ObsurfableObsurfable shows you when and how your brand appears in AI answers, and gives you the tools to improve it.
The Explorer is a free, public corpus of AI observations — prompts, answers, brands mentioned, and citations — so everyone can see how LLMs describe your category.
Search is changing. People are no longer clicking ten blue links. They are asking questions and trusting the answer they get. If your brand is missing, misrepresented, or invisible in those answers, you will never see the traffic you lost.
We show you when and how you appear—and how to improve it.
Free tool
How visible is your brand in ChatGPT?
Run a free check in seconds. We simulate buyer-style questions and score how likely ChatGPT is to mention, describe, and recommend your company.
Free check—work email required, no account signup. Results in ~30 seconds.
Public corpus
A living dataset of AI observations
Every observation records a prompt, model, timestamp, response, brands mentioned, and citations. Company pages, category rankings, and prompt histories are views over that shared corpus — free to browse.
You can explore:
- 01Buyer-style prompts and the latest AI answers
- 02Company mention profiles across the research corpus
- 03Category recommendation landscapes
- 04Citations and brands that show up alongside each other
- 05Observation history as part of the public dataset
- 06Optional contribution when you run your own prompts
How it works
Browse prompts, companies, and categories in the Explorer
Read observations — full AI answers with brands mentioned and citations
Explore company and category pages built from the shared corpus
Sign in to explore observation history and to contribute observations back to the public dataset
We measure with ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Grok, and more. A shared public dataset means everyone — startups, researchers, and incumbents — sees the same evidence.
Resources
Learn how AI answers shape your brand
Guides, reports, and data on how AI answers questions about your brand—and how to be part of those answers.
What Is Answer Engine Optimization?
Answer engine optimization (AEO) is the practice of improving how your brand appears in direct answers from AI assistants and answer engines. Learn what AEO is, how it differs from SEO, why it matters, and how to build an effective AEO strategy.
Top Domains Cited by LLMs: August 2026
Ahrefs Brand Radar's latest monthly snapshots put Reddit at 16.7% of ChatGPT citations and YouTube at 31.2% of Perplexity's. Here is the August 2026 leaderboard by platform — and what moved since July.
AEO & GEO Report - Answer Engine and Generative Engine Optimization
A comprehensive report on AEO/GEO tactics, technical implementation, and measurement for AI-driven search.
How to Measure AI Visibility: KPIs Beyond CTR and Rankings
Position and click-through rate no longer tell you if AI systems recommend your brand. Here are the KPIs that matter for answer engine optimization in 2026.
The Free AEO Checklist for Indie Hackers (No Budget Required)
A practical, no-budget answer engine optimization checklist for solo founders and indie hackers. Everything here you can do yourself with time instead of money to get your product mentioned in ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI answers.
Only 11% Overlap: Why ChatGPT and Perplexity Need Separate AEO Strategies
CiteMetrix tracked 680 million AI citations and found only 11% of cited domains overlap between ChatGPT and Perplexity. Here is how each platform sources answers — and how to optimize for both.
Explorer
Browse the free, public corpus of AI observations — prompts, answers, brands mentioned, and citations from ChatGPT, Gemini, and more.
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Practical guides, research summaries, and essays on answer engine optimization and how AI systems use content.
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In-depth reports and case studies on AEO, GEO, and visibility in the LLM era.
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Data and analysis on AI citation patterns, domain rankings, and industry benchmarks.
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Structured playbooks and courses on AI-powered search: LLM SEO, GEO, and AEO so your brand gets found and recommended by ChatGPT, Gemini, and other AI tools.
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Explore our learning platform for interactive courses and in-depth training on AI-powered search and answer engine optimization.
View all →The shift is already happening
AI systems are becoming the interface to the internet.
If you are not visible in answers, you are invisible.
See what's public before it costs you.