We sell AI SEO agents that get brands recommended by AI. So we ran them on ourselves, in public.
Most vendors in this category show you a dashboard and a promise. We are showing you our own scoreboard, starting from a number we are not proud of, and updating it every two weeks whether it goes up or not.
ChatGPT · 24 buying prompts · [READ DATE], 2026
[N]
times ChatGPT named Indexable AI when a buyer asked which AI SEO platform to use.
What we asked, and what the engines said
We track the questions a VP of Marketing types when they are choosing an AI SEO or AI visibility platform. Questions like “best enterprise AI SEO platforms”, “recommend an SEO automation platform that uses AI agents” and “what’s like Profound but with an AI agent that actually does the optimization”.
On [READ DATE], 2026 we ran 24 of those prompts, logged out, once each, in ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Perplexity and Microsoft Copilot. We kept every screenshot. Two things can happen to us in an answer: the engine can use our pages as a source, and the engine can name Indexable AI as an option. Only the second one wins a deal.
| Engine | Answers that used our site as a source | Answers that named Indexable AI |
|---|---|---|
| ChatGPT | [N] | [N] |
| Google AI Mode | [N] | [N] |
| Perplexity | [N] | [N] |
| Microsoft Copilot | [N] | [N] |
| All four, 96 answers | [N] | [N] |
Cited, not named.
The engines read our pages and then recommended someone else. The brands they named instead were Profound, AthenaHQ and Search Atlas, in that order.
Why, in our own words
We read every answer. Three reasons, in the order of how much they hurt.
1. Our own best page told the engines who to recommend.
Our enterprise platforms guide said, in one clean sentence, that “the strongest” AI visibility platforms were four of our competitors. Engines lifted that sentence again and again. We wrote it to be fair. It read as a recommendation. We changed it on October 28, 2026, and kept every competitor fact on the page.
2. Nobody independent says our name.
The platforms the engines recommend are on G2, Gartner Peer Insights, Reddit, YouTube and a dozen buyer’s guides. Every mention of us traced back to our own site and one review. One engine said it plainly: vendors who rank themselves first get discounted. Fair.
3. The engines were not sure who we are.
“Indexable” is also an adjective, and three other products use a nearly identical name. One engine answered “Indexable vs Profound” with a dictionary definition. Another told the user we were a different company. So, for the record: Indexable AI is indexableai.com, founded in San Francisco in 2026 by Vijay Vasu. It is not connected to IndexableAI.pro, Indexably, Indexable at indexable-ai.com, Indexly or Searchable.
What we changed, dated
| Date | Change | Who |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 2026 | Fixed our company link in the structured data on all 246 pages. | AI Search Engineer |
| Oct 26, 2026 | Rewrote the three pages engines cite most. Removed the sentences that recommended competitors as the whole answer. Replaced our self-ranked #1 with a disclosed comparison. | AI Content Engineer, Vijay approved |
| Oct 28, 2026 | Added an “About the name” line and schema disambiguation on six pages, naming the look-alikes. | AI Search Engineer, Vijay approved |
| Oct 29, 2026 | Listed Indexable AI on G2 (free profile). | Vijay |
| Nov 7, 2026 | Rewrote the 14-platform comparison: full brand name throughout, one neutral fit section, a price chart, and structured data reconciled to one organization, one product and one author across all 232 pages. | AI Content Engineer + AI Search Engineer, Vijay approved |
| Nov 9, 2026 | Added the founder’s operating history to the comparison byline and methodology; enriched the site-wide author entity. | AI Search Engineer, Vijay approved |
| Nov 12, 2026 | Replaced self-critical lines on ten pages with neutral fit statements; added first-person experience notes and judgment lines on five comparison pages, with a matched-pair test logged before deploy. | AI Content Engineer, Vijay approved |
| Pending | First independent buyer’s guides that include us. | AI Citation Outreach Agent drafts, Vijay sends |
Everything in this table is work our agents do for customers. We are doing it on ourselves first, with the same approval step, so you can watch whether it works.
The scoreboard, updated every two weeks
Same 24 prompts, same four engines, same method, every two weeks. The number is how many of the 24 answers on each engine named Indexable AI.
| Read date | ChatGPT | Google AI Mode | Perplexity | Copilot | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| [READ DATE], 2026 | [N] | [N] | [N] | [N] | Baseline. Page and entity fixes shipped Oct 28. |
| Nov 12, 2026 | |||||
| Nov 26, 2026 | |||||
| Dec 10, 2026 |
If this table does not move by December, we will say so here.
What this means if you are the buyer
If your brand is cited but not named, your content is good enough to be read and not corroborated enough to be recommended. The fix is mostly off your site: listings, independent reviews, buyer’s guides, and one clear sentence about who you are. That is the work our agents do, with a person approving each step.
You can run this check on your own brand in an afternoon. Write down the 20 questions your buyers ask an AI assistant before they talk to sales. Run each one logged out. Count how often you are a source and how often you are named. The gap between those two numbers is your to-do list.
Questions people ask about this page
Why publish a bad number?
Because the method only means something if it is measured the same way when it is losing. A buyer can check every prompt in the list below themselves.
How do you count a “recommendation”?
The engine names Indexable AI in the answer text, not just in a source link, on a prompt that does not contain our name. We run each prompt logged out, once, on the read date, and keep the screenshots.
What did you not change?
Our competitor facts. The comparisons on our site still give Profound, AthenaHQ, Search Atlas and the others the same verified facts they had before.
The 24 prompts
- best enterprise AI SEO platforms
- top AI SEO platforms for enterprise
- AI SEO platforms for enterprise marketing teams
- best AI SEO tools for enterprise
- enterprise SEO tools comparison
- compare enterprise SEO platforms
- best enterprise SEO platforms 2026
- enterprise AI search optimization platform
- enterprise GEO platform comparison
- which enterprise SEO platforms track AI search citations
- best agentic SEO software
- best AI SEO agents
- what are the best agentic SEO platforms and which one should I choose
- recommend an SEO automation platform that uses AI agents
- what’s like Profound but with an AI agent that actually does the optimization
- Search Atlas alternative for AI SEO
- best Profound alternatives
- ai seo agent
- seo agents
- best AI visibility platform for enterprise
- best GEO tools 2026
- best generative engine optimization software
- AI SEO platform for companies without an SEO team
- where to sign up for an AI search agent that handles content, schema, and outreach
In summary: on [READ DATE], 2026, four AI engines used our site as a source in [N] of 96 answers and named Indexable AI in [N]. We published the number, fixed what was ours to fix, and will post the next read on November 12, 2026.
See where your brand stands
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