Answer Engine Optimization for indie founders

Get cited by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity & Gemini.

Don't just rank on Google's page one. AnswerRank tracks how AI engines answer your money prompts — and gives you a deterministic checklist of fixes so they recommend you instead of your competitor.

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Free forever for 1 domain · No credit card · 90-second audit
Pre-launch · early access in batchesBuilt by the team behind Tandemu · Singapore
AnswerRank dashboard preview — AI engines, prompts and Brand Visibility Score“best AI dubbing tool for podcasters?”CChatGPTrecommendedCClaudementionedGGeminiabsent62BRAND VISIBILITY↑ +11 pts vs last week
Tracks how every major AI engine answers about your brand
ChatGPT
Claude
Gemini
The new search

Your customers stopped clicking.
They're asking AI instead.

Google rankings still matter — but only if the user clicks past the AI Overview. For high-intent commercial queries in 2026, most never do.

25%
projected drop in traditional search volume by 2026 as users shift to AI assistants.
Gartner · Feb 2024 forecast
~60%
of Google searches end without a click — the answer is consumed on the results page.
SparkToro / Datos · 2024
1B+
people now use AI Overviews in Google Search — answers, not links, are the surface.
Google I/O · 2025
How it works

From confused to cited in three steps.

1

Audit

Paste your URL. AnswerRank crawls your site, validates schema, and shows you exactly what entities Google and AI engines associate with your brand.

2

Track

We run your money prompts through ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini every day (plan-scaled). You get a Brand Visibility Score and see which engines recommend you — and which recommend a competitor.

3

Improve

For every absent answer, AnswerRank extracts the exact URLs the AI cited instead. That's your target PR list. Pitch those, restructure your content, watch the score climb.

Six features. One score.

Everything you need to win the answer.

Answer Engine Optimization in six deterministic features, blended into one Citation Readiness score per money prompt.

BASE

Technical & Entity Audit

Validates llms.txt, robots.txt rules for GPTBot / ClaudeBot / PerplexityBot, and shows you the entity graph AI engines use for your brand.

BASE

Competitor Content X-Ray

A research-backed Citation Readiness score — answer-first, evidence, structure, freshness and retrievability — for every money prompt vs the page the AI actually cited, with a prioritised fix list.

BASE

GSC Citation Gap

Connect Search Console. We flag every page ranking 1–5 with a falling CTR — your highest-leverage rewrites, ranked by lost clicks.

PRO

Multi-LLM Prompt Tracking

Track your money prompts daily across every major engine. Get a Brand Visibility Score and a side-by-side answer comparison.

PRO

Source Influence Map

See the exact URLs AI engines pull from to build their answers — and where you're missing. The killer feature.

PRO

Sentiment & Context

Lightweight NLP on the sentences around your brand. Know which engine calls you "reliable" and which calls you "expensive".

Source Influence Map

Find the exact URLs AI is reading instead of yours.

When an AI engine recommends your competitor, it tells you why — it lists its sources. AnswerRank cross-references those URLs against your domain so you have a target PR list, not vibes.

Extract cited URLs from AI answers
Score each source by influence × authority × recency
Flag your owned URLs and group external ones by type
Get outreach plays per source: pitch, AMA, contribute
Top sources cited by AI for your prompts
#1r
reddit.com/r/podcasting
47 citations
92
INFLUENCE
#2V
theverge.com
31 citations
88
INFLUENCE
#3P
producthunt.com
28 citations
76
INFLUENCE
#7Y
your-domain.comYOU
22 citations
58
INFLUENCE
Brand Visibility Score

One number to tell you if AI likes you.

Track your money prompts across 3 engines (1 on Free, 10 on Pro, 50 on Studio). We run them daily and roll the results into a single, comparable Brand Visibility Score — so you finally have an AEO metric to chart.

Daily runs across ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini
Weighted: first-named > mentioned > absent > competitor wins
See the full AI response with your brand highlighted
Compare 90-day trajectories against tracked competitors
Visibility Score
62
↑ +11 pts vs last week
62
CChatGPT
#4
competitor
CClaude
#2
mentioned
GGemini
absent
Worked example

One prompt. Three fixes. absent → recommended.

Illustrative — what a typical AnswerRank fix loop looks like on a single money prompt.

Prompt: “best AI dubbing tool for indie podcasters”
Before
38
Citation Readiness · ChatGPT verdict: absent
After 3 fixes
71
Citation Readiness · ChatGPT verdict: recommended
The three fixes AnswerRank prioritised
1
Lead the first H2 with a one-sentence answer to the prompt.
2
Add two statistics with sources + one cited quote.
3
Expose a modified date and refresh the page.
Pricing

Free to start. Honest when you grow.

No "request quote" tier. No usage gotchas. Cancel anytime; credits roll for 30 days.

Free
$0forever

Run a one-off audit. See what AI says about your brand.

  • 1 domain
  • Technical + entity audit
  • Content X-Ray on 3 pages
  • 1 prompt × 1 engine, weekly
  • Multi-LLM prompt tracking
  • Source Influence Map
  • GSC integration
Start free
Studio
$199/ month

For agencies and consultants tracking AEO for multiple clients.

  • 25 domains
  • Everything in Pro
  • 50 prompts per domain
  • 25,000 LLM credits / mo
  • White-label client reports
  • API access
  • Priority support
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FAQ

The honest answers.

How is AEO different from SEO?
SEO optimizes for being clicked in a list of blue links. AEO optimizes for being the answer — being cited, mentioned and recommended inside an AI-generated response. They overlap (structured content helps both) but the metrics, signals and tactics are different. AnswerRank focuses on AEO, but plugs into your SEO stack via GSC.
Which AI engines do you track?
How much does it cost to run prompts?
Do you sell my data or train models on it?
What if my brand isn't mentioned yet?
Can I cancel anytime?

Stop guessing what AI says about you.

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