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What the assistants searched

Getting recommended instead of a competitor 2026-10-23 17:51 · search track only, from the stored answers · pool the last 7 runs · JSON

80/80answers searched
142searches
134distinct queries
23%from prompt
29%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 1730/3Frase ×3 Profound ×2 Peec AI ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/3
answer engine optimization B2B SaaS content strategy 2026920/20/2
does ChatGPT search use schema markup structured data citations1520/20/2
influence LLM training data brand perception Common Crawl Wikipedia 2026620/20/2
llms.txt adoption 2026 developer documentation AI assistants1020/20/2
most cited domains AI search ChatGPT Perplexity Google AI Overviews study 20261120/2Peec AI ×2 0/2
schema markup structured data AI Overviews citations study 20261520/2Ahrefs Brand Radar ×2 0/2
AI brand visibility tools track how ChatGPT Claude describe brand without search 2026610/10/1
AI search citation sources domains most cited ChatGPT Perplexity Google AI Overviews 2026 study | site.ahrefs.com AI citations most cited domains Reddit YouTube Wikipedia +Ahrefs Brand Radar1110/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
AI search citations Reddit review sites listicles strategy get brand cited ChatGPT 20261210/10/1
AI search most cited domains third party sources ChatGPT Perplexity Google AI Overviews 2026 citation study | site.ahrefs.com AI citations most cited domains reddit youtube wikipedia 2025 2026 +Ahrefs Brand Radar1110/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
AI search visibility GEO quick wins brand 20261710/10/1
AI search visibility GEO quick wins brands 20261710/10/1
AI search visibility tool "content recommendations" OR "action center" Profound Agents, Writesonic GEO, Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit, Goodie AI, AthenaHQ 2026 review +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit2010/1Frase ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI search visibility tools 2026 brand mentions ChatGPT competitor share of voice210/10/1
AI search visibility tools brand mentions ChatGPT competitor comparison 2026210/10/1
AI search visibility tools brand sentiment ChatGPT mentions 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound410/10/1
AI search visibility tools brand sentiment LLM answers 2026 (Profound, Peec AI, Scrunch) +Peec AI +Profound410/10/1
AI search visibility tools ChatGPT brand mentions tracking 2026110/10/1
AI visibility monitoring tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity 2026 Profound Peec AI +Peec AI +Profound310/1Frase ×1 0/1
AI visibility tools citation source tracking Profound Peec AI Semrush AI toolkit 2026 +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit1210/1Frase ×1 0/1
AI visibility tools content recommendations GEO 2026 actionable optimization Profound AirOps Scrunch +Profound2010/1Profound ×1 0/1
AI visibility tools content recommendations Profound actions content optimization Scrunch AI Peec Otterly | Writesonic AI visibility content recommendations AthenaHQ content optimization +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound2010/1AI Peekaboo ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI visibility tools content recommendations Profound AirOps Scrunch Peec actionable content optimization | AI visibility tools AthenaHQ content recommendations Writesonic +Peec AI +Profound2010/1Elmo ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI visibility tools content recommendations what to create GEO 20262010/10/1
AI visibility tools track how ChatGPT describes brand 2026 Profound Peec AI Scrunch +Peec AI +Profound1610/10/1
AI visibility tracking tools brand mentions LLM Profound Peec AI 2026 +Peec AI +Profound710/1Frase ×1 0/1
AI visibility tracking tools ChatGPT Perplexity brand mentions Profound Peec AI comparison 2026 +Peec AI +Profound910/1Frase ×1 0/1
AI visibility tracking tools citation source analysis Profound Peec AI Semrush AI toolkit 2026 +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit1210/1Frase ×1 0/1
AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Otterly comparison 2026 +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound510/1Frase ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Otterly Semrush AI toolkit comparison 2026 +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit110/1Frase ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Scrunch comparison 2026 +Peec AI +Profound1610/1Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AirOps vs Goodie AI vs Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit content recommendations "page" refresh +Semrush AI Toolkit2010/1Peec AI ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
B2B AI citations sources G2 Reddit LinkedIn YouTube study LLM visibility 20261110/10/1
B2B software AI citations G2 Reddit review sites LLM visibility study 20261110/10/1
best generative engine optimization platforms that recommend content to create, not just tracking 20262010/10/1
ChatGPT ads advertisers program 2026510/10/1
ChatGPT ads shopping product feeds merchants 2026510/10/1
ChatGPT network tab "search_queries" see hidden fan-out queries conversation JSON1310/10/1
ChatGPT search Bing index OAI-SearchBot Perplexity crawler freshness study days to citation1910/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
ChatGPT search inspect web search queries sources DevTools Perplexity sources panel AI Overviews citations tracking tool1310/10/1
"comparison" OR "listicle" pages share of ChatGPT citations study "best X" self-promotional listicles AI810/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
comparison pages AI search citations LLM visibility study 2026810/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
comparison pages AI search visibility ChatGPT citations study 2026810/10/1
generative engine optimization ChatGPT Claude brand mentions 2026 tools510/10/1
generative engine optimization developer tools docs MCP server 20261010/10/1
generative engine optimization developer tools documentation MCP server docs 20261010/10/1
generative engine optimization how ChatGPT chooses which brands to recommend sources study 2026110/10/1
generative engine optimization how to get mentioned in ChatGPT Claude answers 2026510/10/1
generative engine optimization prioritize fixes how LLMs describe your brand 20261610/10/1

