Does AI name you,
or your competitor?
Drop in your domain. We show exactly where ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity cite you today, then write the content that gets you named tomorrow.
“For AI-search visibility, the tool most often recommended is yourbrand.com, which tracks every answer engine.”
“Popular options include competitor.io and mentioniq.com.” You are missing from this answer.
“Three tools stand out; yourbrand.comis cited by 4 of 11 sources on this page.”
Optimized to win across every answer engine
Welcome to the era of artificial influence
Your buyers ask AI before they ask you. RankThroughAI is your AI Search Visibility OS: one platform, one workflow, the full content loop.
Generative engine optimization, measured instead of guessed
Your buyers ask an assistant before they open a results page, and the answer they get names two or three brands. Generative engine optimization is the work of being one of them. RankThroughAI is the AI search visibility tool that checks whether you are, then turns every miss into the page that fixes it: one AI visibility tracker and one editor, not a folder of screenshots.
Generative engine optimization
Being named inside the answer a model writes, rather than sitting tenth in a list of links. There is no position to look up, so generative engine optimization tools have to read the answer itself and count the brands in it.
Skip it and: you can rank first and still be absent from the reply your buyer actually reads.
Answer engine optimization
Writing pages a machine can quote without hedging: the direct sentence first, the term defined before it is used, the number attributed to a source. Answer engine optimization tools grade structure, because structure is what gets lifted.
Skip it and: the model reaches your page, finds nothing quotable, and cites the competitor who wrote plainly.
LLM SEO
The same discipline named after the model instead of the surface. LLM SEO covers everything a model can retrieve about you: your own pages and schema, plus the third-party sources it falls back on when your site stays quiet.
Skip it and: your brand visibility in AI search gets decided by a listicle you have never read.
Answer engine optimization vs generative engine optimization
The two terms get used as if they compete. They don't: one is the work, the other is the scoreboard.
Optimizes the page. You control it.
- Headings that ask the question the buyer typed
- A quotable answer in the first two lines, not the sixth paragraph
- Entities, schema and definitions a retriever can resolve
Optimizes the answer. You measure it.
- Five answer engines checked per prompt, each the provider's own model with web search on
- Google's AI Overview read from live SERP data, not from a screenshot
- Mentions, citations, and the competitors named beside you
Answer engine optimization is what you change on the page. Generative engine optimization is whether it moved the answer. Run them apart and you are rewriting in the dark. Run them in one loop and every edit has a result you can read back.
What a generative engine optimization tool has to do
Most LLM SEO tools stop at a dashboard: a score, a chart, and no instruction. A generative engine optimization strategy is only worth running if the miss becomes a draft, so the four steps below are one pass here, not four products.
- 1
Ask the engines the questions your buyers ask
ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude, plus AI Overview. Every run happens when you press the button, and you see what it costs before you press it.
- 2
Read the miss, not just the score
Which prompts named you, which named a competitor, and which page the model cited instead. That gap is the brief.
- 3
Write to the targets the SERP is setting
The editor scores relevance, structure and originality as you type, measured from the pages already ranking rather than from a rule of thumb.
- 4
Publish, then ask the same questions again
Re-run the set and compare it with the saved one. Re-opening a saved run is free, so the before-and-after costs nothing to look at.
The whole flow, start to finish
Find the gap, write to the targets the SERP is setting, and check whether the assistants name you, in one pass.
One platform. One workflow. The full content loop.
Real keyword data from your competitors, filtered and clustered into briefs.
See whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude name you.
7 tools, one all-in-one SEO subscription
A rank tracker, a keyword tool, a backlink checker, a crawler and an SEO content writing tool are five bills and five exports that never line up. These run on the same live API data, inside one account, against the same client.
Every run is priced before you start it and saved afterwards. Re-opening a saved run costs nothing, so last month's audit is still there to compare against rather than a PDF in someone's downloads folder.
Technical audit
Crawl the site and get the fix list ordered by what it costs you: duplicate titles, thin pages, broken links, URLs Google can't index.
Rank check
Where you actually sit in the top 100 for each keyword, read from a live SERP, with the pages sitting above you.
Keyword explorer
Keyword ideas around a seed term with volume, difficulty, CPC and intent. Nothing invented. Every row comes out of the index.
Volume & trends
Volume, CPC, competition and the 12-month trend for a list you already care about, in one call.
