AI search visibility

Who gets cited instead of you in AI search?

Three fixed-price ways to find out and fix it. A Snapshot in three days, a full Audit in a week, and weekly Monitoring once the content work has started. Every engagement runs real buyer prompts through ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews and logs who the engines cite, question by question.

By Ronan Liedmeier, fractional head of growth. Last updated 17 October 2026.

AI Visibility Snapshot

From $600. 3 working days, fixed price.

Best for: Founders who want to know in one page whether AI search is a problem worth money.

10 prompts a buyer in your category would type, run through ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews
Citation and brand mention logged separately for every prompt and engine
The competing domains that took the slot, ranked
Readiness score of your homepage and up to eight content pages, on the same 22 checks as the free check
A one-page readout with the three fixes to make first, and a 20-minute call to walk through it

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AI Search Audit

From $2,000. 1 week, fixed price.

Best for: Teams that want the full picture and a fix list they can hand to whoever runs the site.

20 prompts a buyer in your category would type, run through ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, showing who gets cited instead of you and for which question
A full AI search readiness audit of your homepage and at least eight content pages
A prioritised fix list, blockers first, then the content work page by page
A content plan built from the sub-questions the engines already use for your category
A 30-minute walkthrough call

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AI Visibility Monitoring

From $400 a month. 3 months, then month to month.

Best for: Companies that have started the content work and want to see every week whether it is being cited.

A fixed panel of up to 60 prompts, written in your buyers' words and frozen for a quarter so the trend is real
Run every week across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews
Citations and brand mentions logged separately, per prompt and per engine
Competing domains tracked, so you see which pages and formats win each question
Bing AI Performance and Search Console checked alongside the panel
A monthly report: what moved, why, and the two or three pages to write next
Prompt panel refreshed each quarter against your pipeline

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Prices are in USD; European clients are invoiced in EUR at the same figures. Fixed projects are invoiced 50% on signature and 50% at handover. Monitoring runs an initial three months, then month to month with 30 days notice, invoiced monthly in advance. No hourly billing.

Which engagement fits?

Start with the Snapshot to see whether AI search is worth money. Add Monitoring once the content work has started, and bring in the Audit when you are ready to rebuild pages.

	Snapshot	Audit	Monitoring
Prompts	10	20	Up to 60, fixed for a quarter
Engines	4	4	4
Pages scored	Up to 9	9 or more	Re-scored on request
Competing domains	Ranked list	Ranked, per question	Tracked weekly
Deliverable	One-page readout	Audit, fix list, content plan	Weekly sheet, monthly report
Call	20 minutes	30 minutes	Monthly, 30 minutes
Turnaround	3 working days	1 week	Weekly run, monthly report
Price	From $600	From $2,000	From $400 a month

How the prompt panel works

Every engagement starts with prompts written the way your buyers type them, with the company size, the country and the constraint, because the sub-queries an engine generates from a prompt depend on those details. Each prompt is run in a fresh thread on each engine. For every answer I log whether a URL on your domain was shown as a source, whether your brand was named, and every domain the engine cited instead.

The competing-domain list is the part that pays off. After the first run it shows which companies own which questions and in what format: a comparison table, a price page, a definitional guide, a Reddit thread. That list is the content plan.

I ran the first 60-prompt panel for this site on 16 October 2026. Three engines took 98 minutes by hand, Google stopped me with a captcha after 35 searches, and the result was zero citations and zero mentions. Reddit and LinkedIn were cited in 68 of 155 prompt-engine pairs. The method, the numbers and the day-90 targets are in how to measure AI search visibility without a paid tool.

The site score uses the same 22 checks as the free readiness check. In a test of 209 vendors named across 40 Perplexity answers, the five checks that predicted a citation within the same answer were an FAQ section, a named author, article depth, comparison tables and visible dates; schema markup predicted nothing. That test is written up in which website features predict an AI citation, and it is why the fix list puts the article-level changes ahead of structured data.

What these engagements do not include

A promised citation count. The engines do not publish their selection rules and nobody can guarantee a slot.
Schema markup sold as a way to get cited. Ahrefs' May 2026 test of 1,885 pages found no citation uplift from adding JSON-LD; schema stays in for rich results only.
AI rewriting of your existing copy. The fix list says what to write; writing it is the Pipeline Build or a Fractional Head of Growth engagement.
Paid tracking software. The panel is run by a person who then reads the competing domains and tells you what to publish.

Common questions

What counts as a citation, and what counts as a mention?

A citation is a URL on your domain shown as a source for the answer. A mention is your company, product or founder named in the answer text, with or without a link. The two are logged in separate columns because they come from different places: a citation means the engine read your page. A mention usually means it read about you elsewhere.

Which engines are covered?

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, run from the US unless your buyers are elsewhere. Bing Webmaster Tools' AI Performance report is checked alongside the panel because it is the only first-party per-page citation count any engine publishes; it covers Copilot and Bing only.

How is this different from an AI visibility tracking tool?

A tool reports the number. These engagements report the number and then say which page to write, which format the competing domains use for each question, and which site fixes block retrieval outright. The panel method is published on this site so you can run it yourself; the monthly fee buys the hours and the analysis.

Do you promise a citation count?

No. Nobody can; the vendors do not publish their selection rules. What I promise is a measured baseline, a fix list ordered by what blocks citation before what improves it, and a weekly number you can hold me to. My own site's day-90 targets are published in the Insights section.

Can I start with the Snapshot and move up?

Yes, in any order. The Snapshot is the cheapest place to start. The Audit covers twice the prompts, the full site and a content plan, and Monitoring picks up once there is content to measure.

Can I pay in euros?

Yes. European clients are invoiced in EUR at the same figures by RLGrowth OÜ, an Estonian private limited company (registry code 17607918), trading as Growth Marketing Solutions.

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