AI search monitoring

AI search monitoring: how AI engines name, rank and cite your brand.

Buyers now ask ChatGPT, Gemini or Google which product to choose, and the answer names a few brands. AI search monitoring tells you if yours is one of them. CitePrism asks your buyer questions on seven engines on a schedule. It records whether each answer names you, where it ranks you and which sources it cites, and it stores every answer for you to read.

  • Seven engines: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode and Microsoft Copilot
  • Visibility rate, share of voice, average rank and first-mention rate
  • Named and cited counted separately
  • Competitors tracked in the same answers
  • Every raw answer stored, one click from each chart

An AI visibility tool you can check

AI answers change from run to run, and conversations are private. So AI search monitoring is sampling: the same questions, asked on a schedule, scored the same way every time.

Mentions

Visibility rate is the share of answers that name you. Share of voice compares you with the competitors you track.

Position

Average rank and first-mention rate show where you sit among the tracked brands an answer names.

Citations

Citation share shows how often your domain is a source. An answer can name you without a citation, so the two are separate.

What is AI search monitoring?

AI search monitoring tracks how AI assistants and AI search features name, rank and cite a brand. A monitoring tool asks the same fixed set of buyer questions on a schedule and scores every answer, because no tool can see real user conversations.

How prompt sampling works

How it works

Live in minutes, honest forever.

1) Add your brand

Paste your URL. The onboarding wizard proposes competitors, aliases and a starting prompt set.

2) Sample on a schedule

Each run asks every engine every question at set hours, and stores each answer with its sources.

3) Read the trend

Watch visibility, share of voice and rank per engine, see the domains the answers cite, and open the raw answers behind any change.

FAQ

What is an LLM visibility tool?

An LLM visibility tool measures how often large language models such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini name your brand when buyers ask about your category. It asks a fixed set of questions many times, records which brands each answer names, and reports rates over time. AI search monitoring tool and AI brand visibility tool are other names for the same job.

AI visibility tools, compared

How do I track brand mentions in AI search?

Ask the AI engines a fixed set of buyer questions many times, and record which brands each answer names. By hand, write 15 to 25 questions without your brand name in them. Ask each one at least ten times in fresh chats with memory off. Log whether you are named, your position, the competitors named and the sources cited. CitePrism does the same steps on a schedule across seven engines and stores every answer.

The manual method, step by step

What should an AI search monitoring tool track?

Four things: how often answers name you (visibility rate), how you compare with competitors (share of voice), where you appear in the answer (average rank and first-mention rate), and which sources the answers cite (citation share). It should keep named and cited apart, store the raw answers, and show the sample size behind each rate. CitePrism tracks all of these on seven engines.

LLM share of voice

Can I monitor AI search in real time?

No. Conversations between people and AI assistants are private, so no tool can watch them live. A tool can only ask the assistants your questions and read the answers. CitePrism asks them at set hours each day, and a weekly digest email each Monday shows how your numbers moved. Scheduled sampling is the honest method, because a trend over many runs tells you more than one live answer.

ChatGPT brand monitoring

How is AI search monitoring different from social listening or SEO rank tracking?

Social listening reads what people post about you on social sites and forums. SEO rank tracking reports your position on a search results page. AI search monitoring reads what AI assistants answer when buyers ask about your category. That answer has no page one: it names a few brands in a list or a paragraph, and it changes from run to run. So the metrics are rates over many sampled answers, not one position.

AI rank tracker

Which AI engines should I monitor?

Monitor the engines your buyers use, and compare them. The engines often name different brands for the same question, so one engine does not stand for the rest. CitePrism tracks seven engines on every plan, Free included: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode and Microsoft Copilot.

Perplexity brand monitoring

Does AI search monitoring track citations as well as mentions?

It should. A brand counts as named when the answer text names it, and as cited when its domain appears as a source. An engine can cite your page and recommend a competitor, so CitePrism reports the two separately. It stores every cited link with its answer, groups cited domains by type and reports your citation share.

AI citation tracking

What does AI search monitoring cost?

CitePrism is free on your own API keys, and you pay the providers directly for the answers. Free tracks 5 competitors per brand. Pro is $29 a month or $299 a year, runs on CitePrism keys and tracks 25 competitors per brand. Every plan includes all seven engines.

Pricing and worked examples