This is what gets said about your category. Bring one into focus.
Free · no account · under ten minutes
Hover a reading, or tab to it. 1 of the 12 is a stored answer — Perplexity, 31 July 2026, from the Linear run. The rest show the shape a reading takes and are marked as examples.
The three surfaces
A buyer looks for you in three places.
Choosing one sinks the others rather than hiding them, because the whole argument of the house is that they are read together.
Surface 01 · GEO
Assistants
The question a buyer types, the whole paragraph that came back, and who it named.
ChatGPT · Claude · Perplexity · Gemini
Surface 02 · AEO
The answer box
The summary above the results, and the pages it read to write it.
The answer · cited sources · the questions you are missing from
Surface 03 · SEO
Ordinary search
Your position in the plain results, in the same report as the other two.
Position · who is above you · a dated change
The field above holds 4 readings from assistants, 4 from the answer box and 4 from ordinary search.
A stored reading
This is what one looks like.
Stored answer
Perplexity
31 July 2026
Web search on
The question a buyer types
“best project management tools for software teams”
For software teams, look first at a tool that matches your actual workflow. Jira remains the standard for agile and issue tracking, while ClickUp and Asana suit teams that want a lighter surface…
Named · Jira · ClickUp · Asana
Did not name you · 3 rivals
Our own first full run measured 15 questions across 4 engines for $4.01, stored 51 answers and collected 460 cited URLs across 190 domains. The ledger reconciled exactly against the provider.
What runs underneath
Five measured capabilities.
From Local upward every plan carries every capability. The ladder is rows and refresh, not access.
Positions
rank tracking
Where you come up, and the move since the last reading.
free → scale · keywords
Keyword research
keyword research
Volume, competition and cost per click. The provider’s figures, not our estimate.
free → scale · rows
Domain overview
domain overview
A domain’s estimated organic value. Most useful pointed at a rival.
free → scale · rows
Site audit
site audit
A technical crawl. The one capability that fetches somebody else’s server, so the free account does not carry it.
free → scale · pages
Backlinks
backlinks
Who links to you and to the competition, crossed with the sources the assistants cited.
free → scale · rows
Total share of voice
share of voice
One figure across the assistants and ordinary search, weighted by position and by how commercial the question is.
every surface · the only figure that combines the two
What arrives
A dated report at a URL, that you can forward.
linear appeared in 3 of 4 answers.
You are in the conversation but not in all of it. The answers where you are missing, and who was named instead, are below.
the receipt
"I need help choosing project management tools for software teams. What should I look for?"
For software teams, look first at a tool that matches your actual workflow. Jira remains the standard for agile and issue tracking, while ClickUp and Asana suit teams that want...
sources it read
share of voice
The count leads. Weighted share follows, weighted by position and by how commercial the question is. Coverage 100%: 4 of 4 calls came back naming a business, so every count above is out of the same 4.
The rules we build under
Most of these exist because we watched the alternative produce a number nobody could defend.
The reasoning trace is not the answer
excluded · discards counted
How we measured it
Reasoning models return a private draft alongside the reply. That draft names brands the answer then drops. We exclude it and record how many items we dropped, because counting it would report you as visible where no buyer ever sees you.
Whole word matching, never substring
2,420 mentions vs 0 · same query
How we measured it
We measured a brand name that is also an ordinary word returning 2,420 mentions from an index while the brand’s own domain returned zero on the same query. Three orders of magnitude of noise.
A failed call is not a zero
out of both sides · coverage declared
How we measured it
It is excluded from both sides of the ratio and the coverage is declared. An answer that named nobody is not a loss either; it means the question did not discriminate.
No confidence band under three runs
three runs minimum · intervals compared
How we measured it
A single measurement dressed as precision is how credibility gets spent. Two snapshots differ reportably only when their intervals do not overlap.
Unknown competitors count
every brand named · listed or not
How we measured it
Every brand the answer names enters the denominator, listed or not. A share of voice that improves because you stopped tracking a rival is a corrupt number.
Nothing is generated by a model guessing
real call · raw response stored
How we measured it
Every result comes from a real call to a real engine, and the raw response is stored. Without a provider connected, the feature stays inert and writes nothing.
Where this goes next
Your data in your own agent, and the honest comparison.
Point Claude or ChatGPT at your account over MCP and ask it what no dashboard anticipated. Every comparison opens by saying when to pick them instead.
Find out in under ten minutes.
Five real questions, a live engine with web search on, and the full answer text. No account, no card.