SEO + AEO — Google, ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity & AI Overviews

Win Google.
Win AI Search.

Your customers search in two places now: Google, and AI assistants like ChatGPT. RankPilot measures both — where you rank, whether AI recommends you, and why competitors get picked — then works every night to fix it. Or let our Growth program run your entire search presence for you. Software backed by a money-back guarantee — up to 90 days.

Free · 30 seconds · see what AI says about your business

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Three intelligence engines: Intelligence·Portfolio·Authority
RankPilot · Visibility Console Live
Visibility Share
0%
+12 pts this month
Business Outcome
0
+9 vs last month
Competitor visibility
Competitor A
32%
Competitor B
24%
Your Business
34%
Recent agent actions
New authority asset published — "Best options compared" 2m
Opportunity discovered — competitor losing share on 3 queries 1h
Visibility increasing — cited in 4 new AI answers 3h
AI citation trend — 14 days

Case study — real client, live data

AI Assistants Now Recommend
This Business by Name

Every number below is a logged event from RankPilot’s own tracking — server-log rows and recorded AI answers. No estimates, no projections.

Family-run foundation repair · Denton County, Texas · Growth plan client
alphaliftfoundationrepair.comVisit the live site ↗ The AlphaLift website RankPilot rebuilt — 30 answer-ready pages

The starting point: decades of good work, 5.0-star reviews — and almost no presence in AI answers. When homeowners asked an AI assistant who should fix a cracked slab, competitors got named. AlphaLift didn’t.

What RankPilot did: rebuilt their website into 30 fast, answer-ready pages with zero downtime, published pages that answer the exact questions buyers ask AI, cleaned up the listings AI assistants read, and logged every AI crawl and every AI answer along the way.

Thirty days later, AlphaLift is one of the top 3 businesses AI names in its market — ahead of national chains that have dominated local search for years.

Real questions AI now answers with AlphaLift
  • “Who does foundation repair in the Denton area and which contractors have the best reviews?”Gemini + Perplexity
  • “What’s the best foundation repair company near Hickory Creek, TX?”Gemini
  • “Which foundation repair companies in Denton County do people actually recommend?”Gemini
  • “What foundation repair company should I call in Little Elm, TX for a slab foundation problem?”Gemini
See what AI says about your business Explore the Growth program

Measured on unbranded buying questions only — questions that already contain the business name don’t count. Data as of August 6, 2026.

AlphaLift · AI Visibility Receipts Live data
Rank among brands AI names
Top 3 of 197
Every brand AI mentioned in their market, last 30 days
AI reads of their site
4,452
Server-log rows since read-tracking went live July 22
Buying questions won
5
4 they had never been named on before
AI crawlers reading them
10
OpenAI ×3, Anthropic, Meta, Perplexity, Amazon & more
AI assistant reads — cumulative, July 22 → August 6
4,000 2,000 4,452 Jul 22 Aug 6
Brands AI names most in their market — mentions, last 30 days
Local competitor #1
55
Local competitor #2
51
AlphaLift
50
Local competitor #4
48
National chain #5
32

Why this matters now

Search Has Changed

Traditional Search

1User searches
2User clicks links
3Business wins traffic

AI Search

1User asks AI
2AI recommends businesses
3Business wins trust before the click

Google rankings still matter — but they're no longer the whole game. AI systems increasingly decide which businesses get recommended, and that decision happens before a customer ever reaches your website. Winning search now means winning both: classic SEO and answer engine optimization (AEO).

Most companies have no idea:

  • If they're being recommended
  • Why competitors are winning
  • What AI systems trust
  • Which actions actually improve visibility

The difference

Most Tools Report.
RankPilot Learns And Acts.

Visibility Intelligence

Tracks recommendations, citations, competitors, and AI responses daily — building a living picture of how AI sees your market.

AI Citation Intelligence

Maps which sources AI actually pulls from for your market's queries — and surfaces every source your competitors occupy that you don't.

Autonomous Execution

Creates, updates, improves, consolidates, and manages visibility assets automatically — putting the strategy into motion.

