Who does AI actually recommend?
We ask ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity “best X” five times, every week, and publish the answers below. Live, sourced, free.
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next Mon Jul 6 · 09:00 UTCOne question. Three engines. One ledger.
Watch a row get written, then how each answer is dissected.
AI answers vary run to run, a single rank would be a lie. So every prompt is sampled five times per engine, mentions are fuzzy-matched to real businesses, and the citation behind each mention is kept.
Appearance rates, weekly deltas and sources are all published. Placement is never for sale, a paid spot on a trust ranking would make the whole ledger worthless.
Full write-up, prompts and versioned rules ship with the public launch, signed by the founder.
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Why AI visibility matters
Search is shifting to AI. Gartner projects a 25% drop in traditional search-engine volume by 2026 as people turn to AI assistants for answers. That makes being recommended by ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity as important as ranking on Google, and most sites have no idea whether AI can even read them.
“Placement is never for sale, a paid spot on a trust ranking would make the whole ledger worthless.”
Frequently asked questions
What is CheckAIVisible?
- CheckAIVisible publishes which businesses ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity actually recommend in each category, like best CRM or best AI coding assistant, refreshed weekly with the source citations. It also offers a free AI-readiness checker that scores how well any website can be read and cited by AI answer engines.
How does CheckAIVisible rank businesses?
- We ask each AI engine the category's question five times, canonicalize the businesses they name, and score each one by how often it appears across runs and engines. Every mention keeps the citation the engine pointed to, so each ranking is traceable.
Which AI engines do you check?
- ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, the three answer engines people most often ask for recommendations. Each is sampled five times per question, every refresh.
Is placement on a leaderboard for sale?
- Never. A paid spot on a trust ranking would make the whole ledger worthless. Rankings are observations of public AI output and nothing else.
How often is the data refreshed?
- On a cadence earned by volatility: fast-moving categories refresh every few days, stable ones less often, and trending topics get a same-week 'Hot' refresh.
What does the free AI-readiness checker measure?
- It fetches your page the way an AI crawler does, raw HTML, no JavaScript, plus robots.txt, sitemap.xml and llms.txt, then scores seven pillars: crawlability, rendering, structured data, answer-engine optimization, trust and E-E-A-T, performance and SEO. You get an overall score, an AI sub-score and a prioritized list of fixes.