AI Mention Rate
See the share of measured answers in which the tracked brand appears.
AI Visibility
See when AI recommends your business—and when it does not
Use BoostGeo’s AI visibility tools to track grounded answers to buyer questions, compare brand mentions and competitors, and inspect cited sources across repeated runs.
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From question to evidence
Know which buyer questions surface your brand
AI Visibility keeps the question, engine response, detected brands, competitors, citations, and run history connected so teams can inspect the underlying evidence instead of relying on a single opaque score.
Inside an AI visibility check
Mentioned by AI, without a website citation.
A brand can appear in an answer without its website appearing in the sources. This recorded example shows why an AI visibility tracker should keep both signals.
The buyer’s question
Where can I buy sports apparel online?
The question did not name the tracked brand.
What the answer said
The answer suggested several retailers and named the tracked brand as one option for performance activewear.
Answer summary. Brand names and source URLs have been removed.
- Brand mentioned in the answer
- Yes
- Brand’s website in the returned sources
- No
- Source URLs returned
- 20
What to do next
Review the sources attached to the recommendation. Check whether your own site makes the relevant products and buying information easy to find. Then repeat a comparable set of buyer questions to see whether the pattern holds.
This answer confirms a mention. It does not establish overall visibility or explain why the engine chose those sources.
How this example was checked
We reviewed the saved answer and all 20 returned source URLs. The tracked brand appeared in the answer; none of those URLs used the brand’s domain or a subdomain.
The question was in English and did not specify a country. A country setting was not preserved with the run, so this is not labeled as a US-only result. It was a Sonar API observation, not a test in the Perplexity consumer app.
The summary above is a paraphrase of one answer, selected to explain the difference between a mention and a website citation. It is not a visibility trend, a customer outcome or an independent assessment of the brand.
Track your own buyer questions and inspect the answer behind each result.
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A clear path from uncertainty to evidence
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Choose buyer questions
Track realistic questions tied to discovery, comparison, trust, and decision—not generic prompts selected only because they produce a flattering result.
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Run supported AI surfaces
BoostGeo records answers from the supported engine surfaces configured for the project and preserves their run context.
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Inspect mentions and sources
See whether the brand appeared, which competitors were included, and which cited sources influenced the answer when citations are available.
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Follow change over time
Compare repeated runs without treating one answer as permanent or representative of the entire market.
What you can inspect
Evidence you can open and understand
Competitor context
Understand which alternatives surface beside—or instead of—the business.
Answer evidence
Open the underlying run rather than trusting a dashboard total alone.
Source inspection
Review cited domains when the measured engine returns grounded sources.
Evidence boundary
How to interpret AI Visibility honestly
- Results reflect the configured questions, engines, run time, and available location or language context.
- AI answers can vary between runs and between public interfaces and APIs.
- A brand mention is not automatically a recommendation, citation, lead, or sale.
- Website Readiness and snapshot-comprehension probes must not be presented as independent public visibility.
Practical guide
How to track AI search visibility over time
Good monitoring starts with decisions customers actually make and preserves enough evidence to explain every metric.
Map questions to buying stages
Include discovery, comparison, qualification, and decision questions so the project reflects a real evaluation process.
Separate mentions from citations
A brand can be named without its website being cited. Store and interpret those signals separately.
Use competitors as context
Competitor appearance helps explain the category, but visibility is not a simple league table of business quality.
Connect findings to action
Use the answer and source evidence to identify a specific website, facts, authority, or customer-experience gap before creating work.
Common questions
Clear answers before you start
What is AI Visibility?
AI Visibility is BoostGeo’s customer-facing area for measuring whether a brand appears in grounded answers to tracked buyer questions, alongside competitors, citations, and run history.
What should an AI visibility tracker measure?
Start with relevant buyer questions, the brand mentions and citations in each measured answer, and the engine and time of the run. Repeat a comparable question set and review the underlying evidence before interpreting a change. A mention, a recommendation and a citation are different observations.
Which AI engines does BoostGeo support?
Supported engine surfaces can vary by plan, geography, provider availability, and product release. The workspace identifies the engine and run context for each measured answer.
Does one missing mention mean my business is invisible?
No. One answer is one observation. Useful conclusions require relevant questions, repeated runs, and careful interpretation of the available evidence.
How is AI Visibility different from Website Readiness?
Website Readiness evaluates what a submitted page communicates. AI Visibility observes whether a brand appears in answers to tracked buyer questions.
AI Visibility