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Measure your AI visibility across the questions your buyers ask
Run your buyers' questions on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google, and count where you are named and cited. Our own baseline, with the data.
AI visibility MCP server
See what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google’s AI answers say about your brand, which sources they cite, and whether your site is ready for them. From the agent you already use. To do it by hand first, follow our guide to tracking your brand’s visibility in ChatGPT.
What your agent can check in AI answers
What each tool returns, and what a call costs.
AI answer tools in the docsRun AI answers for a prompt
What AI engines answer for a prompt, with the brands they mention and the sources they cite.
aeo_run_ai_answersFrom 2 creditsSearch AI prompts
Prompts people ask an AI engine (ChatGPT or Google AI Overview) about a topic or brand, from the provider's index of observed answers.
aeo_search_promptsFrom 31 creditsGet AI readiness for a site
Whether a site is set up for AI answer engines, from about seventeen live fetches of its origin, free.
Things to ask
Plain questions in any connected client. The agent picks the tools.
Are we recommended for “best CRM for startups” on ChatGPT and Gemini?
Which sources do AI answers cite when people ask about expense software?
What do people ask ChatGPT about our brand?
Is our site blocking any AI crawlers?
Compare how often we and our main competitor are named across every engine.
Which of our pages should we update so AI answers cite us?
Tracking without another dashboard
AI visibility trackers sell a monthly seat and a dashboard. Manifold runs the same prompts from your agent and charges per answer.
| AI visibility trackers | Asking by hand | Manifold | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly seat | Yes | No | No, pay per call |
| Every engine in one call | Varies by plan | One at a time | Yes |
| Tracked on a schedule | Daily | No | Daily or weekly |
| Brands named and sources cited | Yes | By hand | Yes |
| The prompts people ask | Some | No | Yes |
| Checks your site is readable | Some | No | Yes, free |
| Inside your agent | Rarely | Yes | Yes |
Pay per call. Start free.
One balance pays for every tool, with nothing else to subscribe to. Every account gets 250 free credits a month, and an answer already in the cache costs 25% of the price or less.
- Run AI answers for a prompt
- From 2 credits
- Search AI prompts
- From 31 credits
- Get AI readiness for a site
- Free
- The same answer again, from the cache
- 25% or less
Pairs well with AI visibility
The same server URL and credit balance reach every source. Switch off what you don’t need.
All MCP servers- SEO MCPKeywords, rankings, backlinks and audits.
- Reddit MCPThreads, comments and subreddits.
- Hosted DataForSEO MCPDataForSEO's data, hosted, with no account.
- Semrush MCP alternativeKeyword research and rankings, pay per call.
- Ahrefs MCP alternativeKeywords and backlinks without an Ahrefs plan.
- YouTube MCPVideos, channels, comments and transcripts.
- LinkedIn MCPPosts, profiles and company pages.
- Apollo MCP alternativeCompanies, people and verified work emails.
Questions about the AI visibility MCP
Which AI engines does it cover?
ChatGPT and Gemini as their apps answer a person, read live; Claude and Perplexity from their own APIs with web search on; and Google’s AI Overviews and AI Mode. AI answer tools in the docs
Is this generative engine optimisation (GEO)?
It is the measuring half of it. Your agent sees whether you are named and which pages are cited, then helps you change the pages that matter. GEO, AEO and AI SEO are names for the same job.
Is the site readiness check free?
Yes. It checks robots.txt for every known AI crawler, firewall rules that turn them away, content that needs JavaScript, structured data and llms.txt, at no cost.
Can it track our visibility over time?
Yes, on a paid plan. An AI visibility monitor asks your questions daily or weekly and tracks your share of answers against competitors, the pages each engine cites and new brands in ChatGPT’s answers. Your agent reads the changes. AI visibility tracker
Which clients does it work with?
Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Grok, OpenCode and any other client that connects to a remote MCP server. Sign in with OAuth, or use an API key from the dashboard for scripts. Setup guides for every client
What does it cost?
Each prompt is charged per engine, and a cell that fails costs nothing. Every account gets 250 free credits a month. How credits work
See it in use
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Find what people ask ChatGPT about your category
Ask your agent which prompts people put to ChatGPT about your category and which sites the answers cite. A real run, including the one that missed.
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What is answer engine optimization (AEO)?
Answer engine optimization is the work of getting your brand named and your pages cited in AI answers. What it means, how to measure it, and where to start.
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What is generative engine optimization (GEO)?
Generative engine optimization is making content that AI search engines quote and cite. Where the term comes from, how it relates to AEO, and how to start.
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What is an AI citation?
An AI citation is a source an AI answer links. How it differs from a brand mention, why both matter, and how to see which sources AI engines cite for you.
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What is llms.txt, and do AI engines read it?
llms.txt is a proposed Markdown file that lists a site's key pages for language models. What it holds, whether AI engines read it, and what matters more.
Further reading
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The best AI visibility tools with an MCP server
When your agent needs AI visibility tracking, an MCP server connects it to the tools that monitor brand mentions and source citations across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. Here are the best AI visibility tools with MCP servers, what they cost, and which one fits your workflow.
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How to track your brand's visibility in ChatGPT
Your buyers now ask ChatGPT what to buy. Here's how to track your brand's visibility in its answers, by hand or with your agent: which prompts surface you, which competitors it recommends instead, which sources shape the answers, and what to fix.
- 12 min read
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Marketing teams juggle SEO, paid ads, CRM, email, analytics, social and outbound. Here are the best MCP servers to connect your AI agent to each, by job, with a link to our full comparison for every one.
