We ask the engines
Tell us your business and what you do. We put the real questions your customers ask, like "who is best for this near me", to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI, with live web search on.
AI Visibility Checker: see if AI recommends you, or your competitors
Ask ChatGPT for a business like yours and it names three competitors, never you. Found by AI puts the real questions to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI, then shows exactly what they say: your visibility score, the rivals winning your customers, and how to get named instead.
What an AI visibility checker actually does
An AI visibility checker shows whether AI assistants name your business when a customer asks for one. Not whether you rank on Google. Whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI recommend you when someone asks who to use. Your customers have stopped scrolling ten blue links: they ask an assistant and act on the shortlist it reads back. Found by AI asks the engines the real questions, live, and reports exactly what they say back.
A page of search results
Ten links, and you are one of them. This is the game SEO plays.
One AI answer
Three names, read aloud as the shortlist. Yours is not one of them.
How Found by AI works. The engines do the talking.
No SEO jargon, no guesswork about what AI might do. We ask, and we show you the answers.
You see who wins
Your AI visibility score, how many answers you appear in, and the competitors the engines recommend instead of you. Named, not hinted at.
You get the fix
The exact third-party sources AI cited to back those rivals, the ones you are missing from, in priority order. That citation hit-list is the fix.
Does AI recommend your business, or your competitors?
When a customer asks an assistant who to hire and acts on the answer, you get nothing. No bounce, no lost form, no line in your analytics. The job just goes to whoever the AI named. This is the only way to watch that moment as your customer sees it.
Your customer asked
"Who's the best emergency plumber in Leeds, and who should I actually call?"
Based on recent reviews and local coverage, three names come up most often:
- 1 Northside Plumbing Co
- 2 Kelvin & Rowe
- 3 BrightPath Heating
Your business is not in this answer. The job goes to whoever it named.
An anonymised example. Swap in your category and town, and this is what your customers are handed. AI does not have to dislike you to cost you the job. It just has to name someone else.
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The score's free and takes about a minute, no card.
The score is free. The fix is the reason to stay.
See where you stand and who is beating you at no cost. Unlock the full report to see exactly why, and the sources to fix it.
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Your score and who's winning
- Your AI visibility score, 0 to 100.
- How many AI answers you appear in, out of the set we ask.
- The competitors the engines recommend instead of you, by name.
- One real answer excerpt, so you know it's genuine.
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The full report and the fix
- The per-engine breakdown: where you show up, where you don't, and in what position.
- The citation hit-list: the exact third-party sources AI cited for your rivals, in priority order. This is where recommendations are won.
- A share-of-voice board and the real AI answers, kept as receipts.
- A prioritised fix plan: the mentions to earn and the first-party data to publish, plus the schema tidy-up that helps engines parse you.
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Free score and the rivals winning, no card. Unlock the full report with a free account or £5.
Rather have it done for you?
The citation hit-list is the DIY route: earn the mentions, publish the data, do the weeks of work. If you'd sooner hand it over, I'll do it. Send me the site and I'll fix what's keeping AI from naming you, then scope the visibility work end to end.
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A done-for-you fix, scoped to your site, from £249. Tell me what's wrong and I'll reply with a fixed price.
Almost no one is watching AI hand their category to a rival.
The shift to AI answers is already here. What has not caught up is anyone measuring what those answers say about them.
45%
of consumers used AI to find a local business in the past year, up from 6%BrightLocal, 2026
8%
of Google searches with an AI answer end in a click to a website, against 15% withoutPew Research, 2025
14%
of marketers track what AI actually says about their brandGoodFirms, 2026
AI visibility tools compared, and the lane none of them cover.
Most tools measure your existing brand, or your site's markup. Almost none show whether AI recommends your category to a customer who never heard of you. That is the gap this fills.
| Found by AI | Brand-mention checker | Readiness crawler | Guessing | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Asks the real AI engines, live | Yes, 3 to 5 live runs | No, tracks mentions | No, checks markup | No |
| Names the rivals AI recommends instead | Yes, by name | Your brand only | No | No |
| Works before AI knows your brand | Yes, asks the category | No, needs a brand to track | Partly | No |
| Hands you the sources AI cites | Yes, the citation hit-list | Partly | No | No |
| Cost | Free score, £5 full | From £99+/mo | Free to mid | Free |
GEO vs SEO, and how to get recommended by ChatGPT
Generative engine optimization (GEO), sometimes called answer engine optimization (AEO), is getting your business into AI answers. It is not SEO. Ranking on Google and being recommended by ChatGPT are now two different games, won in different places.
- The real lever is independent third-party mentions: the listicles, Reddit threads, review sites and roundups AI reads to decide who to name.
- Original first-party data you publish is the other lever that genuinely moves recommendation.
- Files like llms.txt and schema help an engine parse you, worth doing, but they do not move whether you get named.
- Only about 38% of AI-cited sources rank in Google's top 10 (Ahrefs, 2026). Being cited is a different job from ranking.
What a citation hit-list looks like
- 01 Category listicles Rivals cited, you are not
- 02 Review and comparison sites Rivals cited, you are not
- 03 Reddit and forum threads Rivals cited, you are not
- 04 Industry roundups You are already here
An example of the shape, not your results. Yours comes back with the actual sources, in the order worth attacking them.
Who's behind it
I'm Josh Snoddy. I'm a marketer who builds real software live with Claude, and I built this the same way. An AI-visibility tool has an obvious test to pass: it has to be found by AI itself. So I built it against the same evidence I use with clients, that third-party citations, not clever markup, are what move AI recommendation.
I run it on my own businesses before I put it in front of yours. It won't sell you a magic file. It hands you the named rivals and the exact sources to get onto, in the order I'd tackle them.
An honest snapshot, with receipts. The answers come from the engines' own grounded, live-search APIs, not a scrape and not a guess. There is less than a 1% chance an engine returns the same list twice, so we ask each engine three to five times and report what holds up. Run it again in a month and watch the number move.
Questions people ask.
An AI visibility checker shows whether AI assistants recommend your business when a customer asks. Found by AI puts the real questions your customers ask to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI, then reports your visibility score, the competitors named instead of you, and the sources those answers were built on.
You ask it the way a customer would, more than once. Found by AI asks ChatGPT and the other engines the real category questions your customers use, like who is best for this near me, runs them several times, and reports how often you are named, in what position, and who wins when you are not.
Usually because the third-party sources AI trusts do not mention you. Assistants build recommendations from listicles, review sites, Reddit threads and industry roundups, not from your own website copy. If your rivals are on those sources and you are not, AI names them. Found by AI shows you the exact sources to get listed on.
A mention is AI naming your business in its answer. A citation is a source AI links to as the basis for that answer. Citations are the lever: get onto the sources AI cites for your category and the mentions tend to follow. Found by AI reports both, and hands you the citation hit-list.
SEO tools measure Google rankings and infer whether AI might cite you. Found by AI asks the engines directly and reports what they actually say, then hands you the sources their answers were built on. Only about 38% of AI-cited sources rank in Google's top 10 (Ahrefs, 2026), so being cited is a different job from ranking.
That variation is exactly why we ask more than once. There is less than a 1% chance an engine returns the same recommendation list twice, so we put each question to each engine three to five times and report what holds up. It is an honest snapshot of what AI says now, with the real answers kept as receipts.
The score and the competitors winning your category are free. The full report and fix plan unlock with a free account, or a one-off £5 if you'd rather not sign up. No card for the score.
No. Your business name and what you do is enough to run the audit. A website and location just sharpen the local questions.
Find out what AI says about you. Before your competitor does.
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