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.
Do AI engines recommend us?
At a glance
| Job | A repeatable AI visibility baseline |
|---|---|
| Tools | aeo_run_ai_answers, get_task, aeo_get_site_readiness |
| Credits | 29 a question on six engines; 1,506 for this run |
| Run | 52 questions, 6 engines, 311 answers, 26 October 2026 |
| Result | Named in 3.7% and cited in 10.1% of unbranded answers |
The prompt
We ran this on ourselves on 26 October 2026, with our own agent, Claude Code connected to Manifold:
Build an AI visibility baseline for Manifold. Here are 52 questions our buyers ask, tagged
by buying stage (discovery, comparison, reviews, purchase) and product area. Ask each one
on ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode. For every answer,
record whether Manifold is named, where, whether manifoldmcp.com is cited, which other
brands are named and which URLs are cited. Estimate the cost first.The questions ran from how-to asks with no tool in mind ("how can an AI agent do keyword research") through comparisons ("best SEO MCP server") to questions that name us ("is Manifold MCP free").
The calls
| Step | Tool | Input | Credits |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | aeo_get_site_readiness | manifoldmcp.com | 0 |
| 2 | aeo_run_ai_answers with dry_run | 10 questions, 6 engines | 0 |
| 3 | aeo_run_ai_answers | 52 questions in 6 batches of up to 10, 6 engines, 10 brands to detect | 1,506 |
| 4 | get_task | each batch's task id | 0 |
The dry run priced each batch of 10 questions at 290 credits before anything was spent. One question on all six engines costs 29 credits; Claude's answers cost the most. One answer of 312 failed at the provider and was not charged.
What came back
311 results, of which 276 held an answer: Google shows no AI Overview or AI Mode answer for some questions. For the 41 questions that do not name Manifold:
| Buying stage | Answers | Manifold named | manifoldmcp.com cited |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discovery ("how do I…") | 96 | 0% | 0% |
| Comparison ("best…", "… alternative") | 95 | 4.2% | 17.9% |
| Reviews ("is the DataForSEO MCP server worth it") | 6 | 0% | 0% |
| Purchase ("cheapest…", "free MCP server for…") | 21 | 19.0% | 23.8% |
| All questions that do not name us | 218 | 3.7% | 10.1% |
By engine, on the same questions:
| Engine | Named | Cited |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | 2 of 41 | 13 of 41 |
| Claude | 5 of 41 | 8 of 41 |
| Perplexity | 1 of 41 | 1 of 41 |
| Gemini | 0 of 41 | 0 of 41 |
| Google AI Mode | 0 of 36 | 0 of 36 |
| Google AI Overviews | 0 of 18 | 0 of 18 |
One of the answers that did name us, from Claude, for "best MCP server for AI visibility tracking":
Manifold has 250 free credits a month, with Pro from $20/mo.
What the agent concluded
- Cited, not named. ChatGPT cited our comparison articles 13 times but named Manifold as a pick twice. The engines read our roundups and recommend the other tools in them.
- Nothing for discovery. Not one of 96 answers to how-to questions named or cited us. Those questions are where buyers start, before they know a tool's name.
- Google's engines never mention us. Gemini, AI Overviews and AI Mode named and cited us zero times on these questions.
- The name is shared. On the 11 questions that name "Manifold MCP", 12 of 58 answers described a different product, most often a Manifold Markets server.
- The site is not the blocker. The free readiness check passed every test: AI crawlers are allowed, the content is in the HTML, and the sitemap and the homepage's structured data are in place. Only the pricing page lacked structured data, which we have since added.
Run it on your brand
Write 20 to 50 questions your buyers ask, tag each by stage, and give your agent the prompt above with your brand and up to nine competitors. Ask for the estimate first, run it, and keep the raw results. Run the same questions again in two to four weeks and compare the rates, not single answers. For a smaller first look, the guide to tracking your brand in ChatGPT starts with five questions.
