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When buyers ask AI for the best tool in your category, are you on the shortlist?
Software buying now starts with “what's the best {your category}?” typed into ChatGPT — and the answer is a shortlist of three to five products with a one-line verdict on each. AskedAbout measures how often you make that shortlist across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude, and who's taking your slot when you don't.
Run a free AI visibility checkWhat 300 AI answers about one SaaS product showed us
We ran a full audit on a well-known web-analytics product: 25 real buyer questions across 4 engines, sampled 3 times each. The results explain why screenshot-based “AI monitoring” misleads:
- The same product, on the same questions, was mentioned in 95% of Claude answers and 92% of Gemini answers — but only 42% of ChatGPT answers. Engine-by-engine visibility diverges wildly; checking one engine tells you almost nothing about the others.
- Only 31% of the brands named for a given question showed up in every repeat of that question. The shortlist reshuffles between runs.
- Two competitors appeared in AI answers more consistently than the audited product itself — a share-of-voice gap invisible to anyone who isn't counting frequencies.
In a separate audit of a smaller Mac utility app, the app appeared in 2 of 6 answers about its own category while three rivals were each named in 5 of 6. The engines had effectively standardized on a shortlist that excluded it.
Why this is now a pipeline problem
AI-referred visitors convert at roughly 7% — multiples of typical organic — because they arrive pre-sold: the AI already told them you're the answer. The inverse is also true. If the engines standardize on a shortlist without you, you're losing deals you never saw, to competitors who never outranked you on Google.
How the free check works
- 1Enter your product name and category (“CRM for agencies”, “privacy-friendly analytics”…). 60 seconds.
- 2We ask the major AI engines the questions your buyers ask.
- 3You get an AI Visibility Score (0–100), your mention rate, and the competing products AI recommends instead.
The full audit ($79, one-time)
Because AI answers are nondeterministic, visibility is a frequency, not a fact you can screenshot. The Full Audit runs 25 buyer questions × 4 engines × 3 samples = 300 answers and reports: mention rate per engine, share-of-voice against every named competitor, which sources the engines cite about your category (the pages you need to be on), and a prioritized fix plan your team can execute. $79 one-time, no subscription.
FAQ
How is this different from Profound, Otterly, or Peec?
Those are $100–500/mo enterprise dashboards. AskedAbout is a $79 one-time audit built for teams who want the answer and the fix plan without another subscription. See the full AI visibility tools comparison for how each option stacks up.
Which engines do you cover?
ChatGPT (OpenAI), Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude — sampled multiple times each, because single runs mislead.
Can we run it on competitors?
Yes. Many teams audit their top rival's category position first — each business is its own $79 audit.
We just rebranded / launched. Will AI even know us?
That's worth knowing for certain. The audit shows whether the engines have indexed the new name and which sources they're still citing.
The data behind this
- Why AI answers change every time you ask — our run-to-run consistency study across 258 answers.
- Which AI engine recommends your business? — ChatGPT named the audited business least (16%) and its rivals most.
- We checked what AI says about 10 real local businesses — the average score was 20/100.
See your number
A free 60-second check shows what AI says about you.
Method — we query the official APIs of each AI engine, with web search where supported. Answers vary between runs; the full audit repeats every question and reports frequencies, never one-off snapshots.