Recognised, not cited
They know your name. Your site is rarely the source they hand over. The fix is turning mentions into citations.
Dwg VTA-001 ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini · Perplexity
Every buyer question an AI answers is open, entrenched, or already yours. We put your buyers' real questions to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, then report, per question, with quotes, whether you're named, cited, or missing entirely.
15 questions · 4 engines · report in 24 hours
Readiness tells you whether you can be cited; the Snapshot tells you whether you are.
Example Snapshot · one vertical · GB · web search on
HR software for small businesses. 8 questions × 4 engines · 32 answers. A real run, anonymised: a UK HR-software company, September 2026.
Named in 22 of 32 answers, cited in just 7. They know the name. The site is rarely the source they hand over.
| Engine | Named / 8 | Cited / 8 |
|---|---|---|
| Gemini | 6 | 0 |
| ChatGPT | 7 | 6 |
| Perplexity | 5 | 1 |
| Claude | 4 | 0 |
Gemini and Claude say the company's name in most answers and never once send anyone to its site.
The three verdicts
A verdict per vertical. Evidence for every claim.
They know your name. Your site is rarely the source they hand over. The fix is turning mentions into citations.
One rival owns 72% of answers here. Don't start this fight; there are cheaper ones waiting.
No vendor clears 25%. This is the cheapest question left to own, and we tell you which one it is.
[04] How it works
You approve every question before anything runs. Every answer is frozen the moment it lands, and every claim comes with its own quote.
We read your site and propose 15 buyer questions across 3 to 5 verticals. You edit and approve before anything runs.
You approve15 buyer questions
All four assistants, asked from your market, web search on, every answer frozen the moment it lands.
RecordedEvery answer, as it landed
Who's named, who's cited, which rivals got the recommendation. Each claim comes with its own quote.
CheckedEvery match printed
A verdict per vertical and the one question worth winning first.
You getWeb report + PDF
Free · no sign-up
We check llms.txt, AI-crawler access, structured data, and what the bots actually see when they fetch your homepage. Thirty seconds, no account, nothing stored.
Readiness tells you whether you can be cited; the Snapshot tells you whether you are.
Three ways in
All one-off. The evidence comes first; a subscription only once you've started fixing things.
Can AI assistants even read your site?
Freeno sign-upThirty seconds, no account, nothing stored
We fetch your homepage, robots.txt and llms.txt once, as ourselves.
Tells you whether you can be cited.
One fixable gap, written for you.
$33one-offFor one website · within 2 working days
It might help; no guarantee AI assistants will name you.
Ready-to-paste files and the steps to install them.
A verdict, without a subscription.
$121one-offReport in 24 hours
Tells you whether you are cited.
Find the question worth winning first.
25 questions · 4 engines · 2 markets. Re-run every month: what changed per vertical and engine, rival share over time, alerts when a question opens up.
Every plan, side by side, with yearly prices: See pricing
Industry benchmark · Accountants in London
8 questions, 4 engines, 32 answers, run on 19 October 2026. The top 8 firms by answers that named them.
No firm clears 25%. The most-named firm appears in 5 of 32 answers. This question is still open.
[08] Method · engines as of 30 September 2026
GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Gemini 3.6 Flash and Perplexity Sonar, with web search on. Same models, via each vendor's API. Close, not identical, so we publish the method and you can judge the gap yourself.
Engines as of 30 September 2026: GPT-5, Claude Sonnet 5.5, Gemini 3.6 Flash, Perplexity Sonar — with web search on. Answers via each vendor’s API are not identical to the consumer apps; the methodology page says exactly how. Read the methodology
[09] Questions
Same models, via each vendor's API, with search on. Close, not identical. We publish the method so you can judge the gap yourself.
Because you need a verdict first, not a subscription. Track is for once you've started fixing things.
From your site and your verticals. You approve every single one before we spend a penny.
No. Every match is checked and printed, so you can see exactly what we counted and why.
Write the page that answers the question. We tell you which one. ScriptGrain can write it in your voice.