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AI Engine Optimization

See where AI cites
your competitors
instead of you.

Get a prompt-by-prompt breakdown of your brand's AI visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude — with a ranked fix list tied to real buyer questions you're losing.

Results in 60 seconds. No sign-up. The same data our Citation Index uses for 5,200+ B2B SaaS brands.

hubspot.com · AEO Audit
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AEO Score

72/100
Challenger

Category rank

#3 in CRM

Citation rate by model

ChatGPT
84%
Perplexity
71%
Gemini
65%
Claude
68%

Top fix · +18% impact

Add comparison pages — you're cited in 71% of discovery prompts but only 34% of evaluation prompts where Salesforce wins.

5,200+brands tracked
18B2B SaaS categories
4AI engines
47Kprompts run last week

How it works

Audit. Monitor. Fix. Act.

01

Run a free audit in 60 seconds

Enter your domain. We query ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude with real buyer discovery and evaluation prompts from your category. You get a citation score, a model-by-model breakdown, and your rank against every competitor we track.

No sign-up. No credit card. The audit runs the same prompt battery we use for the Citation Index — 50–100 prompts per category, updated weekly.

hubspot.com · AEO Audit
Live · Just now

AEO Score

72/100
Challenger

Category rank

#3 in CRM

Citation rate by model

ChatGPT
84%
Perplexity
71%
Gemini
65%
Claude
68%

Top fix · +18% impact

Add comparison pages — you're cited in 71% of discovery prompts but only 34% of evaluation prompts where Salesforce wins.

02

Track your position week over week

Claim your brand to unlock weekly monitoring. See how your citation rate changes as models update, as you publish new content, and as competitors move. Every brand in your category is tracked — so you see the full competitive picture, not just yourself.

The Citation Index is updated every week. When you gain ground on a competitor, you'll see exactly which prompts moved.

Citation Index · CRMUpdated this week
1Salesforce
91%
2HubSpot← you
72%
3Pipedrive
54%
4Monday CRM
41%
5Zoho CRM
33%

+47 more brands tracked in CRM

03

Get a fix list, not a generic checklist

Every recommendation is tied to specific prompts where a competitor is cited instead of you. You see exactly which buyer question you're losing, what content the competitor has that you don't, and how much citation lift fixing it is worth.

Ranked by citation impact. Not generic AEO advice — each fix maps directly to a buyer question your content team can act on this week.

Fix list · ranked by citation impact
HIGH+18% citations

Add comparison pages

You win 71% of discovery prompts but lose 66% of evaluation prompts. Salesforce, Pipedrive, and Zoho all have dedicated comparison pages you don't. AI cites them when buyers ask 'X vs Y'.

MED+11% citations

Increase G2 review density for use cases

Enterprise CRM and Sales Forecasting use cases have <40 reviews mentioning these terms. Top-cited brands average 200+. More specific use-case reviews = more AI retrieval signal.

MED+8% citations

Add llms.txt to hubspot.com

No llms.txt detected. Without it, AI crawlers have no structured signal about your product positioning, use cases, or ICP. Adding it takes 30 minutes and improves context in all 4 engines.

Coming next

From fix list to fixed

The next layer: tools that turn your citation gaps into content you can ship. No generic advice — everything is generated from the exact prompts you're losing.

In development

AEO Brief Generator

Pick any prompt where a competitor is cited instead of you. Get a full content brief: what to write, which questions to answer, what schema to add — tied to the actual buyer query.

In development

llms.txt Generator

Auto-generate a ready-to-deploy llms.txt for your domain. Pre-filled with your use cases, ICP, and the signals AI engines need to cite you accurately.

In development

Weekly Fix Digest

Every Monday: the 3 prompts that moved against you this week, which competitor gained, and exactly what content to write. Turns monitoring into assigned work.

The framework

Five pillars of AI citation readiness

AI engines don't rank by keyword density. They cite brands based on five measurable signals. Your audit score is built from all five — and the fix list tells you exactly which pillar to move first.

Score your brand →
1

Citation Readiness

llms.txt, entity definitions, factual density — the structural signals AI engines read before they cite.

2

Content Coverage

Comparison pages, case studies, and FAQ depth — the page types AI consistently cites in evaluation prompts.

3

Platform Signals

G2 review volume, Reddit presence, and third-party mentions — the social proof layer AI treats as evidence.

4

Structured Data

Schema markup that lets AI accurately describe your product, pricing, and use cases.

5

Technical AEO

Crawler access, indexability, and AI-bot-specific signals across ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity.

The shift

AI is the new first touch for B2B buyers

When a VP of Sales asks Perplexity “what’s the best CRM for a 50-person team?”, they get a shortlist of 3–5 brands. If you're not on it, you're not in the conversation — and you never know.

70%

of B2B buyers use AI to research software before contacting sales

3–5

brands cited per AI response — the shortlist that wins the deal

5,200+

B2B SaaS brands already tracked across 18 categories

60s

to get your citation score, competitive rank, and fix list

Find out where you stand.

Free audit. Your category rank, model breakdown, and fix list — in 60 seconds.

No sign-up required. Same data behind 5,200+ brands in the Citation Index.

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