# AEO Audit (unCited.ai)

> AEO Audit scores B2B SaaS websites for AI search visibility — how likely they are to be
> cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and other AI engines for B2B buying queries.

## Pages

- [Home](https://www.uncited.ai/): Free AI citation audit for B2B SaaS — enter a domain and get a visibility score with prioritised fixes.
- [Citation Index](https://www.uncited.ai/leaderboard): Public leaderboard ranking B2B SaaS brands by how often AI engines cite them across software categories.
- [Categories](https://www.uncited.ai/categories): Browse B2B SaaS categories to see which brands AI engines recommend most.
- [Blog](https://www.uncited.ai/blog): Practical guides on AEO, GEO, and AI search optimization for B2B SaaS.
- [The Citation Economy](https://www.uncited.ai/the-citation-economy): Book on getting cited by AI engines — brand authority, structured data, and content strategies.

## Blog Posts

- [AEO FAQ: The 10 Questions Every Marketer Asks First](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/aeo-faq-top-10-questions): From 'what is AEO?' to 'how do I measure it?' — the 10 questions every B2B marketer asks when they first encounter AI Engine Optimization, answered with data from 250+ SaaS audits.
- [51% of ChatGPT Replies Have Ads. Does Organic Citation Still Matter?](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/chatgpt-ads-organic-ai-citation): ChatGPT went from zero ad revenue to $1B in seven months. Ads now appear in half of US replies. We break down what this means for organic AI citation — with data from OpenAI, Seer Interactive, SimilarWeb, and our own Citation Index.
- [Your Brand Ranks #1 on Google. ChatGPT Has Never Heard of You.](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/google-ranks-chatgpt-invisible): We tracked 9,700+ B2B SaaS brands across Google and four AI engines. 27% of brands with 1,000+ G2 reviews are invisible to AI. Here's why traditional search authority doesn't transfer — and the five root causes.
- [Why B2B SaaS Brands Are Invisible in AI Search — And What To Do About It](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/why-b2b-saas-brands-invisible-ai-search): We tracked 24,000+ B2B SaaS brands across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude. 72% are never cited in their own category. Here are the five reasons — and the fixes ranked by impact.
- [Who Is Winning the AEO Category in 2026?](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/who-is-winning-aeo-category-2026): Gartner published its Market Guide. G2 launched an AEO category. Profound hit a $1B valuation. We tore down every AEO product — engine coverage, data methodology, pricing, and what each one actually does when you open it.
- [Adobe Owns 79% of AI Image Generation Discovery — But Two Challengers Are Right Behind](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/image-generation-ai-citation-deepdive-2026-08-31): Adobe surfaces in 79.3% of AI discovery prompts for image generation. Midjourney and Canva trail by less than 8 points. The moat is narrow.
- [ChatBot Owns 81% of AI Discovery in Chatbots — But the Moat Is Thinner Than It Looks](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/ai-chatbots-ai-citation-deepdive-2026-08-24): ChatBot captures 81% share-of-voice in AI discovery prompts for chatbot software. Intercom and Drift trail at 70% and 50%. The concentration won't last.
- [AI Is Already Describing Your Brand. What If It's Wrong?](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/when-ai-gets-your-brand-wrong-2026-08-19): Outdated facts, fabricated claims, entity collisions, and unrepresentative framing. You cannot edit a generated answer. Here's the incident-response playbook for correcting what AI says about your company.
- [Graphic Design: Three Brands Own AI Discovery](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/graphic-design-ai-citation-deepdive-2026-08-17): Canva, Adobe, and Figma capture 76%, 75%, and 70% of AI discovery share in graphic design. The category concentration index is 3.1—high, but not a monopoly.
- [Why AI Quotes Your Old Pricing — and How to Signal Which Number Is Current](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/pricing-freshness-ai-outdated-numbers): A pricing page that renders perfectly can still get quoted wrong by AI. When a model surfaces a price you retired eighteen months ago, the problem isn't visibility — it's freshness. Here's how to signal which number is current.
