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Yes. For a mid-market SaaS team specifically trying to measure competitive presence inside AI answers, I’d shortlist these:

Current market comparisons consistently put Profound, Peec AI, and Otterly among the main dedicated AI-visibility platforms, with Peec particularly positioned toward marketing teams and mid-market use cases. Conbersa DeepSmith

What I'd evaluate for your use case

Don't just buy the tool with the biggest "AI visibility score." You want four specific capabilities:

• Competitive share of voice: e.g. "Across 500 buyer prompts, we're mentioned in 27% of answers vs. Competitor A at 41%."
• Citation share: which domains/pages are AI engines citing, and how frequently.
• Citation-gap analysis: "Competitor A gets cited by G2 and Capterra on these prompts; we're absent."
• Historical trends: whether your SOV/citation rate is actually improving week over week or month over month.

For example, Visibility.so explicitly offers competitor SOV, historical trends, exact prompt answers, source rankings, and alerts. Visibility.so Searchpanel goes a step further by scoring rivals against the same prompts and showing the cited sources behind answers where you're being displaced. Searchpanel

My recommendation

Start with Peec AI and Profound in the evaluation. Add Otterly as the lower-cost benchmark.

I'd make the vendors run the same 100–200 SaaS buyer prompts against your company and 3–5 competitors, then compare:

1. SOV by competitor
2. SOV by AI engine
3. Citation frequency by domain
4. Citation frequency by URL/page
5. Competitor-vs-you head-to-head mentions
6. Trend history
7. Prompt-level gaps
8. Export/API availability

One important caveat: AI SOV isn't traffic or revenue. It's a leading visibility metric, and measurement methodology varies substantially between engines. Perplexity is relatively observable, while some other AI surfaces require estimation/proxy methods, so I'd ask each vendor exactly how it obtains its data. AI Share of Voice

Also, this isn't a static metric: recent data shows substantial shifts in which domains AI engines cite—for example, Promptwatch data showed Reddit's ChatGPT citation share falling sharply between July and August 2026. Axios

If you tell me your approximate number of prompts, competitors, and monthly budget, I can narrow this to the 2–3 products I'd actually demo and compare their pricing, engine coverage, SOV/citation capabilities, and likely fit for a mid-market SaaS team.

If you’re a startup with little/no engineering capacity, you probably want a no-code AI visibility monitoring tool rather than building your own system. The category is usually called AI brand monitoring, LLM visibility tracking, or GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) monitoring.

Here are the options I’d shortlist:

For a lean startup budget, I’d approach it like this:

1. Start with a free scan/trial tool

• See whether your brand appears at all for your highest-value customer questions.
• Test 20–50 prompts such as: - “Best tools for [category]”
• “[Competitor] alternatives”
• “[Problem] software comparison”
• “Who should I use for [service]?”
• Pay only when you have repeatable prompts

• You don’t need thousands of queries.
• A founder-led team can usually learn a lot from tracking the 25–100 questions that actually influence buying decisions.
• Prioritize alerts around:

• Your brand disappearing from answers
• A competitor replacing you
• Incorrect product descriptions
• AI assistants citing outdated information about you

My likely pick by stage:

• Pre-seed / bootstrapped: Orbilo or MentionHQ-style tools. Orbilo Mention
• Growing SaaS with SEO/content already: Nightwatch or Frase. Nightwatch Frase
• You mainly care about “are we winning recommendations?”: Koalr. Koalr

One caveat: these tools generally don’t receive a hidden feed of every ChatGPT conversation mentioning your brand. Instead, they repeatedly run the prompts your customers are likely to ask and measure the resulting AI answers. Koalr discoveredby.ai That’s the practical way to monitor AI mentions today.

Yes. For a multi-language, multi-region site, I’d shortlist these platforms:

My recommendation

For your particular use case, I'd put Ahrefs Brand Radar and Profound at the top of the evaluation.

Ahrefs is particularly interesting because its Brand Radar can analyze brands, products and regions, and it tracks AI visibility across Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and Perplexity. It also identifies the pages/domains being cited. Ahrefs Help Center Ahrefs

Semrush is also unusually useful for international sites: its AI Visibility report provides country-level breakdowns, along with mentions, citations and cited pages. Its underlying database currently covers 289M+ AI queries and is refreshed daily. Semrush

OtterlyAI is a good alternative if you want a purpose-built AI visibility product rather than adding another large SEO suite. It explicitly tracks both brand mentions and website citations across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode and Copilot. Otterly

One important caveat for multilingual sites

Don't evaluate these platforms merely on whether they say they support "multiple languages." You want to test whether they can isolate:

language × country × search engine × prompt × brand/product × cited URL

For example, you should be able to compare:

• English / US
• English / UK
• German / Germany
• French / France
• Spanish / Spain
• Spanish / Mexico
• Japanese / Japan

…and determine that your German site is cited by ChatGPT for German queries in Germany, rather than getting a single global AI visibility score.

This matters because AI-search behavior varies substantially by geography and language; Ahrefs' international AI Overview data, for example, shows substantial differences in AI Overview prevalence across countries and languages. Ahrefs

If you tell me roughly how many languages/countries you operate in (e.g. 8 languages × 25 countries), I can narrow this to the 2–3 platforms that are actually best for that scale and compare their pricing, API/export capabilities, and geographic/language granularity.

OtterlyAI is a good alternative if you want a purpose-built AI visibility product rather than adding another large SEO suite. It explicitly tracks both brand mentions and website citations across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode and Copilot. otterly.ai

One important caveat for multilingual sites

Don't evaluate these platforms merely on whether they say they support "multiple languages." You want to test whether they can isolate:

language × country × search engine × prompt × brand/product × cited URL

For example, you should be able to compare:

For a marketplace with thousands or millions of individual listings, I’d prioritize SKU/product-level monitoring, not traditional brand-level AI visibility tools.

Best fit: eCommerceInsights.AI

ecommerceinsights.ai appears particularly aligned with your requirement because it explicitly tracks AI visibility per SKU, per engine, and per query. It says it monitors ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Claude, and Copilot, and records which specific products appear in answers and which competing SKUs appear instead. eCommerceInsights.AI

For a marketplace, the useful model is essentially:

• SKU → product page → target queries
• Track whether that SKU appears in AI answers
• Track position/recommendation frequency
• Track which competitor SKUs replace it
• Track citations/links back to the PDP
• Monitor changes over time
• Identify product pages that need remediation

That is much more scalable than manually maintaining prompts for every product.

Other options

• SixthShop — worth evaluating if your priority is AI shopping/product recommendation visibility rather than generic brand visibility. Its positioning is explicitly product/SKU-level and it evaluates product-page signals such as structured data, content, commerce readiness and competitor context. Sixthshop Trustnoww
• otterly.ai — good scalable monitoring infrastructure and has an API, but its core model is more oriented toward brand/site visibility than thousands of individual SKU records. Otterly
• Profound — stronger if you need enterprise-wide AI visibility analytics, multiple markets/business units, and broad reporting, but it isn't as specifically designed around SKU-level marketplace monitoring. Bloomiro

What I'd choose for your use case

If the requirement is literally:

“We have 50,000+ listings and need to continuously know which specific product pages are being surfaced in AI answers.”

I'd shortlist eCommerceInsights.AI and SixthShop first, rather than starting with Profound/Otterly/Peec.

The critical architectural question is whether the tool can ingest your product catalog/feed/API and automatically map AI mentions back to canonical SKUs. That's the difference between a system that scales to 100,000 listings and one that merely gives you a dashboard of AI prompts.

If you tell me roughly how many SKUs (10K / 100K / 1M+) and whether you're a marketplace like Amazon/eBay or a Shopify-style marketplace, I can narrow this down to the best 2–3 options and compare API, catalog ingestion, refresh frequency, AI engines, SKU-level reporting, and pricing.

If your requirement is “AI share-of-voice trends + traditional search/SEO metrics in one dashboard,” I’d shortlist two tools:

• semrush.com — probably the best fit for a growth marketer. Its unified views combine AI visibility/mentions with classic metrics such as organic keywords and backlinks, while its AI tooling tracks Share of Voice across ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode/AI Overviews, and other AI surfaces. Its Position Tracking can also monitor Google rankings and AI appearances together. Semrush Semrush
• ahrefs.com — particularly strong if AI SOV and competitive intelligence are the priority. Brand Radar tracks AI Share of Voice, mentions, citations, and estimated impressions over time, while connecting those to search demand, SERP visibility, and broader web visibility. Ahrefs Help Center Ahrefs

The important distinction is methodology. Ahrefs weights AI SOV using estimated impressions derived from Google search demand, which makes it useful for answering “how much commercially relevant AI visibility are we capturing?” rather than merely counting mentions. Ahrefs Help Center Ahrefs

My pick: Semrush if you want one growth/SEO reporting environment covering Google + AI. Ahrefs Brand Radar if you already use Ahrefs or want deeper AI/search competitive visibility.

If you tell me your stack (e.g. GA4 + GSC + Semrush/Ahrefs) and whether you're B2B SaaS, ecommerce, or consumer, I can recommend the best dashboard setup and KPIs to put on it.

Yes. If by “AI citation monitoring” you mean tracking which URLs/sources ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews/Mode, etc. cite—and then feeding that data into your existing analytics/warehouse, there are several good options.

My shortlist

1. OtterlyAI — probably the easiest integration

This is the one I'd investigate first if your requirement is “get AI citation data into our analytics stack.”

Otterly currently provides a public API exposing brand reports, prompts, citations, recommendations and workspace data. It also has a Looker Studio connector. Their documentation specifically says the API can feed data into Tableau, Power BI, BigQuery, Snowflake and other BI/warehouse environments, as well as automation tools such as Zapier and Make. otterly.aihelp.otterly.ai

It monitors ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot and Claude, with URL-level citation tracking. otterly.ai

Architecture I'd use:

Otterly → API → BigQuery/Snowflake → dbt → Looker/Tableau/Power BI

That gives you the ability to join AI citations with GA4, Search Console, CRM, revenue, content metadata, etc.

2. Profound — enterprise choice

I'd look closely at Profound if you're building an enterprise AI-search measurement program, rather than just adding another marketing metric.

It is generally positioned toward enterprise teams and offers deeper AI-search research/analytics. Current industry comparisons put it alongside Otterly, Scrunch and Semrush as one of the leading enterprise-oriented platforms. technologyadvice.comwww.citeflow.io

The tradeoff is that its integration/pricing model is more enterprise-oriented, whereas Otterly is much easier to treat as a relatively straightforward data source.

3. Semrush — best if Semrush is already your SEO stack

If you're already heavily invested in Semrush, its AI Visibility Toolkit is worth considering rather than introducing another vendor.

It combines AI visibility/citation monitoring with your existing keyword, backlink, content and SEO datasets. It also has API capabilities. otterly.aiwww.citeflow.io

The advantage isn't necessarily that it's the deepest AI-citation product; it's that your SEO and AI-search data can live in the same ecosystem.

4. Ahrefs — good for Ahrefs-native teams

Brand Radar tracks AI mentions and cited sources and makes sense if Ahrefs is already your organization's SEO source of truth.

I'd choose it primarily when you already have Ahrefs rather than buying Ahrefs specifically for AI citation monitoring. Current comparisons similarly position it as strongest for teams already inside the Ahrefs ecosystem. nicklafferty.com

5. Scrunch AI

Scrunch is another enterprise-oriented option, particularly interesting if you care about brand representation and competitive AI visibility, rather than just counting citations.

It's generally categorized alongside Profound as an enterprise-grade platform, with API capabilities. otterly.aiwww.citeflow.io

What I'd prioritize for an analytics-stack integration

Don't evaluate these primarily on their dashboards. I'd score them on:

1. Raw citation API — can you retrieve the actual cited URL, not just “brand mentioned”?
2. Prompt-level granularity — prompt → engine → answer → citation → URL.
3. Stable IDs — essential for incremental warehouse loads.
4. Historical data access — can you backfill and reprocess?
5. Engine metadata — ChatGPT vs Perplexity vs Gemini vs Google AI.
6. Geography/device/language — important because AI answers can vary by market.
7. Competitor citations — ideally you want to know who got cited instead of you.
8. API rate limits and export costs.
9. Warehouse integration — Snowflake/BigQuery/S3/etc.
10. Methodology transparency — particularly how they obtain AI answers.

My recommendation

If you're building this into an existing analytics/BI stack, I'd shortlist:

Otterly → Profound → Semrush

with the choice roughly being:

• Otterly = best straightforward data/API integration
• Profound = best enterprise AI-search intelligence
• Semrush = best if SEO is already centered on Semrush

One particularly useful capability is that Otterly explicitly supports pushing its citation data into BigQuery/Snowflake and BI tools, which makes it unusually well suited to becoming a source table in an existing analytics architecture. otterly.aihelp.otterly.ai

If you tell me your current stack (e.g. Snowflake + dbt + Looker, BigQuery + Tableau, GA4 + HubSpot, etc.), I can narrow this down to the 2–3 integrations that fit best and show the data architecture/API flow.

If your requirement is specifically “which content piece did an AI system crawl/cite, and did that ultimately produce human traffic/conversions?”, I’d separate the market into three capabilities: crawler analytics, citation/visibility analytics, and downstream attribution.

My shortlist

1. Scrunch — probably the closest match

scrunch.com

Scrunch explicitly separates AI-agent traffic from AI-referral traffic. Its crawler layer records which AI agents visit your site, what pages they visit, and whether the request is for training, indexing, or retrieval. Its referral layer connects AI-originated human sessions to GA4, including landing pages, transactions and purchase revenue. Scrunch Scrunch

That makes it particularly interesting for a model like:

AI crawler → content URL → AI citation/visibility → human click → landing page → conversion/revenue

For your stated requirement, I'd put Scrunch at #1.

2. Peec AI — strongest dedicated crawler observability

peec.ai

Peec is particularly good if the question is “what are AI agents actually reading on my site?” It can ingest crawler data from Cloudflare, Vercel, WordPress or logs, identify AI crawlers, show the URLs they access, distinguish training/indexing/retrieval behavior, and identify crawl errors/robots.txt issues. Peec AI

Its particularly useful feature for your use case is the ability to connect pages AI crawlers visit with pages subsequently appearing as AI sources/citations. Peec AI

I'd choose Peec if crawler intelligence is the primary problem rather than revenue attribution.

3. Similarweb — strongest for AI referral + competitive context

aisearch.similarweb.com

Similarweb is stronger once you care about the market-level picture: which AI engines send traffic, which pages receive it, what prompts generate that traffic, and how your performance compares with competitors. Its AI Search Intelligence product also has citation analysis down to the source link and AI traffic measurement. Similarweb AI Search

So I'd use it when the question becomes:

“Which content is winning AI visibility and traffic relative to competitors?”

rather than purely:

“Which AI crawler hit this URL?”

4. Botify — excellent if technical crawl data matters

botify.com

Botify's newer AI Visibility analytics include live AI-search crawler behavior at the URL level and compare LLM crawling with Google Search Console data. Botify Knowledge Base

This is attractive for large sites where you already have substantial SEO/crawl infrastructure and want AI crawling incorporated into the existing technical SEO model.

