Neutral mentions of Peec AI

If you mean tools that monitor how AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, etc.) cite your website and tell you how to improve visibility, the category is usually called AI visibility tracking, GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), or AEO (Answer Engine Optimization).

Some of the stronger options:

What I would look for in a platform

A useful platform should not just say "your brand was mentioned." It should show:

• Which prompts triggered your appearance - Example: "best CRM for startups"
• Example: "alternatives to Salesforce"
• Which AI assistants cited you - ChatGPT
• Claude
• Gemini
• Perplexity
• Google AI Overviews
• Which URLs were cited - Homepage vs product pages vs blog articles vs documentation
• Who beats you - Competitors being cited instead
• Why you lost - Missing comparison pages
• Weak topical authority
• Poor structured data
• Lack of third-party mentions
• Content not formatted for answer extraction

Improving AI citation likelihood usually involves

• Creating pages that directly answer buyer questions ("X vs Y", "best tools for...", "how to...")
• Adding structured data/schema where appropriate
• Making facts easy to extract (clear headings, definitions, tables, FAQs)
• Building authoritative third-party references and mentions
• Keeping product/company information consistent across the web
• Strengthening internal linking and topical coverage

For most companies, I’d shortlist:

• Ahrefs Brand Radar / AI Visibility if you already invest in SEO. Ahrefs
• Profound for enterprise-scale monitoring.
• Citations.io or Scrunch AI if your main goal is specifically "who cites us and how do we get cited more." Citations

A caveat: none of these tools can literally "crawl ChatGPT's private training data" or see every answer ever generated. They generally work by running controlled prompts against AI systems, collecting responses/citations, and measuring visibility over time. Ahrefs mentionhq.com

Yes. What you’re looking for is generally called AI search visibility / AEO / GEO software: it repeatedly runs relevant prompts against AI assistants, records whether your brand/site appears, and—more importantly—tracks which URLs AI systems cite instead of yours.

My top picks

1. otterly.ai — best fit for what you described

• Tracks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and Claude. Otterly Otterly
• Shows the specific URLs cited, citation position, competitors being cited, brand mentions, and share of voice. Otterly
• Has crawlability checks and content audits to identify why pages aren't being surfaced/cited.
• Its recommendations specifically identify content gaps, third-party pages worth pursuing, Reddit/community opportunities, and authority/PR opportunities. Otterly
• It also has an API and MCP, which is useful if you want to pipe the data into your own reporting or have an AI assistant analyze it. Otterly

otterly.ai

2. tryprofound.com — best for larger enterprise teams

• Tracks AI visibility, citations, share of voice, sentiment, positioning and competitors. Profound Knowledge Base
• Its citation analysis identifies which sources AI pulls from, how often competitors are cited, and which publishers/authors are driving citations. Profound
• Particularly interesting if you have a sizable SEO/content/PR team that wants to turn AI citation data into an outreach and content strategy.
• CitationDesk — worth testing as a lightweight/free option. Its own comparison identifies Profound, Otterly, AthenaHQ, Peec AI, Scrunch AI, Rankscale and others as major players. CitationDesk

What I'd choose

If your question is specifically:

"Show me where ChatGPT/Perplexity/Gemini/etc. are citing my competitors, where they're citing my site, and tell me what I should change to get cited more."

I'd start with OtterlyAI.

The particularly valuable workflow is:

Customer prompts → AI answers → citations → competitor citation gaps → content/technical fixes → re-run prompts → measure citation growth.

That's much more useful than simply checking whether ChatGPT mentions your brand.

One caveat: AI visibility is volatile. For example, recent analysis showed substantial changes in which domains ChatGPT cites, so I'd treat these tools as ongoing monitoring, not a one-time SEO audit. Axios

If you tell me your site/domain and industry, I can also compare Otterly vs Profound vs Semrush/Ahrefs vs the newer AI-visibility platforms specifically for your use case and tell you which one I'd buy.

Yes — and there’s an important distinction between “which prompts make my content get cited?” and “which prompts are people actually typing into AI?”

For a solo SEO freelancer, the tool that most closely matches what you’re describing right now is Profound.

The closest match: Profound

Profound has a feature called Prompt Volumes that uses a dataset of real user conversations from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity. More importantly for your question, it says you can:

search a specific URL and see the prompts associated with that page being cited.

So, for example, if your client's page is:

client.com/best-project-management-software

you can potentially see prompts along the lines of:

• “What is the best project management software for a 10-person agency?”
• “What tools are good for managing remote marketing teams?”
• “Monday vs Asana for a small business?”
• etc.

