Understand your visibility
Recommendations, mentions and citations, each measured separately.
Results shows collected evidence about how your business appears in sampled AI answers. It is a view into selected buyer searches, not access to people's private chat histories.
Three different signals
| Signal | What it means |
|---|---|
| Recommended | The answer presents the business as an option or recommendation |
| Mentioned | The business is named in the actual answer text |
| Cited | The answer links to a page on the business's domain as a source |
A page can be cited without the business being recommended. A business can be mentioned without receiving a source link. Inspect the answer and its citations separately.
What buyers are seeing
Open an answer to see the prompt, search surface, observation date, extracted business mentions and cited sources. A competitor identity may need verification before it is linked to a website.
The logos represent measurement surfaces. A logo alone does not mean a check completed. Failed, unavailable and pending answers remain distinct from a successful answer that does not mention your brand.
A stable baseline and new exploration
The baseline keeps a relevant set of buyer prompts consistent so later checks can be compared fairly. Monitoring normally refreshes it approximately weekly across supported ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Mode surfaces.
Exploration can add fresh, qualified prompts when research supports them. It does not replace the baseline or promise a new prompt on every run. The prompts being measured are not the full set of topics outwrite.ai can write about.
Read trends fairly
Compare the same prompts, market, language and supported surface. Results excludes unknown observations from measured absence. Check the sample size and dates before interpreting a percentage.
A change in prompts or market can produce a different sample. Do not treat that as an improvement or decline in the same trend.
Go deeper
Use Your prompts for the specific wording you want watched. Use Reports and exports to inspect and share evidence. If connected, Google Search Console adds a separate view of organic Google performance.
An article can improve coverage without immediately changing an AI answer. Neither a citation nor an increase after publication proves that the article caused the change.