Showing the 50 run by the most answers; 84 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
Profound282512“AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Otterly Semrush AI toolkit comparison 2026”; “AI visibility monitoring tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity 2026 Profound Peec AI”; “llms.txt adoption OpenAI ChatGPT search crawler OAI-SearchBot brand visibility tools Profound Peec AI”
Peec AI222212“AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Otterly Semrush AI toolkit comparison 2026”; “site.scrunchai.com competitor AI search monitoring citations | site.airops.com AI search visibility competitor citations | site.peec.ai prompts competitors sources AI visibility”; “site.ahrefs.com brand radar AI cited sources competitors | site.scrunchai.com AI search monitoring citations competitors | site.peec.ai prompts sources competitors AI visibility”
Semrush AI Toolkit996“AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Otterly Semrush AI toolkit comparison 2026”; “AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Semrush AI toolkit comparison 2026”; “site.tryprofound.com citation sources G2 Gartner reviews 2026 | site.semrush.com AI citations sources reviews G2 2026 study”
Ahrefs Brand Radar775“site.ahrefs.com brand radar AI cited sources competitors | site.scrunchai.com AI search monitoring citations competitors | site.peec.ai prompts sources competitors AI visibility”; “site ahrefs.com blog AI brand recommendations mentions correlation study | site help.openai.com shopping product results factors reviews price availability”; “site.bing.com webmaster AI search comparison pages citations content | site.developers.google.com search AI features content best practices | site.ahrefs.com AI citations comparison pages study”
Otterly.AI444“AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Otterly Semrush AI toolkit comparison 2026”; “AI search visibility tools brand sentiment ChatGPT mentions 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly”; “AI 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
20267220
citation4715
search4516
chatgpt3613
oai-searchbot3214
visibility3113
brand3112
tools3012
optimization2410
publishers2214
study227
features2111
webmaster1811
engine1710
site.bing.com1710
website1710
sources176
generative1610
recommendations164
site.developers.google.com1510
performance159
tracking159
llm149
overviews148
site.openai.com148

Dropped

Prompt words the searches left out.

WordSearchesPrompts
assistant467
product388
answers285
sites274
ai2511
change233
say223
gets182
write162
visibility144
competitor142
help142
keeps142
recommend142
find132
cited122
engine122
mention112
web112
content104
search104
tool102
adding101
rank101
tell101

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 · Frase, Profound, Peec AI, 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"
“most cited domains AI search ChatGPT Perplexity Google AI Overviews study 2026” — 2 answers · Peec AI

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

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

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

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

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-search-cited-domains-third"
text = "AI search most cited domains third party sources ChatGPT Perplexity Google AI Overviews 2026 citation study"
“AI visibility monitoring tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity 2026 Profound Peec AI” — 1 answers · Frase

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-visibility-monitoring-tools-brand"
text = "AI visibility monitoring tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity 2026 Profound Peec AI"
“AI visibility tools citation source tracking Profound Peec AI Semrush AI toolkit 2026” — 1 answers · Frase