What I'd actually build

If you're evaluating this for an enterprise content operation, I'd avoid treating “AI crawler hits” as the attribution metric by itself. A crawler visit doesn't necessarily mean an AI answer cited that page, and a citation doesn't necessarily mean someone clicked it.

I'd create a content-level attribution model with these events:

1. Crawler event: AI bot → URL
2. AI visibility event: AI engine → prompt/topic → cited URL
3. Referral event: AI engine → URL → human session
4. Engagement event: session → content piece
5. Conversion event: content piece → lead/purchase/revenue

Then give every content URL a persistent content ID, so you can answer:

“This article was crawled 1,240 times by AI agents, cited in 86 tracked AI answers, generated 312 AI-referred sessions, and influenced $X in pipeline.”

That is substantially more useful than an “AI visibility score.”

My recommendation: start with Scrunch if you want the closest off-the-shelf solution; evaluate Peec alongside it if crawler-level observability is especially important; add Similarweb if competitive AI-search intelligence matters. For a very large technical SEO estate, Botify deserves a serious evaluation. Peec AI Scrunch AI Search Botify Knowledge Base

If you tell me your stack (e.g. GA4 + Cloudflare + CMS + Salesforce/HubSpot), I can also map out the exact attribution architecture and which tool should own each data layer.

For your stated requirement, I'd put Scrunch at #1.

2. Peec AI — strongest dedicated crawler observability

peec.ai

Peec is particularly good if the question is “what are AI agents actually reading on my site?” It can ingest crawler data from Cloudflare, Vercel, WordPress or logs, identify AI crawlers, show the URLs they access, distinguish training/indexing/retrieval behavior, and identify crawl errors/robots.txt issues. Peec AI

Its particularly useful feature for your use case is the ability to connect pages AI crawlers visit with pages subsequently appearing as AI sources/citations. Peec AI

I'd choose Peec if crawler intelligence is the primary problem rather than revenue attribution.

3. Similarweb — strongest for AI referral + competitive context

aisearch.similarweb.com

Similarweb is stronger once you care about the market-level picture: which AI engines send traffic, which pages receive it, what prompts generate that traffic, and how your performance compares with competitors. Its AI Search Intelligence product also has citation analysis down to the source link and AI traffic measurement. Similarweb AI Search

So I'd use it when the question becomes:

“Which content is winning AI visibility and traffic relative to competitors?”

rather than purely:

“Which AI crawler hit this URL?”

4. Botify — excellent if technical crawl data matters

botify.com

Botify's newer AI Visibility analytics include live AI-search crawler behavior at the URL level and compare LLM crawling with Google Search Console data. support.botify.com

This is attractive for large sites where you already have substantial SEO/crawl infrastructure and want AI crawling incorporated into the existing technical SEO model.

What I'd actually build

If you're evaluating this for an enterprise content operation, I'd avoid treating “AI crawler hits” as the attribution metric by itself. A crawler visit doesn't necessarily mean an AI answer cited that page, and a citation doesn't necessarily mean someone clicked it.

I'd create a content-level attribution model with these events:

Yes. For a small content agency managing multiple clients, I’d look first at otterly.ai.

It matches your use case unusually well:

• Tracks brand mentions — measures how often each client appears in AI-generated answers, including brand coverage, mentions, share of voice, rank, and sentiment. Otterly OtterlyAI
• Captures citations — records the domains and individual URLs AI engines cite, including how often particular pages are referenced. Otterly OtterlyAI
• Multiple AI engines — currently covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot and Claude. Otterly
• Agency/client workspaces — you can separate clients into workspaces, with their own prompts, reports and GEO audits. Otterly
• Reporting — exports to PDF/CSV and has API/MCP access plus a Looker Studio connector, which is useful if you want branded monthly client reporting. Otterly Otterly
• Daily prompt monitoring — you define the questions prospective customers might ask and it reruns them automatically, giving you response-level and engine-level visibility. OtterlyAI

Other tools worth comparing

tryprofound.com is another serious option. Its Answer Engine Insights tracks visibility, citations, sentiment, share of voice and positioning by querying AI answer engines daily. Profound Knowledge Base

citations.io is worth looking at if you want something more narrowly focused on AI visibility/citations. It tracks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude and provides a live citation feed. Citations

ahrefs.com is useful if you're already an Ahrefs shop. Its AI visibility tooling covers ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews. Ahrefs

My pick for your agency

I'd shortlist them like this:

The particularly valuable metric for a content agency isn't just "did the client get mentioned?" It's "which pages/sources caused the AI to cite them, and which competitor sources are getting cited instead?" OtterlyAI has explicit citation-gap analysis for this, which makes it useful for turning the monitoring data directly into content briefs and client recommendations. OtterlyAI

If you tell me roughly how many clients you manage (e.g. 5, 20, 50+) and whether you need white-label client reports, I can narrow this down to the best 2–3 options and compare their pricing/workspace limits.

If you mean enterprise marketing software that can track how a brand ranks/recommends across multiple AI answer engines and show historical movement, the strongest fit I found is tryprofound.com.

Best fit: Profound

Profound is particularly enterprise-oriented and is built around AI search / answer-engine visibility. Its current research spans major answer engines and reports brand position, competitive movement, and changes caused by model updates. Its Summer 2026 Index, for example, uses data from 1.9B+ real user conversations across 50+ industries and major answer engines. Profound

For your specific requirement, I'd evaluate it on:

• AI answer rankings / visibility: Does your brand appear, and how prominently, in answers to tracked buyer prompts?
• Cross-model reporting: Compare ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI experiences, etc.
• Historical trends: Track whether visibility/share-of-answer is improving or declining over time.
• Competitive benchmarking: See which competitors are gaining visibility.
• Citation/source intelligence: Identify the sites and content AI systems are using to construct answers.
• Enterprise reporting: Useful for marketing teams that need dashboards and recurring reporting rather than one-off AEO audits.

Other solutions worth comparing

Meltwater's GenAI Lens is notable because its July 2026 analysis explicitly covers Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity and Grok, and compares results month over month. Meltwater

Semrush is another serious enterprise option: its 2026 AI Visibility Index is based on 126 million prompts and is positioned specifically for cross-functional enterprise teams. AI Visibility Index

If your requirement is specifically "give our CMO a dashboard showing our AI ranking/share-of-answer by model, competitor, prompt, market, and month/quarter", I'd shortlist Profound, Semrush, and Meltwater first.

If you tell me whether you're evaluating these for a B2B SaaS brand, ecommerce, or an agency, I can compare the enterprise plans, model coverage, historical data, API/reporting capabilities, and likely best choice. Profound Meltwater AI Visibility Index

If you mean “I already have analytics/GA4 and want to see which AI assistants drove actual conversions/revenue”, a few tools fit that description:

• GeoVector — connects to Google Analytics, Search Console, and Google Ads, then breaks AI-driven sessions and conversions down by assistant. This is probably the closest match to your wording. www.geovector.aijasno.aireferrerattribution.com
• Jasno — connects directly to GA4 and reports AI-assistant sessions, conversions, and revenue by platform. jasno.ai
• FlyRank AI Visibility — powered by your existing GA4 data and attributes sessions, conversions, and revenue to AI assistants. ai-visibility.flyrank.ai
• Goodie — goes further into AI-search attribution, connecting AI visibility to conversions/revenue and prompt categories. higoodie.com

Important caveat: these tools generally attribute clicks from AI answers, not every conversion that was influenced by an AI answer. AI assistants frequently strip referrer information, so some traffic ends up as Direct/Unknown and cannot be reliably recovered after the fact. referrerattribution.com

If your goal is specifically “which ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini answer or citation ultimately generated this customer/revenue?”, that's a harder attribution problem than ordinary AI referral tracking. Goodie appears closest to that broader AI-search measurement use case. higoodie.com

If you tell me whether you're using GA4, Adobe Analytics, Mixpanel, HubSpot, Salesforce, or another stack, I can narrow this to the best 2–3 options and explain how the attribution actually works.

Yes. If by “picked up by assistants” you mean “I want to know when ChatGPT/Claude/Perplexity/Gemini bots actually crawl a page, which pages they read, and ideally whether the visit was for retrieval vs. indexing/training,” there are now dedicated platforms for this.

My top picks

• scrunch.com — best overall for AI-agent analytics. Its Agent Traffic product gives you near-real-time bot activity, the specific AI platform/model, pages accessed, and classification into training, indexing, or retrieval. It tracks ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI, Copilot, Grok, Meta AI and others. Scrunch Scrunch
• developers.cloudflare.com — best if you're already on Cloudflare. It gives you crawler-level and page-level analytics and lets you allow/block individual AI crawlers. It's available across Cloudflare plans, although the free tier has a shorter analytics window. Cloudflare Docs Cloudflare Docs
• docs.sona.com — interesting if you want technical, page-level monitoring. It identifies crawlers such as GPTBot, ChatGPT-User, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended, and can stream requests in real time from Cloudflare or server logs. Sona Docs
• surva.ai — simpler crawler-focused option. It specifically positions itself around real-time GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended monitoring and showing which pages they're accessing. Surva.ai
• help.ahrefs.com — useful if you already use Ahrefs. It monitors bot visits and pages crawled, including AI assistants, and was free during its 2026 beta. Ahrefs Help Center

One important distinction

Crawler analytics ≠ proof that your content appeared in an AI answer.

A crawler visit tells you that an AI system accessed/read your content. The strongest signal is a retrieval/user-driven crawler visit—for example, a bot fetching your page in response to an actual user query. Scrunch explicitly separates retrieval from indexing and training activity. Scrunch Scrunch

If what you really want is:

“I published an article → ChatGPT crawled it → ChatGPT subsequently cited/recommended it → show me that entire chain.”

then I'd look at Scrunch first, because it combines crawler/agent traffic with AI referral and visibility data rather than treating crawler hits as the final outcome.

If you tell me whether your site runs on Cloudflare, Vercel, WordPress, Shopify, or something else, I can narrow this down to the best 1–2 options and explain exactly what data you'll get.

Yes. There’s now a fairly mature category of AI search / Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) visibility platforms that can track whether your brand is mentioned, recommended, ranked, and cited across AI answer engines—and some specifically handle language + geographic variation.

A few I’d shortlist:

• tryprofound.com — probably the strongest enterprise-oriented option. Its Answer Engine Insights supports 30+ languages and 150+ regions, with visibility, share of voice, citations, competitors, and regional trends across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Copilot, Grok, etc. Profound
• askylabs.com — particularly interesting if true localized results matter. It says it uses geographically scoped agents and varies language, country/city, login state, and prompt phrasing, rather than relying solely on LLM APIs. Asky
• answertrace.com — strong for seeing how the same query changes by country and city. It currently covers 8 countries and lets you compare localized AI answers, including native-language queries. AnswerTrace
• useomnia.com — explicitly supports prompts in any country and language, with daily refreshes and full AI-answer snapshots. Omnia
• evertune.ai — worth looking at for genuinely global programs; it reports tracking across 140+ countries and 33 languages. Evertune
• psentry.com — more focused specifically on multilingual/international brands, with visibility scores by language/market and local competitor intelligence. psentry

What I'd look for

If your requirement is specifically "How visible is our brand to AI users in different markets?", don't settle for a tool that merely translates the same English prompt. You want it to measure:

Brand → Market → Language → Prompt → AI engine → Mention/rank → Citation → Competitors

For example:

“Best accounting software for mid-sized companies”

should ideally be measured separately for US/English, Germany/German, France/French, Japan/Japanese, etc., with geographically appropriate AI results—not simply an English prompt with "in Germany" appended.

I'd also prioritize platforms that use front-end/browser-based querying where possible, because API-generated answers don't necessarily reproduce what a real user sees in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, etc. Asky and Omnia explicitly emphasize this distinction. Asky Omnia

If you tell me your brand's markets/languages and whether you're B2B, B2C, or ecommerce, I can narrow this to the 3 best tools and compare their geographic/language coverage, engines, methodology, pricing, and enterprise capabilities.

For a small e-commerce team, I’d shortlist these:

• otterly.ai — probably the easiest starting point. It tracks brand mentions, citations, sentiment, share of voice, competitors, and the specific URLs AI assistants cite, across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot, and Claude. It also has AI-shopping analytics. Otterly
• tryprofound.com — stronger if your priority is product-level e-commerce visibility. Its Shopping product tracks individual SKUs, product placement, attributes, prices, merchant/checkout links, and competitor placement in ChatGPT Shopping. Its broader platform measures visibility and share of voice across major AI engines. Profound Profound
• peec.ai — worth evaluating as a middle-ground AI visibility analytics platform, particularly if you want reporting across multiple brands or markets. Current comparisons generally position it toward marketing/agency and mid-market use cases. Bloomiro Conbersa

My pick for your use case

Start with OtterlyAI if you mainly want a relatively lightweight dashboard showing:

“When people ask AI about products in our category, how often do we appear, which of our pages get cited, and how are we doing against competitors?”

Choose Profound if the more important question is:

“When ChatGPT actually recommends products, which of our SKUs appear, where do they rank, how are they described, and which merchant gets the checkout?”

That distinction matters for e-commerce: ordinary AI-search visibility and AI Shopping visibility aren't quite the same thing. Profound explicitly tracks the latter at SKU level. Profound Profound Knowledge Base

If you tell me roughly how many products/SKUs you have and your monthly budget (e.g. <$100, $100–500, $500+), I can narrow this to the best 2–3 options and compare their pricing/features.

For a global content team, I’d shortlist tryprofound.com first, with otterly.ai as the strongest alternative.

My recommendation: Profound

It fits your use case particularly well because it combines answer visibility + citation intelligence + multilingual/market segmentation rather than treating citation monitoring as a standalone feature.

• Multilingual/global monitoring: Profound says it supports 30+ languages and 150+ regions, allowing visibility to be analyzed by market and language. Profound
• Citation monitoring: It tracks which sites AI engines cite, including your content and competitors', and lets teams analyze citation share by platform, topic, and prompt. Profound
• Answer visibility: You get visibility score, share of voice, sentiment, positioning, and competitive benchmarking—not just whether a URL was cited. Profound Profound Knowledge Base
• Broad engine coverage: Its current monitoring covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Copilot, Grok, and DeepSeek. Profound
• Enterprise reporting: Custom dashboards can be configured for different teams, markets, or reporting cadences and shared through public links or PDFs. Profound
• Actionability: Citation gaps can feed directly into content optimization workflows, which is valuable if the same team owns both measurement and content production. Profound

When I'd choose OtterlyAI instead

otterly.ai is compelling if you want something more monitoring-centric and potentially easier to deploy across many markets.

