Over the past few weeks I’ve been casually testing how AI assistants recommend products or platforms. Nothing fancy I just asked questions in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude like: “What platforms help track AI search visibility?” “How do companies monitor brand mentions in AI answers?” “Tools used for AI search optimization” Across different prompts I kept seeing some familiar names pop up such as Peec AI, Otterly, Profound, AthenaHQ, Rankscale, Knowatoa, and LLMClicks. But here’s the strange part. The list wasn’t stable at all. Sometimes a brand would appear in one response and disappear in the next. Even small changes in wording completely changed the recommendations. For example: “AI visibility tools” vs “platforms that track brand mentions in AI answers” Same idea… different results. It made me realize AI recommendations might work very differently from search rankings. There isn’t really a fixed “top 10”. So now I’m curious: Do these mentions actually lead to traffic or brand awareness yet? Are AI assistants forming their own entity associations over time? Or are we still too early for this to be reliable? Would be interesting to hear if anyone else has been experimenting with this. submitted by /u/Real-Assist1833
Originally posted by u/Real-Assist1833 on r/ArtificialInteligence