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-visibility-tools-citation-source"
text = "AI visibility tools citation source tracking Profound Peec AI Semrush AI toolkit 2026"
“AI visibility tools content recommendations GEO 2026 actionable optimization Profound AirOps Scrunch” — 1 answers · Profound

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-visibility-tools-content-recommendations"
text = "AI visibility tools content recommendations GEO 2026 actionable optimization Profound AirOps Scrunch"
“AI visibility tools content recommendations Profound actions content optimization Scrunch AI Peec Otterly” — 1 answers · AI Peekaboo, Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-visibility-tools-content-recommendations-2"
text = "AI visibility tools content recommendations Profound actions content optimization Scrunch AI Peec Otterly"
“Writesonic AI visibility content recommendations AthenaHQ content optimization” — 1 answers · AI Peekaboo, Otterly.AI, Peec AI, Profound

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

[[prompts]]
id = "writesonic-ai-visibility-content-recommendations"
text = "Writesonic AI visibility content recommendations AthenaHQ content optimization"

Prompt by prompt

#PromptSearchedSearches per answerDistinctFrom promptPrompt kept
1ChatGPT keeps recommending our competitor instead of us. What can we actually do about it?4/42.086%10%
2How can I find out why an AI assistant prefers a competitor's product over ours?4/41.566%7%
3ChatGPT gets our features and pricing wrong. How do we correct what AI assistants say about our product?4/42.2925%28%
4AI assistants mention our product but add caveats that steer buyers away. How do we address the objections they raise?4/41.5612%15%
5How do I get my product mentioned in Claude's and ChatGPT's answers?4/41.878%14%
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?4/41.8617%25%
7What kind of content makes AI assistants more likely to recommend a product?4/41.8716%27%
8Do comparison pages help a product show up in AI answers?4/41.5624%31%
9What does an answer engine optimization content strategy look like for a B2B SaaS company?4/41.5531%30%
10How should we write and structure our documentation so AI assistants recommend our developer tool?4/41.8627%30%
11Which third-party sites matter most for getting cited by AI search engines?4/42.0719%28%
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?4/41.5627%26%
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?4/42.2923%24%
14Is llms.txt worth adding to our site for AI visibility?4/42.51020%30%
15Does structured data or schema markup help a site get cited in Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT search?4/42.0663%49%
16How should we prioritize fixes to improve how AI assistants describe our product?4/41.5618%29%
17What are the quickest wins for improving our brand's visibility in AI search?4/41.5528%40%
18Who should own AI visibility work: SEO, content, product marketing or the docs team?4/41.0433%50%
19How long does it take for new content to change what ChatGPT and Perplexity say about us?4/41.5625%38%
20Which AI visibility tools tell you what content to create or change, not just where you rank?4/42.51028%41%
1. ChatGPT keeps recommending our competitor instead of us. What can we actually do about it? — 8 queries

Added: search ×5 2026 ×4 oai-searchbot ×4 ai ×3 recommendations ×3 visibility ×3 brand ×2 merchants ×2

Dropped: actually ×8 competitor ×8 instead ×8 keeps ×8 recommending ×8 chatgpt ×3

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

Added: competitor ×5 brand ×4 chatgpt ×4 search ×4 sources ×4 visibility ×4 2026 ×2 analysis ×2

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? — 9 queries

Added: 2026 ×5 oai-searchbot ×5 search ×5 tools ×5 down ×3 incorrect ×3 site.help.openai.com ×3 thumbs ×3

Dropped: gets ×9 say ×9 assistants ×8 wrong ×8 correct ×7 features ×7 pricing ×7 product ×7

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 search ×4 2026 ×3 answers ×3 chatgpt ×3 citations ×2 engine ×2 features ×2

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

5. How do I get my product mentioned in Claude's and ChatGPT's answers? — 7 queries

Added: chatgpt ×6 2026 ×5 claude ×4 merchants ×3 ads ×2 claude-searchbot ×2 engine ×2 feeds ×2

