Know if AI is recommending you.
Your buyers ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini who to hire before they ever reach your site. Siteway's senior team tracks whether those engines name you, where, how often, and how you stack up against competitors, across 4 to 5 engines and 25 to 150 prompts depending on your tier, and shows it all in your client dashboard. AI visibility stops being a blind spot and becomes a number we move for you.
People used to Google you. Now they ask AI.
Buying behavior changed faster than most marketing dashboards did. A growing share of buyers no longer open ten blue links and compare. They ask an AI a direct question ('who is the best company for X,' 'what should I use for Y,' 'is this vendor any good') and they act on the names that come back. By the time someone reaches your site, the AI has already narrowed the field, and you were either in that answer or you were not.
A Google page shows ten options. An AI answer names one to three. We work to make one of them you. This happens entirely off your property. There is no click in your analytics, no line in Search Console, no record at all. You do not lose the deal in a way you can see. You never enter the conversation, and you never find out you were left out. That is the most expensive kind of leak: the one your reporting is structurally incapable of showing you.
AI search, sometimes called answer-engine optimization (AEO), is the discipline of being the source AI trusts and names. Monitoring is the first half of it. You cannot fix a visibility problem you cannot measure, and you cannot prove the investment is working without watching the engines themselves. That is exactly what our team tracks for you, in the dashboard every Siteway client gets.
What Siteway tracks
We query the major answer engines the way your buyers do, across 25 to 150 prompts depending on your tier, with the questions that actually matter to your business, then record what comes back. Instead of guessing whether AI knows you, you get a clear, repeatable read on your presence in the answers that decide deals, watched by our team and visible to you in your client dashboard.
- ✓Citation presence and placement: whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini name you for a given prompt, and where you land in the answer (named first, listed, or absent entirely).
- ✓Share of answers: across your priority topics and buyer questions, the percentage of AI responses that include you, so visibility becomes one trackable number per engine instead of a vibe.
- ✓Competitor benchmarking: who the engines name instead of you, how often, and on which topics, so we can see exactly where rivals own the answer and where the gap is winnable.
- ✓Changes over time: trend lines for every engine and topic, so we can tell whether you are gaining ground, holding, or slipping, and tie movement to the content and structure changes we ship for you.
- ✓Source visibility: which of your pages and proof points the engines actually pull from, so we know what is earning citations and what is being ignored.
- ✓Alerts: real-time notifications in your dashboard the moment your standing shifts, a competitor overtakes you on a key topic, or an engine stops citing you, so we catch a drop in days, not next quarter.
Turn the data into action
Monitoring is only valuable if someone acts on it, so our work points at the next move, not just the score. When an engine names a competitor for a topic you should own, we see the prompt, the gap, and the page that should have answered it. That tells us exactly where to add proof, FAQs, claims, or entity signals, and we build it for you.
Priority topics with low share of answers become the content roadmap, ranked by where visibility is most winnable. Competitor benchmarking shows which engines and topics to attack first instead of spreading effort evenly. And because SEO and technical monitoring sit in the same dashboard, against a 90+ performance standard, we fix the crawlable, well-structured foundation answer engines need at the same time we fix what they cite.
Then you watch it work. We ship a change, track share of answers and citation placement over the following weeks, and keep what moves the line. Over time, AI answers can grow from an invisible blind spot into a meaningful, measured share of sourced pipeline (representatively around 38%), reported in your own dashboard rather than promised in a slide.
Managed AI search, watched in your dashboard
AI-search visibility tracking is part of the dashboard every Siteway client gets, and it is run for you by our senior team. We monitor your standing across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini alongside Google rankings and technical health, then do the work to improve it: structuring your proof and entity data so engines name you, building the pages that should own each topic, and reporting the movement back to you every month.
On Accelerate ($6,500/mo), AI search runs as part of the full funnel we manage, with 4 engines and 75 prompts tracked and the client dashboard included. On Ascend ($11,500/mo), we push to 5 engines and 150 prompts, with six experiments a month, a lead-magnet program, and a dedicated growth strategist on top. If AI search is the one stage you want handled end to end, Assist ($3,500/mo) runs it on its own with up to 25 prompts tracked. Every engagement starts with a complimentary audit of your current site (Google, AI search, and conversion) that delivers a ranked findings report, your dashboard, and a prioritized 90-day plan you keep either way, and engagements are typically live in about three weeks.
Frequently asked questions
SEO (search engine optimization) is about ranking on Google so people click through to your site. AI search, also called answer-engine optimization (AEO), is about being the source that ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini name when they answer a buyer's question directly. SEO earns the click; AI search earns the recommendation, often before a click ever happens. They share one foundation (clean, crawlable, well-structured content), which is why we monitor both in a single client dashboard.
We track your visibility across the engines your buyers actually use to ask for recommendations: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini, with Google AI Overviews added on Ascend. AI-search monitoring across all of them is part of the dashboard every client gets, run by our team, so you see who names you and who names a competitor instead, engine by engine.
We track whether each engine names you, where you appear in the answer, your share of answers across priority topics, which competitors the engines name instead of you, and how all of that trends over time, across 25 to 150 prompts depending on tier. Competitor AI-search benchmarking and real-time alerts that fire the moment your standing shifts are part of the work, surfaced in your dashboard. Source-level visibility also shows which of your pages the engines pull from, so we know what is earning citations and what is being ignored.
We query the answer engines with the questions and topics that matter to your business, then measure how often your business shows up in the responses. Share of answers is the percentage of those AI responses that cite you for a given topic and engine. It turns a fuzzy question (does AI know us) into a single trackable number you can watch rise or fall in your dashboard as we ship changes.
A growing share of buyers ask an AI for recommendations before they reach any website, so the names it returns shape a shortlist you never see. A Google page shows ten options; an AI answer names one to three. If you are absent from those answers, you lose deals invisibly, with no click and no record in your analytics. Across engagements, AI answers can grow into a meaningful share of sourced pipeline (representatively around 38%), which is why measuring and improving it is no longer optional.
Yes. Competitor AI-search benchmarking is part of the work our team runs and is visible in your client dashboard. It shows which competitors the engines name instead of you, how often, and on which topics, so we can see exactly where a rival owns the answer and where the gap is winnable. That comparison becomes the roadmap for which topics and engines to attack first.
We point the work at the next move, not just the score. Low share of answers on a priority topic becomes a ranked task that tells us where to add proof, FAQs, claims, or entity signals so the engines can read, trust, and cite you, and then we build it for you. Because Google rankings and technical health live in the same dashboard against a 90+ standard, we fix the foundation engines need at the same time, then track share of answers over the following weeks to confirm the change worked.
Everyone starts with a complimentary audit of your current site, covering Google, AI search, and conversion. It delivers a ranked findings report, your client dashboard, and a prioritized 90-day plan you keep whether or not you hire us. From there, our senior team runs your AI search for you: as the single stage on Assist ($3,500/mo, up to 25 prompts), or as part of the full funnel on Accelerate ($6,500/mo, 4 engines and 75 prompts) and Ascend ($11,500/mo, 5 engines and 150 prompts). We structure your content and entity data to earn citations, then monitor and optimize it every month, with your dashboard included. Engagements are typically live in about three weeks.
See where AI names you, and where it does not.
Start an audit of your current site and get a ranked findings report, your client dashboard, and a 90-day plan you keep either way. From there our senior team runs your AI search and watches your visibility for you, month after month. You stop guessing whether AI recommends you.
A complimentary audit of your current site. Yours to keep.