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What the assistants searched

Getting recommended instead of a competitor 2026-10-23 17:51 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
288searches
263distinct 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
AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Semrush AI toolkit comparison 2026 +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit9 1750/5Frase ×5 Profound ×3 Semrush AI Toolkit ×3 Peec AI ×2 0/5
answer engine optimization B2B SaaS content strategy 2026940/40/4
most cited domains AI search ChatGPT Perplexity Google AI Overviews study 20261140/4Peec AI ×4 0/4
schema markup structured data AI Overviews citations study 20261540/4Ahrefs Brand Radar ×4 0/4
AI visibility tools citation source tracking Profound Peec AI Semrush AI toolkit 2026 +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit1230/3Frase ×3 0/3
AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Otterly comparison 2026 +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound530/3Frase ×3 Profound ×3 0/3
influence LLM training data brand perception Common Crawl Wikipedia 2026630/30/3
AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Scrunch comparison 2026 +Peec AI +Profound9 1620/2Peec AI ×2 Profound ×2 0/2
comparison pages AI search citations ChatGPT Perplexity study 2026820/20/2
does ChatGPT search use schema markup structured data citations1520/20/2
how to correct ChatGPT wrong information about your product pricing 2026320/20/2
llms.txt adoption 2026 developer documentation AI assistants1020/20/2
llms.txt adoption AI crawlers 2026 Google OpenAI Anthropic support evidence1420/20/2
'24 hours'1910/10/1
AI brand visibility tools track how ChatGPT Claude describe brand without search 2026610/10/1
AI brand visibility tools track model responses without search 2026 Profound Peec Scrunch +Peec AI +Profound610/10/1
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 brand visibility strategy 20261210/10/1
AI search citations Reddit review sites listicles strategy get brand cited ChatGPT 20261210/10/1
AI search citations Reddit review sites listicles strategy get brand cited ChatGPT Perplexity 20261210/1Peec AI ×1 0/1
AI search citations top domains 2026 Reddit YouTube LinkedIn Wikipedia study | AI search citations third party sites brands G2 review sites 2026 study1110/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
AI search most cited domains ChatGPT Google AI Overviews Perplexity 2026 study third party | site.ahrefs.com AI citations most cited domains reddit youtube wikipedia 2025 2026 +Ahrefs Brand Radar1110/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
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 quick wins GEO brand 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 2026 (Profound, Peec AI, Otterly) +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound210/1Profound ×1 0/1
AI search visibility tools brand mentions ChatGPT competitor comparison 2026210/10/1
AI search visibility tools brand monitoring ChatGPT Perplexity 2026 Profound Peec AI +Peec AI +Profound1610/1Frase ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×1 0/1
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 ChatGPT Perplexity monitoring 2026410/1Frase ×1 0/1
AI search visibility tools brand sentiment ChatGPT tracking 2026 Profound Peec Scrunch +Peec AI +Profound410/1Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
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 GEO 2026110/10/1
AI search visibility tools ChatGPT brand mentions tracking 2026110/10/1
AI search visibility tools Profound Peec AI Scrunch citations prompts tracking comparison +Peec AI +Profound1310/1Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI visibility monitoring tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity 2026 Profound Peec AI +Peec AI +Profound310/1Frase ×1 0/1
AI visibility monitoring tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Profound Peec AI 2026 +Peec AI +Profound310/10/1
AI visibility tools content recommendations actionable GEO 20262010/10/1
AI visibility tools content recommendations GEO 2026 actionable optimization Profound AirOps Scrunch +Profound2010/1Profound ×1 0/1
AI visibility tools content recommendations GEO what to create optimize 20262010/10/1
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 brand mentions ChatGPT Claude Gemini 2026 Profound Peec +Peec AI +Profound610/1Frase ×1 0/1
AI visibility tools track brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Profound Peec AI 2026 +Peec AI +Profound710/1Frase ×1 0/1
AI visibility tools track brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Profound Peec AI comparison 2026 +Peec AI +Profound1610/1Frase ×1 0/1
AI visibility tools track how ChatGPT describes brand 2026 Profound Peec AI Scrunch +Peec AI +Profound1610/10/1

Showing the 50 run by the most answers; 213 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
Profound595314“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 AI504913“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 Toolkit17176“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 Radar15138“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.AI886“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
202614720
citation9617
search9216
chatgpt7513
visibility6714
brand6414
oai-searchbot6114
tools5912
features4512
optimization4412
publishers4316
study418
webmaster3914
website3511
sources349
site.bing.com3213
engine3211
recommendations325
performance3112
site.developers.google.com3012
tracking3012
site.openai.com3011
generative2911
best2910
llm2711

Dropped

Prompt words the searches left out.

