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Free AI Visibility Audit: Find Out If ChatGPT Recommends You — or Your Competitors
The free CapstonAI visibility audit checks whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews actually mention your brand and cite your pages when buyers ask the questions that matter in your market — and shows you who gets recommended instead. Not a generic SEO score. A direct answer to the only question that counts now: when a customer asks an AI who to buy from, are you in the answer?
Why this matters more every month
- The answer layer is tiny. ChatGPT includes on average fewer than 7 sources per answer (6.88 — Zhang, He & Yao 2026, N = 21,143 citations). If you are not in those few slots, you do not exist for that buyer.
- Clicks are draining out of classic results. Google users are less likely to click links when an AI summary appears (Pew Research Center, 2025). The traffic you rank for today is being answered before the click.
- AI engines have their own bias. They overwhelmingly favor earned, third-party sources over brand-owned content (Chen et al., University of Toronto, 2025). Ranking #1 on Google does not mean AI engines trust you.
No visibility in AI answers means fewer visits, which means fewer leads, which eventually means fewer clients. The market is moving with Google AI Overviews rolling out — the time to check is now, while citation slots in your niche are still open.
What the free audit tells you
| You get | The question it answers |
|---|---|
| Mention check per engine | Does ChatGPT / Gemini / Perplexity name your brand at all? |
| Citation check | Do engines link to your pages as the source — or to someone else describing you? |
| Competitor picture | Who takes the citation slots you are missing? |
| Blocker diagnosis | Why you are skipped: entity signals, extractability, missing evidence, schema |
| First fixes | The highest-leverage corrections to start with |
How it works
- Start the audit on app.capston.ai — it takes about two minutes to set up.
- We probe the engines with buyer-style prompts for your category and market.
- You get the verdict: where you appear, where you are absent, who wins instead, and what blocks you.
The audit is free. If you want continuous tracking and correction — weekly mention rate, per-engine trends, fixes pushed through the WordPress and Shopify agents — that is what the CapstonAI plans cover, with a 7-day trial.
What CapstonAI does that a rank tracker cannot
Rank trackers watch positions in a list. AI engines do not output lists — they output synthesized answers with a handful of citations. CapstonAI measures your share of those answers, diagnoses why you are skipped, and gives you the levers to fix it: entity signals, structured data, extractable evidence blocks. It is a tool you operate, not an agency, and it never promises a citation — it shows you the gap and how to close it.
Frequently asked questions
Is the AI visibility audit really free?
Yes. The audit is free. Continuous tracking and correction features are part of the paid plans, which come with a 7-day trial.
Which AI engines does it check?
ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. Engines cite different sources, so checking one is not a proxy for the others.
What if my brand does not appear anywhere?
That is the most common starting point — and the most fixable. The audit shows which blocker is responsible (entity clarity, extractability, missing evidence) so you fix causes, not symptoms.
How is this different from an SEO audit?
An SEO audit checks how search engines rank your pages. This audit checks whether AI engines mention and cite your brand in their answers — a different pipeline, with different rules and its own failure points.
How long does it take?
About two minutes to launch. Results follow shortly after, depending on the size of your prompt set and market.
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