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See if AI already mentions you — free, in about a minute.

We check whether ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity name your brand on the questions your buyers actually ask. Then we show you the publisher sites those engines already cite, so your next placement lands where the answers are written — and earns you a Google link on the way.

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Does AI mention your brand?

Run a free AI Visibility Audit. We check whether ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews name your site as a source — and show you the real questions where it came up.

  • Measured from recorded AI answers, not estimates.
  • Same score every publisher listing carries in our marketplace.
  • Takes under a minute. No account needed.

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Why it matters

What AI visibility buys you.

Primary

Named inside the answer

When someone asks an assistant who to use, you're in the shortlist it summarises from — not on page two of a list nobody opened.

Primary

Brand recall in LLM output

Models weight branded entity mentions across trusted editorial content. Repeated mentions on relevant sites teach them your brand belongs to the topic.

Secondary

Google link equity

Each placement is still a real editorial link on an indexed, trafficked page — classic ranking authority, included rather than bought separately.

How it works

Four steps to your first placement.

From a single website to a verified placement, every stage stays clear and measurable.

  1. 01

    Add your website

    Drop in the sites you want AI assistants to name. We fetch the homepage and classify niche, audience, language and country with AI.

    Website to analyse
    yourbrand.com
    B2B software
    United States
    English
    Classified by AI
  2. 02

    Add your brand and target URLs

    Tell us the brand you want mentioned and the exact pages you want linked, with preferred anchors and wording to avoid.

    Brand
    Your Brand
    Placement
    Brand mention
    Target page
    yourbrand.com/product
  3. 03

    Browse sites AI already cites

    Every match shows its AI Visibility Score — recorded citations and share of voice — beside the fit score and classic SEO metrics.

    Best matches for your brand

    Technology #A7F2

    B2B software · United States

    86

    AI visibility

    94%

    Match

    Already cited by ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity
  4. 04

    Place it, keep it live

    Pay in USD via PayPal. The publisher accepts within three business days and inserts your mention or link into an existing article, guaranteed for three months.

    Order status

    Your placement is live

    Verified
    Payment secured
    Publisher accepted
    Placement verified
    Monitored weekly for three months

What you're protected by

Every buyer commitment, plainly stated.

The four rules below are enforced by the monitoring, escrow, and refund systems — not by goodwill.

  1. 01

    Domains stay hidden

    Publisher domains are never shown in the marketplace, in profiles, or in any API response — until you pay and the publisher accepts the order.

  2. 02

    Three-month placement guarantee

    Every placement is verified at submission and then re-checked weekly for three calendar months. Removed and not restored in five business days? Refund.

  3. 03

    Full refund window

    Unresolved removals in the first 30 days refund in full. After 30 days we prorate against the three-month end date.

  4. 04

    Clear SLAs

    Publishers accept or reject within three business days. You review the live placement within three business days. No silent stalls.

Built for AI search, not just Google

Buy placements on the sites AI already cites.

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is how brands show up inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Claude. These systems don't invent answers — they pull from a shortlist of trusted, topically relevant sources. Editorial placements on real publisher sites are one of the highest-signal ways to land on that shortlist.

So we don't ask you to guess which sites those are. Every approved publisher carries an AI Visibility Score measured from recorded citations in real AI answers — visible in the marketplace before you spend anything.

SEO vs GEO, explained The data

  • Enter the AI answer set

    ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews cite sources they've seen your brand co-occur with. Contextual placements teach them who to name.

  • Brand mentions matter, not just links

    LLMs weight branded entity mentions in editorial content, whether linked or not. Both placement types on the marketplace feed this signal.

  • Topical authority, the way models see it

    Being referenced across multiple relevant publishers builds the entity association AI engines use to decide who's an authority on a topic.

  • One placement, two channels

    The same editorial link earns traditional Google ranking signals and increases the odds of being surfaced by generative answers — no separate spend.

Why mentions, not links

Lower risk to site owners. More impactful for GEO. Lower cost for you.

  • Lower risk to site owners — a brand mention keeps editorial context without the outbound-link footprint that can trigger manual reviews or look unnatural.
  • More impactful for GEO than backlinks — AI engines cite brands they recognise as topical authorities, and mentions build that recognition faster than link graphs alone.
  • Lower cost for you — brand mentions are simpler to place, so publishers can offer them at a price point that lets you scale coverage across more relevant sites.

This is why brand mentions are the placement type that moves AI visibility

Ahrefs analysed 75,000 brands in Google AI Overviews and found web mentions correlate far more strongly with AI visibility than backlinks do. A second 75,000-brand study put the cross-platform correlation at 0.66–0.71 across ChatGPT, AI Mode and Google AI Overviews.

Web mentions

0.66

correlation with AI visibility

Backlinks

0.22

correlation with AI visibility

Source:Ahrefs AI Overview study ·Ahrefs cross-platform study

The AI Visibility column

How to read it before you buy.

Each approved site is checked against an index of answers real people received from ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. Two numbers drive the score: how many of those answers name the site as a source, and its share of voice against the most-cited site appearing alongside it.

67–100

Well cited

Named frequently, and leads the sites it appears with. The strongest GEO candidates — usually priced accordingly.

34–66

Cited

Regularly named in AI answers on its topics. Solid value for brand mentions aimed at generative visibility.

1–33

Emerging

Some recorded citations, but a rival dominates the topic. Often strong on classic SEO metrics at a lower price.

0

Not yet cited

Measured, with no recorded AI mentions. Still useful for link equity — just not for AI answer presence today. A dash means never measured.

Use it alongside Site Score, Rank and match score — never on its own. How the score is calculated.

What's in the marketplace

A curated inventory, updated continuously.

Every listing carries the metrics you actually need to decide — not vanity scores. Traffic, referring domains, and ranking keywords come from independent sources.

  • Link insertions — dofollow, nofollow, or sponsored
  • Unlinked brand mentions in existing articles
  • Publisher-set prices per placement type
  • Ranking keywords, organic traffic, top countries
  • Backlinks, dofollow backlinks, referring domains
  • Authority metric and independent Site Quality Score
  • AI Visibility Score from recorded ChatGPT and AI Overview citations

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