See which pages AI search engines actually cite
Turn one topic into the ranked list of pages AI search keeps retrieving — and see which of them you're missing from.
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We expand your topic into 10–20 realistic query variations, run each through live Google SERP data, and surface the pages that keep coming back.
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Enter a seed topic above. The report shows which pages recur across the whole query cluster, ranked by leverage for AI-search visibility.
About this tool
AI Search Visibility Tool
Find the pages AI search and Google keep retrieving for a topic — the sources you have to appear alongside to be cited.
Ranking for one keyword tells you very little about how AI answer engines pick sources. AI Search Visibility expands a single topic into a realistic cluster of 10–20 query variations, runs every one of them against live search data, and surfaces the pages that keep coming back across the whole cluster. Those recurring pages are the retrieval surface for the topic: the sources most likely to be pulled into an AI answer. Each one is scored for leverage and bucketed by whether you, a competitor, or nobody currently occupies it.
How it works
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Expand one topic into a query cluster
A seed topic becomes 10–20 realistic phrasings a mix of real users would type or ask — varying between keyword strings, full questions, comparisons, and "best X for Y" formats, with optional city and product tokens folded in. This mirrors how people actually query, rather than testing a single exact-match keyword.
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Harvest live results for every query
Each query in the cluster is run against live Google SERP data. Signed-in runs additionally query four AI answer engines — Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and ChatGPT — and capture the pages each one actually cited, not just what ranks.
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Compute the overlap
Results are deduplicated across queries and engines, then any page retrieved for two or more queries in the cluster is flagged as recurring. Recurrence across a whole cluster is a far stronger signal of topical authority than a single ranking position.
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Score each page for leverage
Every recurring page gets a 0–100 leverage score combining query coverage, prominence on user-generated platforms like Reddit and YouTube, and best position. When AI engines are active, the share of queries where the page was actually cited takes over a large part of the weight.
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See where you stand and what to do
Pages are bucketed as "you are present", "competitor present" (your highest-priority targets), or "open field". Cross-engine agreement shows which sources every model converges on, and the whole ranked table exports to CSV.
Who uses this
- GEO and AI-search specialists mapping which sources answer engines cite for a topic.
- SEO teams who rank well in Google but never appear in AI-generated answers.
- Content strategists deciding which third-party pages are worth earning a mention on.
- Brand and PR teams identifying the Reddit threads, reviews, and roundups shaping AI answers.
- Agencies proving to clients where a competitor owns the retrieval surface and they do not.
- Founders sanity-checking whether their category is dominated by UGC or by publisher content.
Frequently asked questions
What is retrieval overlap, and why does it matter for AI search?+
AI answer engines do not answer from a single ranking position — they retrieve several sources per question and synthesise them, and they reformulate the user's question into multiple internal queries along the way. Retrieval overlap measures which pages survive that process: the pages that keep being retrieved across many phrasings of the same topic. Those recurring sources are the ones most likely to end up in an AI answer, which is why overlap is a better proxy for AI visibility than rank alone.
What does AI Search Visibility cost?+
There is no subscription. A signed-in run across four AI engines costs 135 credits, and you are only charged when a run produces a result — a failed run returns the hold automatically. The 500 credits you get on signup cover 3 runs. Credits do not expire.
What do I get by signing in that I do not get anonymously?+
Anonymous runs are Google-SERP-only. A signed-in run also queries Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and ChatGPT and records the pages each engine actually cited for every query. That unlocks the AI citation breakdown, per-engine citation tracing you can verify yourself, a cross-engine agreement map, and the "cited but not ranking" view.
What does "cited but not ranking" mean?+
These are pages an AI engine cited when answering your cluster that never appear in Google's top 20 for any query in it. They are invisible to conventional rank tracking, yet they are actively shaping AI answers. The tool lists them, cross-checks the deterministic signals behind them (platform mix, UGC share, cited-query coverage), and can analyse the common pattern explaining why they earn citations without Google visibility.
How is the leverage score calculated?+
On Google-only runs it blends query coverage across the cluster (weighted most heavily), prominence on user-generated platforms, and best achieved position. When AI engines are active, the score shifts to weight the share of queries where the page was genuinely cited, so pages that AI actually uses rise above pages that merely rank.
What does cross-engine consistency tell me?+
It measures how much each pair of engines agrees on which pages recur, as an overlap percentage, and lists the specific pages behind it. A page that several independent engines converge on is the strongest possible citation target for a topic — earning presence there influences multiple answer engines at once rather than just one.
Can I check the results against the AI engines myself?+
Yes, and that is deliberate. Signed-in reports include a per-engine trace listing the exact pages each engine cited, grouped by query, as clickable links. You can open the engine, ask the same question, and confirm the citations directly. Every engine also reports its own coverage, so an engine that errored is shown as failed rather than silently dropping out of the numbers.
How is this different from a normal rank tracker?+
A rank tracker answers "where does my page sit for this keyword". AI Search Visibility answers "which pages does search keep pulling for this whole topic, and am I one of them". It works at cluster level rather than keyword level, counts recurrence rather than position, includes user-generated sources that rank trackers deprioritise, and — signed in — measures real AI citations rather than inferring them from rankings.
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