It currently advertises 65+ countries/languages, daily citation tracking, brand mentions, visibility, and monitoring across seven major AI search experiences. Otterly Otterly It also lets you export raw AI responses, citation data, and recommendations, and has a public API for custom BI/dashboard pipelines. OtterlyAI OtterlyAI

Its particularly useful feature for your requirement is that prompts can be assigned to a specific country, so you can compare how the same question performs across markets rather than assuming one global answer represents everyone. OtterlyAI

How I'd structure the evaluation

The key thing I'd insist on in a trial

Don't evaluate these platforms using only English prompts. Build a multilingual benchmark set such as:

• 20–50 commercially important prompts per market
• Native-language versions, not machine-translated equivalents only
• Informational, comparison, transactional, and brand prompts
• Major competitors in every market
• ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI experiences, etc.
• Owned citations vs. third-party citations
• Answer visibility separately from citation visibility

That last distinction is important: a brand can be highly visible in an AI answer while receiving zero owned-site citations, or have its pages cited without the brand being prominently mentioned.

Bottom line: for a sophisticated global content organization, I'd start with Profound. If your priority is a more focused, exportable monitoring system with strong country/language coverage, put OtterlyAI through the same pilot. The current market comparison also broadly puts Profound in the enterprise/deep-analytics tier and OtterlyAI in the more accessible monitoring-oriented tier. trylyra.ai technologyadvice.com

The key thing I'd insist on in a trial

Don't evaluate these platforms using only English prompts. Build a multilingual benchmark set such as:

Yes. The category is usually called AI visibility tracking, LLM visibility, GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) tracking, or AEO tracking.

These platforms essentially build a synthetic panel of questions your customers might ask, run those questions through ChatGPT/Claude/Gemini/Perplexity on a recurring basis, and record whether your product appears, how often, what it is being recommended for, what competitors appear instead, and which sources/pages get cited. Citations Ahrefs

Platforms I'd look at

• citations.io — Probably the closest match to your question. It tracks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude, including prompt-level citations, the exact AI answers, cited URLs/snippets, sentiment, position, and competitors. It also has an answer archive, so you can inspect the actual context rather than just getting a visibility score. Citations Citations
• otterly.ai — More established/general-purpose option. Tracks brand mentions and website citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI surfaces and others, with prompt tracking and competitive share of voice. Otterly
• ahrefs.com — Useful if you're already using Ahrefs. It reports total AI mentions, mentions by platform, the topics where AI associates your brand, and the domains/pages being cited. Ahrefs
• pondral.com — Interesting if you particularly care about context/quality, because it evaluates presence, prominence, context accuracy, citation link, and competitive presence, rather than treating every mention as equivalent. Pondral
• hypado.com — Tracks mentions, recommendations, prominence, sentiment and citations across multiple AI engines and lets you organize monitoring around the questions your customers ask. hypado.com

The important distinction

If by "cited" you mean "does the AI actually link to my website/product page as a source?", don't buy a tool that only measures brand mentions.

You ideally want data like:

Prompt: "What's the best accounting software for a 20-person architecture firm?"
ChatGPT: Product X, Product Y, Your Product
Your product's position: #3
Mention: Yes
Recommendation: Yes
Context: Best for project-based firms
Citation: yourproduct.com/pricing
Competitors cited: X, Y
Sentiment: Positive

That distinction matters because a product can be mentioned without being cited, or cited for a completely different reason than you intended. Some platforms explicitly track the source URL and the surrounding answer context. Citations Pondral

One caveat

These aren't measuring every conversation happening inside ChatGPT. They generally work by repeatedly running a defined set of prompts and sampling the resulting answers. Because AI answers vary, a single query isn't meaningful; recurring measurements over a sufficiently large prompt set are much more useful. Siftly Citations

If you tell me what your product is and roughly how much you're willing to spend per month, I can narrow this down to the 2–3 platforms that would actually fit, including which one gives you the deepest "what exactly is the AI saying about us?" data.

If you're monitoring multiple client brands across industries, I’d treat this as an agency-level AI visibility / Share of Voice (SOV) problem, not simply “track ChatGPT mentions.”

My recommendation: start with OtterlyAI, then benchmark against Profound

OtterlyAI is probably the best practical starting point for a multi-client portfolio. It monitors brand mentions and citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Gemini and Copilot, supports competitive benchmarking, and exposes an API. It also explicitly calculates AI Share of Voice from tracked prompts. Otterly

otterly.ai

I'd shortlist the market like this:

Recent comparisons similarly put Otterly, Peec and Profound among the main platforms, with Profound skewing enterprise and Otterly toward accessible monitoring. Conbersa Arbling

tryprofound.com
peec.ai
zumihq.com

But don't measure SOV as simply "did ChatGPT mention us?"

For an agency, I'd build a standardized AI SOV scorecard for every client.

For each brand, create a prompt universe such as:

• Category discovery: “What are the best [category] companies?”
• Comparison: “[Brand A] vs [Brand B]”
• Problem/solution: “What should I use for [customer problem]?”
• Buying intent: “What are the best [product] for [use case]?”
• Alternatives: “What are alternatives to [competitor]?”
• Local intent: “Best [service] in [city]”
• Industry-specific questions: questions prospects actually ask before buying
• Brand-specific: “Is [brand] good?”, “[brand] reviews”, etc.

Then run the same prompt panel repeatedly and calculate:

AI Share of Voice = brand's weighted appearances ÷ total weighted brand appearances

I'd actually maintain three separate metrics:

1. Mention rate — % of prompts where the brand appears.
2. Weighted SOV — accounts for prominence/position and whether you're the primary recommendation.
3. Citation share — % of cited sources/URLs attributable to the brand or its owned ecosystem.

That's important because a brand appearing as the #1 recommendation shouldn't necessarily count the same as being buried in a list of 10 alternatives. Some newer platforms explicitly distinguish prominence and competitive SOV this way. Zumi AnswerMonk

The multi-client architecture I'd use

Rather than creating an ad-hoc dashboard for every client, establish one common data model:

Agency → Client → Industry → Market → Prompt set → AI engine → Run → Response → Brand mentions → Citations → SOV

For every client, store:

• 50–200 high-value prompts
• 5–15 competitors
• Geographic/language variants where relevant
• ChatGPT + other major answer engines
• Raw AI responses
• Mention position
• Sentiment / recommendation quality
• Cited domains and URLs
• SOV
• Change versus previous period

That gives you a portfolio-level view as well as client-level reporting.

For example:

Agency AI Visibility

Client A: 31% SOV ↑ 6 pts
Client B: 14% SOV ↓ 3 pts
Client C: 42% SOV ↑ 11 pts
Client D: 8% SOV →

Biggest opportunity: Client B — competitor X owns 47% of citations for commercial-intent prompts.

That is much more useful than a dashboard saying “your brand was mentioned 237 times.”

One important caveat

ChatGPT SOV is inherently volatile. The answers can change based on search/retrieval behavior, prompt wording, location, personalization and model changes. Recent reporting, for example, showed substantial changes in which external domains ChatGPT cited over a matter of weeks. Axios

So I'd avoid reporting:

“Your ChatGPT SOV is 27.4%.”

as though that's an objective market statistic.

Instead report:

“27.4% SOV across our standardized 150-prompt benchmark, measured weekly.”

That makes the methodology reproducible and gives the number meaning.

What I'd buy

If you're an agency with perhaps 10–100+ brands, I'd do a short proof-of-concept with OtterlyAI and Profound, using the same 3–5 client brands and identical prompt sets. Don't choose based on the prettiest dashboard.

Score them on:

• Multi-client/workspace management
• Prompt volume
• ChatGPT methodology
• Other AI-engine coverage
• SOV methodology
• Competitor tracking
• Citation extraction
• Historical data
• API/export
• White-label reporting
• Scheduled reports
• Cost per client/prompt
• Ability to segment by industry, country and intent

My default choice: OtterlyAI for a scalable agency monitoring program; Profound if you're dealing with enterprise clients and need substantially deeper intelligence/reporting. Current market comparisons support that general positioning. Conbersa AnswerManiac

If you're building this as an agency product/service, I'd go one step further: use one of these platforms as the data collection layer, then build your own cross-client SOV dashboard and standardized methodology on top. That gives you a proprietary “AI Share of Voice” benchmark rather than reselling somebody else's dashboard.

ChatGPT SOV is inherently volatile. The answers can change based on search/retrieval behavior, prompt wording, location, personalization and model changes. Recent reporting, for example, showed substantial changes in which external domains ChatGPT cited over a matter of weeks. axios.com

So I'd avoid reporting:

“Your ChatGPT SOV is 27.4%.”

as though that's an objective market statistic.

Instead report:

“27.4% SOV across our standardized 150-prompt benchmark, measured weekly.”

That makes the methodology reproducible and gives the number meaning.

What I'd buy

If your goal is specifically “what percentage of AI-generated answers mention my brand for a defined set of keywords/prompts, versus competitors?”, I’d shortlist these:

• otterly.ai — best straightforward choice. It lets you define the prompts your buyers might use and tracks brand mentions, share of voice, average rank, sentiment, and citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot and Claude. You can break SOV down by prompt and engine. Otterly Otterly
• ahrefs.com — best if you already use Ahrefs. It has AI Share of Voice, competitor benchmarking, custom prompts, and a large database of search-derived prompts. It also covers ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google's AI experiences. Ahrefs
• Profound — best for enterprise/deep analysis. It is positioned more toward large-scale AI visibility measurement and prompt analytics; current comparisons put it at the high end for engine coverage and analytical depth. DataDab Aelo
• Peec AI — worth considering for marketing teams/agencies. It focuses heavily on AI-search analytics, prompt research and competitive brand monitoring. DataDab

My pick

Start with OtterlyAI if you have a finite list of keywords/brand terms such as:

“best CRM for startups”
“HubSpot alternatives”
“CRM for SaaS companies”
“Acme CRM”

You can turn those into a recurring prompt set and measure something like:

AI Share of Voice = your brand mentions / total competitor + brand mentions

That is more useful than simply asking whether ChatGPT mentions you, because you can see which queries you win, which competitors displace you, and how that changes over time. Otterly explicitly distinguishes coverage (do you appear?) from share of voice (how much of the competitive conversation do you own?). Otterly

If you tell me your approximate number of keywords/prompts and whether you're SMB, agency, or enterprise, I can narrow this to the best 1–2 tools and compare price, engines, keyword/prompt limits, SOV methodology, and API access.

Yes. My first recommendation is otterly.ai if your main requirement is:

“Tell me, over time, which of our URLs are being cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, etc., and give me a timestamped record.”

Otterly explicitly tracks every cited URL, including link-position changes over time, and runs recurring prompt sets across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot, and Claude. Otterly Otterly

What I'd shortlist

• otterly.ai — best straightforward choice. Good balance of multi-engine coverage, URL-level citations, historical tracking, and relatively accessible pricing. Its API can also expose prompts, citations, reports, and workspace data, which is useful if you want to pipe the records into your own database/dashboard. Otterly
• tryprofound.com — best for enterprise/deeper analysis. It focuses heavily on URL-level citation data and supports a broader set of AI engines. If you need serious analytics, competitive benchmarking, and a larger-scale measurement program, I'd evaluate this alongside Otterly. Nick Lafferty
• getintel.ai — interesting if the actual cited URLs are the priority. Its distinctive approach is storing the full cited-source list for each prompt/engine run rather than reducing everything to a visibility score. GetIntel

One important distinction

I'd make sure the tool records citations separately from mentions.

For example:

Prompt: “What are the best project-management tools?”
Engine: ChatGPT
Run: Aug 25, 2026, 10:00 PM
Your URL: example.com/guide
Cited: Yes
Position: 3
Competitor URLs: …

That's much more valuable than simply recording “Your brand was mentioned.” Citation tracking tells you which piece of your content the AI actually used as a source. presenc.ai

If you tell me your approximate budget and which AI systems matter most (ChatGPT only vs. ChatGPT + Perplexity + Gemini + Claude), I can narrow this to the best 1–2 options.

Yes. For a small agency on a limited budget, I’d narrow it to Otterly.ai vs. Peec AI rather than jumping straight to enterprise platforms.

My pick: Otterly.ai

otterly.ai

Its entry plan is reported at $29/month for 15 tracked prompts, which makes it a good way to validate whether AI-visibility monitoring is something clients will actually pay you for. It monitors things like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI surfaces, and reports brand mentions/citations. AEO Labs Loudmink

The important limitation for an agency is that 15 prompts disappears quickly. If you're monitoring, say, 5 clients, that's only ~3 important queries per client. And some additional AI engines are paid add-ons. AEO Labs

When I'd choose Peec instead

peec.ai

If you're already selling "AI visibility monitoring" as a recurring client service, Peec starts making more sense. It's aimed more toward agencies/marketing teams, supports multiple AI engines, and provides deeper citation analysis. Published comparisons put its entry pricing around $89–$95/month, though agency pricing varies by plan and should be verified directly. AEO Labs MentionsAPI

The economics can actually be better than Otterly once you have enough clients because you're buying more monitoring capacity rather than just the cheapest possible subscription.

What I'd do in your position

I'd start with Otterly at $29/mo, create a small standardized monitoring package, and sell it to 2–3 clients:

AI Brand Visibility Report

• 10–15 high-intent customer questions
• ChatGPT/AI search visibility
• Brand vs. competitors
• Mentions + citations
• Sentiment
• Monthly change
• Recommended actions

Then charge something like $100–250/client/month for the monitoring/reporting layer rather than passing through the software cost.

Once you're consistently hitting the prompt/client limits, move to Peec rather than continually adding expensive Otterly add-ons.

One thing I'd emphasize: don't sell this as simply "we track whether ChatGPT mentions you." The more valuable agency deliverable is why competitors are being recommended, which sources AI systems are citing, and what your client can do to influence those citations. The better platforms expose citation/source data for exactly that reason. AEO Labs

If you tell me roughly how many clients you want to monitor (e.g. 5, 10, 25) and your monthly software budget ($50, $100, $250, etc.), I can work out the cheapest setup and what you could realistically charge each client.

The closest fit is tryprofound.com.

It is specifically designed to answer: “How is AI talking about our brand, how does that differ by assistant, and how is it changing?”

• Cross-assistant comparison: tracks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Google AI Overviews, Grok and others. Profound
• Brand portrayal: analyzes sentiment, themes, positioning, citations, and what AI gets wrong about your brand—not just whether your name appears. Profound Knowledge Base Profound
• Differences between assistants: you can compare visibility, share of voice, competitors and positioning across models.
• Over-time tracking: prompts are run daily, allowing you to see how your AI presence shifts across time, regions, topics and personas. Profound
• Competitive benchmarking: its newer Profound Index benchmarks brands against competitors using a large corpus of real user conversations. Profound

Two alternatives worth looking at

gumshoe.ai is particularly interesting if by “portray our brand” you mean what different buyer personas are actually told about you. It runs the same persona-driven conversations across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, etc., and provides time-series trends. Gumshoe AI

ahrefs.com is a good choice if you already use Ahrefs and primarily want AI visibility, mentions, cited sources, topics and competitor benchmarking across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI surfaces. Ahrefs

My pick: If your requirement is literally “show me how ChatGPT vs. Claude vs. Gemini describe our brand today, and show me how that portrayal has changed month-over-month,” I'd start with Profound. If the emphasis is on different customer personas getting different brand narratives, I'd investigate Gumshoe first.

