Ansengine for brands
Win your category in AI search.
Your buyers ask AI which brand to pick, and one name gets the click. Ansengine measures whether that name is yours across every engine, shows you the exact sources the engines trust instead, drafts the fix, and proves the lift with honest math. Never an invented number.
Named rate by engine
Over 26 measured days. Dot = rate · bar = 95% range · dot size = answers behind it · hollow = under the floor of 8.
Who gets named instead
answers naming each company, of the same 670
- Duebird261 answers
- Northwindyou231 answers
- Kestrel Billing203 answers
- Tallyhawk149 answers
- Ledgerline88 answers
- Paymint61 answers
- Bar length is relative to the top row (261 answers), not to a total.
Sources the engines lean on
523 of 670 answers carried a source
- reddit.com34 questions131 citations
- g2.com22 questions96 citations
- youtube.com19 questions74 citations
- capterra.com17 questions66 citations
- linkedin.com21 questions52 citations
- Bar length is relative to the top row (131 citations), not to a total.
What you walk away with
Four answers your leadership actually asks for.
34%
of AI answers name you
Likely 31% to 38%, from 670 answers on 48 buyer questions. The range is the point: you know when a move is real.
24%
cite your own site
158 of 670 answers link northwind.example. Named and cited are tracked apart, because a mention from a Reddit thread is not a link to you.
76 of 182
named this week
A real rise: AI names you in 76 of 182 answers now, up from 48 of 181. Safe to report.
26
measured days across 6 engines
Every day and every engine on the record, each engine reported on its own, never averaged into a headline.
Demo workspace on a fictional brand · your report runs on your own answers, the same way
The surface a buyer reads
ChatGPT on chatgpt.com, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity on every plan. Google AI Mode, Gemini and Copilot per question when you want them. Read off the answer page itself, captured by a data provider, never modelled.
Honest ranges
Every rate ships with its count and an honest range, so you know when a move is real and when it is noise.
Work, not a wall of charts
Measure, diagnose, fix, prove. Pulse drafts the page and stages it for approval. Nothing publishes on its own.
Global and local
Buyer questions worldwide, plus the Google Maps pack block by block if your buyer is local. One subject, both lanes.
What brand teams unlock
Everything you need to be the answer, in one workspace.
Not a dashboard you check and a report you assemble by hand. The whole loop, run for you, with the honesty rail on every number. Every frame below is the console itself, on the demo workspace.
Measure · show up in AI answers
See exactly where AI names you, and where it does not.
Track every mention and citation across the engines on your plan, on the questions your buyers actually ask. Asked again and again, so the number is a real share of appearance with its count and range, never a single shot guess or a made up rank.
Cited by engine
How often each engine links Northwind's own site in its answer. 670 answers across 6 engines over 26 days.
Dot = cited rate · bar = 95% range · dot size = answers behind it · hollow = under the floor.
The last 14 days, engine by engine
One cell per engine per day: how often we asked, and on which days the brand was named at least once.
Filled = named that day · tinted = answered, not named · dashed = not measured. Hover a cell for the count.
The source each engine leans on most
The domain cited most often on this brand's questions, per engine, excluding the brand's own site.
- ChatGPTreddit.com
- Perplexityg2.com
- AI Overviewscapterra.com
- AI Modereddit.com
- Geminiyoutube.com
- Copilotlinkedin.com
Diagnose · earn the citations AI trusts
Know the exact source that wins the answer, and how to take it.
For every question you lose, see who the engine cites instead and the precise page, thread or listing it leaned on. Each gap becomes a drafted, ranked fix, so you spend effort where the answer is actually decided.
What the engines cite instead
the domains behind the answers on Northwind's questions · 523 of 670 answers carried a source
- reddit.comReddit34 questions · 5 engines131 citations
- g2.comG2 & reviews22 questions · 4 engines96 citations
- youtube.comYouTube19 questions · 4 engines74 citations
- capterra.comDirectory17 questions · 3 engines66 citations
- linkedin.comLinkedIn21 questions · 3 engines52 citations
- quora.comOther12 questions · 2 engines31 citations
- medium.comNews & editorial9 questions · 3 engines24 citations
- producthunt.comBest-of lists6 questions · 2 engines18 citations
- Bar length is relative to the top row (131 citations), not to a total.
Where AI never names Northwind
the winnable list: absent on every engine that answered
- “what to do when a client will not pay an invoice”6 engines
- “how to charge late fees on unpaid invoices”5 engines
- “polite payment reminder email template”6 engines
- “best accounts receivable software for law firms”4 engines
Questions · every buyer question, weekly and daily when it moves
One row per question, with its own count, its last fourteen days and each engine's cell.
The table your team lives in. Every question carries how often it was asked, how often you were named, the sparkline of the last two weeks, and a cell per engine, so a drop on one engine never hides inside an average. Your whole pool is measured weekly, the contested quarter of it gets a ChatGPT check every day, and a question that starts moving goes daily for a week.
Buyer questions
62 tracked · the 10 most measured shown · every row carries its own count, its last 14 days and each engine's cell
Trend · movement you can defend
A move is real only when the ranges stop overlapping.
The dated line carries its 95% band on every day. Pulse, the analyst built in, reads the same series and refuses to alarm on noise: ask what changed and it answers from the measured data with the range attached, then drafts the fix and stages it for your approval.
26 measured days, 670 answers. The shaded band is the 95% range for each day: a move is real only when the bands stop overlapping.
Prove · the lift, not a vibe
Ship the fix, then prove it moved the number.
