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What the assistants searched

Finding out whether AI assistants recommend us 2026-10-23 17:39 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
205searches
186distinct queries
21%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 visibility tracking tools ChatGPT Claude brand mentions 20261330/30/3
track brand mentions Google AI Overviews AI Mode tools 2026730/30/3
AI visibility tracking tools ChatGPT brand mentions 2026 Profound Peec AI Otterly +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound3 1420/20/2
AI search visibility share of voice tools ChatGPT Perplexity brand mentions 2026620/20/2
AI search visibility share of voice tools ChatGPT Perplexity tracking 2026620/20/2
AI search visibility tools 2026 Profound Peec AI Semrush AI Toolkit prompt tracking +Peec AI +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit1120/2Frase ×2 0/2
AI search visibility tracking tools 2026 brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity share of voice1520/20/2
AI search visibility tracking tools 2026 ChatGPT Perplexity citations brand monitoring820/20/2
AI search visibility tracking tools ChatGPT brand mentions 2026320/20/2
AI visibility metrics share of voice citations LLM answers GEO tools 20261020/20/2
AI visibility tools brand mentions vs recommendations share of voice LLM tracking 2026420/20/2
AI visibility tracking how many prompts statistically significant LLM answer variance1120/20/2
AI visibility tracking tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini Claude 2026520/2Frase ×2 0/2
best AI visibility tracking tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini Claude 2026520/20/2
GEO AEO LLM SEO B2B 2026 AI search visibility tools220/20/2
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
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 ChatGPT Claude Perplexity Gemini Profound Peec AI Otterly AthenaHQ +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 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 AI Mode click-through rate impact 2026 study210/10/1
AI Overviews AI Mode click-through rate impact B2B traffic 2026 study210/10/1
AI Overviews click-through rate impact 2026 study B2B buyers use ChatGPT vendor research210/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
AI search citation monitoring tools Ahrefs Brand Radar cited pages Peec AI Profound Otterly +Ahrefs Brand Radar +Otterly.AI +Peec AI +Profound810/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 Dageno AI ×1 Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 Semrush AI Toolkit ×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 AI Overviews810/1Frase ×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 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 Scrunch prompt tracking comparison +Peec AI +Profound1110/1Otterly.AI ×1 Peec AI ×1 Profound ×1 0/1
AI search visibility tools track citations sources ChatGPT Perplexity 20261210/1Frase ×1 0/1
AI search visibility tools track citations sources ChatGPT Perplexity AI Overviews 20261210/1Frase ×1 0/1
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 search visibility tracking tools 2026 Profound Peec AI Ahrefs Brand Radar ChatGPT Claude +Ahrefs Brand Radar +Peec AI +Profound1310/10/1
AI search visibility tracking tools brand mentions ChatGPT competitors 2026 comparison910/1Frase ×1 0/1
AI visibility citation tracking tools ChatGPT Perplexity sources 20261210/1Frase ×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 variance LLM answers1110/10/1
AI visibility tracking prompt sample size repeated runs prompts measurement brand visibility | site.pewresearch.org AI search answers vary repeated queries brands visibility1110/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
AI visibility tracking prompts sample size repeated runs measurement brand visibility | site.pewresearch.org AI summaries March 2025 search results 900 adults | site.arxiv.org generative search engine brand visibility variability repeated queries1110/1Ahrefs Brand Radar ×1 0/1
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 2026 Profound Semrush AI Toolkit Ahrefs Brand Radar ChatGPT citations +Ahrefs Brand Radar +Profound +Semrush AI Toolkit110/1Frase ×1 0/1
AI visibility tracking tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity 20261410/1Frase ×1 0/1
AI visibility tracking tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity 2026 Profound Peec AI comparison +Peec AI +Profound1510/1Frase ×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 comparison1410/1Frase ×1 0/1

Showing the 50 run by the most answers; 136 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
Profound746614“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”
Peec AI585114“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”
Ahrefs Brand Radar484613“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”
Semrush AI Toolkit444314“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.AI33279“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
visibility9513
20269315
tracking8715
tools7114
search6312
brand6010
citations5512
prompts328
mentions318
monitoring3011
share305
voice305
chatgpt298
console255
vs248
recommendations235
answer227
features227
ai224
engine219
llm216
source216
comparison199
webmaster197
perplexity196

Dropped

Prompt words the searches left out.

WordSearchesPrompts
whether886
assistants615
measure605
answer475
what's463
track423
recommends373
care272
questions272
often242
marketing232
team232
chatgpt224
category222
llm222
product212
mention202
check201
down201
suspect201
taking201
search193
organic191
cite181
engines171

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 search visibility tools 2026 Profound Peec AI Semrush AI Toolkit prompt tracking” — 2 answers · Frase

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

[[prompts]]
id = "ai-search-visibility-tools-2026"
text = "AI search visibility tools 2026 Profound Peec AI Semrush AI Toolkit prompt tracking"
“AI visibility tracking tools brand mentions ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini Claude 2026” — 2 answers · Frase

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"
“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 ChatGPT Claude Perplexity Gemini Profound Peec AI Otterly AthenaHQ” — 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 AI Otterly AthenaHQ"
“AI brand visibility tracking 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-tracking-tools"
text = "AI brand visibility tracking 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-2"
text = "AI brand visibility tracking tools ChatGPT Claude Perplexity Gemini Profound Peec Otterly Scrunch"