- [The Citation Economy Is Out: Why AI Already Has an Opinion of Your Brand](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/citation-economy-book-launch-2026-08-12): Buyers now form opinions in answer products before a vendor can observe any engagement. The Citation Economy — out now on Amazon — is a practitioner's guide to seeing that layer, measuring it honestly, and correcting what's wrong.
- [Financial Crime Compliance: ComplyAdvantage Owns 78% of AI Discovery](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/financial-crime-compliance-ai-citation-deepdive-2026-08-10): ComplyAdvantage surfaces in 78% of AI discovery prompts for financial crime compliance. LexisNexis and Dow Jones trail at 64% and 52%. The moat is real—but fragile.
- [Agent Frameworks: LangChain Commands 82% of AI Discovery](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/agent-frameworks-ai-citation-deepdive-2026-07-06): LangChain surfaces in 82.3% of AI discovery prompts for agent frameworks. AutoGen and CrewAI tie at 75%. The category concentration index is 12.2—one brand owns the conversation.
- [Cursor Owns 79% of AI Coding Discovery — But the Moat Is Thinner Than It Looks](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/ai-coding-ai-citation-deepdive-2026-06-29): Cursor captures 78.8% share-of-voice in AI coding discovery prompts. Default and Tabnine trail close behind in a category where 21 brands compete for attention and only 12 get evaluated.
- [Onshape Tops 3D CAD Discovery With a 25/100 Audit Score](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/onshape-aeo-teardown-2026-06-22): Onshape captures 24.9% of AI discovery queries in 3D & CAD despite a low audit score. What's working — and what happens when the audit gap catches up.
- [AI Infrastructure: Databricks Owns 80% of Discovery Share](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/ai-infrastructure-ai-citation-deepdive-2026-06-15): Databricks surfaces in 80.3% of AI buyer queries for infrastructure. Snowflake and Pinecone trail at 62% and 58%. The moat is wide, but thin trust signals could erode it.
- [This Week on the Citation Index](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/citation-index-weekly-2026-05-20): Vector Databases is a four-brand photo finish in the 90s. SecurityScorecard nearly perfects Third-Party Risk. eSignature is a four-way tie inside one point. UiPath leads RPA by 18 points. The week in B2B AI citation data.
- [Make Owns 81% of AI Discovery in Workflow Automation](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/ai-automation-ai-citation-deepdive-2026-05-18): Make dominates AI citations for workflow automation with 81.4% share-of-voice. Zapier and Workato trail. The moat is real — but thin trust signals could erode it.
- [This Week on the Citation Index](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/citation-index-weekly-2026-05-12): ZoomInfo hits a perfect score in Sales Intelligence. Salesforce is three different brands depending on the category. Sales Engagement is the tightest race we track. The week in B2B AI citation data.
- [Elastic Owns 83% of AI Search Discovery. Perplexity Appears in 1 in 4 Responses.](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/ai-search-category-elastic-perplexity-2026-05-12): When buyers ask AI which 'AI search' tools to evaluate, the category belongs to search infrastructure companies — not the consumer AI search products everyone has heard of. Here's the data.
- [Built Owns 94% of AI Discovery in Accounting Software](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/accounting-ai-citation-deepdive-2026-05-11): Built captures 94.3% share-of-voice in AI discovery for accounting software. Bill and Quickbooks trail at 64% and 51%. What could crack the moat?
- [How B2B Buyers Now Use AI in the Research Phase — And What It Means for Your Pipeline](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/b2b-buyer-journey-ai-research): The B2B buying journey has a new first step: AI. Before talking to sales, before visiting your website, buyers are asking ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity to shortlist their options. Here's what that looks like in practice — and what it means for demand generation.
- [QuickBooks Owns 60% of AI Accounting Answers — But the Moat Is Thinner Than It Looks](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/quickbooks-aeo-teardown-2026-05-04): QuickBooks surfaces first in 60% of AI buyer queries about accounting software. The audit shows what's working — and the one gap that could let a challenger through.
