AI VISIBILITY FOR STARTUPS
When buyers ask AI, does it name you?
You have no backlink profile and no domain authority yet, so you are absent from AI answers by default rather than by mistake. The useful question is not why you are missing, it is which pages the engines are reading instead.
The free check asks one question on Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT, no account. A signed-in scan asks all 7 engines.
Where the answers come from
In a new category the engines lean on whatever already exists: roundups, comparison posts, launch coverage and forum threads. Almost none of it is anybody’s homepage, which is why a good product page moves nothing on its own.
The questions that decide it
Not keywords, and not your brand name. Your brand name returns you and teaches you nothing. These are the shapes a buyer in your category actually types, and they are what a scan asks.
- 01best <category> tool for a small team
- 02cheapest <category> software
- 03what should I use instead of <incumbent>
- 04is <incumbent> worth it
Fill in your own category and competitors. A scan takes your list, asks every engine, and reports which answers named you and which named somebody else.
WHAT COMES BACK
The pages that got cited, by URL
A score tells you that you lost. The citation list tells you where to go. We ran our own category first and published the result: 9 questions, 62 answers, 133 distinct domains cited, and our own domain named in none of them. The most-cited competitor appeared in 6 of the 7 engines rather than all of them. The full method is here, including how to run it by hand for nothing.
Engines asked on every plan
WHERE TO START
Start with the free scan
Run the free scan before you decide anything. It costs nothing, needs no card, and it either shows you a gap worth working on or it does not.
Questions people actually ask
- Does AI visibility matter for startups?
- You have no backlink profile and no domain authority yet, so you are absent from AI answers by default rather than by mistake. The useful question is not why you are missing, it is which pages the engines are reading instead. Whether it matters for you specifically is a measurable question rather than an argument, which is why the first scan is free.
- What questions should I measure?
- The sentences your buyers type when they are choosing, not your brand name. Your brand name returns you and tells you nothing. In this category that looks like: best <category> tool for a small team; cheapest <category> software; what should I use instead of <incumbent>; is <incumbent> worth it.
- Which engines do you check?
- All 7, on every plan: Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Mode, Microsoft Copilot, Claude. They disagree constantly, so one engine is a sample rather than an answer.
- What does it cost?
- Nothing to start. The free scan is one topic and 10 questions, once, with no card. Paid plans start at $29 a month, or $24 a month billed annually.
Find out what the answers say about you.
All 7 engines, your questions, and the list of who got named instead of you.