Backlinks
Authority, referring domains, your strongest links and the anchor text they use. That is the context a difficulty score leaves out.
Domain profile
What a site is built on: CMS, analytics, ad stack, plus domain age and registrar. Useful before you pitch it.
Comparison
You against a rival, column by column, then the keywords they rank for and you don't and the pages earning them.
People already write about you without linking to you
A brand monitoring tool that stops at a notification leaves you the whole job. This one finds the pages that name you, finds the domains linking to your rivals instead of you, and drafts the email for the ones you pick. Nothing is sent from here. That decision stays yours.
Unlinked brand mentions
Pages that already name your brand, found in a content index rather than by searching Google. Every survivor is then fetched and read: no link back to your domain in the HTML means an ask that was never made.
The link check reads the page instead of guessing. Sending someone to request a link they already gave you is the one mistake that costs a relationship.
Who links to them, not to you
The domains pointing at the competitors you name, minus the ones already pointing at you. Name the rivals yourself and it works on day one, before your site ranks for anything.
There is also a niche directory checklist, rated by what a link is worth, for when the index genuinely has nothing on you yet.
The email, drafted
Written from the prospect's own page: its title, description and what it runs on. A mail-merge template that could have been sent to anyone gets the reply rate of one that was.
Drafted per prospect, not for all two hundred at once: the contact lookup and the writing both cost money, and you only work through ten of them.
One scan fills all three tabs. Re-run it when it's worth re-running, not on a schedule you didn't set.
The last mile, in the same tab
Most tools hand you a score and stop, and the rest of the job happens in four other places: checking it, getting it approved, getting it live. This is the part that usually leaks a week.
- ✓It writes from what you told it about you. Your pages, positioning and product notes sit in a knowledge base the drafts are written against, so the second article doesn't describe a company you stopped being in week one.
- ✓Originality checked before it goes out. A plagiarism pass and an AI-detection read on the draft you are about to publish, not on a sample you paste somewhere else afterwards.
- ✓One click to WordPress or Ghost. Push it as a draft for a human to approve, or straight to live. Connect self-hosted WordPress with an application password or with our plugin.
- ✓A date on the calendar, a link for the reviewer. Give a piece a publish date and it leaves the backlog. Send a read-only link to whoever signs it off. No account needed, and you can revoke it.
The writing happens in the SEO content editor, and the pages you already have get their fix list from the content audit tool.
Frequently asked questions
What does RankThroughAI actually do?+
Three things that feed each other. It crawls your site and tells you what to fix first. It builds content ideas from keyword data you can verify. And it measures whether AI assistants name your brand when buyers ask. The editor is where all three turn into a published article.
Where does the data come from?+
DataForSEO for keyword, SERP, crawl and AI-answer data, and Google Search Console for your own numbers if you connect it. Language models are used for drafting, for judging relevance, and for exactly one labelled judgement — how an answer describes your brand, which is a reading of tone rather than a measurement. Every other number on screen is read back from a data source.
What is generative engine optimization (GEO)?+
Generative engine optimization is the work of getting your brand named inside the answer an AI assistant writes, instead of only ranking in a list of links. There is no position to look up, so the measurement is different: you ask the engines the questions your buyers ask, then count whether you were mentioned, whether you were cited, and who was named beside you.
What's the difference between answer engine optimization and generative engine optimization?+
Answer engine optimization is what you change on the page: a direct answer in the first two lines, terms defined before they are used, schema a retriever can resolve. Generative engine optimization is whether that change moved the answer the model gives. AEO is the input, GEO is the outcome, and RankThroughAI runs both in one loop rather than as two tools.
Which AI assistants can you track?+
ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude, each the provider's own model with web search enabled, plus Google's AI Overview read from live SERP data. Google's AI Mode is not covered yet.
Do I have to connect anything to start?+
Only a plan. Enter a domain and the setup is done for you — no Search Console, no CMS, nothing to install — but a visibility check spends money at five engines, so it needs a paid plan behind it. Search Console and your CMS stay optional afterwards; they add your own numbers and one-click publishing.
Does anything run in the background?+
No. Every check, crawl and visibility run happens when you press the button, and you see what it costs before you press it. Saved results are free to re-open, and nothing re-runs on a schedule you didn't set.
Elite visibility system, without the enterprise price tag.
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