Dropped: chatgpt's ×7 claude's ×7 answers ×6 mentioned ×6 product ×4

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? — 6 queries

Added: 2026 ×4 brand ×4 knowledge ×3 retrieval ×3 site.anthropic.com ×3 site.openai.com ×3 common ×2 crawl ×2

Dropped: change ×7 finds ×7 says ×7 searches ×7 web ×6 ai ×5 model ×4 data ×2

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

Added: 2026 ×4 brand ×4 chatgpt ×3 engine ×3 generative ×3 optimization ×3 overviews ×3 recommendations ×3

Dropped: kind ×7 likely ×7 makes ×7 recommend ×7 assistants ×6 product ×4 content ×3

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

Added: citations ×5 search ×4 study ×4 best ×3 chatgpt ×3 2026 ×2 content ×2 features ×2

Dropped: answers ×6 help ×6 product ×6 show ×6 up ×6 ai ×1 comparison ×1 pages ×1

9. What does an answer engine optimization content strategy look like for a B2B SaaS company? — 5 queries

Added: 2026 ×4 ai ×2 chatgpt ×2 citations ×2 comparison ×2 features ×2 mode ×2 oai-searchbot ×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 ×3 oai-searchbot ×3 adoption ×2 bots ×2 data ×2 engine ×2

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

11. Which third-party sites matter most for getting cited by AI search engines? — 7 queries

Added: 2026 ×8 study ×7 chatgpt ×4 domains ×4 google ×4 overviews ×4 perplexity ×4 reddit ×4

Dropped: engines ×8 getting ×8 matter ×8 third-party ×8 sites ×6 cited ×4 search ×4

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? — 6 queries

Added: 2026 ×4 brand ×2 business ×2 citation ×2 citations ×2 cited ×2 guidelines ×2 incentivized ×2

Dropped: category ×6 citing ×6 competitors ×6 keep ×6 mention ×6 threads ×6 answers ×5 listicles ×4

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? — 9 queries

Added: chatgpt ×5 queries ×5 query ×5 sources ×5 visibility ×5 api ×4 fan-out ×4 call.action.sources ×3

Dropped: assistant ×9 gets ×9 missing ×9 question ×9 understand ×9 writes ×9 answer ×7 before ×7

14. Is llms.txt worth adding to our site for AI visibility? — 10 queries

Added: openai ×4 study ×4 adoption ×3 anthropic ×3 citations ×3 crawlers ×3 google ×3 site.bing.com ×3

Dropped: adding ×10 site ×10 worth ×10 visibility ×8 ai ×2 llms.txt ×2

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

Added: citations ×5 features ×3 2026 ×2 oai-searchbot ×2 site.help.openai.com ×2 special ×2 study ×2 central ×1

Dropped: cited ×8 help ×8 google ×7 site ×7 overviews ×5 markup ×4 ai ×3 chatgpt ×3

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

Added: 2026 ×4 brand ×3 chatgpt ×2 citations ×2 data ×2 engine ×2 features ×2 generative ×2

Dropped: assistants ×6 improve ×6 product ×5 describe ×4 fixes ×4 prioritize ×4 ai ×1

17. What are the quickest wins for improving our brand's visibility in AI search? — 5 queries

Added: 2026 ×5 best ×2 citations ×2 comparison ×2 features ×2 geo ×2 oai-searchbot ×2 performance ×2

Dropped: brand's ×6 improving ×6 quickest ×6 wins ×4 search ×2 visibility ×1

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

Added: 2026 ×2 answer ×2 best ×2 citations ×2 engine ×2 features ×2 geo ×2 oai-searchbot ×2

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

19. How long does it take for new content to change what ChatGPT and Perplexity say about us? — 6 queries

Added: search ×5 indexing ×3 oai-searchbot ×3 time ×3 2026 ×2 appear ×2 center ×2 citations ×2

Dropped: change ×6 say ×6 take ×6 long ×4 new ×3 content ×2 perplexity ×2 chatgpt ×1

20. Which AI visibility tools tell you what content to create or change, not just where you rank? — 10 queries

Added: recommendations ×8 optimization ×7 2026 ×4 athenahq ×4 scrunch ×4 action ×3 agents ×3 airops ×3

Dropped: change ×10 rank ×10 tell ×10 create ×8 tools ×5 visibility ×3 ai ×1