How to improve and track your business's AI mentions

AI assistants are more likely to surface brands when they can find specific, citable information that directly answers the buyer's question. Depending on the measured gap, useful actions can include improving product and category detail, publishing a relevant comparison or buying guide, answering a specific FAQ, adding substantiated customer proof, or clarifying structured data. No individual tactic guarantees an AI mention.

The step most teams skip is measurement. Prescy scans the questions your customers actually ask across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews, shows which searches you are losing, and recommends a prompt-specific action. When you mark that action implemented, Prescy locks its original scan as the baseline and measures later like-for-like full scans so you can see whether visibility improved, stayed unclear or declined.

Google doesn't offer an official API or report for AI Overviews — Search Console won't tell you whether the AI summary above the results mentions your business. Tracking them means running real searches and reading what the AI Overview actually says.

Prescy automates exactly that: every weekly scan runs your tracked customer searches against live Google results, captures the AI Overview when one appears, and checks it for your business and your competitors. Because many queries don't trigger an AI Overview at all, Prescy reports coverage honestly — "AI Overviews shown for 3 of 8 prompts, you appeared in 1" — instead of counting a missing overview as a missed mention.

Each assistant answers from its own model and sources, so your visibility differs per engine — being well known to ChatGPT says nothing about Perplexity. The only reliable method is asking each engine the same customer questions and checking each answer.

Prescy does this with the engines' real APIs: your tracked searches are asked on every scan, each answer is checked for your business (including aliases and your domain), and results are shown per engine as verifiable counts — "mentioned in 14 of 35 prompts" — alongside the verbatim answers, so you can audit every number.

An AI visibility score condenses how often AI assistants mention your business into one comparable number. Prescy's score runs 0–100 and combines two things: breadth (how many of the five engines mention you at all) and depth (your share of answers within each engine). 100 means every engine mentions you in every tracked search; the score is computed identically for competitors, so head-to-head comparisons are fair.

Usually because the AI has more specific, quotable material about them: comparison pages, reviews, documentation, press coverage and community discussion. AI answers favor brands whose content directly matches the question asked. The fix is rarely 'more marketing' in general — it's publishing the specific page that answers the specific search you're losing. Prescy's Lost Customer Moments report shows exactly which searches those are, who wins them, and the evidence quote from the answer, so you know precisely what to build.

Yes — AI assistants that browse (Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, increasingly others) draw heavily on pages that already rank well, so strong SEO feeds AI visibility. But it's not sufficient: chat models also answer from training knowledge where rankings don't exist, and one synthesized answer replaces ten blue links, so being #4 can mean being invisible. Treat AI visibility as its own channel with its own measurement, built on the same content foundations.

Social listening monitors what people say about your business on public social media and the web. AI visibility tracking monitors what AI assistants tell your potential customers when they ask for recommendations — a private, one-to-one conversation no listening tool can see. Both are monitoring tools, but they watch different rooms; the AI room is where a growing share of customer decisions now starts.

Yes — Prescy's free Business Checker runs a live check in about a minute: it asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity real questions about your website and shows you the answers immediately. No account needed.