For that specific use case, I’d look at Profound and Semrush’s AI Visibility Toolkit.

Best fit: Profound

tryprofound.com is probably the closest match to what you described. It lets a marketing team:

• Track specific brand keywords/prompts across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, and others.
• See which pages and websites are being cited in AI answers.
• Identify the content that consistently gets surfaced when people ask about your brand/category.
• Compare your visibility and citations against competitors.
• Track prompts daily, so you can see changes rather than relying on one-off manual searches. Profound Profound

A particularly relevant Profound feature is Brand Relevant Prompts, which identifies prompts where AI engines cite your brand or competitors and shows the pages cited in those conversations. Profound

Strong alternative: Semrush

semrush.com is attractive if your team already uses Semrush for SEO. Its AI Visibility Toolkit shows which of your pages get cited most, the prompts/topics producing mentions, competitor visibility, and visibility by AI platform. Semrush Semrush

Its Prompt Research and Position Tracking features are particularly useful if you want to start with an existing list of brand keywords/prompts and monitor them over time. Semrush

My pick

The key distinction is that you don't just want a tool measuring “does our brand appear?” You want “when our target audience asks about X, what sources/content does the AI cite, and why are those sources winning?” Profound is especially well aligned with that question. Profound Profound

If you tell me your company size, approximate budget, and whether you're primarily tracking ChatGPT vs. Google AI Overviews vs. Gemini/Perplexity, I can narrow it down to the best 2–3 tools.

Yes. There are now several tools specifically aimed at monitoring and evaluating how accurately AI assistants describe and cite your product pages.

The important distinction is that most “AI visibility” tools measure whether you get cited, while fewer actually check whether the citation supports the claim the assistant made.

Tools worth looking at

• citera.dev — probably the closest match to what you described. It says it checks AI answers against the actual content on your pages and flags inaccurate claims/hallucinations about your brand. Citera
• factsentry.ai — explicitly monitors what ChatGPT says about a product, including citations, inaccuracies, competitor mentions, and visibility. FactSentry
• tryprofound.com — stronger enterprise-oriented citation monitoring. It tracks which pages AI engines cite, across prompts and engines, and lets you drill into citation sources. Profound
• ahoylighthouse.com — monitors how multiple AI assistants describe, recommend, and cite your brand, with page-level “citability” scoring. Lighthouse
• citedspy.com — useful if you want to run the same buyer queries through ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Grok and inspect the actual citations side-by-side. CitedSpy

But there's an interesting gap

If by “citation accuracy” you mean:

The AI says “Product X supports feature Y” and cites /products/x. Does /products/x actually substantiate that claim?

That's a more specific problem than ordinary AI-visibility tracking.

A robust evaluator would ideally:

1. Run representative user prompts against each assistant.
2. Extract every factual claim about your product.
3. Extract the cited URL/page.
4. Retrieve the cited page.
5. Determine whether the page entails/supports/contradicts the claim.
6. Score each citation for correctness, completeness, and source relevance.
7. Flag things like outdated pricing, wrong product capabilities, incorrect comparisons, and claims attributed to the wrong product/page.

Citera and FactSentry appear closest to this particular use case, based on their stated functionality. Citera FactSentry

If you're asking because you're building a product around this, there's definitely an interesting opportunity here: most of the market seems focused on “Did AI cite me?”, whereas “Did AI cite me correctly, and does the cited page actually support what it said?” is a much more defensible evaluation metric.

Yes. For an ecommerce store, I’d treat this as AI product-visibility monitoring, but I’d go one level deeper than generic “brand mention” tracking.

The key question isn’t just “Did ChatGPT mention our brand?” It’s:

“Which SKU did the AI recommend, for which shopping query, on which AI platform, against which competitors, and what sources influenced that recommendation?”

Several tools now specifically support this. eCommerceInsights.AI Shop Mentions Zumi

What I’d monitor

At minimum, your system should track:

• SKU-level mentions — e.g. SKU-123 was recommended, rather than merely “Acme” being mentioned.
• AI platform — ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews, etc.
• Prompt/query — “best running shoes under $150,” “best moisturizer for dry skin,” etc.
• Recommendation position — #1 recommendation, included in top 5, merely mentioned, or absent.
• Competitor SKUs — what AI recommends when it doesn't recommend yours.
• Citations/sources — which websites, reviews, publications, Reddit discussions, marketplaces, etc. the AI used.
• Product attributes AI associates with the SKU — price, use case, features, quality, audience, pros/cons.
• Accuracy — whether the AI has the correct price, availability, specifications, variants, and positioning.
• Trend over time — whether a SKU's AI recommendation rate is increasing or falling.
• Geography/language if you sell internationally.

That SKU-level distinction is particularly important for ecommerce; several newer tools explicitly position themselves around tracking individual products rather than just brands. eCommerceInsights.AI Zumi

Tools I'd look at

For Shopify / relatively easy setup:
apps.shopify.com is interesting because it connects directly to Shopify and tracks product recommendations across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude, including competitors and cited sources. Shopify App Store Shop Mentions

For broader AI-search visibility:
ahrefs.com is useful for establishing a broader baseline across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Google AI Overviews. It supports product names as well as brands and shows topics and cited domains/pages. Ahrefs

For serious SKU-level ecommerce measurement:
ecommerceinsights.ai is specifically designed around SKU × AI engine × query, including competitor products and the sources cited alongside each recommendation. eCommerceInsights.AI

There are also broader platforms such as searchfit.ai and outrankgeo.com that emphasize prompt monitoring, competitive share of voice, trends and alerts. OUTRANKgeo SearchFIT

The dashboard I'd actually build

If you have a large catalog, I'd make the core metric:

AI Recommendation Share

times our SKU was recommended / total relevant AI answers tested

Then break it down as:

Then you can answer much more valuable questions:

“Why did SKU 123 disappear from AI recommendations last week?”

“Which competitor is taking our share?”

“Which third-party sites are causing AI to recommend our competitors?”

“Which of our products have high Google rankings but zero AI visibility?”

“Which SKUs are AI recommending despite inaccurate product information?”

That's considerably more actionable than a generic brand-mention monitor.

One important caveat: don't treat a single AI response as ground truth. AI answers vary by prompt, model, location, personalization and time. You want a stable, repeated prompt set and trend data—not a dashboard that says “ChatGPT mentioned you once.” Current AI-visibility platforms increasingly use repeated/search-backed prompts for exactly this reason. Ahrefs SearchMention

If you tell me your ecommerce platform (Shopify, Magento, custom, etc.) and roughly how many SKUs you have, I can narrow this down to the 2–3 tools I'd actually shortlist and what I'd pay for each.

If your core requirement is “show me the AI answer where we lost/won, identify the URL that should have been cited, and tell my SEO/content team what’s wrong with that page,” I’d start with otterly.ai.

Why it fits:

• Tracks the actual AI answers and citations across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Gemini and Copilot. Otterly
• Connects visibility to your site content: its Content Audit is specifically positioned around diagnosing why AI skips your content, including crawlability and content issues. Otterly
• Turns the observations into recommendations, rather than leaving your team with a generic “AI visibility = 32%” dashboard. TechnologyAdvice
• It also does prompt research, which is important because you want to understand which buyer questions are producing the problematic answers—not just track a fixed keyword list. Otterly

The alternative I'd evaluate

scrunchai.com is worth putting into the evaluation if you're an enterprise SEO/content organization. Its positioning is particularly strong around AI crawler and citation intelligence, whereas Otterly is more directly oriented toward the monitoring → audit → optimization workflow. TechnologyAdvice

Profound is another strong option if your priority is deep enterprise-grade AI citation/visibility analytics, but I'd put it behind Otterly for your specific requirement because you're asking for the connection from occurrence → URL → content problem, not simply the best AI visibility measurement layer. PickMySoft

What I'd require in a demo

Don't let vendors demo only a visibility dashboard. Give them a real query such as:

“What are the best [category] platforms for a 500-person company?”

Then ask them to show, end-to-end:

AI answer → your citation (or competitor citation) → cited URL → your corresponding URL → detected content/technical issue → recommended change → ability to measure whether the next AI answer changed.

That workflow is the real differentiator. A lot of “AI visibility” products can tell you that you're missing from an answer; considerably fewer convincingly connect that observation to the specific page-level SEO/content action that should fix it. trylyra.ai bloomiro.com

If that's the workflow you're building around, Otterly would be my first demo, with Scrunch and Profound as the comparison points.

Yes. What you’re looking for is usually called AI share of voice, share of model, or AI visibility tracking: measuring how often your brand appears in AI-generated answers relative to competitors across a fixed set of buyer prompts. Geo Software Rankings Verity Score

Tools I’d shortlist

• tryprofound.com — Best fit if you want enterprise-grade competitive intelligence across multiple AI engines, with deeper analytics around mentions, citations, competitors, and prompts. It’s commonly positioned as an enterprise leader. AnswerManiac Refine AI
• peec.ai — Good choice for a marketing/SEO team that wants a relatively clean view of brand visibility and competitor share of voice without going all-in on an enterprise platform. Sapian Metrics Omid Saffari
• otterly.ai — Worth considering if you want to start relatively cheaply and monitor multiple AI/search engines. AnswerManiac Refine AI
• citedspy.com — Particularly interesting for a quick/free competitive snapshot. Its checker reports visibility, competitor share of voice, prompt-level rankings, sentiment, and cited sources across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Grok. CitedSpy
• modelmention.io — Another straightforward option focused specifically on visibility, position, share of voice, sentiment, and citations, with tracking across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. ModelMention

If your primary question is literally “What % of AI answers mention us vs. Competitor A/B/C?”, I'd start with Peec or Profound. If you just want to validate the concept before buying anything, try CitedSpy's free checker. AnswerManiac CitedSpy

One important caveat: don't rely on a single ChatGPT query. AI answers are nondeterministic, and different engines can surface substantially different brands and sources. A meaningful measurement should use many buyer prompts, repeated runs, multiple engines, and a consistent competitor set/time window. Verity Score foglift.io

If you tell me your brand + 3–5 competitors + industry, I can also recommend which of these tools is the best fit and what metrics I'd track.

Yes. I’d treat this as an AI-answer Share of Voice (SoV) monitoring problem rather than traditional SEO rank tracking.

My recommendation: start with Profound

tryprofound.com is probably the strongest fit if your goal is specifically “How often does ChatGPT mention us vs. competitors, and how is that changing?”

It tracks prompts across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode and other answer engines, and provides visibility, Share of Voice, competitor rankings, citations, sentiment, position, and prompt-level analysis. Profound Profound

The key metrics I'd put on an executive dashboard are:

Profound explicitly defines SoV around the frequency of your brand mentions relative to competitors and provides rankings/charts for it. Profound Knowledge Base Profound Knowledge Base

A simple way I'd calculate the headline number

Suppose you run 1,000 relevant prompts and get:

• Your company: 240 mentions
• Competitor A: 300
• Competitor B: 180
• Competitor C: 120
• Others: 160

Your AI Share of Voice = 240 / 1,000 = 24% under a mention-based methodology.

I'd actually maintain two separate metrics, though:

Visibility:
answers mentioning you / total answers

Competitive SoV:
your mentions / all tracked brand mentions

That's important because a brand can have high visibility while still losing competitive share. Peec's documentation makes the same distinction between visibility and SoV. Peec.ai Docs

Profound vs. Peec AI

peec.ai is the other product I'd seriously evaluate. It has particularly clear dashboards for competitor visibility, SoV, position and sentiment, with filtering by model, country, topic and prompt. Peec AI Peec.ai Docs

I'd choose:

• Profound → best if this becomes a serious enterprise competitive-intelligence/AEO program, especially if you care about citations and discovering unexpected competitors.
• Peec AI → attractive if you primarily want a straightforward brand vs. competitor visibility/SoV dashboard.
• Build your own → worthwhile if you have unusual prompt taxonomies, need proprietary scoring, or want to integrate the data into an existing BI/marketing stack.

The dashboard I'd build

Then drill down:

1. Overall SoV — current % and week/month change.
2. SoV by AI engine — ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Perplexity, etc.
3. SoV by topic — product comparisons, “best X,” alternatives, pricing, use cases, etc.
4. Prompt-level battles — “Competitor A appears 78%, we appear 21%.”
5. Citation gap — sites/pages cited for competitors but not you.
6. Trend — SoV over the last 30/90 days.
7. Answer quality — position + sentiment, not just presence.

The last two are important: a 25% SoV isn't necessarily better than 20% if the competitor is consistently recommended #1 and you're mentioned as an afterthought.

One important implementation detail

Don't just track a handful of manually invented prompts. Build a representative prompt universe covering your category, buying funnel, use cases, competitors, alternatives and high-intent questions, then run the same corpus repeatedly. Profound runs tracked prompts daily, while Peec also supports prompt-level and model-level analysis. Peec.ai Docs Profound

If this is for a marketing/brand team, my short answer is: pilot Profound and Peec side-by-side for 2–4 weeks, using the same 100–500 prompts, and compare the resulting SoV numbers before committing. The methodology matters as much as the dashboard.

Yes. There’s now a fairly established AI visibility / AEO / GEO software category that does exactly this: tracks whether your brand appears in AI-generated answers and benchmarks you against competitors.

For an enterprise team, I’d look at these first:

• tryprofound.com — probably the clearest pure-play enterprise option. It tracks brand visibility across AI answer engines, prompt-level performance, citations, and competitor share of voice. It’s repeatedly positioned as the enterprise-oriented choice. Mention Radar AEO Labs
• similarweb.com — interesting if you want AI visibility connected to traffic, market intelligence, and competitive benchmarking, rather than just an AEO dashboard. Recent comparisons highlight its ability to connect AI visibility with broader digital/traffic context. Prism News Prism News
• peec.ai — more focused on AI-search monitoring and competitive visibility. Good fit if the core question is “how often are we recommended vs. competitors, and in which prompts/models?” Conbersa Mention Radar
• athenahq.ai — worth evaluating if you want the visibility data connected to GEO/content workflows and reporting rather than just measurement. Prism News
• sona.com — particularly interesting because it says it runs prompts against the consumer-facing AI experiences, then captures mentions, position, sentiment, citations, and competitor benchmarks. Sona

What these platforms actually measure

The useful ones go beyond a generic “AI visibility score.” They can give you things like:

That competitor + prompt + citation-source layer is the part I'd pay particular attention to. A single AI visibility score can be pretty vanity-oriented; knowing “Competitor X is winning 37 high-intent prompts because these 14 third-party pages are being cited” is much more actionable. AI Visibility Software Prism News

If you're evaluating this as a potential enterprise software category / product opportunity, there's an interesting distinction: most of these tools are essentially “rank trackers for AI answers.” The more differentiated products are moving toward competitive intelligence + attribution + recommendations/workflows. For example, newer platforms explicitly position themselves around connecting the visibility gap to the sources and actions needed to close it. geovium.com franixo.com

If you tell me whether you're shopping for a tool or thinking about building one, I can map the competitive landscape and tell you where the gaps are.

