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What the assistants searched

Finding out whether AI assistants recommend us 2026-10-23 17:39 · search track only, from the stored answers · pool the last 7 runs · JSON

60/60answers searched
100searches
94distinct queries
22%from prompt
26%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 search visibility tracking tools 2026 brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity share of voice1520/20/2
AI visibility tracking tools ChatGPT Claude brand mentions 20261320/20/2
best AI visibility tracking tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini Claude 2026520/20/2
Profound vs Peec AI vs Semrush AI Toolkit vs Ahrefs Brand Radar comparison +Ahrefs Brand Radar +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit420/2Ahrefs Brand Radar ×2 Profound ×2 Semrush AI Toolkit ×2 0/2
Profound vs Peec AI vs Semrush AI Toolkit vs Ahrefs Brand Radar pricing comparison +Ahrefs Brand Radar +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit620/2Ahrefs Brand Radar ×2 Profound ×2 Semrush AI Toolkit ×2 0/2
track brand mentions Google AI Overviews AI Mode tools 2026720/20/2
AI brand visibility benchmarking competitors Profound Scrunch Otterly methodology prompts share of voice | Ahrefs Brand Radar AI visibility index prompts competitors methodology +Ahrefs Brand Radar +Otterly.AI +Profound910/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI brand visibility monitoring tools 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 Otterly Scrunch +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound510/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI Overviews click-through rate impact 2026 study B2B buyers use ChatGPT vendor research210/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
AI search citation monitoring website Ahrefs Brand Radar Profound Otterly citations | Bing Webmaster Tools AI Performance citations dashboard +Ahrefs Brand Radar +Otterly.AI +Profound810/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
AI search visibility citation tracking tools 2026 ChatGPT Perplexity Google AI Overviews810/1Frase ×1 0/1
AI search visibility metrics share of voice citations LLM brand mentions tools 20261010/10/1
AI search visibility share of voice tools ChatGPT Perplexity 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 +Profound1110/1Frase ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI search visibility tools 2026 Profound Peec AI Semrush AI Toolkit prompt tracking +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit1110/1Frase ×1 0/1
AI search visibility tools track citations sources ChatGPT Perplexity 20261210/1Frase ×1 0/1
AI search visibility tracking tools 2026 ChatGPT Perplexity citations brand monitoring810/10/1
AI search visibility tracking tools 2026 LLM brand share of voice Profound Peec AI Otterly comparison +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound910/1Frase ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI visibility metrics share of voice citations LLM answers tools 20261010/10/1
AI visibility tools brand mention vs recommendation share of voice LLM tracking 2026410/10/1
AI visibility tracking how many prompts statistical significance LLM answer variance1110/10/1
AI visibility tracking how many prompts statistically significant LLM answer variance1110/10/1
AI visibility tracking prompts sample size repeated runs share of voice measurement | site.pewresearch.org AI search results different answers repeat queries brands1110/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
AI visibility tracking tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity 20261410/1Frase ×1 0/1
AI visibility tracking tools brand mentions vs recommendations ChatGPT share of voice 2026410/10/1
AI visibility tracking tools ChatGPT brand mentions 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound310/10/1
AI visibility tracking tools ChatGPT citations Profound Semrush AI Toolkit Ahrefs Brand Radar 2026 +Ahrefs Brand Radar +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit110/10/1
AI visibility tracking tools LLM brand mentions ChatGPT 20261410/10/1
AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Semrush AI toolkit 2026 +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit210/1Frase ×1 0/1
best AI search visibility citation tracking tools 2026 ChatGPT Perplexity sources1210/1Frase ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
best AI search visibility tracking tools 2026 brand share of voice ChatGPT Perplexity competitors910/1Frase ×1 0/1
best AI visibility tracking tools ChatGPT brand mentions 2026310/10/1
Bing Webmaster Tools AI performance report citations Copilot1210/10/1
Bing Webmaster Tools AI Performance report Copilot citations810/10/1
ChatGPT brand visibility tracking Profound Peec AI Otterly AI monitor prompts ChatGPT | site.openai.com ChatGPT search recommendations ranking shopping products +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound310/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
'Claude'510/1Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
diagnose organic traffic loss AI Overviews Search Console impressions clicks 2026110/10/1
GA4 "AI assistant" default channel group support.google.com810/10/1
GA4 track ChatGPT Perplexity referral traffic AI crawler logs 2026810/10/1
GA4 track ChatGPT referral traffic regex AI assistants channel group110/10/1
GEO AEO LLM SEO B2B 2026 AI search visibility tools210/10/1
GEO AI search visibility platform pricing Profound Peec AI Otterly Semrush AI Toolkit 2026 +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit510/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
GEO generative engine optimization tracking tools Profound Peec AI Semrush AI Toolkit Ahrefs Brand Radar comparison +Ahrefs Brand Radar +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit1010/1Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
GEO vs AEO vs SEO B2B 2026 AI search visibility210/10/1
Google Search Console AI Mode AI Overviews data report 2026110/10/1
Google Search Console AI Mode data reporting 2026710/10/1
how often to monitor AI search visibility prompt tracking volatility cadence1410/10/1
how often to monitor LLM brand recommendations volatility AI answers prompt tracking cadence1410/10/1

