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Emerging teams

Your first AI search program starts with one honest baseline.

Proofsource is an AI visibility platform that shows which buyer questions name your brand in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews, who gets named instead, and exactly what to fix. Nobody owns AI search on your team yet, and that is fine. Start with one baseline: the questions your buyers ask, who gets named and the first three fixes.

2 free scans today and tomorrow, 25 questions, no card.

First scan: Tesla100 buyer answersPublic example
53/100buyer answers named Tesla

Answers naming Tesla, by engine

ChatGPT16/25
AI Overviews16/25
Claude11/25
Perplexity10/25
Jobs to be done

Five things a first program has to answer.

You do not need a strategy deck to start. You need a number, a list of rivals, a list of sources and one owner for the next step.

Job 01

Get a number you can defend

The first scan asks 25 buyer questions on each of the 4 engines and counts the answers that name you. Every rate carries its 95% interval, and when an answer set is small we show the count instead of a percentage that would overstate it.
Job 02

See who gets named instead

For every question you miss, you see the brands the engine recommended in your place and the exact answer it gave. That is usually the first time a team sees its real competitive set in AI search, and it is rarely the list in the sales deck.
Job 03

Find the pages the engines trust

Citations show which pages each engine leaned on: comparison posts, review sites, forums and your own pages. The ones that name rivals and not you are where most early wins come from.
Job 04

Pick the first fix, not the first fifty

Fixes ranks what to do next, from a missing listicle to a page AI crawlers cannot read, and drafts the content fixes for you to edit. Start with three.
Job 05

Hand the job to someone

Share a read-only report link with whoever will own it, and ask Ask Proof plain questions about your own answers, like which engine is weakest and why.
Day one

A hundred answers, read for you.

Proofsource writes the questions from your site and your category, and you review them before the scan runs. The second scan, a day later, shows which answers held and which moved.

  • 25 questions on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews
  • Who is named instead, per question and per engine
  • The pages each engine cited, and whether you are on them
  • No card, and your answers stay after the trial
Question coverageScan 1 of 2Illustrative
Buyer questionChatGPTPerplexityClaudeAI Overviews
best invoicing software for freelancers●○●○
invoicing tool that handles VAT in the EU○○○○
alternatives to the market leader for small teams●●○●
cheapest way to send recurring invoices○●○○
invoicing app with a free plan●●●○
Week one

Ship three fixes before you hire for this.

Early AI visibility work is mostly unglamorous: get onto the pages the engines already cite, make your own pages readable to their crawlers, and answer the questions you are missing in plain words on your site.

  • Fixes ordered by how many answers each one could change
  • A site check that shows what AI crawlers can actually read
  • Content drafts you edit and publish yourself
Fixes, ordered by what they unlockIllustrative
  • Get onto the comparison page cited in 9 answersNamed instead: two rivals. Cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity.Missing
  • Your pricing page reads as empty to AI crawlersThe page renders in the browser, so a crawler sees almost no text.Unreadable
  • Answer “does it handle EU VAT?” on your own site0 of 4 engines named you. A draft is ready to edit.Draft ready
After the first scan

What your team will know by tomorrow.

Baseline

Your mention rate

How many of 100 answers named you, per engine, with the range the number could really sit in.

Rivals

Your real competitive set

The brands AI recommends when it leaves you out, ranked by how often, with the answer text behind each one.

Sources

Your missing pages

The cited pages that name rivals and not you, so the first outreach or content brief writes itself.

ChatGPT
Perplexity
Claude
Google AI Overviews
FAQ

Questions emerging teams ask

Nobody owns AI search here yet. Is it too early?

No. The baseline is most useful before anyone has changed anything, because it is the number every later change gets measured against. One person can run the trial in an afternoon.

What does the free trial include?

2 free scans, today and tomorrow. Each scan asks 25 buyer questions on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews, with no card and no sales call. After the second scan, scanning pauses and every answer stays in your workspace.

Which AI engines do you check?

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews, on the trial and on every Custom plan. Grok and DeepSeek can be added to a Custom plan.

How is this different from SEO rank tracking?

Rank tracking tells you where a link sits on a results page. AI answers often have no ranking at all: the engine names two or three brands and moves on. Proofsource reads the answer itself and records who was named, what was said and which pages were cited.

What happens after the trial?

Your answers stay. To keep tracking every day on more questions and brands, talk to us about Custom. Custom starts from $64 per brand per month. Final price confirmed at launch.

Get your baseline this week.

See whether AI names your brand, who it names instead, and what to fix. 2 free scans, today and tomorrow. No card.

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