api ×5 chatgpt ×5

Dropped: answer ×15 assistant ×15 before ×15 gets ×15 missing ×15 question ×15 understand ×15 writes ×15

14. Is llms.txt worth adding to our site for AI visibility? — 13 queries

Added: 2026 ×9 adoption ×6 citations ×6 site.bing.com ×6 study ×6 evidence ×5 search ×5 crawlers ×4

Dropped: adding ×15 worth ×15 site ×14 visibility ×13 ai ×3

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

Added: features ×8 oai-searchbot ×6 citations ×5 special ×5 2026 ×4 guidance ×4 help.openai.com ×4 publishers ×4

Dropped: cited ×17 help ×17 google ×13 site ×13 markup ×11 chatgpt ×8 overviews ×8 search ×8

16. How should we prioritize fixes to improve how AI assistants describe our product? — 11 queries

Added: 2026 ×8 brand ×5 chatgpt ×5 search ×5 citations ×4 engine ×4 features ×4 generative ×4

Dropped: improve ×12 product ×12 fixes ×11 prioritize ×11 assistants ×10 describe ×10 ai ×2

17. What are the quickest wins for improving our brand's visibility in AI search? — 15 queries

Added: 2026 ×10 chatgpt ×7 oai-searchbot ×7 publishers ×6 citations ×5 performance ×5 tools ×5 webmaster ×5

Dropped: brand's ×15 improving ×15 quickest ×15 wins ×11 search ×6 visibility ×6 ai ×2

18. Who should own AI visibility work: SEO, content, product marketing or the docs team? — 8 queries

Added: 2026 ×4 best ×4 citations ×4 features ×4 geo ×4 oai-searchbot ×4 performance ×4 practices ×4

Dropped: work ×8 team ×7 content ×6 docs ×6 product ×5 marketing ×4 visibility ×3 seo ×1

19. How long does it take for new content to change what ChatGPT and Perplexity say about us? — 15 queries

Added: search ×13 indexing ×8 oai-searchbot ×7 perplexitybot ×7 site.perplexity.ai ×5 study ×5 2026 ×4 ai ×4

Dropped: change ×15 say ×15 take ×15 new ×10 long ×9 perplexity ×9 content ×7 chatgpt ×3

20. Which AI visibility tools tell you what content to create or change, not just where you rank? — 19 queries

Added: recommendations ×19 optimization ×11 2026 ×8 action ×8 center ×8 scrunch ×8 actionable ×6 airops ×6

Dropped: change ×19 rank ×19 tell ×19 create ×17 tools ×10 visibility ×4 ai ×1