WordSearchesPrompts
assistant937
product868
answers685
ai5013
change483
sites474
say463
gets382
write352
help302
competitor292
keeps292
recommend292
web262
visibility254
find252
tool252
content245
engine232
mention232
cited222
missing201
question201
rank201
tell201

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” — 5 answers · Frase, Profound, Semrush AI Toolkit, Peec AI

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” — 4 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” — 4 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 visibility tools citation source tracking Profound Peec AI Semrush AI toolkit 2026” — 3 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 tracking tools Profound Peec AI Otterly comparison 2026” — 3 answers · Frase, 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 Otterly 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-3"
text = "AI visibility tracking tools Profound Peec AI Scrunch comparison 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 citations Reddit review sites listicles strategy get brand cited ChatGPT Perplexity 2026” — 1 answers · Peec AI

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-search-citations-reddit-review"
text = "AI search citations Reddit review sites listicles strategy get brand cited ChatGPT Perplexity 2026"
“AI search citations top domains 2026 Reddit YouTube LinkedIn Wikipedia study” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-search-citations-top-domains"
text = "AI search citations top domains 2026 Reddit YouTube LinkedIn Wikipedia study"
“AI search citations third party sites brands G2 review sites 2026 study” — 1 answers · Ahrefs Brand Radar

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-search-citations-third-party"
text = "AI search citations third party sites brands G2 review sites 2026 study"

Prompt by prompt

#PromptSearchedSearches per answerDistinctFrom promptPrompt kept
1ChatGPT keeps recommending our competitor instead of us. What can we actually do about it?8/82.0167%12%
2How can I find out why an AI assistant prefers a competitor's product over ours?8/81.4116%8%
3ChatGPT gets our features and pricing wrong. How do we correct what AI assistants say about our product?8/82.21724%26%
4AI assistants mention our product but add caveats that steer buyers away. How do we address the objections they raise?8/81.51210%12%
5How do I get my product mentioned in Claude's and ChatGPT's answers?8/82.1154%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?8/81.81216%24%
7What kind of content makes AI assistants more likely to recommend a product?8/81.81416%27%
8Do comparison pages help a product show up in AI answers?8/81.91422%30%
9What does an answer engine optimization content strategy look like for a B2B SaaS company?8/81.5931%29%
10How should we write and structure our documentation so AI assistants recommend our developer tool?8/81.91426%29%
11Which third-party sites matter most for getting cited by AI search engines?8/81.91221%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?8/81.61123%22%
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?8/82.52021%22%
14Is llms.txt worth adding to our site for AI visibility?8/81.91420%30%
15Does structured data or schema markup help a site get cited in Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT search?8/81.91162%51%
16How should we prioritize fixes to improve how AI assistants describe our product?8/81.51215%24%
17What are the quickest wins for improving our brand's visibility in AI search?8/81.5928%40%
18Who should own AI visibility work: SEO, content, product marketing or the docs team?8/81.0831%44%
19How long does it take for new content to change what ChatGPT and Perplexity say about us?8/81.81421%32%
20Which AI visibility tools tell you what content to create or change, not just where you rank?8/82.52031%39%
1. ChatGPT keeps recommending our competitor instead of us. What can we actually do about it? — 16 queries

Added: search ×9 2026 ×8 ai ×7 oai-searchbot ×7 brand ×6 visibility ×6 recommendations ×5 tools ×5

Dropped: actually ×16 competitor ×16 instead ×16 keeps ×16 recommending ×16 chatgpt ×4

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

Added: competitor ×9 brand ×8 chatgpt ×8 visibility ×8 search ×6 sources ×6 2026 ×4 citation ×4

Dropped: assistant ×11 competitor's ×11 find ×11 ours ×11 out ×11 over ×11 prefers ×11 product ×11

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

Added: 2026 ×11 oai-searchbot ×8 tools ×8 search ×7 incorrect ×5 webmaster ×5 website ×5 adoption ×4

Dropped: gets ×18 say ×18 assistants ×17 wrong ×15 correct ×14 features ×14 pricing ×14 product ×14

4. AI assistants mention our product but add caveats that steer buyers away. How do we address the objections they raise? — 12 queries

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

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

5. How do I get my product mentioned in Claude's and ChatGPT's answers? — 15 queries

Added: chatgpt ×12 2026 ×11 claude ×9 merchants ×5 search ×5 site.anthropic.com ×5 ads ×4 claude-searchbot ×4

