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Does your brand show up in ChatGPT?

By Tiago CostaUpdated on July 01, 2026

Enter your brand or domain and see what an AI model knows about you: a visibility score, the competitors it mentions in your category and GEO tips to get recommended. No sign up.

The result reflects the model's training knowledge, not a real-time query.

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How to show up in ChatGPT and other AI assistants

AI visibility measures how well assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity know and recommend your brand. Today millions of people ask AI which tool to use, which company to hire or which product to buy before they ever open Google. If the AI does not know your brand, you are left out of that conversation, even when you rank well in classic search.

What AI visibility means

AI visibility is the likelihood that your brand gets cited, described or recommended when someone asks an AI assistant a question. A language model answers from what it learned during training. The more your brand appears in trustworthy sources the model read, the better the odds it talks about you accurately and in the right context.

Why AI visibility matters now

Search behavior is shifting. Instead of typing keywords and comparing ten links, people ask a direct question and take the AI answer as their starting point. In that new flow, being the brand the AI cites is worth more than sitting in fourth place on Google.

  • People ask AI before they buy, and they take the recommendation seriously.
  • AI usually cites only a few brands per answer, so second place barely exists.
  • The brand the AI recommends gains authority in the eyes of the person asking.
  • Brands missing from the AI training stay invisible in this channel, however good the product is.
AspectClassic SEOAI visibility
Where you appearA list of links on GoogleA direct answer from the assistant
What the user seesTen results to compareOne or a few brands cited
What countsBacklinks and keywordsMentions in trusted sources and clarity
How to measurePosition and clicksWhether the AI cites and describes the brand well

How AI models learn about brands

For most answers a language model does not read your site in real time. It already read a huge slice of the web during training and formed a memory of what each brand is. That memory comes from where your brand is mentioned and how third parties describe it.

  • Authority sites: respected publications, news outlets and blogs in your field.
  • Wikipedia and structured sources: references models trust because they are reviewed.
  • Reviews and comparisons: rating pages, best-tool lists and forums like Reddit.
  • Clear owned content: pages that explain what you do in plain, easy-to-quote language.
  • Name consistency: the brand written the same way every time, tied to the same category.

What GEO and AEO are

GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is the practice of optimizing content to be cited by generative engines like ChatGPT and Perplexity. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) focuses on becoming the direct answer to a question. Both acronyms point to the same goal: being the source the AI picks when someone asks.

GEO and SEO work together

Much of what improves classic search also helps with AI: clear content, domain authority and structured data. The difference is the format. AI rewards objective answers, clean definitions and snippets that are easy to extract and quote.

How to improve your AI visibility

  • Publish content that answers real questions directly, with the answer right at the top.
  • Earn mentions on authority sites and in comparisons across your field.
  • Keep a clear page that defines who you are, who you serve and which category you sit in.
  • Use structured data (schema) and headings that mirror the user's question.
  • Write short, quotable sentences the AI can lift straight into an answer.
  • Track whether your brand started getting cited and fill the topics that are missing.
FAQ

AI visibility questions

What is AI visibility?

It is how well assistants like ChatGPT know and recommend your brand when someone asks a question. The more the AI knows about you, the more it cites you.

How does ChatGPT decide which brands to cite?

It answers from what it learned in training. Brands mentioned often across trusted sources show up more in its answers.

Does this checker query ChatGPT in real time?

No. It asks an AI model what it already knows about your brand from training. It is a snapshot of the model's knowledge, not a live lookup.

What is the difference between SEO and GEO?

SEO targets your position in the list of links on Google. GEO targets being cited inside the answer the AI generates. They reinforce each other but measure different things.

How long does it take to improve AI visibility?

It varies. Because models are trained in cycles, gains in mentions and authority show up gradually as new versions learn from the updated web.

Do I need a Wikipedia page?

It helps a lot, because models value reviewed sources. But mentions in the press, reviews and clear owned content carry plenty of weight too.

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Glossary terms

GEOGEO, short for Generative Engine Optimization, is the set of practices that make your content get cited and used by artificial intelligence search engines, such as ChatGPT, Google's AI Overviews, Perplexity and Gemini. Instead of competing only for a position in the list of links, the goal of GEO is to become one of the sources the model chooses to build the generated answer.AEOAEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is the optimization of content to appear as the direct answer in answer engines, the ones that deliver a ready made answer instead of a list of links. This includes Google's AI Overviews, assistants like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini and voice search. Instead of aiming only for the first position, AEO tries to turn your content into the very answer that the machine reads, summarizes and cites.AI OverviewsAI Overviews are answers generated by artificial intelligence that Google shows at the top of the results page, above the organic links. Instead of only listing pages, the engine reads several sources, synthesizes a short answer and shows the links it used, which pushes the traditional results down and fuels zero click search.Answer engine optimizationAnswer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the optimization of content so it gets selected as the direct answer an answer engine delivers to the user, instead of appearing only as a link in a list. Answer engines are systems like Google's AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity and voice assistants, which read several sources and return a single ready made answer. AEO works on structure, clarity and authority so your brand becomes the source chosen and cited in that answer.Answer engineAn answer engine is any search system that returns a direct, already synthesized answer instead of a list of blue links. Rather than making the person click through several results, it reads multiple sources, summarizes them and delivers the ready answer right there. This category includes Google's AI Overviews, AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, voice assistants and even traditional featured snippets. It is the shift that makes SEO evolve toward becoming a cited source, not just a clicked link.Generative searchGenerative search is the type of search in which artificial intelligence generates an original answer, written on the spot from several sources, instead of just listing pages for the user to click. Rather than ten blue links, it delivers a text that summarizes, compares and connects information from different sites, usually with the sources cited. It is what happens in Google's AI Overviews and AI Mode, in ChatGPT with web access and in Perplexity, and it is the shift redesigning SEO toward optimizing for AI.LLMOLLMO, short for Large Language Model Optimization, is the set of practices that prepares your content to be cited, used and recommended by AI models such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and Perplexity. Instead of aiming only at a position in traditional search, LLMO works to make the brand appear inside the answers these models generate when someone asks for a recommendation.Share of voice in AIShare of voice in AI is the slice of mentions a brand earns in the answers generated by artificial intelligence assistants, such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews, compared with competitors. It measures, across all the times the AI answers about a topic, in how many your brand appears, working as a thermometer of competitive presence in the new search territory.AI visibilityAI visibility is the degree to which a brand or a piece of content shows up in the answers generated by artificial intelligence search engines, such as ChatGPT, Google's AI Overviews, Perplexity and Gemini. While classic SEO measures positions and clicks, AI visibility measures how often the AI mentions, cites or recommends your brand when answering people, even when nobody clicks a link.Brand mention in AIA brand mention in AI is the citation of a brand's name inside an answer generated by artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT, Google's AI Overviews or Perplexity, with or without a link to the site. Unlike a backlink, which requires a clickable link, a brand mention counts simply because the name appears in the answer text, helping the brand be remembered, recommended and recognized as a reference on the topic.AI citationAI citation is the reference to a specific source that an artificial intelligence assistant, such as ChatGPT, Perplexity or Google's AI Overviews, lists as the origin of the answer it generated. In practice, it is your site appearing among the links or source notes the AI shows next to the text, crediting the content it used to answer. Being cited is one of the main goals of anyone optimizing content for AI search engines.