AI visibility
Find out whether ChatGPT and Perplexity mention your brand
Enter your brand, your website and one question a buyer would ask. See whether each answer names your brand and cites your website.
How the check works
You enter your brand name, your domain (such as example.com, without https:// or www) and one question a buyer would type. For example: "Which website monitoring tools would you recommend for a small agency?" Leave your brand out of the question to see whether an engine names you unprompted.
For each engine that answers, you can read its answer, see whether it names your brand, and check its sources, with pages on your domain marked. Each answer also shows the model name and whether the provider reported a web search. A summary at the top shows how many of the engines that answered named your brand (for example, "Mentioned in 1 of 2 engines") and lists the cited domains with a count for each.
A check runs only when you start it. You can run up to two free checks per IP address each UTC day, while a shared daily budget for all free checks lasts. Visual Sentinel does not save the answers, so copy any you want to compare later.
Mentions and citations
A brand mention and a website citation are separate results.
A mention means the brand name you entered appears as a whole word in the answer, ignoring capitals. Abbreviations, old names and spelling variants do not count, so "Visual Sentinel" will not match "VisualSentinel".
A citation is a page the provider lists as a source for that answer. Any page on your domain or its subdomains counts as yours.
An answer can name your brand without citing your website, or cite your website while naming a competitor. Read the answer alongside its sources to see how your brand comes up for that question and which sites it lists as sources.
The result also lists "Other names in these answers": product names picked out of the answers' bold text, lists and headings, and from the titles of cited pages. It can miss a product or include a name that is not one.
Why answers change between runs
Ask the same question twice and you can get two different answers. Each check sends a new request and the engine writes a new answer. With web search on, the pages it finds can differ between runs.
The check does not use your ChatGPT account or chat history, and answers have a length limit, so someone using the ChatGPT app may get a longer or different answer to the same question.
A result covers one question at one moment. There is no rank position: the check reports whether you were named, not where. Only engines that answer are counted. Compare answers from different days and phrasings to see what repeats; a few checks do not show a trend.
Which engines the check asks
| Engine | Model requested | Web search |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | gpt-4.1-mini | Requested on every call |
| Perplexity | sonar | No setting sent; the label shows what the provider reports |
Each answer shows the model name the provider returns, or the requested name when none is returned. Gemini and Claude are set up only for weekly tracking and the audit, which are switched off, so no check asks them today. Visual Sentinel does not check Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, Meta AI or DeepSeek.
What exists today
Today you can run the free check and join the waitlist under your result. Weekly tracking, which re-asks a saved set of questions every 7 days, is switched off, and a one-off citation audit across four engines is not on sale. Neither can be bought or started today, and there is no launch date.
Visual Sentinel does not offer AI visibility alerts through email, Slack or its other alert channels, recurring client reports for AI visibility, or estimates of question volume or AI traffic.
What's free and what's paid
Free: the AI visibility check, with no account and no card, up to two runs per IP address each UTC day. Joining the waitlist is free too.
Paid: nothing for AI visibility is on sale today. Website monitoring (uptime, SSL certificate, DNS and visual checks with alerts) is a separate paid product from $15 a month, with a 10-day free trial (no card with a work email) or a straight subscription. Those plans do not include AI visibility. See website monitoring plans.
Questions
Is the AI visibility check free?
Yes. No account or card is required. You can run up to two checks per IP address each UTC day, while a shared daily budget lasts. Each check asks ChatGPT and Perplexity one question and shows each answer received, whether your brand was named, and which pages were listed as sources.
Does Visual Sentinel track my AI visibility every week?
Not yet. Weekly tracking is switched off, and there is no launch date. You can join the waitlist under the result of a free check.
If an engine cites my website, did it recommend me?
Not necessarily. A citation means the provider listed your page as a source. A mention means your brand is named in the answer. An answer can cite your page and name a competitor, so the check reports the two separately.
Do you keep my question and the answers?
Visual Sentinel does not save free check answers. Your question goes to the engines through a data provider's API. If you join the waitlist, Visual Sentinel stores your email, brand, domain and question, and deletes waitlist entries after 90 days.
Can Visual Sentinel get my brand mentioned by ChatGPT?
No. The check reports what the engines say about your market. Visual Sentinel cannot change their answers or make an engine mention your brand.