Dropped: chatgpt's ×17 claude's ×17 answers ×16 mentioned ×16 product ×12

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? — 12 queries

Added: 2026 ×8 brand ×8 site.anthropic.com ×6 knowledge ×5 site.openai.com ×5 site.platform.openai.com ×5 common ×4 crawl ×4

Dropped: change ×14 finds ×14 says ×14 searches ×14 web ×13 ai ×10 model ×8 data ×5

7. What kind of content makes AI assistants more likely to recommend a product? — 14 queries

Added: chatgpt ×8 2026 ×7 brand ×6 engine ×6 generative ×6 optimization ×6 recommendations ×6 citations ×5

Dropped: kind ×14 likely ×14 makes ×14 recommend ×14 assistants ×11 product ×8 content ×6 ai ×1

8. Do comparison pages help a product show up in AI answers? — 14 queries

Added: citations ×11 search ×10 study ×9 chatgpt ×7 2026 ×6 content ×5 visibility ×5 best ×4

Dropped: help ×15 product ×15 show ×15 up ×15 answers ×14 comparison ×4 pages ×4 ai ×2

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

Added: 2026 ×9 ai ×4 citations ×4 comparison ×4 features ×4 mode ×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? — 14 queries

Added: 2026 ×8 llms.txt ×8 docs ×7 oai-searchbot ×6 search ×5 adoption ×4 bots ×4 engine ×4

Dropped: recommend ×15 structure ×15 write ×15 tool ×12 assistants ×11 developer ×8 ai ×6 documentation ×3

11. Which third-party sites matter most for getting cited by AI search engines? — 12 queries

Added: 2026 ×13 study ×13 domains ×9 citations ×8 reddit ×8 chatgpt ×7 g2 ×7 google ×7

Dropped: engines ×15 getting ×15 matter ×15 third-party ×14 sites ×10 cited ×7 search ×6

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? — 11 queries

Added: 2026 ×8 search ×6 business ×5 guidelines ×5 spam ×5 visibility ×5 best ×4 brand ×4

Dropped: category ×13 citing ×13 competitors ×13 keep ×13 mention ×13 threads ×13 answers ×12 listicles ×9

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? — 20 queries

Added: sources ×13 queries ×12 query ×10 visibility ×10 api ×8 chatgpt ×8 fan-out ×8 citations ×7

Dropped: assistant ×20 gets ×20 missing ×20 question ×20 understand ×20 writes ×20 answer ×18 before ×17

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

Added: 2026 ×7 adoption ×7 crawlers ×6 openai ×5 site.bing.com ×5 study ×5 anthropic ×4 citations ×4

Dropped: adding ×15 site ×15 worth ×15 visibility ×13 ai ×3 llms.txt ×2

15. Does structured data or schema markup help a site get cited in Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT search? — 11 queries

Added: citations ×8 features ×6 special ×5 2026 ×4 oai-searchbot ×4 study ×4 site.help.openai.com ×3 developers.google.com ×2

Dropped: cited ×15 help ×15 google ×13 site ×13 markup ×7 overviews ×7 chatgpt ×6 ai ×5

16. How should we prioritize fixes to improve how AI assistants describe our product? — 12 queries

Added: 2026 ×8 brand ×6 chatgpt ×6 citations ×5 search ×5 engine ×4 features ×4 generative ×4

Dropped: improve ×12 assistants ×11 product ×11 describe ×10 fixes ×9 prioritize ×9 ai ×2

17. What are the quickest wins for improving our brand's visibility in AI search? — 9 queries

Added: 2026 ×10 best ×4 citations ×4 comparison ×4 features ×4 geo ×4 oai-searchbot ×4 performance ×4

Dropped: brand's ×12 improving ×12 quickest ×12 wins ×8 search ×4 visibility ×2

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

Added: 2026 ×5 best ×4 citations ×4 features ×4 geo ×4 oai-searchbot ×4 ownership ×4 performance ×4

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

19. How long does it take for new content to change what ChatGPT and Perplexity say about us? — 14 queries

Added: search ×10 oai-searchbot ×7 indexing ×6 citations ×5 2026 ×4 appear ×4 center ×4 help ×4

Dropped: change ×14 say ×14 take ×14 long ×10 new ×8 perplexity ×7 content ×6 chatgpt ×3

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

Added: recommendations ×17 optimization ×10 scrunch ×9 2026 ×7 athenahq ×7 center ×6 action ×5 agents ×5

Dropped: change ×20 rank ×20 tell ×20 create ×16 tools ×13 visibility ×6 ai ×1 content ×1