of B2B software buyers now start their research with an AI chatbot more often than with Google.
Source: G2, The Answer Economy (survey of 1,076 buyers, April 2026)
Free AEO Citation Map
Find out where AI cites your competitors instead of you.
For B2B owners and marketing leaders. We ask ChatGPT and four other AI tools the questions your buyers ask, then show you who gets named. Free, no card.
One client went from 0 to 43 ChatGPT citations in 30 days.
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The problemYour organic traffic is down.
Your organic traffic is down.
Your reports don’t say why.
A lot of buyers now get their answer from ChatGPT or Google’s AI summary and never click through. If that answer names a competitor and not you, nothing in Google Analytics will tell you.
AEO, or answer engine optimization, is the work of getting your brand named in those answers. Most teams aren’t tracking it yet. The map is a starting point.
drop in traffic from traditional search that McKinsey estimates for brands that aren’t prepared for AI search.
Client resultsWhat happened when B2B clients
What happened when B2B clients
worked on this with us
We don’t name clients here. The numbers come from their Ahrefs and Google Search Console data and our case study write-ups.
A B2B tech company went from zero ChatGPT citations to 43 in 30 days. It now gets about 10 sales-qualified leads a month from AI answers.
Source: Client case study, November 2025
A B2B software company’s share of AI Overview mentions, measured against its competitors, over 12 months. Organic conversions went up 75%.
Source: Ahrefs Brand Radar and Google Search Console, Aug 2025 to Jul 2026
More AI citations in 12 months for a building products supplier, including 174 more mentions in Google’s AI Overviews and 113 in ChatGPT.
Source: Single Grain case study, singlegrain.com
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Most agencies are waiting to see how AI plays out. We went all in - rebuilding how we work and what we deliver, and plugging it directly into client campaigns.
Where you are now,
and where you want to be
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Today
- ❌Buyers ask AI about your category, and your competitors get named. You don’t.
- ❌Google Analytics can’t show you the buyers you lost this way.
- ❌You can’t tell which questions you’re missing from.
- ❌There’s no baseline, so fixes are a guess.
The goal
- ✅Your brand named in the answers that matter to your buyers.
- ✅A clear list of the questions where you’re missing, and who’s named instead.
- ✅A short list of fixes, in the order we’d make them.
- ✅A baseline you can measure every change against.
The map won’t get you named on its own. It shows where you’re missing and what to fix first.
What you getWhat’s in your
What’s in your
AEO Citation Map
Here’s what you get, within 5 business days.
- You request it. The form takes about a minute.
- We build it. Five AI tools, 20 questions, each asked twice: 200 answers.
- We walk you through it on a discovery call.
The questions
20 questions your buyers would likely type into an AI tool about your category.
Where you come up
Which answers mention your brand or link to your content. We check ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google AI Overviews.
Where you don’t
The questions where you’re not in the answer at all.
Who comes up instead
The competitors and websites the AI names in your place.
What to fix first
A short list of changes, in the order we’d make them.
A discovery call
Up to 45 minutes to walk through the map and talk about what you’d fix.
Sample mapHere’s what
Here’s what
a map looks like
This sample is for a fictional B2B software company. Yours uses your category, your site and your competitors.
AEO Citation Map: Tallyforge
Illustrative exampleSpend management software for mid-market finance teams.
AI citation comparison
How many of the 40 answers in each tool name each brand (20 questions, asked twice).
| Brand | ChatGPT | Perplexity | Gemini | Claude | Google AI Overviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tallyforge (you) | 8 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 9 |
| Quillbridge | 14 | 9 | 7 | 12 | 15 |
| Spendlark | 6 | 13 | 15 | 4 | 10 |
Question by question
| Buyer question | Named in the answer | Result |
|---|---|---|
| “best spend management software for a 500-person company” | Quillbridge, Spendlark | Gap |
| “Quillbridge alternatives for mid-market finance teams” | Tallyforge, Spendlark | You’re named |
| “spend management tool that works with NetSuite” | Tallyforge | You’re named |
| “easiest AP automation software to roll out” | Quillbridge | Gap |
| “how do finance teams get control of SaaS spend” | Spendlark, Quillbridge | Gap |
| “is Tallyforge a good fit for companies with several entities” | Tallyforge | You’re named |
Tallyforge, Quillbridge and Spendlark are fictional brands, and every number here is illustrative. Any resemblance to a real company is a coincidence.
Who it’s forBuilt for B2B owners
Built for B2B owners
and marketing leaders
For founders and CEOs of B2B companies doing $10M+ in revenue, and the people who run their content, SEO or demand gen, in the US, UK or Canada.
It’s a good fit if:
- Pipeline from search has slowed and nobody can tell you why.
- A competitor keeps showing up in your deals, and you suspect AI is sending buyers their way.
- Your team publishes a lot and you want to know if AI uses any of it.
- Someone on your board or team asked about AI search, and you don’t have a good answer yet.
FAQ
What does it cost?
Nothing. The AEO Citation Map is free. There’s no card to enter and nothing to sign.
Is the walkthrough call a sales call?
Partly. It’s a discovery call. We walk you through your map, then ask about your goals to see if working together makes sense. If it doesn’t, you keep the map.
We already do SEO. Why do we need this?
SEO tells you where you rank in search results. It doesn’t tell you whether an AI answer mentions you. In a study of 75,000 brands, Ahrefs found that how often a brand is mentioned around the web lines up with AI visibility about three times more closely than backlinks do (Ahrefs, May 2025).
Does showing up in AI answers really matter?
Yes. Seer Interactive found that brands cited in Google’s AI Overviews get 35% more organic clicks than brands that aren’t. That’s a correlation, not proof of cause. Pew Research found people click a regular search result on just 8% of visits when an AI summary shows, compared with 15% when it doesn’t.
How fast can this work?
It depends on how much you change after you see your map. One B2B tech client went from zero ChatGPT citations to 43 in 30 days. Bigger shifts take longer: another B2B client’s share of AI Overview mentions grew over 12 months.
What happens after I get the map?
It’s yours to keep. You can make the fixes yourself, or ask us to help. Either way is fine.
Who is this not for?
Teams spending under $20k a month on marketing. We’d rather tell you that up front.
Plus
An AI citation scorecard
Your map comes with a one-page scorecard: how often AI cites you across the questions we tested. It gives you one number to track over time and something concrete to bring to your next report.
When your buyers ask AI,
does it mention you?
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