Showing the 50 run by the most answers; 44 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
Profound373413“tools track brand visibility ChatGPT AI Overviews 2026 Profound Semrush AI toolkit Ahrefs Brand Radar”; “AI visibility tracking tools ChatGPT citations Profound Semrush AI Toolkit Ahrefs Brand Radar 2026”; “AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Semrush AI toolkit 2026”
Ahrefs Brand Radar282612“tools track brand visibility ChatGPT AI Overviews 2026 Profound Semrush AI toolkit Ahrefs Brand Radar”; “AI visibility tracking tools ChatGPT citations Profound Semrush AI Toolkit Ahrefs Brand Radar 2026”; “Profound vs Peec AI vs Semrush AI Toolkit vs Ahrefs Brand Radar comparison”
Peec AI242310“AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Semrush AI toolkit 2026”; “AI visibility tracking tools ChatGPT brand mentions 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly”; “Profound vs Peec AI vs Otterly vs Semrush AI toolkit pricing 2026”
Semrush AI Toolkit222212“tools track brand visibility ChatGPT AI Overviews 2026 Profound Semrush AI toolkit Ahrefs Brand Radar”; “AI visibility tracking tools ChatGPT citations Profound Semrush AI Toolkit Ahrefs Brand Radar 2026”; “site.semrush.com AI Overviews position tracking SERP features tracking”
Otterly.AI16147“AI visibility tracking tools ChatGPT brand mentions 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly”; “Profound vs Peec AI vs Otterly vs Semrush AI toolkit pricing 2026”; “ChatGPT brand visibility tracking Profound Peec AI Otterly AI monitor prompts ChatGPT | site.openai.com ChatGPT search recommendations ranking shopping products”

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
visibility4613
20264515
tracking4315
tools3514
search3112
brand3010
citations279
prompts187
chatgpt178
monitoring1610
mentions167
share165
voice165
vs138
perplexity126
features116
ai114
console114
toolkit108
answer106
llm106
recommendations105
engine86
radar85
site.ahrefs.com85

Dropped

Prompt words the searches left out.

WordSearchesPrompts
whether436
assistants295
measure295
answer255
what's223
track203
recommends183
care132
questions132
llm122
marketing122
team122
category112
often112
chatgpt104
search103
product102
cite101
check91
down91
engines91
monitor91
suspect91
taking91
mention82

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 comparison” — 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 comparison"
“Profound vs Peec AI vs Semrush AI Toolkit vs Ahrefs Brand Radar pricing comparison” — 2 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Profound, 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 pricing comparison"
“AI brand visibility benchmarking competitors Profound Scrunch Otterly methodology prompts share of voice” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Otterly.AI, Profound

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-brand-visibility-benchmarking-competitors"
text = "AI brand visibility benchmarking competitors Profound Scrunch Otterly methodology prompts share of voice"
“Ahrefs Brand Radar AI visibility index prompts competitors methodology” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar, Otterly.AI, Profound

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ahrefs-brand-radar-ai-visibility"
text = "Ahrefs Brand Radar AI visibility index prompts competitors methodology"
“AI brand visibility monitoring tools 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-monitoring-tools"
text = "AI brand visibility monitoring tools ChatGPT Claude Perplexity Gemini Profound Peec Otterly Athena"
“AI brand visibility tracking tools ChatGPT Claude Perplexity Gemini Profound Peec Otterly Scrunch” — 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 Otterly Scrunch"
“AI Overviews click-through rate impact 2026 study B2B buyers use ChatGPT vendor research” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-overviews-click-through-rate"
text = "AI Overviews click-through rate impact 2026 study B2B buyers use ChatGPT vendor research"
“AI search citation monitoring website Ahrefs Brand Radar Profound Otterly citations” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-search-citation-monitoring-website"
text = "AI search citation monitoring website Ahrefs Brand Radar Profound Otterly citations"
“Bing Webmaster Tools AI Performance citations dashboard” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar

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

[[prompts]]
id = "bing-webmaster-tools-ai-performance"
text = "Bing Webmaster Tools AI Performance citations dashboard"
“AI search visibility citation tracking tools 2026 ChatGPT Perplexity Google AI Overviews” — 1 answers · Frase

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-search-visibility-citation-tracking"
text = "AI search visibility citation tracking tools 2026 ChatGPT Perplexity Google AI Overviews"

