AEO tool that measures whether answer engines pick your brand
An AEO tool measures answer engine optimization: how often AI engines name and recommend your brand when buyers ask questions. MentionRadar runs your prompts weekly in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews and shows a prompt by engine matrix and your share of answers.
- Prompt by engine matrix every week
- Position and recommendation per answer
- AI share of voice against competitors
- Web mentions from the sources engines read
| Prompt | ChatGPT | Gemini | Perplexity | Claude | AI Overviews |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| best note taking app for researchers | #1 rec | #2 | #1 rec | #3 | #2 |
| alternatives to a big notes suite | #2 | not named | #1 | #4 | #1 rec |
| how to organize interview notes | not named | not named | #5 | not named | #3 |
| notes app that works offline | #1 rec | #3 | #2 | #1 rec | not named |
| research notes app for a small team | #3 | #4 | not named | not named | #2 |
AEO and SEO measure different outcomes
The pages you build are mostly the same. The result you track is not, so an AEO tool needs different columns from an SEO suite.
| Aspect | Answer engine optimization | Search engine optimization |
|---|---|---|
| Where the buyer reads | An AI answer in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude or AI Overviews | A results page with links |
| What success looks like | Your brand named and recommended in the answer | Your page ranked and clicked |
| Unit you track | A prompt, a full question | A keyword |
| Who you compete with | Brands named in the same answer | Pages ranking for the same query |
| What drives the result | Pages the engine reads and cites, many of them not yours | Your page, links to it, relevance |
| How stable a reading is | Answers vary run to run, read weekly series | Daily ranks are fairly stable |
| Reporting metric | AI visibility score and AI share of voice | Rankings, impressions, clicks |
Some teams call the same discipline generative engine optimization. The measuring is identical, and the generative engine optimization tool page shows how to run it as a weekly loop with gap tracking.
An AEO checklist you can measure against
Each item is something your team does. The column on the right is how you see in MentionRadar whether it worked.
- Write a tracked prompt set from real buyer questions Matrix rows cover category, comparison and problem questions
- Answer the core question on one clear page Your own domain appears in cited pages (Growth+)
- Publish an honest comparison page Comparison prompts start naming you
- Keep product facts identical everywhere Answers stop repeating outdated plans or features
- Get listed in the guides engines cite Third party pages in the citation list now name you
- Join the threads where buyers ask Reddit and forum mentions grow in the web feed
- Earn reviews on the sites your category uses Review site mentions and their sentiment trend up
- Watch competitors that replace you Competitor named where you are missing, by engine
- Re-measure on the same prompts weekly AI visibility score and share of voice trend
Share of voice is the AEO result your boss reads
A matrix is the working view. For a monthly report, one number travels better: what share of the answers name you, compared with each competitor.
AI share of voice counts, across the latest run of every prompt and engine, how many answers name each brand, and divides by the total for you and your competitors. Web share of voice does the same with mention counts from news, blogs, forums, Reddit, Hacker News, reviews, YouTube and X.
Seeing both side by side tells you whether the engines reflect the conversation on the web or lag behind it. Read more on the share of voice tool page, or check how Google summaries treat you with AI overview tracking.
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Fieldnote
24%36%
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Lumen Notes
38%29%
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Acme Docs
27%22%
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Brightpath
11%13%
What each plan gives an AEO program
Starter
$24 a month billed yearly
15 prompts weekly in ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, 3 competitors, email alerts. Enough for one brand to set a baseline.
Growth
$74 a month billed yearly
40 prompts in all five engines, 10 competitors and the cited pages for every answer, which is where AEO work gets specific.
Agency
$249 a month billed yearly
150 prompts across 15 client workspaces, a per-client AI visibility score and white-label reports.
Monthly billing and Enterprise are on the pricing page.
Questions about AEO tools
What is answer engine optimization?
Answer engine optimization, or AEO, is the work of making your brand the one AI engines name when people ask questions in your category. It covers clear answers on your own pages, mentions on the third party sites engines read, and consistent facts about your product everywhere. An AEO tool measures whether that work changes the answers.
What does an AEO tool measure?
For each tracked prompt and engine MentionRadar records whether your brand is named, its position, whether it is recommended and which competitors appear. On Growth and higher it also records the pages the engine cited. Those records roll up into an AI visibility score and an AI share of voice against your competitors.
Is AEO replacing SEO?
No. Engines with web search read the same pages search engines index, so crawlable, useful pages remain the foundation. AEO changes what you measure: being named in an answer instead of ranking a link, and which sources the engine trusts instead of only your own rankings.
Which answer engines does MentionRadar track?
ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews on Starter, plus Gemini and Claude on Growth and higher plans. Every tracked prompt runs once a week in each engine on your plan.
How many prompts should an AEO program track?
Start with 15 to 40 prompts that cover category questions, comparisons and problems your product solves. Starter includes 15 weekly prompts, Growth 40, Agency 150 across client workspaces and Enterprise 300.
Does MentionRadar change my website or publish content?
No. It measures and reports. It needs no access to your website or accounts and does not publish anything on your behalf. Your team uses the matrix, share of voice and cited pages to decide what to write and where to get mentioned.
Get your answer engine baseline this week
Scan your brand from the homepage and see real web mentions and an AI engine answer in about a minute, before you create an account.