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MentionAudit captures how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok answer questions about your brand, then shows the edits that move you from absent to cited. Three rules govern everything on this page and everything inside an audit.
Built by Sam Miller, founder of MentionAudit.
- 800M
ChatGPT weekly active users
as of 2025-Q4
Sam Altman · OpenAI Dev Day · 2025-10-06 - 8% vs 15%
Click rate when an AI summary appears on Google search vs. when none is shown
as of 2025-Q3
Pew Research Center · 2025-07-22 (data from Mar 2025) - 60%+
AI search engines return wrong citations across 1,600 tested queries
as of 2025-Q1
Tow Center for Digital Journalism · Columbia Journalism Review · 2025-03-06 - 1,200%
Growth in generative-AI traffic to U.S. retail sites (Jul 2024 → Feb 2025)
as of 2025-Q1
Adobe Analytics · 2025-03-17
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Real operators and named researchers, captured on the record. Every card links to its primary source. A weekly content-fingerprint cron confirms the quoted text is still there — the muted dot beside each date is the verification heartbeat.
When an AI answers a question using your content, it usually cites you with a source link. What it doesn't do, 62% of the time, is say your name.
Growth advisor · ex-Shopify, G2, Atlassian
u/nicbou Year on year traffic is down 43% for the website I live from. Everyone in the industry is suffering.
Independent web operator (allaboutberlin.com)
Hacker News · u/nicbou · 2025-07-15captured · 2026-04-25u/theorchid If AI recommends your website when answering people's questions, you cannot find out what questions the user discussed, how many times your website was shown, and in what position.
Practitioner — AI recommendation analytics
Hacker News · u/theorchid · 2026-03captured · 2026-04-25u/marcwajsberg The attribution point is huge: the "decision" can happen in the model's answer, and your analytics only see the last hop.
Practitioner — AEO measurement
Hacker News · u/marcwajsberg · 2026-03captured · 2026-04-25Aleyda Solis The world of search is undergoing its most significant transformation since the advent of Google itself.
International SEO consultant · Founder, Orainti
Press · Aleyda Solis · 2025-05-18captured · 2026-04-25u/avin01 My worry is GEO/AEO becomes the same game SEO did, people optimizing for bots instead of users. The boring strategy still wins. Write good stuff, update it, build credibility.
LLM systems builder — skeptical practitioner
Hacker News · u/avin01 · 2026-03captured · 2026-04-25Lily Ray AI assistants function fundamentally differently than search engines. While traditional engines prioritize retrieval (indexing and ranking), LLMs focus on synthesis.
Founder, Algorythmic · SEO & AI Search consultant
Substack · Lily Ray · 2026-01-19captured · 2026-04-25u/quiqueqs Even for market-leading brands, a single prompt can produce different recommendations day to day, which makes me suspect LLMs are also introducing some amount of entropy into product recommendations.
AI search visibility tooling builder
Hacker News · u/quiqueqs · 2026-03captured · 2026-04-25u/wompapumpum LLMs don't care about your domain authority or backlink profile. They care about whether they can extract a clean answer from your content.
Practitioner researching LLM citation behavior
Hacker News · u/wompapumpum · 2025-12captured · 2026-04-25Britney Muller The rules of SEO are being rewritten.
Founder, Data Sci 101 · ex-Moz Senior SEO Scientist
Press · Britney Muller · 2025-03-20captured · 2026-04-25
How ChatGPT answers “best payment processing for online business”
ChatGPT · Stripe · as of 2026-04-13
Stripe Billing — best all-around for developer experience, native metered/usage billing, first-class API/SDKs, clear docs and sandbox tools, and built-in webhook tooling (resend, signature verification, retries). Good match if you want to implement metered usage via API calls and keep billing logic close to your codebase.
Cited sources
- 51%
B2B software buyers now begin product research with an AI chatbot more often than with Google
as of 2026-Q2
G2 Buyer Behavior Report · 1,076 buyers surveyed · 2026-04-15 - -58%
Click-through rate drop on the #1 Google result when an AI Overview appears (300k-keyword study)
as of 2026-Q1
Ahrefs · 300,000-keyword CTR study · 2026-02-04 - 6% to 25%
AI Overviews appearance rate on Google in 2025 across 10M+ tracked keywords (peak 24.6% in July)
as of 2025-Q4
Semrush AI Overviews Study · 2025-12 (Jan–Nov 2025 data) - 4
Shopify brands OpenAI names for Instant Checkout rollout after Etsy — AI search becomes a buy button
as of 2025-Q3
OpenAI Help Center · Instant Checkout launch · 2025-09-29
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“Stripe Billing — best all-around for developer experience, native metered/usage billing, first-class API/SDKs, clear docs and sandbox tools, and built-in webhook tooling (resend, signature verification, retries).”
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