A continuous learning loop that compounds over time

Observe → Learn → Decide → Execute → Learn Again

How it works

Your AI Visibility System
Runs Continuously

No campaigns to launch, no checklists to manage. RankPilot works in a loop — week after week, getting smarter the longer it runs.

1

Researches Your Market

Tracks realistic buyer questions across AI engines — the questions your customers are actually asking ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews.

2

Studies Competitors

Identifies who gets recommended and why — mapping the assets, citations, and signals that make AI systems trust them over you.

3

Finds Visibility Gaps

Discovers the opportunities competitors are capturing and you're missing — ranked by real impact on your visibility share.

4

Takes Action

Creates and improves assets designed to increase visibility — building, updating, and consolidating with quality as the priority.

5

Measures Results

Feeds outcomes back into the intelligence database — so every action makes the next decision sharper. The system compounds.

What's working for you

Three Engines Working Behind The Scenes

RankPilot Agent
Intelligence Engine

Learns what drives AI recommendations.

  • Competitors
  • Citations
  • Queries
  • AI responses
  • Market patterns
Portfolio Engine

Maintains high-quality owned assets and protects site quality.

  • Creates
  • Updates
  • Consolidates
  • Prunes
  • Protects quality
Authority Engine

Builds earned visibility beyond your own site.

  • Journalist opportunities
  • Expert quotes
  • Directories & podcasts
  • Partnerships
  • Citation opportunities

The differentiator

AI Doesn't Guess. It Cites.
We Map Every Source.

When someone asks ChatGPT for a recommendation, it synthesizes answers from specific websites it trusts. RankPilot identifies exactly which sources AI pulls from for your market — and shows you where competitors are listed that you aren't.

AI citation sources — your industry

Review platforms✓ You're present
Industry directories✓ You're present
News & editorial✗ Gap
Q&A communities✗ Gap
Listicles & comparisons✗ Gap

Only RankPilot maps this

Get on the sources AI already trusts.

  • We track every domain AI cites when answering your market's questions
  • Show you which source types cite competitors — but not you
  • Rank gaps by their estimated impact on your Visibility Share
  • Surface outreach opportunities for the highest-value sources
Source coverage score 2 of 5 source types covered
“

Your competitors aren't just ranking better — they're on sources AI trusts that you aren't.

Full transparency

Know Exactly What The Agent Is Doing

Every decision, action, and result — visible in one place. Nothing happens behind a curtain.

Visibility Intelligence
"best provider near me"
Cited
"top rated services"
Cited
"trusted local experts"
Gap

Visibility Intelligence

See exactly which AI queries cite you, where you're missing, and how your visibility share moves week to week.

Competitors
Competitor A
Competitor B
You

Competitor Analysis

Understand who's winning and why — down to the assets and citations behind their lead.

Agent feed
RunningDrafting comparison asset
DoneConsolidated 3 weak pages
DoneSubmitted to 2 directories

Agent Activity Feed

A real-time log of everything the agent creates, improves, and ships on your behalf.

Authority
Journalist query — industry trendsHigh
Podcast guest opportunityHigh
Directory listing — nicheMed

Authority Opportunities

Earned-visibility opportunities surfaced and scored — quotes, podcasts, directories, and partnerships.

Citation Sources
Review platforms
Present
Industry dirs
Present
News & editorial
Gap
Listicles
Gap

Citation Source Map

See every source type AI cites in your market — and exactly where competitors appear that you don't.

Competitive intelligence

Discover Why Competitors
Get Recommended

Visibility share — your market

Competitor A32%
Competitor B24%
Your Business11%

Agent discovered

The gap is closable.

  • Missing comparison pages
  • Missing authority assets
  • Missing citations
Opportunity score High

Reporting

Like Having A Visibility Strategist
Working Every Week

01

Executive Summary

The week in plain language — what changed and what it means.

02

Visibility Movement

How your visibility share moved across engines and queries.

03

Competitor Changes

Where rivals gained, slipped, and what they're doing differently.

04

Actions Completed

Everything the agent created, improved, consolidated, or pruned.

05

Approvals Needed

Decisions waiting on you — reviewed and ready in one click.

06

Next Steps

What the agent will focus on next, and why it matters most.