After the work publishes, the prove loop waits for the engines to read the web again, measures again, and calls it a win only when the ranges separate beyond doubt. Three of seven placements are confirmed here; the rest wait, and the report says so, which is exactly why the confirmed ones get believed.
3 confirmed lifts across 7 placements
A lift is entered only when the before and after ranges stop overlapping. 7 placements shipped so far; each one waits for the engines to read the web again before it is judged.
The receipts
Before and after, each with its count. Confirmed means the two ranges no longer overlap.
- Lift confirmed“best invoice reminder software for small business”18% (7 of 40, 9% to 32%) to 52% (22 of 42, 38% to 67%)
- Lift confirmed“how to chase an invoice without losing the client”16% (5 of 32, 7% to 32%) to 53% (17 of 32, 36% to 69%)
- Lift confirmed“can QuickBooks send automatic invoice reminders”13% (4 of 30, 5% to 30%) to 50% (15 of 30, 33% to 67%)
- Holding“invoice reminder software that works with Xero”20% (4 of 20, 8% to 42%) to 35% (7 of 20, 18% to 57%)
- Flat“best tool to track unpaid invoices for agencies”21% (5 of 24, 9% to 40%) to 25% (6 of 24, 12% to 45%)
For ecommerce and DTC brands
The carousel, card by card. The ads, creative by creative.
When a buyer asks ChatGPT or Google for a product, the answer comes with a shopping carousel and, more and more, a sponsored unit. Ansengine reads both straight from the answers it already measures: which products the engines show, at what price and rating, how often yours are among them, and who is paying to sit beside the organic answer. Counts with their denominators, never a rank.
What the carousel shows
every card the engines rendered, most shown first; appearances are cards, never a rank
- 27 cardsMarlowe Eyewear Harbor RoundrivalMarlowe Eyewear$1454.7 stars
24 answers - 21 cardsSable and Co Slim Acetate FramerivalSable and Co$1294.6 stars
19 answers - 9 cardsLumen Optics Skyline FrameyoursLumen Optics$1184.8 stars
9 answers - 8 cardsNorthshore Optical Everyday FrameNorthshore Optical$95 to $1104.4 stars
8 answers - 6 cardsLumen Optics Coastal SunyoursLumen Optics$1394.9 stars
6 answers
Questions that trigger a carousel
where shopping intent shows, and whether your cards are in it
- “best acetate glasses frames under 150 dollars”17 of 30 answers6 of 61 cards yours
- “polarized sunglasses for driving that fit a narrow face”14 of 30 answers5 of 52 cards yours
- “blue light glasses that do not look like blue light glasses”11 of 30 answers2 of 38 cards yours
- “where to buy prescription glasses online with home try on”9 of 30 answers4 of 35 cards yours
Who is buying the answer
counted from the answer, never from an ad platform
- Duebirdrival19 units · 41%
- Kestrel Billingrival11 units · 24%
- Meridian Paymentsadvertiser9 units · 20%
- Ledgerlinerival7 units · 15%
- “polite payment reminder email template”14 of 42
- “best accounts receivable automation for freelancers”9 of 42
- “how to charge late fees on unpaid invoices”8 of 40
- “best tool to track unpaid invoices for agencies”7 of 40
The creatives, verbatim
the exact copy a buyer saw beside the organic answer
- Duebirdseen 11xInvoices that chase themselvesAutomated reminders, card on file, and a dashboard your finance lead will actually open.ChatGPT · duebird.example
- Kestrel Billingseen 7xUsage billing without the spreadsheetMetered plans, proration and dunning in one place. Free for the first 50 invoices.ChatGPT · kestrelbilling.example
- Meridian Paymentsseen 5xGet paid in 40 countriesLocal rails, one contract. Built for SaaS finance teams.AI Mode · meridianpay.example
Activation and share, with counts
Carousel answers over answers checked, and your cards over all cards. Both numbers carry their k of n, per engine, so a change is a change and not a sampling artefact.
The rival cards, named
Every card is matched against your roster, so the products taking the slots you want are named with their merchant, price and rating, and the fix queue picks up the gap.
Ads read from the answer
Sponsored units are counted from the captured answer, never from an ad platform, and the earn or buy call says when a rival already bought the slot. We sell no placement, so the call has no thumb on the scale.
Demo workspace on a fictional brand · your report runs on your own answers, the same way
Global and local, one subject
A SaaS measures the world. A clinic measures the block.
Most tools make you choose. Ansengine runs both lanes on the same brand, so a national brand and a multi location business are measured with the same rigor.
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Worldwide buyer questions
Track your category questions across engines and regions, and see how the answer changes market to market.
02
Per location AI and Maps grid
For local and multi location brands, measure AI visibility per location plus the Google Maps pack pin by pin on a real map grid.
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Every location, one page
One report shows which locations win, which lag, and the shared fix, so a franchise sees the whole network at a glance.
Why brand teams trust the number
The honesty rail is the product.
No invented numbers. Every figure traces to a captured answer and says how many answers it came from, with its honest give or take. If it is 0%, that is the truth, and the report shows the counts behind it.
No fake rank positions. An average position over AI answers falls apart, because the answers change every time you ask. We report how often the answers name you, and say how sure we are.
No branded inflation. Questions that name you guarantee a mention. They are measured separately and never blended into your competitive rate.
No auto publishing. Pulse drafts and stages; every fix waits for your approval and ships with a receipt.
Free visibility report · no card · we email you when it lands
Your buyers already asked. See whose name AI said.
A real baseline across every engine we run: your share of appearance, the competitors named instead, and the exact sources to earn. If it is 0%, you will know what to do about it.