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AI Search Visibility Intelligence

Is AI recommending your competitors instead of you?

Discover how your business appears in AI-generated answers. See which competitors are being recommended, where your brand is missing, and what you can do to improve.

Free sample audit. No credit card required.

Sample audits examine answers from

  • ChatGPT Search
  • Google AI Overviews
  • Perplexity
  • Gemini

Concept preview of the MentionTide visibility dashboard

Illustrative data
N

Northwind Advisory

120 sampled customer questions · 4 AI engines

52

AI visibility score

Composite of mentions, position and citations

+7

Brand mention rate

+6 pts

34%

Answers that name your brand

Citation rate

+3 pts

18%

Answers citing your website

Share-of-voice rank

#3of 5

Among tracked competitors

Mention rate over time

YouTop competitor

By AI engine

Mention rate
  • ChatGPT Search38%
  • Perplexity41%
  • Google AI Overviews29%
  • Gemini27%

Strongest on Perplexity; weakest in Gemini answers.

Competitor comparison

Share of answers
  • Harbourline Partners58%
  • Kestrel & Co47%
  • Northwind AdvisoryYOU34%
  • Brightpath Accounting29%
  • Meridian Advisors21%

Opportunities

3 prioritised
  • Publish a comparison guide for “small business advisory Melbourne”

    Competitor guides were cited in 41% of sampled answers on this topic.

    High
  • Strengthen profiles on industry directories and review sites

    Third-party listings were the most cited source type.

    Medium
  • Add clear, factual FAQs to core service pages

    Your site was rarely cited for pricing and process questions.

    Medium

Illustrative example — not actual customer data.

Design preview of the platform in development. Fictional brands and data.

The shift

Your customers are asking AI. Is your business part of the answer?

Customer discovery is changing. Instead of scanning ten blue links, more people now ask an AI assistant a direct question — and act on the short list of businesses it recommends.

Those answers are assembled from many sources: your website, review sites, directories, news and competitors’ content. Understanding how your products and services appear in them is quickly becoming part of marketing fundamentals.

  • 01

    Invisible to AI

    Potential customers may not encounter your business in relevant AI answers — even if you rank well in traditional search.

  • 02

    Competitors get mentioned

    Other brands may be recommended more frequently, shaping a buyer’s shortlist before they ever visit your website.

  • 03

    No clear improvement plan

    Most businesses struggle to understand what influences their visibility, or where to start improving it.

What you'll discover

Understand your visibility. Discover your opportunities.

Every audit answers four practical questions about how AI search presents your business.

  • Brand Visibility

    Understand whether your business appears in sampled AI-generated answers — and how prominently.

  • Competitor Intelligence

    Discover which competitors appear for the same customer questions, and how often.

  • Citation Analysis

    Identify the websites and sources referenced by AI search engines when they answer.

  • Actionable Opportunities

    Receive practical, prioritised recommendations to help improve your online visibility.

How it works

Three steps to a clear picture.

Today, every MentionTide audit is prepared by hand by a specialist — not generated automatically. That means real judgement on which questions matter for your market.

Manually delivered service

  1. 01

    Submit Your Website

    Tell us your business name, website and industry. It takes under a minute.

  2. 02

    We Analyse AI Search

    We manually test a sample of relevant customer questions and examine brand mentions, competitors and citations.

  3. 03

    Receive Your Report

    Get a clear summary of your visibility and practical improvement opportunities, delivered by email.

Get Your Free AI Visibility Audit

Free sample audit. No credit card required.

Example audit report

See exactly what you’ll receive.

A concise, plain-English report your leadership team can read in five minutes — with the detail your marketing team needs to act.

  • How often your brand appears across a sample of real customer questions
  • Which competitors are recommended instead, and how often
  • The source websites AI engines cite most in your category
  • Three prioritised, practical recommendations
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AI Visibility Audit · Sample

Northwind Advisory

Business advisory · Melbourne · 50 sampled questions

Illustrative example — not actual customer data. Fictional business, competitors and domains.

Your brand mentioned in

24%

of sampled answers

Top competitor mentioned in

58%

Harbourline Partners

Most frequently cited source domains

DomainTypeShare of answers citing
advisorreviews.example
32%
harbourline.example
21%
smallbizdirectory.example
17%
northwind.example
9%

Three recommended improvements

  1. 1

    Earn coverage on the review sites AI engines already cite

    advisorreviews.example appears in roughly a third of sampled answers. A complete, current profile there is a practical first step.

  2. 2

    Create a page that answers “how to choose a business adviser”

  3. 3

    Make services, locations and pricing easy to extract

Free AI visibility audit

Find out how visible your business is in AI search.

Request a free sample AI visibility audit and discover how your brand compares with competitors.

  • Genuinely free

    A sample audit with no credit card and no obligation.

  • Delivered by email

    We’ll confirm timing when we receive your request.

  • Minimal data

    We only ask for what we need to prepare your audit.

  • Prepared by hand

    A specialist selects questions relevant to your market.

A name or website — helps us choose the right questions.

Free sample audit. No credit card required. We only use your details to prepare and send your audit.

In development · Not yet available

Help shape the future of AI search visibility.

We’re developing an automated platform that monitors how AI search engines present your brand over time. Founding customers will be invited to an early pilot and help decide what we build first.

Joining the waitlist is free and carries no obligation to purchase. The platform is not available to buy today; the free audit is our current offering.

Planned capabilities

  • Recurring AI visibility tracking
  • Competitor monitoring
  • Automated reports
  • Visibility trend analysis
  • Improvement recommendations

FAQ

Straight answers.

Something else on your mind? Email us.

What is AI search visibility?

It describes how often — and how favourably — your business appears when people ask AI tools such as ChatGPT Search, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity or Gemini questions related to what you offer. That includes whether you’re named, where you appear relative to competitors, and whether your website is cited as a source.

How does MentionTide measure visibility?

We build a set of realistic customer questions for your industry and market, run them manually across selected AI engines, and record whether your brand is mentioned, which competitors appear, and which sources are cited. Because AI answers change with phrasing, location, timing and personalisation, the results are a directional snapshot of a sample — not a complete or permanent measurement.

Is the AI visibility audit really free?

Yes. The sample audit is free, needs no credit card and comes with no obligation. It covers a focused sample of questions rather than an exhaustive study. If you’d like a deeper analysis afterwards, we can talk about it — but you don’t have to.

Can MentionTide guarantee higher rankings in ChatGPT?

No — and you should be cautious of anyone who claims they can. AI systems are controlled by their providers, change frequently and can give different answers to the same question. We can show you what we observe and recommend practical improvements, but no specific recommendation, placement or ranking can be guaranteed.

Which AI search engines are covered?

Sample audits typically examine ChatGPT Search, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity and Gemini, depending on availability in your region and relevance to your customers. MentionTide is independent and is not affiliated with or endorsed by OpenAI, Google or Perplexity.

When will the automated platform be available?

The automated monitoring platform is in development and there is no release date yet. If you join the founding customer waitlist, we’ll share progress and invite interested businesses to an early pilot. Until then, audits are prepared manually.

See where you stand before your competitors do.

Free sample audit. No credit card required.

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