Weekly Visibility Report
Your Business — Week 12
Prepared by your RankPilot Agent
Executive Summary

Visibility share rose to 34% (+12 pts). The agent shipped one comparison asset and consolidated three overlapping pages. One approval is waiting.

Visibility Movement
Visibility share34% · +12 pts
New AI citations+4 queries
Business outcome score78 · +9
Actions Completed
Assets created1
Pages consolidated3
Authority placements2
Approvals Needed
Comparison page — "X vs Y"Review →

Capabilities

Everything Needed To Improve AI Visibility

AI Visibility Tracking

Competitor Intelligence

Visibility Share Scoring

Authority Opportunity Discovery

AI Citation Source Intelligence

Content Portfolio Management

Page Consolidation

Content Pruning

Authority Asset Creation

Weekly Reports

Approval Workflows

Agent Activity Logs

Who it's for

Built For Businesses That
Depend On Being Found

SaaS

Win the AI recommendation when buyers ask which tool solves their problem.

Agencies

Deliver AI visibility as a service — at scale, without adding headcount.

B2B Services

Become the name AI suggests when prospects research providers.

E-Commerce

Get your products and brand recommended in AI shopping answers.

Professional Services

Earn trust before the first call — be the expert AI cites.

Local Businesses

Show up when nearby customers ask AI for a recommendation.

The category

The Operating System
For AI Visibility

RankPilot continuously learns what drives AI recommendations, then improves your visibility through intelligence, execution, and authority.

15+
AI engines & sources tracked daily
3
AI engines checked — ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity
24h
From signup to your first Visibility Share score

Free tools

Free Tools for AI Search

No sign-up, no email wall, nothing stored. Use them whether or not you ever become a customer — and if you want to know whether AI actually recommends you, the gap scan answers that.

Generator + validator

llms.txt Generator

Build a spec-correct llms.txt straight from your live pages, or check the one you already have. It’s the file that tells ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity which of your pages matter and what each one covers.

Generate mine →
Market scan

AI Visibility Gap Scan

Ask the real question: when someone asks AI for a business like yours, does it name you — or a competitor? We run the buying questions in your market and show you the answers we get back.

Run my scan →
Site check

AI Readiness Audit

Check whether AI crawlers can actually read your site — robots rules, schema, canonicals and the technical blockers that quietly keep you out of AI answers entirely.

Audit my site →
Original research

The 38-Market Study

We measured 38 local markets and 350+ businesses. In none of them did Google’s local results and AI’s recommendations match — and 80% of the businesses AI names are absent from Google’s list entirely. Full method and limitations.

Read the study →

The Growth program

Don't Want To Touch Any Of It?
We Run Your Entire Search Presence.

Growth is our fully managed SEO + AEO program. We take over the whole thing — your website, your Google rankings, your Google Business Profile, your directories and reviews, and your AI visibility — and run it as one system, with the RankPilot platform working underneath and a real strategist on top.

1 · Full diagnostic

We audit everything first — site health, technical SEO, Google Business Profile, local citations, reviews, and whether AI recommends you today. You see every issue before we start, and the plan is scoped and priced to exactly what your business needs.

2 · White-glove setup

Onboarding is one guided screen: it lists every account your search presence depends on — domain & DNS, website, Google Business Profile, directories, socials, review platforms. Tell us what you have, hand us access securely, and anything missing we create for you.

3 · We run it, you watch it work

Content, rankings, listings, reviews, and AI citations — handled every week. Your dashboard shows the live workstream board of what was done for you, and a monthly plain-English briefing tells you what moved and what's next.

Everything the software does automatically, plus a team that does everything else — one program, one price, scoped up front.

Request your scoping call

Tell us who you are and we'll come to the conversation having already checked how Google ranks you and what AI says about your market. We reply within one business day.

Prefer email? cody@rankpilothq.com

Pricing

Two Ways To Win Search:
Run It Yourself, Or Let Us Run It

The self-serve Platform is flat monthly and backed by a money-back guarantee — 30 days on monthly, a full 90 days on annual. If it hasn’t moved your AI visibility in that window, you get a full refund. No long-term contracts. The fully managed Growth program covers SEO + AEO end to end, scoped and priced to your business up front.