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?4/42.2928%26%
2GEO, AEO, LLM SEO: what are they, how do they differ from SEO, and which should a B2B marketing team care about?4/41.8722%29%
3How can I find out whether ChatGPT recommends my product when people ask about my category?4/41.569%13%
4What's the difference between being mentioned and being recommended in an AI answer, and how do I measure each?4/41.559%12%
5What tools track how often AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini mention a brand?4/41.8653%44%
6Is there a way to measure our share of voice in AI chatbot answers?4/41.5523%44%
7How can I tell whether Google AI Overviews and AI Mode mention our brand for the topics we care about?4/41.5546%48%
8How do I monitor whether AI search engines cite our website?4/42.51016%29%
9What's the best way to benchmark my brand's visibility in LLM answers against competitors?4/41.8715%22%
10What metrics should a marketing team use to measure presence in AI assistant answers?4/41.2516%25%
11Which questions should we track to measure AI visibility, and how many prompts do we need before the numbers mean anything?4/41.8728%30%
12How can I see which web pages AI assistants rely on when they answer questions in my category?4/41.5614%20%
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?4/41.5526%24%
14How often should we re-check whether AI assistants recommend us, and how do we track changes over time?4/41.5612%13%
15How do I prove to leadership whether our content work is changing what AI assistants recommend?4/41.555%7%
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? — 9 queries

Added: 2026 ×4 console ×4 chatgpt.com ×3 features ×3 publishers ×3 site.help.openai.com ×3 source ×3 utm ×3

Dropped: check ×9 down ×9 suspect ×9 taking ×9 what's ×9 whether ×9 organic ×8 google ×6

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: 2026 ×5 ai ×5 search ×4 engine ×3 optimization ×3 overviews ×3 site.bing.com ×3 visibility ×3

Dropped: care ×7 differ ×7 marketing ×7 team ×7 llm ×6 b2b ×4 seo ×3 aeo ×2

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 2026 ×3 prompts ×3 mentions ×2 recommendations ×2 shopping ×2

Dropped: ask ×6 category ×6 find ×6 out ×6 people ×6 recommends ×6 whether ×6 product ×4

4. What's the difference between being mentioned and being recommended in an AI answer, and how do I measure each? — 5 queries

Added: brand ×4 share ×4 visibility ×4 voice ×4 vs ×4 mentions ×3 recommendations ×3 tracking ×3

Dropped: answer ×6 between ×6 difference ×6 measure ×6 mentioned ×6 recommended ×6 what's ×6

5. What tools track how often AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini mention a brand? — 6 queries

Added: visibility ×6 2026 ×3 tracking ×3 best ×2 pricing ×2 athena ×1 geo ×1 monitoring ×1

Dropped: assistants ×7 often ×7 track ×7 mention ×5 chatgpt ×3 gemini ×3 perplexity ×3 tools ×3

6. Is there a way to measure our share of voice in AI chatbot answers? — 5 queries

Added: visibility ×4 2026 ×2 chatgpt ×2 comparison ×2 measurement ×2 perplexity ×2 pricing ×2 search ×2

Dropped: measure ×6 answers ×5 chatbot ×5 share ×2 voice ×2

7. How can I tell whether Google AI Overviews and AI Mode mention our brand for the topics we care about? — 5 queries

Added: 2026 ×4 console ×4 reporting ×4 search ×4 features ×2 radar ×2 site.semrush.com ×2 site.support.google.com ×2

Dropped: care ×6 tell ×6 topics ×6 whether ×6 mention ×3 brand ×2 google ×1 overviews ×1

8. How do I monitor whether AI search engines cite our website? — 10 queries

Added: citations ×5 2026 ×4 chatgpt ×4 monitoring ×4 tools ×4 traffic ×4 brand ×3 citation ×3

Dropped: cite ×10 whether ×10 engines ×9 monitor ×9 website ×8 search ×4

9. What's the best way to benchmark my brand's visibility in LLM answers against competitors? — 7 queries

Added: share ×5 voice ×5 prompts ×4 2026 ×3 ai ×3 brand ×3 chatgpt ×3 tracking ×3

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

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

Added: citations ×4 share ×4 visibility ×4 voice ×4 brand ×3 tools ×3 2026 ×2 llm ×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 ×7 2026 ×4 search ×4 answer ×2 brands ×2 llm ×2 sample ×2 size ×2

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

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

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

Dropped: questions ×6 rely ×6 see ×6 web ×6 answer ×5 assistants ×5 category ×5 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? — 5 queries

Added: brand ×4 tool ×3 2026 ×2 ai ×2 api ×2 automatically ×2 citations ×2 docs ×2

Dropped: alone ×6 different ×6 product ×6 say ×6 things ×6 versus ×6 data ×5 measure ×5

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

Added: tracking ×6 visibility ×4 brand ×3 mentions ×3 search ×3 2026 ×2 cadence ×2 chatgpt ×2

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

15. How do I prove to leadership whether our content work is changing what AI assistants recommend? — 5 queries

Added: search ×4 tracking ×4 visibility ×4 brand ×3 prompts ×3 2026 ×2 chatgpt ×2 citations ×2

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