Profound explicitly describes these as sample real-user prompts that caused an AI answer engine to cite a specific page. www.tryprofound.comhelp.tryprofound.com

That's substantially more useful than simply asking ChatGPT 50 synthetic questions yourself.

There are actually 3 different datasets you might want

Profound also lets you run your own controlled prompts daily and captures the resulting AI answers, citations, visibility and rankings. www.tryprofound.com

See Profound's Prompt Volumes overview

One caveat

I wouldn't interpret this as “here are the exact prompts that caused ChatGPT to cite this page every single time.”

AI search isn't deterministic. The same prompt can produce different answers, and the underlying models don't expose their complete internal query/citation logic. Profound itself distinguishes between its real-user prompt dataset and the prompts it runs for monitoring. www.tryprofound.com

So I'd think of the output as:

“Here are the real prompts associated with AI citations of this URL, plus evidence of how often/where the page is appearing.”

That's extremely valuable for SEO.

For a solo freelancer, I'd be especially interested in this workflow

1. Put client's domain into an AI visibility tool.
2. Identify their important URLs.
3. Find the real prompts associated with citations to those URLs.
4. Find high-volume prompts where competitors are cited but your client isn't.
5. Turn those prompts into content briefs / on-page optimization opportunities.
6. Track the same prompts over time.

That gets you much closer to GEO/AEO keyword research based on actual AI behavior, rather than the current common approach of inventing 100 prompts and seeing whether ChatGPT mentions your client.

And this is becoming a meaningful distinction: traditional SEO keyword data doesn't necessarily tell you how people phrase questions to AI, which can be considerably longer and more conversational. www.tryprofound.comhelp.tryprofound.com

If you're looking specifically for a tool that's affordable enough for a solo freelancer rather than an enterprise SEO department, I can compare Profound vs Peec AI vs Otterly vs Scrunch and tell you which one I'd actually buy.

If your goal is specifically to track which web sources AI assistants use, how often they cite them, and how prominent/authoritative those sources are, I’d recommend Profound.

Best fit: tryprofound.com

Profound is unusually well aligned with your description. It tracks:

• Citation frequency — which sources AI assistants cite and how often.
• Citation share — how your sources compare with competitors.
• Source authority — it categorizes cited sources and assesses the authority they carry.
• Source prominence — lets you analyze citation performance by platform, topic, and prompt.
• Which publishers/authors matter — useful if you're trying to figure out who influences AI answers in your category.
• Multiple answer engines — including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Grok and DeepSeek. Profound Profound

Two alternatives worth considering

• peec.ai — probably the strongest alternative. It tracks both sources an AI retrieves and URLs it actually cites, with citation frequency, source/domain analysis, competitor gaps, and visibility/position metrics. Peec AI Peec AI
• citations.io — a simpler, more citation-centric option if you primarily want a live feed of citations and AI visibility across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude. Citations.io

My pick: Profound if you're doing serious AEO/GEO, PR, or competitive intelligence. Peec AI if you want particularly granular analysis of retrieved vs. explicitly cited sources.

One important distinction: most of these tools measure citation prominence/visibility, not necessarily whether a source is factually high-quality. If by “citation quality” you mean something closer to “Is this source trustworthy, primary, authoritative, and actually supporting the claim the AI made?”, that's a somewhat different—and more interesting—product category.

If your goal is specifically to measure which sources AI assistants cite, how often they cite them, and how prominently those sources appear, I’d start with otterly.ai.

Why OtterlyAI

• Citation-level tracking: it records the URLs/domains cited in AI answers, not just whether your brand was mentioned. Otterly Otterly
• Source position: it tracks changes in link position, which is useful as a proxy for source prominence. Otterly
• Multiple AI engines: it monitors ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot and Claude. Otterly
• Competitive benchmarking: you can see which competitors and third-party sources are getting cited instead of you. Otterly
• Longitudinal data: it runs your prompt set repeatedly, so you can see citation share and source changes over time rather than relying on one-off searches. Otterly

One caveat: if by "source prominence" you mean something more sophisticated than citation position—for example, a score combining citation frequency × position × number of AI engines × prominence within the answer × source authority—I'd look at Profound as well. Current comparisons put it toward the enterprise end of the market with deeper AI-search analytics. GeoHero Linkeddit

So my quick recommendation:

If you tell me whether you're tracking your own website, competitors, or the overall web/source ecosystem, I can narrow this to the best 2–3 tools and compare their actual citation metrics.