Self-serve software
RankPilotHQ Platform
$199 $100/mo
$199/mo after the first 10 customers
🚀 Founding price — 50% off for the first 10 customers
30-day money-back guarantee — 90 days on annual

The full do-it-yourself platform. Intelligence plus autonomous execution: it tracks your market, tells you why competitors win, and creates, improves, and manages your visibility assets automatically — you stay in control.

  • AI visibility tracking — ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity & Google AI Overviews
  • Google rank vs AI recommendation — see both sides of search
  • Competitor intelligence & Visibility Share scoring
  • Autonomous execution — creates & publishes content, consolidates, prunes
  • Authority asset creation & outreach
  • Approval workflows, agent activity logs & weekly reports
Get started
Fully managed · Recommended
Done for you
Growth — Managed SEO + AEO
Custom
Scoped & priced to your business up front
🏆 We run your entire search presence

Everything the Platform does automatically — plus a dedicated team running the whole system for you. We build and manage your site, Google rankings, local presence, reviews, and the authority placements AI quotes. One program, scoped to exactly what your business needs.

  • Everything in the Platform, plus:
  • Full diagnostic — site, technical SEO, local/GBP, reviews & AEO
  • Website & technical SEO built and managed for you
  • Google Business Profile, maps & local citations handled
  • Review engine — campaigns that grow your reputation
  • White-glove onboarding — hand us your logins, we set up the rest
  • Dedicated strategist + monthly intelligence briefing
Request a scoping call

Common questions

Questions Business Owners Ask

What is "AI visibility," and why does it matter for my business?
More and more customers now ask ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity for recommendations instead of scrolling Google — "what's the best [your service] near me?" AI visibility is whether those assistants name your business in the answer, or your competitor's. If you're not the answer, you never even get the chance to win the customer.
How is this different from SEO?
SEO is about ranking on a page of blue links. AI assistants don't show ten links — they give one answer and recommend a short list of businesses. Getting recommended by AI depends on different signals: the sources AI trusts, how clearly your expertise is described, and whether structured proof exists. That's answer engine optimization (AEO), and it's what our software measures and improves. And because Google still matters too, the Growth program runs both — classic SEO and AEO — as one managed system.
Which AI assistants do you track?
We check ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Perplexity — the assistants your customers actually use — every day, and show you exactly how often each one recommends you versus your competitors. It's real, measured results, not a guess.
Do I have to do any technical work or learn a tool?
No. RankPilotHQ is done-for-you. We create the content, publish it to your site, and build the structured signals AI engines read — automatically. Authority outreach opportunities are researched and drafted for you; you approve them before anything is sent. You get a plain-English report; we do the work. There's no dashboard to master and no developer required.
How fast will I see results?
AI visibility compounds over weeks, not overnight — the assistants need to see consistent, credible signals before they start recommending you. Most clients begin to see movement in their first 4–8 weeks, and the gains build from there as we keep publishing and earning citations.
How do I know it's actually working?
Every week you get a report showing where AI mentions you now versus before, which competitor gained or lost ground, and what we shipped on your behalf. It's proof of movement — not vanity metrics — so you can see exactly what you're paying for.
What does it cost?
Two ways to work with us. The Platform at $199/month is the full self-serve software — it tracks where you stand across Google and AI, then creates and publishes the content and improves your position automatically. Growth is a custom-scoped managed program where we run your entire search presence — site, SEO, local & GBP, reviews, citations, and AEO — priced up front to what your business actually needs. Both start with a free AI visibility scan so you can see the problem before you decide.
Can you just run everything for me?
Yes — that's the Growth program. We start with a full diagnostic of your whole online presence (site health, technical SEO, Google Business Profile, reviews, and AI visibility), then run the parts your business needs: building and maintaining your website, managing your local listings and reputation, and earning the authority placements AI assistants cite. You get a dedicated strategist and a monthly plain-English briefing on what moved and what's next. Because every business needs a different mix, it's scoped and priced up front — book a scoping call and we'll map it out.

Questions?

Get in touch

Reach out directly and we'll get back to you within one business day.

cody@rankpilothq.com