Ask the question your buyers ask. The checker puts it to Claude, OpenAI and Perplexity with live web search switched on, then shows whether they name you, whether they cite your site, and who they name instead.
Write the question the way a buyer would type it. Only the question is sent, with the country and engines you pick. Your brand, site and competitors are matched against the answers on this page.
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Separate other spellings of your brand, and your competitors, with commas. A competitor written as a domain is also checked against the cited sources.
✓ named, with the order of first mention among the brands you entered · ✗ not named · ↗ site cited as a source.
As each engine answered, with your brand and competitors highlighted. Numbered links are the engine’s own citations.
Every domain cited, ranked by how many engines cited it. A third-party site cited everywhere is shaping the answer.
Search is not the only place buyers ask for a shortlist any more. They ask an assistant, and the assistant searches the web, reads a handful of pages and answers with names. If yours is not one of them, you are not on the list, and no ranking report will show it.
The checker sends your question to each engine switched on above, through its API, with that engine’s own web search turned on. It adds no instructions, so each model answers the way it would answer anyone. As the answers arrive, this page reads them for four things:
Named and cited are different wins. An engine can recommend you while citing a review site that mentions you, or cite your page for a fact without recommending you at all. The first is visibility; the second is authority without the sale.
Read, not cited, is its own diagnosis. Where an engine reports every page it opened, the checker separates the pages it read from the pages it cited. A site that was read and passed over was found, and judged less quotable than something else. That is a content problem, and a different one from not being found at all.
Order matters in a list. Most shortlist answers put someone first. The table shows the order of first mention in each engine for you and every competitor you entered.
The sources table is a target list. When a directory, a trade publication or a forum thread is cited by every engine, that page is carrying the answer. Earning a place on it is usually easier than outranking it, which is why the sources table matters more than any single answer.
This tool cannot run entirely in your browser, because the engines have to be asked from a server that holds the API keys. So the question, with the country and engines you pick, goes to this site’s server, which sends it to the engines switched on — Anthropic, OpenAI and Perplexity — under each provider’s API terms. This site records the question, the engines you picked and the market, with no identifier attached, and the request to OpenAI is sent with storage switched off. Keep personal or confidential details out of the question. Send Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control and nothing is recorded.
Your brand, website and competitor names never leave your browser. The matching happens on this page, which is also why editing a name updates the results without asking the engines again.
To enforce the daily limit, the server keeps a counter against a salted, one-way hash of your IP address. The salt changes every day, and earlier days’ counters are deleted, salt included, when the next day’s first check comes in. The privacy policy has the details.
Once you know where you stand, the question is what to change. Answer engine optimisation for multi-market brands covers what gets a page cited, and the note on llms.txt covers what that file does not do.