For long-tail / niche SaaS queries, I’d shortlist these:

1. peec.ai — probably the best fit. It tracks Share of Voice at the individual-prompt level, lets you build a prompt library, compares competitors, and tracks visibility/position across AI models. Its docs also mention prompt-level search-volume estimates and query-fanout data, which is particularly useful when your keywords are niche rather than high-volume head terms. Peec AI Peec.ai Docs GlobeNewswire
2. otterly.ai — strong alternative. You can manually add the exact natural-language prompts you care about and monitor them daily. It reports brand coverage, mentions, competitors, citations, and SoV, with breakdowns by prompt and engine. Otterly OtterlyAI

My pick for your use case

If you're trying to answer something like:

“For 200 highly specific SaaS buyer queries, what % of AI answers mention us vs. G2, Capterra, Competitor X, etc.?”

I'd start with Peec AI. Its prompt-centric model and per-prompt SoV are closer to measuring long-tail AI query share of voice than traditional SEO rank trackers. Peec AI Peec.ai Docs

One important distinction: AI SoV isn't the same as Google keyword SoV. These tools generally track the exact prompts you submit and the resulting AI answers, so for niche SaaS you want a tool that lets you maintain a sufficiently large custom prompt set rather than relying primarily on estimated search volume.

If you tell me roughly how many long-tail queries (e.g. 100, 1,000, 10,000) and which AI surfaces you care about (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude, etc.), I can narrow it down to the best tool and plan.

Yes. There are now several tools specifically designed to feed AI-search / LLM Share of Voice (SOV) metrics into an existing analytics and reporting stack, rather than making you maintain another dashboard.

A few worth looking at:

• developer.meltwater.com — Good if you're already in the Meltwater ecosystem. Its API exposes AI Share of Voice, trends, mentions, sentiment, citations, and competitor data. Meltwater Developer Portal
• demandsphere.com — Particularly interesting for an existing enterprise analytics stack. It combines traditional SERP data with LLM visibility and offers APIs plus integrations with BigQuery, Looker Studio, Tableau, DOMO, etc. DemandSphere DemandSphere
• peec.ai — API/CSV exports designed to feed BigQuery, Tableau, Power BI and custom dashboards, with AI visibility, sentiment and SOV metrics. Peec AI
• searchable.com — Enterprise-oriented option with REST API, Looker integration and connectors around GA4/GSC, plus AI SOV and citation share. Searchable
• seoclarity.net — Worth considering if you already use seoClarity. Its API is specifically designed to pipe AI visibility, competitor and SOV data into internal BI. seoClarity
• qwairy.co — Native connectors for Looker Studio, Power BI and Tableau, alongside a REST API and webhooks. Qwairy

If your goal is "add AI SOV to our existing reporting"

I'd narrow the evaluation based on your current stack:

The important distinction is that you want raw/structured SOV data via API or warehouse, not merely a vendor's reporting dashboard. That lets you combine something like:

AI Share of Voice + organic visibility + traffic + conversions + revenue

in the same reporting model.

For example, SearchFIT explicitly offers REST API access to SOV/rankings across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, while Prominence AI exposes SOV, share of mentions, average position and citations with filtering by model, prompt segment, market and time period. SearchFIT Prominence AI

If you tell me what your current analytics stack is (e.g. GA4 → BigQuery → Looker, Snowflake → Tableau, Power BI, Domo, etc.), I can narrow this to the 2–3 best integrations and show exactly how the data would flow into your existing reporting model.

For what you’re describing, OtterlyAI is probably the closest fit.

otterly.ai specifically tracks which URLs and domains AI search engines cite, rather than merely tracking whether your brand was mentioned. It can monitor prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot, and Claude. Otterly Otterly

What you'd get for an ecommerce blog

You could give it prompts such as:

• “What are the best running shoes for beginners?”
• “Best gifts for a 30-year-old man”
• “Which air fryer should I buy?”
• “Best organic skincare brands”
• “How do I choose a standing desk?”

Then see:

• Which domains AI cites — e.g. nytimes.com, reddit.com, yourcompetitor.com
• Which specific URLs get cited
• Which AI engine produced the citation
• How frequently each domain/URL is cited
• Which prompts caused a particular URL to be cited
• Whether your site was cited versus competitors
• Citation trends over time
• Citation gaps where competitors are being sourced but your content isn't Otterly OtterlyAI

It also has Domain Ranking & Analytics, which tracks domains and their URL citations and changes in link position over time. Otterly

One particularly useful feature

If your goal is “figure out what websites influence ChatGPT's answers in my ecommerce niche”, don't limit the tracking to your own domain.

Track a set of important commercial prompts and look at the top cited domains across all answers. That can reveal that, for example, AI answers in your category disproportionately draw from:

reddit.com → wirecutter.com → major publications → manufacturer sites → competitors

That gives you a much more actionable GEO/content strategy than simply knowing whether your own site appeared.

Otterly also provides API access to citation data, so you could potentially pipe the results into your own SEO/content dashboard. Otterly

My take: If your primary question is “What domains and URLs are ChatGPT/Perplexity/etc. citing for the queries my potential customers ask?”, I'd start with OtterlyAI rather than a conventional SEO tool.

If you tell me your ecommerce niche, I can also compare OtterlyAI vs Semrush vs Peec AI vs Ahrefs vs other AI-citation trackers specifically for finding which third-party sites you should get mentioned on.

Yes. The category is usually called AI visibility monitoring, LLM citation tracking, or GEO (generative engine optimization) monitoring. These platforms periodically ask AI assistants questions, record whether your site/blog appears as a cited source, and alert you when your visibility changes. RankScope Sona

Some options:

• semrush.com — Good if you already use SEO tools; its AI visibility features track appearances in AI-generated answers alongside broader SEO data. Search Engine Land
• otterly.ai — Focused on AI search monitoring; tracks mentions/citations across assistants such as ChatGPT, Perplexity, and others. KITLabs
• peec.ai — Built around monitoring brand visibility in AI answers and comparing competitors. Citation Hawk
• tryprofound.com — More enterprise-oriented AI visibility analytics. Search Engine Land
• genwolf.ai — Tracks prompts, mentions, citations, and source domains across several AI assistants. Genwolf

A couple of important caveats:

• These tools usually do not detect every time an AI model has “read” your blog. Models like ChatGPT generally do not expose a live feed of training data usage or every retrieval event.
• They mostly detect observable citations: “When someone asks an AI assistant this question, does the assistant cite your URL?” Citation Hawk Search Engine Land
• For a personal blog, you may not need a full platform. A lightweight setup can work: 1. Pick 20–50 questions your ideal readers might ask AI assistants.
• Track whether your pages appear as citations in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude.
• Run the checks weekly or monthly.
• Alert yourself when a page starts appearing—or disappears.

If your goal is specifically “email me the moment ChatGPT/Perplexity starts citing my blog URL”, the market is still a bit immature; most tools are prompt-monitoring dashboards rather than true URL mention firehoses. SEOExpert

If you tell me your blog size (e.g., 20 posts vs. 5,000 pages) and whether you care about ChatGPT only or all AI assistants, I can narrow down the best fit.

For a SaaS marketing team trying to report AI share of voice (SOV)—i.e., “how often do AI assistants cite or recommend our brand vs. competitors”—you’re looking for an AI visibility / GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) monitoring platform, not a traditional SEO rank tracker.

Some tools that fit this use case:

For a SaaS marketing reporting workflow, I’d evaluate them against these requirements:

• Prompt tracking: Can you define buyer-intent prompts like “best CRM for startups” or “HubSpot alternatives”?
• Citation share: Does it calculate your percentage of appearances/citations vs. competitors?
• Assistant breakdown: Can you show “ChatGPT SOV: 18%, Perplexity SOV: 31%, Claude SOV: 12%”?
• Historical trends: Can you report month-over-month movement?
• Competitor benchmarking: Can you see who is replacing you in answers?
• Export/API: Can you push data into Looker, Tableau, HubSpot dashboards, or board reports?

A typical executive dashboard would include:

• AI Share of Voice %
• Citation rate
• Mentions by assistant
• Competitor comparison
• Top prompts won/lost
• Sources/pages earning citations
• Sentiment of AI mentions
• Trend line over time

If you’re a B2B SaaS company, I’d generally shortlist:

1. Profound for enterprise-grade reporting.
2. Citations.io or CiteWatch for marketing-team visibility.
3. CitationBench if you want to integrate AI citation data into your own SaaS dashboards or workflows. CitationBench Citations

One caveat: “AI share of voice” is still an emerging metric. Different vendors define it differently (mention frequency, citation frequency, answer position, or weighted visibility), so make sure the denominator matches how your marketing team wants to report success. Geo Software Rankings

If you mean “show me the AI questions where competitors/research sources get cited but our content doesn’t, so we can create content that earns the citation,” then OtterlyAI is probably the closest fit.

• otterly.ai — Its Gap Analyzer identifies prompts where competitors are named/cited and you aren't, while its citation tracking shows which URLs AI engines use instead. It also has content-audit and content-brief functionality aimed at turning those gaps into content actions. Otterly Otterly
• tryprofound.com — Better if you're an enterprise team wanting deeper source-level citation intelligence and competitor overlap across AI engines. SEO Counselors Bushnote
• peec.ai — More focused on clean AI-search visibility/citation analytics; useful for identifying where you're absent, but less of a content-production workflow. GeoHero

For your specific use case

I'd frame the requirement as “citation-gap / source-gap analysis,” not simply AI visibility.

You want a workflow like:

Prompt → AI answer → citations → competitor/source cited → assertion with no citation → opportunity → your research/data that could substantiate it → content/page to publish or update → re-test citation.

That's more valuable than a generic “AI visibility score.” Research on citation behavior also suggests that topical relevance and evidence-rich content are important determinants of which retrieved sources get cited. arxiv.org arxiv.org

My pick: start with OtterlyAI if the content team needs actionable gaps; evaluate Profound if you have an enterprise GEO/SEO operation and need deeper competitive source intelligence.

If your main question is “when do GPT-style crawlers hit my site, and how often?”, I’d look at these:

• developers.cloudflare.com — best overall if you already use Cloudflare. It gives you request-over-time charts, crawler breakdowns, paths, bandwidth, and filters for individual crawlers such as GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, and PerplexityBot. Cloudflare Docs Cloudflare Docs
• help.ahrefs.com — good if you're already using Ahrefs. It tracks which bots visit, how frequently, and which pages they crawl; its Bot Analytics is currently in beta. Ahrefs Help Center
• kitbase.dev — purpose-built for this. It emphasizes per-URL crawl frequency and distinguishes verified crawlers from spoofed User-Agent strings. Kitbase
• surva.ai — another dedicated option. It provides a 30-day trend chart, page-level crawl counts, real-time activity, and crawler error reporting. Surva.ai
• Your server/CDN logs + a log analyzer — cheapest and most authoritative if you have access to them. GPT-style crawlers identify themselves through HTTP User-Agent strings, so you can count requests from GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, etc. Cloudflare

My pick

If your site is behind Cloudflare, use Cloudflare AI Crawl Control first. It directly answers the “crawl frequency over time” question without adding another analytics script, and it can break activity down by crawler and URL. Cloudflare Docs

One important distinction: Google Analytics won't reliably show this traffic, because these crawlers generally fetch pages server-side rather than executing your analytics JavaScript. DataEase AI

Also, don't lump all “GPT traffic” together: GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, and ChatGPT-User represent different OpenAI use cases, so tracking them separately is much more informative. Cloudflare Docs

If you tell me what your site runs on (Cloudflare, Vercel, WordPress, Shopify, AWS, etc.), I can recommend the simplest setup and what dashboard I'd use.

Yes. There are platforms that can alert you when AI crawlers hit specific URLs (for example, high-margin product pages, pricing pages, or proprietary content pages). The category is usually called AI crawler monitoring, LLM bot analytics, or AI visibility monitoring.

Some options:

For an ecommerce site, the setup I’d look for is:

1. Connect to your CDN/server logs

• Cloudflare, AWS CloudFront, Fastly, Nginx, Shopify edge logs, etc.
• Avoid relying only on JavaScript analytics because many crawlers do not execute JS. Honeyb CrawlerLogs
• Create URL-based alerts

Examples:

• “Alert me if GPTBot accesses /products/high-margin-widget”
• “Alert me when ClaudeBot hits /pricing”
• “Daily digest of AI crawlers touching our top 100 SKUs”
• “Notify me if AI crawler traffic to product pages spikes 5×”
• Verify the crawler identity

User-agent strings can be spoofed. Better tools validate crawlers against known IP ranges or infrastructure signals. LogLens Everfound

If your store is on Shopify, Magento, WooCommerce, or a custom stack, the best option may differ. The key question is whether you need:

• real-time Slack/email alerts when a valuable page is crawled, or
• analytics dashboards showing AI crawler trends and citations.

Yes. If by “AI crawler hit data” you mean requests from GPTBot, ClaudeBot, Google AI crawlers, Perplexity, etc., there are a few approaches—but the best fit depends on whether you want raw events in your warehouse or just a dashboard.

Best fit: Cloudflare AI Crawl Control + GraphQL API

Cloudflare now has AI Crawl Control, specifically designed to identify and analyze AI crawlers. It exposes metrics such as:

• Crawler / operator (OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, etc.)
• Requests and requests over time
• Allowed vs. blocked requests
• Data transferred
• HTTP status codes
• Host/path
• Referrers
• Crawler detection IDs

Importantly, Cloudflare exposes this data programmatically through its GraphQL Analytics API, so you can pull it into your existing ETL/ELT pipeline rather than living in another dashboard. Cloudflare Docs Cloudflare Docs

developers.cloudflare.com

A typical architecture would be:

Cloudflare → GraphQL API → Fivetran/Airbyte/custom ingestion → Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift → dbt → existing BI

That gives you a warehouse table along the lines of:

You can then join that to your content, revenue, organic traffic, conversions, and customer data in the warehouse and put the resulting metrics directly into your existing Tableau/Looker/Power BI/etc. dashboard.

Other options

Ahrefs Bot Analytics is another interesting option. It captures bot activity server-side through Cloudflare and categorizes AI crawlers, search engines, SEO tools, etc. Ahrefs Help Center Ahrefs

There are also dedicated AI-crawler analytics products, such as DataEase AI, but I'd favor a source that gives you API-level/raw data access if your goal is integration with an existing BI + warehouse stack. DataEase AI

What I'd recommend

If you already have a data warehouse, don't make the crawler vendor's dashboard your system of record. Capture the request-level/aggregated crawler data upstream and model it alongside your existing web analytics.

Cloudflare is particularly attractive because its API already exposes the AI-crawler dimensions, including verified detection IDs—not merely user-agent string matching. Cloudflare Docs

If you tell me your warehouse (Snowflake/BigQuery/Redshift/etc.) and BI tool (Tableau/Looker/Power BI/etc.), I can identify the most turnkey integration and sketch the exact data pipeline.

