AI visibility tracking for your brand
See how often AI search answers mention your business, which sources they cite, and which competitors show up alongside you.
Every run stores the answers and citation links behind the numbers.
What AI visibility tracking means
People increasingly get an answer instead of a list of links. AI visibility tracking asks those systems the questions your buyers ask, then records what came back: whether your business was named, which sources were cited, and who else appeared.
It is a measurement habit, not a growth promise. A single run is a snapshot of one set of questions on one date. Value comes from repeating the same measurement and comparing.
Brand mentions, citations, competitors and mention rate
Brand mention
An AI answer names your business. It is counted per question, per test — not as a ranking position.
AI answer citation
A source link the AI answer points to. Citations to your own domain are counted separately from citations to any other site.
Competitor mention
Another business named in the same answer. Rankateer records the domains and names it actually saw, nothing inferred.
Mention rate
Completed questions that mentioned your brand, divided by completed questions in that run. Failed tests are excluded from the denominator.
Why Google rankings alone are an incomplete picture
A ranking tells you where a page sits in a list of blue links. It does not tell you whether an AI-generated answer named you, ignored you, or recommended a competitor while citing someone else’s article about your category.
Both views matter. Rankings still describe classic search demand — see the SEO rank tracker page. AI answers describe a second surface that rankings cannot observe. Measuring only one leaves half the picture out.
How Rankateer runs a real AI Visibility check
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Add your website and describe your business
The full description is used to build the questions, so answers reflect what you actually do.
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Run an AI Visibility check
Rankateer sends real questions to a live AI answer pipeline and stores every response.
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Read the stored evidence
Each question keeps its answer text, citation links, own-site citations, competitor names, timestamp and model.
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Repeat and compare
Every run is saved, so mention rate can be compared between runs in percentage points.
Results vary by question, model, location and date. Rankateer shows measured runs with their evidence, and says “not measured” when nothing was recorded.
Questions, answered honestly
What is AI visibility tracking?
It is the practice of asking AI search systems real buyer questions on a schedule and recording whether your business is named, which sources the answer cites, and which competitors appear.
Is a mention the same as a ranking?
No. A Google ranking is a position in a list of links. A mention is whether an AI-generated answer named your business for one question, at one moment. They can disagree.
Why do results change between runs?
AI answers vary by question wording, model, location and date. That is why Rankateer stores each run with its timestamp and model instead of presenting a single permanent score.
Can Rankateer guarantee that AI will mention my business?
No. No tool can. Rankateer measures what AI answers actually said and keeps the evidence so you can see change over time.
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Check your AI visibility
Create your account to run checks on your own site, or open the AI Visibility dashboard if you already have one.