How Cyted measures AI search visibility
One number — does AI recommend you or your competitors — measured honestly. Here is exactly how the audit works, so you can check every claim we make.
- 01Three AI engines, every auditEvery audit samples ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude — three flagship answer engines — with live web grounding. We don't hold an engine back for a higher tier: a £20 one-off audit samples exactly what a Pro subscription does, on the same flagship models.
- 02Real buyer questions, per verticalWe ask the questions a real customer would ask — comparison, specific-business and near-me questions drawn from a hand-authored pack for the trade, with the city filled in for local queries.
- 03k=3 samples → a rate, not a screenshotAI answers vary run to run, so each question is asked three times per engine. The result is a mention rate — how often you're named — not a single lucky (or unlucky) screenshot.
- 04A 95% confidence intervalEvery rate carries a Wilson score confidence interval, so you can tell a real signal from sampling noise. We never claim a change that sits inside the interval.
- 05An LLM judge extracts who was namedA separate model reads each answer and extracts the businesses it recommends, matching your business against its name variants and citations so a mention under a slightly different name still counts as you.
- 06Fixes from what the engines citedRecommendations are derived from the domains and competitors the engines actually cited in answers that recommended someone else — concrete, evidence-backed fixes, not a generic checklist.