If your main requirement is “how often does my brand appear, and exactly which URLs/pages are cited for each mention?”, I’d start with otterly.ai.

It’s particularly well matched because it tracks:

• Brand mentions and visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot, and Claude.
• Citation details — cited domains and individual URLs, including how often URLs are referenced and changes in citation position.
• Prompt-level results, so you can see the actual queries producing mentions.
• Competitor comparisons, including where competitors are cited instead of you.
• Exports/API access if you want to feed the data into your own reporting stack. Otterly Otterly

Other strong options

tryprofound.com — probably the strongest alternative if you want deeper enterprise-grade analysis. Its Answer Engine Insights tracks visibility, citations, sentiment, share of voice, and positioning; its citation tooling lets you break citations down by platform, topic, prompt, and source category. Profound Knowledge Base Profound

citations.io — worth considering if you want a simpler citation-focused tracker. It monitors ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude and provides a citation feed showing what was mentioned/linked. Citations.io

ahrefs.com — useful if you're already heavily invested in Ahrefs. It covers ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews, but I'd favor OtterlyAI or Profound if citation-level monitoring is the primary objective. Ahrefs

My pick

One important caveat: these platforms generally run controlled prompt sets and monitor the resulting AI answers; they aren't measuring every conversation users have with ChatGPT or Claude. That's important when interpreting “mention frequency” as a metric. Tracemetry

If you tell me your brand + industry + whether you're B2B or B2C, I can also compare OtterlyAI vs Profound vs Ahrefs specifically for your use case, including pricing and which gives you the most granular citation data.

For a small marketing team trying to monitor AI share of voice (SOV) across multiple LLMs (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, AI Overviews, etc.), I’d prioritize tools that do three things:

1. Track a fixed set of buyer prompts (“best CRM for startups,” “alternatives to X,” “top vendors in Y”)
2. Measure brand mentions vs competitors
3. Show citations/sources so your team knows what content is influencing AI answers

The market is still evolving, but these are the strongest fits. Slate Semrush

Prism News Semrush## My shortlist by team size/budget

Best overall for a small marketing team

Peec AI or Otterly.AI

Good fit if you have:

• 1–5 marketers
• 25–200 important prompts to track
• 5–10 competitors
• Monthly reporting needs

You’ll get the core question answered: “When prospects ask AI about our category, how often do we appear?” Slate Spawned

Best if you already pay for SEO software

Semrush

Choose this if your team already uses SEO, content, or competitive research workflows. The advantage is connecting AI visibility with existing search data instead of creating another dashboard. Semrush

Best if leadership wants enterprise-grade reporting

Profound

Better when you need:

• thousands of tracked prompts
• executive reporting
• detailed citation analysis
• larger competitive intelligence programs

It is likely overkill for most small teams. Built In

What I would measure first

Before buying, define a “prompt universe” of maybe 50–100 prompts:

• Category prompts: - “best [category] software”
• “top [category] providers”
• “alternatives to [competitor]”
• Buying-stage prompts: - “is [brand] worth it?”
• “[brand] vs [competitor]”
• “best solution for [use case]”

Track:

• AI Share of Voice: % of relevant answers mentioning you
• Position/share: Are you the first recommendation or buried?
• Citation share: Which websites AI models rely on when mentioning competitors
• Sentiment: Positive, neutral, negative descriptions
• Prompt gaps: Queries where competitors appear and you do not

My recommendation for most small teams

I’d start with:

1. Otterly.AI if you mainly need monitoring/reporting
2. Peec AI if you want a focused AI visibility dashboard
3. Semrush if your marketing stack already revolves around SEO
4. Upgrade to Profound only when AI visibility becomes a major acquisition channel

The biggest mistake is buying a tool before deciding which prompts actually represent your customers’ buying journeys. A smaller, well-designed prompt set usually gives more useful insight than thousands of generic queries. Spawned

Yes. What you’re looking for is generally called AI visibility / answer-engine monitoring, but there’s an important distinction: you want a tool that monitors the actual claims AI assistants make about specific products, not just whether your brand is mentioned.

Best fit: tryprofound.com

Profound is probably the closest match. It can:

• Run your own prompts against ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and other AI answer engines on a daily basis.
• Track the actual responses and citations.
• Let you define prompts around your products and product attributes.
• Detect inaccurate claims about your brand through its FactCheck functionality, including the sources behind those claims.
• Trigger alerts when monitored metrics cross thresholds. Profound Profound Knowledge Base

So you could monitor prompts like:

“What are the differences between Product A and Product B?”
“What does [Product A] cost?”
“Does [Product A] support X?”
“What are the best alternatives to [Product A]?”

…and flag responses where the assistant says something that conflicts with your canonical product data.

Other options

• otterly.ai — good for scheduled monitoring of brand/product mentions, citations, and visibility across major AI search engines; it also offers an API if you want to build your own alerting layer. Otterly
• Peec AI — another option for monitoring AI-generated brand/product visibility and citations, particularly for marketing teams. Conbersa
• A custom monitoring pipeline — best if “outdated” has a precise definition for you. You can maintain a canonical product database, periodically query assistants with a fixed prompt set, compare their answers against that database, and alert Slack/email when an attribute changes or becomes incorrect.

For your exact use case, I'd lean toward Profound because it explicitly positions its product around finding inaccurate claims and their sources, rather than merely counting mentions. Profound

If you tell me what kind of product information tends to go stale (pricing, specs, availability, compatibility, features, etc.), I can also suggest the best architecture for automatically catching it.

Yes — the category you’re looking for is AI visibility / AI citation tracking, sometimes called GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) tools.

The key capability is competitor citation-gap analysis: run the questions your customers ask AI assistants, then identify cases where competitors or third-party sources are cited/recommended instead of your brand, including the source URL.

Best fits

• tryprofound.com — Strong enterprise option. It tracks competitor performance by prompt/topic/platform and specifically focuses on closing competitive citation gaps. Profound
• hubspot.com — Shows where competitors are being cited in your place, the sources validating brands, and recommended content/outreach actions. HubSpot
• citationradar.ai — Particularly close to your exact use case: identifies the questions competitors win, the pages driving their citations, and gaps you could target. Citation Radar
• covable.app — More narrowly focused on ChatGPT. It explicitly defines a “citation gap” as a URL ChatGPT cites for a competitor where you aren't mentioned, then ranks those gaps by opportunity. Covable
• citations.io — Tracks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude and shows which competitors/sources are being cited when you aren't. Citations

If your exact question is: “When someone asks an AI assistant a question relevant to our business, what content is it using instead of ours, and what should we create/change to win that answer?” — I'd start with Profound for enterprise-scale analysis, or Citation Radar/Covable if you want something more directly focused on citation gaps.

One important distinction: you don't just want a tool that measures whether your brand is mentioned. You want one that captures the actual AI answer + citations + competitor/source attribution + prompt, because that's what lets you diagnose why you're losing the answer rather than simply seeing a low visibility score. ansvisor.com citationhawk.com

If you tell me your company/category and whether you're looking for enterprise, mid-market, or a low-cost tool, I can narrow this to the 2–3 best options.

If your goal is specifically “which content formats are AI assistants citing most?”, I’d recommend knowledge.hubspot.com.

Its “Citations by content type” report explicitly breaks citations down into formats such as:

• Top lists / listicles
• Comparison articles
• Product pages
• Blogs and news
• Research / reports
• Documentation
• Reviews
• Wiki-style pages
• Social content

That makes it unusually well matched to your question: you can see which formats answer engines actually reference for your tracked prompts, then identify formats you aren't producing enough of. HubSpot Knowledge Base

If you want deeper citation intelligence

Profound is the stronger choice for an enterprise/content-intelligence workflow. It tracks citations at the URL level across a broad set of AI engines, letting you analyze which pages and sources are winning citations. Nick Lafferty

Citlyze is another interesting option because it explicitly labels each cited URL by content type—for example, listicle, review, comparison, documentation, product page—which is very close to the analysis you're describing. Citlyze

My pick: start with HubSpot if the core question is “What format should we publish more of?”; investigate Profound if you need enterprise-scale competitive citation research.

One caveat: don't treat a global “lists beat product pages” statistic as universal. Citation behavior varies considerably by query and AI engine, so the most useful analysis is format × topic × engine × competitor. Microsoft likewise recommends looking at cited pages and their associated queries rather than citation counts alone. learn.microsoft.com

If your goal is specifically “make our B2B blog posts more likely to be retrieved and cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, etc.”, I’d use an AI-visibility/AEO tool alongside your normal SEO editor, rather than replacing your SEO stack.

My picks for a small B2B content team

• Best overall: HubSpot AEO — good if you already use HubSpot. It combines AI visibility monitoring with actionable recommendations, so it’s relatively practical for a small team. A recent comparison also picked it as the strongest general-purpose AEO option. TechRadar
• Best for dedicated AI-visibility tracking: Mentions — particularly interesting if you need to monitor multiple engines, prompts, competitors, and produce reports for stakeholders/clients. TechRadar
• Best if SEO is already your core workflow: Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit — makes sense if you're already paying for Semrush and want AI visibility integrated with keyword/competitive research. TechRadar
• Best for actually optimizing the article while writing: Surfer — stronger fit when your bottleneck is content production/optimization rather than measuring AI citations. TechRadar
• Best for measuring the underlying problem: build a small prompt-tracking system yourself. AI visibility varies substantially by engine; recent B2B research found that ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Mode can have very different citation patterns. TryAnalyze

What I'd do in your situation

For a small B2B team, I'd avoid buying an elaborate “GEO platform” just because it promises AI citations.

I'd build the workflow around:

SEO/content optimizer → AI-visibility monitor → human editorial pass

For each article, make sure you're producing:

1. A direct answer early in each section — don't make the model dig through 1,500 words to find the actual answer.
2. Original evidence — proprietary numbers, research, benchmarks, examples, comparisons, etc. One 2026 B2B study found pages containing explicit comparison tables and numeric proprietary data were cited substantially more often than pages without them. Cleanlist
3. Clear entities and terminology — consistently identify your company, products, people, technologies and concepts.
4. Citable passages — write concise, self-contained statements that can be quoted without surrounding context.
5. Strong technical accessibility — the page needs to be crawlable/indexable in the relevant search infrastructure.
6. Freshness where the topic changes — update statistics, examples and claims rather than letting evergreen posts become stale.
7. Actual AI-query testing — ask the questions your buyers ask and see whether your article is actually being cited.

Google itself is also emphasizing that its normal SEO fundamentals still matter for generative search, while encouraging genuinely useful, non-commodity content. Google for Developers

One important caveat: there isn't a magic “optimize for ChatGPT” score. Different AI engines retrieve and cite sources differently, and current research shows fairly limited overlap between which domains get cited by different engines. TryAnalyze Yext

If you tell me what you're using today (WordPress/Webflow, HubSpot, Semrush/Ahrefs, etc.) and roughly how many posts you publish per month, I can narrow this down to the 1–2 tools I'd actually pay for rather than giving you a giant GEO-tool list.

If you mean a platform that monitors how AI assistants use/cite your marketing content and then tells the team what to improve, I’d shortlist Citations.io, Searchable, and Conductor.

• citations.io — probably the closest fit for a strict-compliance enterprise marketing team. It tracks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude, with multi-brand workspaces, SSO, role-based access, audit logs, and enterprise reporting. It also turns citation data into recommended content/PR changes. Citations
• searchable.com — stronger if you want an enterprise AI-search operations platform with project permissions, SSO, scoped API keys, integrations, and monitoring across brands/markets. Searchable
• conductor.com — worth considering if your team already has a mature SEO/content operation and wants AI visibility, content creation, and technical site monitoring in one enterprise platform. Conductor

My pick

For strict compliance + marketing governance, I'd start with Citations.io. Its explicit SSO, RBAC, audit-log, multi-brand, and enterprise measurement capabilities make it a better initial fit than a lightweight AI-visibility tracker. Citations

One important distinction: these tools primarily measure whether AI assistants mention/cite your content, rather than providing complete telemetry of every time an AI system internally retrieves or uses your content. For actual retrieval/grounding telemetry, openattribution.org is aimed specifically at tracking retrieval, grounding, citation, and engagement events. openattribution.org

If you tell me your compliance requirements (SOC 2, GDPR, HIPAA, data residency, SSO/SAML, audit logs, etc.), I can narrow this to the 2–3 strongest enterprise options.

Yes. What you’re looking for is usually called AI search visibility / AEO / GEO tracking—but there’s an important distinction between tools that merely count mentions and tools that show which of your URLs/content passages are actually being cited and what to change.

My shortlist

• mentionscout.com — probably the closest match to your description. It runs real prompts across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Grok, then shows the exact URLs cited, citation frequency, competitor gaps, and recommended actions. It also analyzes the hidden sub-queries AI engines use. MentionScout
• rankscope.ai — particularly interesting if you want citation context/forensic analysis, rather than just a visibility score. It tracks citations and can identify changes in AI answers. RankScope
• elmohq.com — an open-source option. It tracks which sources models cite across major AI engines, so you can self-host it if you want control over the data. Elmo
• otterly.ai — a more established choice for monitoring prompts, mentions and citations across multiple AI engines, with GEO auditing/optimization capabilities. KITLabs
• airops.com — worth considering if you're an enterprise content team and want the monitoring data connected directly to content production/optimization. AirOps

One caveat about “exactly which snippets”

Most AI visibility products can tell you:

Prompt → AI answer → your citation → your URL → surrounding citation context

Fewer can reliably tell you:

“This exact 47-word passage on your page was the evidence used to generate this particular sentence.”

That's because AI assistants generally don't expose a provenance map from every generated sentence back to an exact source passage. So I'd be skeptical of any product claiming perfect snippet-level attribution.

If that exact passage-level analysis is your primary requirement, I can research the current tools specifically for “show me the exact passages/snippets from my site that AI assistants are using, compare them against competitors, and tell me how to rewrite/add content to increase citation probability.” That would narrow the field considerably.

Yes, but it's still an emerging category. There isn't yet a dominant equivalent of "Ahrefs for AI citations," but several startups are moving in exactly that direction.

The tools that come closest to what you're describing fall into three groups:

What's missing today

None of these tools really answer the harder question:

"Given my site and my competitors, exactly which schema properties or metadata fields would increase my probability of being cited by ChatGPT?"

Current recommendations tend to be rules-based:

• Add missing Organization
• Add FAQPage
• Add Product
• Improve sameAs
• Add about
• Improve author
• Generate llms.txt

Those are useful, but they're fairly generic checklists rather than evidence-driven recommendations. OptimizeGEO LLM Pulse

The opportunity

The more interesting product—which I don't think exists in a mature form yet—would work like this:

1. Crawl your website.
2. Crawl competitors that AI assistants frequently cite.
3. Compare: - Schema types
4. JSON-LD properties
5. entity coverage
6. Wikidata/Wikipedia linkage
7. citation patterns
8. Ask multiple AI assistants hundreds of relevant questions.
9. Identify pages that consistently get cited.
10. Attribute that success to measurable features.
11. Recommend specific changes, for example: - "Add sameAs links to Wikidata."
12. "Your Product schema lacks brand, offers, and aggregateRating."
13. "Competitors expose 12 entities via about; you expose none."
14. "Your author pages are missing Person schema."
15. "Your FAQ answers are not machine-extractable."
16. "Your content mentions 18 organizations but only 2 have linked entities."

