Track brand citations across every AI engine.
Each engine sees a different web — different sources, different levers, different answers. AuditAE checks all four in parallel on every audit. None are upsells, none are gated behind a higher tier.
| Engine | Sources per answer | Fastest lever | Backed by |
|---|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 3–5, sometimes none | Third-party mentions | OpenAI Responses API |
| Perplexity | 5–10, most source-rich | Fresh on-topic content | Sonar API |
| Gemini | Google-weighted | Traditional SEO rankings | googleSearch grounding |
| AI Overviews | SERP-embedded | Schema + E-E-A-T | live SerpAPI |
ChatGPT
Prose-heavy answers. Sometimes lists 3–5 sources, sometimes none. The hardest engine to move because brand recall from training data weighs heavily — unlinked mentions in places ChatGPT’s training set ingested matter as much as backlinks.
Third-party mentions in well-ingested sources — directories, review sites, comparison posts. Earn presence in the places the training set reads, not just your own domain.
Perplexity
Most source-rich of the four. Usually 5–10 cited URLs per answer. Fastest engine to move with a content rewrite — fresh, on-topic pages get picked up within days. If you’re going to see early wins, they show up here first.
Fresh, on-topic pages that answer the prompt directly. Ship a rewrite, re-run the audit a few days later, and watch the cell flip.
Google Gemini
Tracks Google Search rankings closely. Often quotes Wikipedia and Reddit. If you rank well in Google for the underlying query, you’re already mostly there — strong traditional SEO is the highest-leverage AEO investment for Gemini specifically.
Traditional SEO. Rank for the underlying query and Gemini follows — AuditAE’s $0.10 rank checks track both sides in one place.
Google AI Overviews
The SERP-embedded answer above the blue links. Sensitive to E-E-A-T signals — author bylines, structured data, site authority, freshness. The most schema-responsive of the four engines.
Schema and E-E-A-T: FAQ + Article JSON-LD, author bylines, freshness. The WordPress plugin ships these fixes in one step.
Every prompt runs on every engine.
Five prompts × four engines = 20 checks, ~3 minutes, $1.00. Each cell records whether you were cited, your position in the source list, every cited URL, named competitors, and sentiment — so citation rate and share of voice roll up per engine or across all four.
Four engines. One report.
Run your first audit free — $5 of credit, about 100 checks, no card required.