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Ask Every AI Engine
Type the query a buyer would ask. We put it to every AI engine we track, live, with web search on, and show you which companies they agree on, which sources they lean on, and each engine's full answer. No brand, no URL, no email.
Free, no email. Each query runs live on the engines, so it takes a minute or so.
Sample result
What a result looks like
A real run, asked on this page on 9 November 2026: "What are the best SOC 2 compliance platforms for a B2B SaaS startup?" Every engine answered.
Three companies were named by every engine that answered. Three more were named by all but one.
How it works
One query, every engine, one grid
We ask every engine at once
Your query goes to each engine on our roster in parallel, with web search offered, the same way our customer scans ask. Answers appear as each engine finishes.
We store every answer before we read it
The full text, the pages each engine cited and the searches it ran are saved first. A query someone asked this week is served from storage, so two people asking it see the same answers.
We pull out the companies
Each answer is read for the firms it names, and spellings of one firm are merged only when a cited page proves they are the same company. Nothing merges on a guess.
We show the consensus first
A grid of companies by engine, with how many engines named each one, then the sources they cited most, then any single engine's full answer behind its tab.
Reference
What each engine shows you
The engines differ in what they hand back as well as in what they say. The table lists what our tool reads from each one today.
| What the engine returns | Where you see it |
|---|---|
| Its full answer | Every engine we query, behind its own tab |
| The companies it named | The grid, with how many engines named each one |
| The pages it cited | Under each answer, and the most-cited sources across all of them |
| The searches it ran first | Under each answer, for the engines that expose them: ChatGPT and Claude today. Gemini returns them and we do not store them yet. |
What to do with a result
What each result means, and what to do about it
| If the result says | It means | Do this |
|---|---|---|
| A company is named by every engine | The engines agree it belongs on the shortlist for this query. | If it is a rival, read the pages the engines cited for it: those are the pages you need to match or appear on. |
| A company is named by one engine only | One engine's retrieval found it; the others did not. | Open that engine's tab and read why it named them. The cited pages show where the mention came from. |
| The engines name no companies | The query reads as general advice rather than a buying query. | Ask what a buyer types before choosing a vendor: the thing they pay for, and who it is for. |
| An engine shows no answer or could not be reached | That cell is empty and counts against nobody. | Read the engines that did answer. Ask again later if you need that one. |
| Your company is missing from every answer | For this query, buyers asking an AI hear about your rivals and not you. | Run the free scan. It asks the queries your buyers ask, about you, and shows which pages would change the answer. |
Why ask every AI engine instead of one
Buyers do not all use the same assistant, and the engines do not agree. In the run above, every engine agreed on three companies and split on the rest. A firm that checks only ChatGPT sees one answer and none of the disagreement, and the disagreement is where a shortlist is still open.
Asking each engine yourself takes a tab and a login per engine, plus a spreadsheet, and you still never see which searches the engine ran first. This page does it in one pass and keeps the answers so you can come back to them.
The searches an engine runs before it answers
An AI engine rarely answers from your exact words. It rewrites your query into its own searches, reads what those return, and writes from that. ChatGPT and Claude expose those searches, and we show them under each answer. In the sample run, ChatGPT searched each vendor's own site by name while Claude searched once and read third-party round-ups. That one difference decides which pages each engine could ever cite.
Our read: if you want to be named, the searches are the target. A page that answers the rewrite an engine runs is a page it can retrieve.
This checks your site. It cannot tell you whether AI names you.
A free scan puts real buying queries to all five AI engines and shows who they name instead of you.
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Frequently asked questions
Which AI engines does this ask?
Every engine on our live roster: the same engines our free scan and paid plans query. The list is shown on the page above the answers. Each one runs with web search offered, so you see what the engine finds today as well as what it remembers.
Is it the same as asking ChatGPT myself?
Close. We call each engine's API with web search offered, which is how its own app answers a query that needs current information. Your app may add memory, location or past chats that an API call does not have, so expect small differences in wording and order.
Why do the engines disagree?
They search different indexes, rewrite your query into different searches and weight sources differently. In our sample run ChatGPT went to vendor sites while Claude, Perplexity and Gemini leaned on third-party round-ups. Same query, different reading lists, different shortlists.
What does "3 of 5" mean?
How many of the engines that answered named that company. An engine that gave no answer or could not be reached is left out of the count, because a silent engine is not a vote against anyone.
Is there a limit?
Each network gets a daily allowance of new queries, which keeps the tool free. Queries someone already asked this week do not count and load instantly.
Do you store my query?
Yes, with the answers, because the stored answers are what make a repeat query instant and free. We store a keyed hash of your network address for the daily limit, never the address itself. Your query reaches a public page only if it is a buying query that names no company and a person on our team approves it.
Can I check whether the engines name my company?
Yes. The AI Visibility Checker takes a query plus your company name and marks which engines named you. The free scan goes further: it writes the queries your buyers ask from your website and checks every one across every engine.
Why are there no searches shown for some engines?
Only ChatGPT and Claude return the searches they ran in a form we can read. Perplexity's API does not expose them and Google AI Mode does not either. Gemini returns them and we do not store them yet. We say which case applies under each answer.
Sources
Sources and further reading
- OpenAI: web search tool: how ChatGPT searches through the API
- Anthropic: web search tool: Claude's searches and citations
- Google: grounding with Google Search: Gemini's grounded answers
- Google Search Central: AI features: AI Mode and query fan-out