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?8/82.52025%24%
2GEO, AEO, LLM SEO: what are they, how do they differ from SEO, and which should a B2B marketing team care about?8/81.81321%27%
3How can I find out whether ChatGPT recommends my product when people ask about my category?8/81.5119%12%
4What's the difference between being mentioned and being recommended in an AI answer, and how do I measure each?8/81.5108%12%
5What tools track how often AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini mention a brand?8/82.01446%45%
6Is there a way to measure our share of voice in AI chatbot answers?8/81.61025%44%
7How can I tell whether Google AI Overviews and AI Mode mention our brand for the topics we care about?8/81.61145%45%
8How do I monitor whether AI search engines cite our website?8/82.21716%29%
9What's the best way to benchmark my brand's visibility in LLM answers against competitors?8/81.81415%21%
10What metrics should a marketing team use to measure presence in AI assistant answers?8/81.1818%28%
11Which questions should we track to measure AI visibility, and how many prompts do we need before the numbers mean anything?8/81.91327%30%
12How can I see which web pages AI assistants rely on when they answer questions in my category?8/81.51215%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?8/81.51025%23%
14How often should we re-check whether AI assistants recommend us, and how do we track changes over time?8/81.51214%16%
15How do I prove to leadership whether our content work is changing what AI assistants recommend?8/81.6124%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? — 20 queries

Added: 2026 ×9 console ×8 features ×7 chatgpt.com ×6 source ×6 tracking ×6 utm ×6 publishers ×5

Dropped: check ×20 down ×20 suspect ×20 taking ×20 what's ×20 whether ×20 organic ×19 traffic ×14

2. GEO, AEO, LLM SEO: what are they, how do they differ from SEO, and which should a B2B marketing team care about? — 13 queries

Added: ai ×11 2026 ×10 search ×9 overviews ×7 engine ×6 optimization ×6 mode ×5 visibility ×5

Dropped: care ×14 differ ×14 marketing ×14 team ×14 llm ×11 b2b ×8 seo ×7 aeo ×5

3. How can I find out whether ChatGPT recommends my product when people ask about my category? — 11 queries

Added: visibility ×10 tracking ×9 brand ×7 prompts ×6 search ×6 2026 ×5 mentions ×4 recommendations ×4

Dropped: ask ×12 category ×12 find ×12 out ×12 people ×12 recommends ×12 whether ×12 product ×9

4. What's the difference between being mentioned and being recommended in an AI answer, and how do I measure each? — 10 queries

Added: visibility ×10 brand ×8 mentions ×8 recommendations ×8 share ×8 voice ×8 vs ×7 tracking ×5

Dropped: between ×12 difference ×12 measure ×12 mentioned ×12 recommended ×12 what's ×12 answer ×11 ai ×1

5. What tools track how often AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini mention a brand? — 14 queries

Added: visibility ×13 tracking ×8 2026 ×5 monitoring ×4 best ×3 engine ×3 pricing ×3 site.peec.ai ×3

Dropped: assistants ×16 often ×16 track ×16 mention ×12 tools ×8 chatgpt ×6 gemini ×6 perplexity ×6

6. Is there a way to measure our share of voice in AI chatbot answers? — 10 queries

Added: visibility ×9 2026 ×6 search ×5 tools ×5 chatgpt ×4 perplexity ×4 comparison ×3 measurement ×3

Dropped: measure ×13 chatbot ×12 answers ×10 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? — 11 queries

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

Dropped: care ×13 tell ×13 topics ×13 whether ×13 mention ×8 brand ×5 google ×3 overviews ×3

8. How do I monitor whether AI search engines cite our website? — 17 queries

Added: citations ×10 tools ×10 2026 ×8 monitoring ×8 chatgpt ×6 performance ×6 visibility ×6 webmaster ×6

Dropped: cite ×18 whether ×18 engines ×17 monitor ×17 website ×14 search ×6

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

Added: share ×9 voice ×9 prompts ×7 tracking ×7 2026 ×5 ai ×5 brand ×5 chatgpt ×4

Dropped: against ×14 benchmark ×14 brand's ×14 what's ×14 best ×13 answers ×11 llm ×11 competitors ×6

10. What metrics should a marketing team use to measure presence in AI assistant answers? — 8 queries

Added: citations ×8 share ×8 visibility ×8 voice ×8 2026 ×5 brand ×5 tools ×5 llm ×4

Dropped: assistant ×9 marketing ×9 measure ×9 presence ×9 team ×9 answers ×6 metrics ×1

11. Which questions should we track to measure AI visibility, and how many prompts do we need before the numbers mean anything? — 13 queries

Added: tracking ×13 2026 ×8 search ×8 sample ×6 size ×6 llm ×4 tools ×4 variance ×4

Dropped: anything ×15 before ×15 mean ×15 measure ×15 numbers ×15 questions ×15 track ×15 many ×11

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

Added: citation ×8 sources ×8 visibility ×6 2026 ×5 analysis ×5 tools ×5 chatgpt ×4 citations ×4

Dropped: questions ×12 rely ×12 see ×12 web ×12 assistants ×11 category ×10 answer ×9 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? — 10 queries

Added: api ×6 brand ×6 tool ×6 2026 ×5 docs ×4 responses ×4 site.platform.openai.com ×4 tools ×4

Dropped: alone ×12 different ×12 product ×12 say ×12 things ×12 versus ×12 measure ×11 data ×10

14. How often should we re-check whether AI assistants recommend us, and how do we track changes over time? — 12 queries

Added: tracking ×11 brand ×9 visibility ×8 search ×6 mentions ×5 2026 ×4 chatgpt ×4 daily ×4

Dropped: assistants ×12 over ×12 re-check ×12 recommend ×12 time ×12 whether ×12 track ×11 changes ×10

15. How do I prove to leadership whether our content work is changing what AI assistants recommend? — 12 queries

Added: tracking ×8 visibility ×8 brand ×7 2026 ×6 prompts ×6 search ×6 citations ×5 chatgpt ×4

Dropped: assistants ×13 changing ×13 content ×13 leadership ×13 prove ×13 recommend ×13 whether ×13 work ×13