Free AI Appearance Check

Measuring How AI Engines Decide Which Brands to Recommend.

AppearAI tracks how often AI engines recommend a brand, shows which competitors get recommended instead, and checks the technical signals AI crawlers rely on. Measured live on Claude and Gemini, with ChatGPT and Perplexity coming soon.

Free · No signup required · Takes about 1–2 minutes
Running your AI Appearance Check
Asking Claude and Gemini 20 real buyer questions · This takes about 1–2 minutes
Technical AI Readiness
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Analysing your site…
Signals checked
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Website tested
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AI answers checked
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Discovery Prompts Tested
Appeared in — out of — live AI answers · AI Appearance Rate —
Each question was asked to Claude and Gemini. ✓ means the brand was named in that engine's answer.
Who Appeared Instead
Brands the AI engines named most often across all answers
How this was measured
Live answers, not estimates

AppearAI wrote 20 buyer-intent questions for your category, then asked each one to Claude and Gemini. A brand counts as appearing when its name or website shows up in the answer or its sources.

Engines in this scan
✓Claude
✓Gemini
○ChatGPT and Perplexity: coming soon
AI answers vary from one run to the next, so a new scan can give a slightly different result. Read the AAR methodology →
89.8%
of brands had zero AI mentions across eight platforms in Q1 2026. Victorious, Q1 2026 Quarterly Search Report.
58%
of consumers now turn to AI tools for brand recommendations. Trustpilot consumer research, April 2026.
42%
better conversion rate from AI-referred buyers versus traditional organic search visitors. Adobe Analytics, March 2026.
What AppearAI measures

What determines whether an AI engine recommends one brand over another?

That is the question AppearAI was built to answer. The platform runs structured prompt sets across multiple AI engines and multiple runs to measure citation frequency, surface dominant competitors, and identify the signals driving visibility differences between brands in the same category.

The methodology draws on primary research from Princeton, Ahrefs, Seer Interactive, and Muck Rack — and the free scanner measures live answers from Claude and Gemini today.

Read the AAR Methodology →
01
AI Appearance Rate
The share of live AI answers that name a brand, across 20 buyer-intent questions. The free scan asks each question to Claude and Gemini; ChatGPT and Perplexity are coming soon.
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Technical Signal Audit
Seven technical checks covering AI crawler access, structured data, schema markup, llms.txt, meta signals, content structure, and HTTPS — the infrastructure layer that determines whether AI crawlers can read and cite a brand at all.
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Competitor Consensus Intelligence
Every scan lists the brands the AI engines named most often, so you can see which competitors are winning the answers where a brand is missing.