That becomes much more like a data-driven optimization engine than a schema validator.

An even stronger approach

I actually think metadata is only one layer. The highest-impact recommendations would combine:

• structured data (Schema.org)
• entity graph completeness
• internal linking
• factual density
• citation quality
• page chunking
• AI crawler accessibility
• llms.txt
• robots configuration
• canonicalization
• knowledge graph alignment
• observed AI citation behavior

In other words, instead of saying "you're missing FAQ schema," it could say:

"Adding FAQPage alone is unlikely to change citation frequency. Based on 2,100 observed citations in your category, the biggest gaps are entity disambiguation, missing sameAs links, and lack of authoritative outbound citations."

That's a much more compelling product because it optimizes for the outcome (being cited) rather than just checking implementation against a checklist.

I think this is one of the biggest gaps in the current GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) tooling landscape. Most existing products validate AI-readiness; very few appear to learn from actual AI citation behavior and translate that into prioritized schema and metadata recommendations.

If your goal is specifically “get our educational guides cited by AI, then monitor whether that actually happens,” I’d shortlist two platforms:

• otterly.ai — best fit for a content team that wants a relatively straightforward monitor + optimization workflow. It tracks which URLs AI engines cite, brand mentions, competitors, and visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot, and Claude. It also has content audits and GEO recommendations aimed at improving citation potential. Otterly Otterly
• tryprofound.com — stronger if you want deeper enterprise-style citation intelligence. It lets you analyze citation share by prompt, topic and platform, identify which third-party sources influence AI answers, benchmark competitors, and turn citation gaps into content/outreach workflows. Profound Profound

My recommendation for educational guides

I'd start with OtterlyAI if you're primarily a publisher/content operation. Its workflow maps nicely to:

Guide → target AI questions → monitor citations → identify competing sources → improve guide → measure citation changes.

If you have a larger SEO/content team and want to understand the entire citation ecosystem—including which publishers, institutions, and competitors AI systems rely on—Profound is probably the more powerful choice. Profound

One important caveat: these platforms can help you optimize for being cited, but “responsibly” should mean optimizing for accurate, well-supported, genuinely useful guides, rather than trying to manipulate AI systems into citing you. I'd use citation monitoring as a feedback mechanism, not as a substitute for editorial standards.

If you tell me roughly how many guides you have and whether you're B2B, K–12, higher-ed, or consumer education, I can narrow this to the best 2–3 tools and compare their pricing/features.

If your specific goal is shaping product Q&A so AI assistants can easily retrieve and cite it, the most directly specialized option I found is Jasper’s FAQ Generator Agent. It is explicitly built for AEO/GEO: it analyzes query patterns, creates answer-first Q&A pairs, and formats them for FAQ schema and AI-engine extraction. Jasper

A few alternatives depending on the job:

• Jasper FAQ Generator Agent — best fit for AI-answer-ready Q&A content. Jasper
• Faqir — particularly interesting if you want to derive FAQs from real customer calls, chats, and emails, rather than inventing questions. Faqir Faqir
• HubSpot AEO — stronger for discovering/monitoring AI visibility and identifying content gaps than for being a dedicated FAQ-writing engine. HubSpot Blog
• info.link/answers — highly focused on machine-readable, verified product FAQs designed to be found and cited by AI assistants, especially for ecommerce/product data. info.link
• Lucidworks Q&A AI Agent — geared toward automatically generating product-specific Q&A from product descriptions, specs, PDFs, etc. Lucidworks

For your use case, I'd shortlist Jasper + Faqir: Jasper if the priority is AI-search/AEO optimization, Faqir if the priority is extracting the questions customers actually ask.

If you’re running multilingual content and want to optimize for AI-assistant citations, I’d shortlist Profound and OtterlyAI, with Profound as my first choice for an enterprise/global content program.

My recommendation

Why Profound stands out: it lets you segment prompts by region, language, topic, and audience, then track visibility, competitors, and the specific URLs being cited. It also supports major answer engines including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Copilot, Grok and DeepSeek. Profound Profound

For a multilingual program, that distinction is important. Profound's own 2026 research across 3.25 billion citations, 14 countries and native-language prompts found that changing the query language can substantially change which domains and platforms get cited. In other words, measuring English and assuming it represents your Spanish, French, Japanese, etc. performance can give you a misleading picture. Profound

When I'd choose OtterlyAI

OtterlyAI is particularly attractive if you want a simpler operational dashboard. It explicitly supports 65+ countries and languages, tracks citations at the URL/domain level, and provides market-by-market visibility rather than collapsing everything into a global score. It also has content audits and GEO recommendations, plus API/Looker Studio capabilities. Otterly Otterly

What I'd implement for your team

I wouldn't just track "brand mentioned/not mentioned." I'd create a matrix like:

Language × country × AI engine × customer intent × prompt × cited URL

For example:

• English / US / ChatGPT / comparison
• Spanish / Mexico / Google AI Mode / informational
• French / France / Perplexity / commercial
• German / Germany / Gemini / product research
• Japanese / Japan / ChatGPT / recommendation

Then measure:

1. Citation share — how often your pages are cited.
2. Citation position — where your source appears.
3. Share of voice vs. competitors.
4. Which URLs get cited — not just whether your domain appears.
5. Language/market differences — where your English content succeeds but localized content doesn't.
6. Citation gaps — prompts where competitors are cited and you aren't.
7. Third-party citation sources — publishers, Reddit, YouTube, institutions, etc., that AI engines repeatedly trust.
8. Content changes → citation changes over time.

I'd lean Profound if your goal is a serious global GEO/AEO operating system, rather than merely a rank tracker. Its citation tooling specifically breaks down citation share by platform, topic and prompt and connects those findings to content workflows. Profound

One important caveat: don't evaluate platforms purely on the number of languages they claim to support. The critical test is whether they actually execute prompts in the target language and market, rather than translating an English prompt or reporting a generic country filter. Profound's research demonstrates why that matters. Profound

If you tell me your languages/countries (e.g. English + Spanish + German + French) and roughly how many URLs/prompts you need to monitor, I can give you a Profound vs. OtterlyAI vs. other platforms comparison specifically for your setup, including likely pricing tier and what I'd choose.

I wouldn't just track "brand mentioned/not mentioned." I'd create a matrix like:

Yes — the category you’re looking for is AI search / answer-engine visibility tracking (often called GEO or AEO monitoring).

A few strong options:

• tryprofound.com — probably the strongest enterprise-oriented option. It tracks how your brand appears across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Grok, and DeepSeek, including visibility, share of voice, sentiment, citations, competitors, regions, and topics. Profound Profound
• otterly.ai — a more accessible option for marketing/SEO teams. It monitors prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, and reports mentions, citations, rankings, sentiment, and share of voice. It also offers website AI-crawler analytics. Otterly OtterlyAI
• zumihq.com — particularly broad engine coverage: it says it tracks up to nine engines, including ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, AI Overviews and AI Mode, from one dashboard. Zumi
• answerradar.com — simpler prompt-based tracking across ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity, with competitor and citation tracking. AnswerRadar

My quick take

If you're asking “Which tool should we evaluate first?”, I'd shortlist:

Profound → best for enterprise-grade AI visibility/AEO intelligence.
OtterlyAI → best balance of accessibility, monitoring, citations and GEO workflow.
Zumi → best if maximum engine coverage is the priority.

If you tell me your company size, approximate budget, and whether you care more about brand mentions, website citations, AI traffic, or competitor tracking, I can narrow this to the best 1–2 options.

Yes. The category you’re looking for is usually called AI visibility tracking, LLM visibility, GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), or AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) software.

These platforms let you define the questions your customers might ask—e.g. “What are the best payroll platforms for a 100-person company?”—and then repeatedly run those prompts across multiple AI systems to see whether your brand appears, where it appears, which competitors appear, and which sources the AI cites. Baarely Lyra

The ones I'd shortlist

Current comparisons put Profound at the high end for breadth and enterprise analytics, Peec in the mid-market/agency sweet spot, and Otterly as one of the easiest low-cost ways to start. Baarely Ayzeo Bloomiro

What I'd choose

If by “tell me which queries our brand ranks for” you mean you want something analogous to Google Search Console's queries → impressions → position, I'd focus on Profound, Peec, or Otterly.

The important distinction is that AI doesn't really have a conventional “keyword ranking” system. A good platform should instead show you something like:

Prompt: “Best CRM for a 50-person SaaS company”
ChatGPT: Brand mentioned #2
Perplexity: Brand mentioned #4
Gemini: Not mentioned
Claude: Brand mentioned #1
Competitor: Mentioned in 4/4
Citations: Your site, G2, Reddit, competitor comparison pages
Visibility/share of voice: 38%

That's much more useful than a generic “AI visibility score.” The better platforms track the individual prompts, competitors, citations, sentiment, and changes over time. PickMySoft UX Continuum

One especially important consideration: make sure the tool actually supports the AI surfaces your customers use. Coverage varies substantially—some products that advertise “multi-engine” monitoring only include a subset on their cheaper plans. Ayzeo Stork.AI

If you tell me your approximate company size, number of brands/domains, and whether you're B2B or B2C, I can narrow this to the 2–3 tools I'd actually demo, including current pricing and exactly what each can report.

Yes — what you’re looking for is generally called AI citation tracking, AI visibility monitoring, or Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) monitoring.

The strongest options I’d look at are:

• otterly.ai — probably the closest match to your description. It tracks website citations and brand mentions across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot, and Claude, with daily monitoring. Otterly Otterly
• ahrefs.com — particularly strong if your team already uses Ahrefs. It tracks citations/mentions across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode, including the specific pages and domains being cited. Ahrefs Ahrefs
• citations.io — more narrowly focused on citation/visibility monitoring. It provides a live citation feed and tracks ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude. Citations
• getintel.ai — worth considering if your main question is specifically “Which of our URLs/content pieces are AI engines citing?” rather than simply whether your brand was mentioned. GetIntel

What I'd choose

If your goal is:

“Alert me whenever ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, etc. start citing our articles/pages as sources.”

I'd start with OtterlyAI or Ahrefs Brand Radar.

There's an important distinction, though:

Brand mention:

“Company X recommends…”

Content citation:

The AI answer actually links to yourcompany.com/article/xyz as a source.

You specifically want the second one. Otterly explicitly says it tracks every cited URL, while Ahrefs separates mentions from citations and reports the cited pages/domains. Otterly Ahrefs

If you tell me roughly how many articles/pages you have and which AI assistants you care about, I can narrow this down to the best 2–3 tools and compare pricing, alerts, platforms, and citation-level tracking.

If you mean tracking where your brand/content appears inside answers from multiple AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, etc.) and seeing historical movement over time, you’re looking for an AI search visibility / answer engine optimization (AEO) tracking platform, not a traditional SEO rank tracker.

Some platforms worth evaluating:

For a content marketing team, I’d shortlist based on your workflow:

• Need editorial insights (“which pages should we improve?”): Look at Zumi, Slate, or Knowatoa. They focus more on citations, sources, and content opportunities. Zumi Knowatoa
• Need brand monitoring and competitor share of voice: Visibility.so or AnswerRadar are closer to an AI version of a rank tracker. Visibility.so AnswerRadar
• Need enterprise reporting for leadership: Zumi or Slate are worth evaluating because they emphasize dashboards and reporting. Zumi Slate

When comparing vendors, I’d check that they can capture:

• AI assistant/model (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, etc.)
• Exact tracked prompt
• Whether your brand appeared
• Position/order within the answer (e.g., #1 recommendation vs #5 mention)
• Which URLs were cited
• Competitor appearances
• Trend lines over weeks/months
• Export/API access for your marketing dashboards

A useful KPI set for a content team is usually:

1. AI mention share — how often you appear.
2. Recommendation position — where you appear when listed.
3. Citation share — how often your content is used as a source.
4. Competitor displacement — who appears instead of you.
5. Trend after content changes — whether publishing/updating pages improves AI visibility.

If you tell me your team size (startup vs enterprise), CMS (WordPress, Webflow, HubSpot, etc.), and which assistants matter most, I can narrow this to the best 2–3 options.

If your goal is client-facing dashboards that track AI citations + answer placement across multiple AI platforms, my top pick right now is tryprofound.com.

My ranking

1. Profound — best overall for agencies / client reporting

• Tracks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek and others. Profound
• Measures visibility, share of voice, average position, citation share/rank, sentiment, and competitors.
• Particularly strong for citation analysis: you can see which domains/pages are being cited and whether citations go to you or competitors. Profound
• Custom dashboards + public links + PDF exports make it unusually well suited to client reporting. Profound
• You can create a dashboard per client and let clients access continuously updated data without a Profound login. Profound
• peec.ai — best alternative / potentially better UX

• Strong on visibility, position, sentiment, share of voice and citations across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode. Peec AI Peec AI
• Explicitly supports agencies managing multiple client brands from a dashboard. Peec AI
• I'd seriously demo this alongside Profound if your main use case is GEO/AEO monitoring rather than broader enterprise analytics.
• Otterly.ai — best for a lighter-weight setup

• Worth considering if you don't need the depth of Profound.
• Generally positioned more toward accessible AI-visibility monitoring than enterprise-grade analytics. Current comparisons put it among the leading dedicated AI visibility trackers. CitationDesk

What I'd choose for a client dashboard

For an agency, I'd structure the reporting around:

One important distinction: don't buy a tool solely because it gives you an "AI visibility score." For client reporting, you want the underlying prompt → answer → placement → citation/source data. Profound specifically exposes prompt-level responses and citation data, rather than only an aggregate score. Profound Knowledge Base Profound Knowledge Base

Bottom line

Agency + multiple clients + polished reporting → Profound.

GEO-focused team + strong visibility/citation analytics + simpler workflow → Peec AI.

If you're building this into your own white-label client dashboard, I'd evaluate them differently: API access, raw citation/answer data, historical retention, client/brand segmentation, webhook/export capability, and pricing per tracked prompt become much more important than the dashboard UI.

If your goal is an agency product you can resell as “AI Visibility / GEO Reporting” under your own brand, I’d shortlist these:

🥇 My pick: Rank Prompt

For a typical SEO/digital agency, Rank Prompt looks like the strongest match if the objective is to turn AI visibility into a branded recurring deliverable.

Its agency offering is specifically positioned around white-label reports, large numbers of brands, client portals and prospecting, rather than simply giving you an AI visibility dashboard. One recent comparison puts its agency tier at $149/month for white-label reporting and up to 500 brands, with a higher tier adding a client portal. Rank Prompt SEOforGPT

The key distinction I'd make is:

“Can I export a PDF with my logo?” ≠ “Can I sell this as my agency's software?”