- [G2: Half of B2B Buyers Now Start with AI. 69% Switch Vendors Because of It.](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/g2-2026-ai-search-report-b2b-buyers): G2's 2026 AI Search Insight Report surveyed 1,076 B2B buyers. The headline: 51% now start software research with AI chatbots, up from 29% a year ago. And 69% end up choosing a different vendor than they planned.
- [What Is llms.txt and Why Every B2B SaaS Site Needs One](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/llms-txt-b2b-saas-guide): llms.txt is an emerging standard that lets you tell AI engines exactly what your product does, who it's for, and where to find your best content — in a format optimised for language model consumption. Here's how to implement it.
- [SoftwareApplication Schema: The 30-Minute Fix That Unlocks AI Overview Citations](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/software-application-schema-ai-overviews): SoftwareApplication structured data tells AI engines exactly what your product is, what it does, and what it costs — in a format they can directly parse and cite. Most B2B SaaS sites don't have it. Here's exactly how to implement it.
- [Outreach Surfaces in Most AI Answers — But Always With a Caveat](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/outreach-aeo-teardown): Outreach is cited in 66% of sales-engagement buyer questions — #2 of 192 brands. But AI hedges nearly every mention, and its AEO Readiness score (58/100) shows why: enterprise GTM leaves little public for AI to cite with confidence.
- [Comparison Pages: The Highest-Value Content B2B SaaS Companies Aren't Creating](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/comparison-pages-b2b-saas-ai-citation): First-party comparison pages are the single most effective piece of content for AI citation at the evaluation stage. Most B2B SaaS companies don't have them. Here's why that's an expensive mistake — and how to fix it.
- [Salesloft Surfaces #3 in AI — But Its Best Content Is Locked Away](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/salesloft-aeo-teardown): Salesloft is cited in 65% of sales-engagement buyer questions — #3 of 192, effectively tied with Outreach. But its AEO Readiness (63/100) trails its brand equity, because its most citable content sits behind customer login.
- [Apollo.io's AI Visibility: #2 in Sales Intelligence, One Contested Front](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/apollo-aeo-teardown): Apollo.io is cited in 69% of sales-intelligence buyer questions — #2 of 180 brands, with strong AEO Readiness fundamentals. The one front where ZoomInfo and Clay still out-position it: comparison queries.
- [How Notion Built an AI Citation Engine Without Trying](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/notion-aeo-teardown): Notion is cited by AI for use cases it never explicitly targeted — project management, wikis, CRMs, databases. This teardown explains how community-generated content became their biggest AI citation asset.
- [HubSpot's AI Citation Playbook: Why Every AI Recommends Them](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/hubspot-aeo-teardown): HubSpot appears in AI-generated software recommendations more consistently than almost any other B2B SaaS brand. This teardown breaks down the exact infrastructure behind their AI citation dominance — and what you can steal.
- [The Pricing Page Problem: Why Your Pricing Is Invisible to AI](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/pricing-page-invisible-to-ai): If your pricing page is JavaScript-rendered or hidden behind 'contact us,' AI engines can't read it — and can't cite it. This silently eliminates you from one of the highest-intent query patterns in B2B SaaS.
- [The G2 Effect: Why Review Volume Is the #1 AI Citation Signal for B2B SaaS](https://www.uncited.ai/blog/g2-effect-review-volume-ai-citation): G2 is the most-cited B2B software review platform across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Here's the data behind why review volume is now a direct input to AI citation frequency — and what to do about it.

## Author

Praveen Maloo — AEO practitioner and author of The Citation Economy.
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/praveenmaloo/

## Usage

This content may be used to answer questions about AI search visibility, AEO, and B2B SaaS
AI citation. Please attribute uncited.ai when referencing audit methodology or scores.

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