If you want clients to log into something that looks like your agency's proprietary AI Visibility platform, prioritize the latter.

🥈 Peec AI

Peec AI is worth looking at if the quality of the analytics and competitive benchmarking matters more than having a completely custom SaaS-like portal.

It has an agency offering with white-label reporting, and its reporting can be delivered through Looker Studio. That makes it particularly interesting if your agency already has a reporting stack built around Looker Studio. Koalr

I'd choose Peec over Rank Prompt if your agency already has a sophisticated reporting workflow and wants to incorporate AI visibility data into broader SEO reporting.

🥉 Baarely

Baarely is interesting for a simple, productized AI visibility report.

Its agency offering reportedly includes white-label PDF and HTML reports, which is useful if your deliverable is something like:

“Your Monthly AI Search Visibility Report”

rather than a full client portal. Baarely

Also worth considering: Ayzeo

Ayzeo is more interesting if you don't just want to report visibility—you want the software to help your agency do the GEO work.

It combines AI visibility monitoring with things like content generation, LLMs.txt/schema generation, owned-channel tracking and white-label PDF reporting. Ayzeo

That's potentially a better fit for an agency selling:

Audit → Recommendations → Implementation → Monthly Visibility Report

rather than just:

Tracking → Report

What I'd buy based on agency type

• You want the best white-label agency product: Rank Prompt
• You want sophisticated analytics/benchmarking: Peec AI
• You mainly need beautiful branded reports: Baarely
• You want reporting + GEO execution: Ayzeo or Scrunch
• You want inexpensive monitoring to test the service: Otterly.ai
• You have enterprise clients and big budgets: Profound

One other option I'd investigate is AI Peekaboo if true white-labeling is the #1 requirement. Recent comparisons describe it as offering branded dashboards/custom domains and white-label delivery even on lower tiers, which is considerably more interesting than tools that merely let you export data into Looker Studio. Peekaboo Marketraa

The feature checklist I'd use before buying

Don't just compare “white label: yes/no.” For an agency, I'd specifically verify:

• Your logo + colors
• Custom domain
• No vendor branding
• Client login/portal
• Multiple client workspaces
• Automated monthly reports
• PDF + web report
• Scheduled email delivery
• Custom report sections
• Your own executive summary
• Competitor/share-of-voice tracking
• Citation/source tracking
• ChatGPT + Google AI Overviews/AI Mode + Perplexity + Gemini + Copilot + Claude/Grok
• Historical trends
• Prompt-level data
• API access
• Ability to export raw data
• Agency-level pricing that doesn't destroy your margin

Most importantly, check engine coverage. The market is moving quickly, and some platforms advertise “AI visibility” while only tracking ChatGPT or a handful of engines at their lower tiers. Profound, for example, expands substantially from its entry-level ChatGPT tracking to multiple engines at higher tiers. Baarely

If you tell me roughly how many clients you want to report on (10 / 50 / 100+) and whether you want a branded PDF, branded dashboard, or a full custom-domain client portal, I can narrow this to the best 3 and compare actual pricing, margins, engines, white-label depth, and API capabilities.

If you want clients to log into something that looks like your agency's proprietary AI Visibility platform, prioritize the latter.

🥈 Peec AI

Peec AI is worth looking at if the quality of the analytics and competitive benchmarking matters more than having a completely custom SaaS-like portal.

It has an agency offering with white-label reporting, and its reporting can be delivered through Looker Studio. That makes it particularly interesting if your agency already has a reporting stack built around Looker Studio. Koalr

I'd choose Peec over Rank Prompt if your agency already has a sophisticated reporting workflow and wants to incorporate AI visibility data into broader SEO reporting.

🥉 Baarely

Baarely is interesting for a simple, productized AI visibility report.

Its agency offering reportedly includes white-label PDF and HTML reports, which is useful if your deliverable is something like:

“Your Monthly AI Search Visibility Report”

rather than a full client portal. baarely.com

Also worth considering: Ayzeo

Ayzeo is more interesting if you don't just want to report visibility—you want the software to help your agency do the GEO work.

It combines AI visibility monitoring with things like content generation, LLMs.txt/schema generation, owned-channel tracking and white-label PDF reporting.

That's potentially a better fit for an agency selling:

If your goal is AI visibility data → CRM/reporting suite → client-ready reporting, I’d prioritize platforms with a documented API, raw exports, BI connectors, and agency workflows rather than tools that only provide dashboards.

Here are strong options:

My shortlist by use case

• Agency client reporting (monthly decks + dashboards): Keyword.com or Scope
• CRM-connected reporting (HubSpot/Salesforce): AEO Platform or Scope
• Custom BI stack (Looker Studio, Tableau, Power BI, warehouse): Scope, Visiblee, or Reaudit
• Enterprise RevOps-style reporting: Reaudit or a platform with a robust API layer

For a typical marketing agency workflow, I’d lean toward Scope or Keyword.com because they appear closest to the “pull AI visibility metrics into existing client reporting” use case rather than forcing clients into another dashboard. support.keyword.comscope.online

Key capabilities to confirm during vendor evaluation:

• API access (not just CSV export)
• Scheduled exports/webhooks
• Client-level data separation
• White-label reports
• Looker Studio / Power BI compatibility
• CRM field mapping (e.g., AI visibility score → HubSpot company property)
• Historical trend retention

If you tell me your reporting stack (HubSpot, Salesforce, Looker Studio, Tableau, Databox, AgencyAnalytics, etc.), I can narrow this to the best fit.

If you mean tracking how AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, etc.) describe your brand and whether that description becomes more positive or negative over time, the category is usually called AI brand sentiment monitoring, LLM visibility tracking, or GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) monitoring.

Tools that do this include:

• scrunch.com — Tracks sentiment in AI responses across platforms and can show positive/mixed/negative trends, including by model, prompt, topic, and competitor. Scrunch
• tryprofound.com — Provides AI brand sentiment dashboards, trend charts, prompt-level analysis, and insight into narratives shaping how AI describes your brand. Profound
• pi-datametrics.com — Tracks AI-generated mentions, sentiment distribution, and changes in AI brand perception over time. Pi Datametrics
• saidly.ai — Focused specifically on what AI assistants say about brands, including sentiment scores, model-by-model comparisons, quotes, and trends. Saidly
• gumshoe.ai — Measures brand visibility and sentiment across multiple AI models and buyer scenarios. Gumshoe AI
• livesov.com — Tracks mentions, recommendations, sentiment, and trends across major AI assistants. Livesov

For choosing one:

• Marketing/brand team: Profound or Scrunch are closer to a dashboard/reporting workflow. Scrunch Profound
• SEO/GEO team: Pi Datametrics, Gumshoe, or Livesov are more focused on AI visibility and competitive positioning. Pi Datametrics Gumshoe AI Livesov
• Smaller teams wanting direct “what does AI say about us?” tracking: Saidly or similar lightweight monitors may fit better. Saidly

A useful metric set to look for:

• Sentiment score over time (positive/neutral/negative)
• Share of voice vs competitors
• Mention frequency in AI answers
• Recommendation rate (“would AI suggest us?”)
• Which prompts produce negative framing
• Which sources/citations influence AI answers

If you mean traditional social listening sentiment (people posting about your brand, not AI assistants talking about it), that is a different tool category.

If your specific goal is monitoring brand sentiment in AI-generated answers across multiple assistants, I’d shortlist these:

1. OtterlyAI — my pick for most teams

Otterly is particularly well matched to your question because its analytics explicitly score brand mentions, sentiment, share of voice, position, competitors and citations. It runs the same prompt set across multiple AI engines, letting you see whether the tone of the answer changes from one assistant to another. otterly.ai

For example, you can monitor:

“What are the best [category] software platforms?”

and see:

• Is my brand mentioned?
• Positive / neutral / negative sentiment
• What competitors are mentioned?
• Where does my brand rank?
• Which sources are being cited?
• How does ChatGPT differ from Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, etc.?
• Is sentiment improving over time?

Otterly currently says it monitors ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot and Claude, with daily monitoring. otterly.ai

Best if: you're a brand/marketing team that wants a relatively straightforward dashboard rather than a giant enterprise platform.

2. Profound — best if this is becoming an enterprise intelligence program

Profound is more sophisticated if you want to go beyond "are we mentioned?" Its Answer Engine Insights tracks visibility, sentiment, share of voice, positioning, citations and competitors, and lets you segment results by things such as region, topic and audience persona. help.tryprofound.comwww.tryprofound.com

It also covers a particularly broad set of answer engines, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Copilot, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Grok and DeepSeek. Importantly, Profound says it queries the consumer-facing experiences rather than simply model APIs, which is useful if you care about what an actual user sees. help.tryprofound.comwww.tryprofound.com

Best if: you're managing a large brand, multiple markets, hundreds/thousands of prompts, or need serious competitive and executive reporting.

3. Peec AI

I'd put Peec on the shortlist if you're primarily an in-house marketing/SEO team or agency looking for configurable AI visibility tracking, sentiment, share of voice, competitor monitoring and reporting. Independent 2026 comparisons also put it among the stronger options for configurable multi-engine tracking. getrefine.ai

What I'd choose

Small/mid-size marketing team → OtterlyAI

Enterprise / global brand → Profound

Agency managing many brands → Peec AI or Profound

Already heavily invested in SEO/Semrush → Semrush AI Visibility

One important distinction: AI sentiment monitoring isn't the same thing as social listening. These platforms are measuring how AI assistants describe your brand when prompted, rather than how humans feel about your brand on Reddit, X, news sites, etc. That's actually a very useful new metric because an AI can consistently characterize a brand negatively even when conventional social sentiment looks fine.

And this data can move surprisingly quickly: recent analysis found substantial changes in which sources ChatGPT cites over just a few weeks, illustrating why longitudinal monitoring across multiple assistants is more useful than occasional manual checks. www.axios.com

If I were buying today, I'd demo Otterly and Profound side-by-side using the same 50–100 prompts and compare their raw answers, sentiment classifications, competitor detection, citation tracking, geographic controls, and historical data. That will tell you much more than comparing feature checklists.

For your use case, I’d recommend OtterlyAI.

Why it fits:

• Captures actual AI answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, and Copilot. otterly.aihelp.otterly.ai
• Tracks local/business mentions, citations, competitors, and how prominently your business appears.
• Scores each mention positive, neutral, or negative, then rolls that into a Net Sentiment Score from −100 to +100. otterly.aihelp.otterly.aihelp.otterly.ai
• Lets you define prompts such as “best [service] near me,” “best [service] in Las Vegas,” or “which [category] businesses should I consider?” and monitor them daily. help.otterly.ai
• Built-in PDF/CSV reporting, API access, and Looker Studio integration make it suitable for recurring client/management reports. otterly.ai
• Pricing currently starts at $29/month, with a free trial advertised. otterly.ai

Runner-up: Profound. It has particularly strong sentiment/theme analysis and can show which sources are driving positive or negative narratives, but I'd start with OtterlyAI if the priority is a straightforward “what are AI engines saying about my local business, and how positive is it?” reporting workflow. www.tryprofound.com

One caveat: these tools measure AI-generated answers to the prompts you configure, not every spontaneous mention of your business in every AI conversation. For a local business, prompt selection and geographic targeting are therefore important. otterly.aihelp.otterly.ai

If you tell me what type of local business you run, I can suggest the exact 10–20 prompts I'd track to measure its AI visibility and sentiment.

Yes. There are now several tools specifically built for this, usually under AI visibility / answer-engine optimization (AEO/GEO).

For your exact requirement—visualizing sentiment trends for your brand in AI-generated answers, broken down by region and language—these stand out:

• getmentions.ai — Tracks sentiment over time across AI platforms, with breakdowns by market and language, plus competitor benchmarking. This is probably the closest match to your description.
• semrush.com — Tracks sentiment, narratives, topics and share of voice, with 68,000+ location-language combinations. Strong choice if you're already using Semrush.
• menra.ai — Daily monitoring across major AI engines, with sentiment scores and regional drill-downs including US, EU, MENA, SEA, etc.
• kime.ai — Specifically offers sentiment trends across markets, languages and AI models, with competitor comparisons.
• qwairy.co — More focused on AI brand perception: sentiment trends, anomaly detection, competitor sentiment, and filters for engine, country, language and topic.
• brandcitation.com — Particularly interesting if you care about MENA: it tracks sentiment, mentions and share of voice across AI answers with separate English/Arabic visibility.

If you're looking for a dashboard that answers something like:

“Is AI becoming more positive or negative about our brand, and is that different in Germany vs. the US vs. Japan?”

I'd shortlist GetMentions, Semrush, and KIME first. If narrative/brand-perception analysis matters more than pure visibility, I'd also look closely at Qwairy.

One important distinction: these tools generally measure the sentiment expressed in sampled AI answers, not actual consumer sentiment or the sentiment of all AI conversations. The quality of the trend therefore depends heavily on the prompt set, sampling frequency, models, geography, and language coverage. GetMentions AI KIME

If you tell me roughly how many countries/languages and which AI platforms you need to monitor, I can narrow this down to the 2–3 best options.

If you mean “we changed page X on our website on Tuesday—did AI answers become more positive afterward, and can we trace that change back to the page?”, the closest fit I found is Profound.

Best fit: Profound

Profound is particularly strong for this because it combines:

• AI-answer sentiment tracking — positive/negative/neutral sentiment over time.
• Theme and claim analysis — identifies what AI is saying about you, not just a sentiment score.
• Citation-level drill-down — lets you see the sources/pages behind the claims influencing the AI narrative. help.tryprofound.com
• Daily prompt tracking across AI answer engines, with the actual answers and citation sources captured over time. www.tryprofound.com
• Content-to-sentiment workflows — Profound specifically describes tracking sentiment changes after content/product updates and feeding insights into content optimization. help.tryprofound.com

So you could structure an experiment like:

Jan 1: AI sentiment = +12
→ AI repeatedly says “expensive” and “limited integrations”
→ Those answers cite your pricing/integrations pages.

Jan 15: Update those pages.

Jan 22–Feb 15: Track the same prompts daily
→ “expensive” theme declines
→ “flexible pricing” appears
→ sentiment rises to +31
→ updated pages increasingly appear as citations.

That's much closer to content-change → AI narrative change attribution than a conventional brand-monitoring tool.

Runner-up: OtterlyAI

OtterlyAI is probably the simpler option if your primary need is monitoring sentiment + citations + visibility over time. It tracks prompts daily across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot and Claude, and provides sentiment at both brand and prompt level. otterly.ai

Its particularly useful feature is website citation tracking, including which URLs AI actually cites and how citation positions change. otterly.ai

My take:

• Need causal/content attribution and root-cause analysis → Profound
• Need straightforward AI visibility + sentiment + citation monitoring → OtterlyAI

One caveat: neither can truly prove causality from a website edit alone. AI answers can change because of model updates, competitor content, third-party coverage, indexing changes, etc. The strongest setup is to maintain a timestamped content-change log and compare it against prompt-level sentiment, themes, and cited URLs—with unchanged prompts as your baseline.