Free AI answer check · ChatGPT + Gemini

AEO and AI visibility platform for agencies and in-house teams

When buyers ask AI, does it name youor your competitors?

AgenticSEO is an answer engine optimization (AEO), agentic SEO and AI visibility platform. The free check asks ChatGPT and Gemini three real buyer questions in your category plus two about you by name, shows whether they name you and who they name instead, then hands you the answers to publish and one prompt that fixes your markup — written from your own pages, in about a minute.

New to the category? Read what agentic SEO means, how agentic search optimization works, or how agentic AI for SEO works. Comparing options? See the best AEO tools buyer's guide, the Profound comparison, or AEO for agencies. Or start with a free AI visibility checker and the 9-vendor tools matrix.

Free, no account and no credit card — and you keep the work: publish-ready answers and a fix prompt for Lovable, Cursor or your own developer. Then fix every page for $29, or start a 14-day trial of a monthly plan.

Prefer to look first? See a sample report.

Are you named?Who's named insteadCopy/paste answersOne-click fix prompt30-day fix/publish planAuto-published

A score doesn't fix anything — finished work does

Your free check ends in three things you can publish tonight

Written from your own crawled pages, not a template. Copy them in-page, get them by email, or download the whole set as one Word document. No account, no card.

1

Answer-ready FAQ block

Five Q&As written from your weakest page, plus matching FAQPage JSON-LD.

2

Schema + AI-tag snippet

Title, meta description, agentic AI tags, and Organization/WebPage JSON-LD for your homepage — paste into <head>.

3

One answer-ready page draft

The high-value buyer question your site never answers, drafted as a publishable page with H1, direct answer, and internal links.

4

30-day fix/publish calendar

A dated day-by-day schedule built from your findings: crawler access, head tags, FAQ + schema, the gap page, then re-check.

Built by Traction Gap Partners Multi-tier crawler + AI analysis Schema.org compliant output Client-ready Printed report

The shift is already happening

The internet is no longer just indexed — it's interpreted.

AI answers are replacing search results. Your customers ask AI engines who to buy from — and most companies have no idea what those systems say back. We start where the volume is: ChatGPT and Google Gemini.

AI is recommending your competitors

They are showing up in answers about your category. You are not — and you do not know why.

You have zero observability

No tool tells you what ChatGPT or Gemini say when prompted with your category, or how often you are cited.

SEO tools track rankings, not answers

Ranking #1 means nothing if AI never quotes you. Inclusion in the answer is the new visibility.

Your site was built for Googlebot, not LLMs

AI systems need machine-readable structure your CMS does not produce by default.

A new category — AI Visibility Engineering

We diagnose the whole chain, then close the link that broke.

Being recommended is a chain of eleven steps, from a crawler reaching your page to an engine naming you. We give a verdict at every step, name the one blocking the rest, and fix it. Anything we could not measure is left blank, never assumed good. They report. We diagnose and fix.

Diagnose

A verdict at each of the eleven steps, with the one step that caps everything after it named first.

Score five ways

Entity clarity, structured data validity, rich result eligibility, evidence readiness, retrieval authority — no single number hiding a broken link.

Close the gap

Metadata, structured data, answers written from your own pages, and the original-source assets that earn citations — published for you.

Positioning

We find where AI answer engines skip you — and fix it in the same run. One platform. Identify and close the gaps.

Citation tracking across ChatGPT and Google Gemini, paired with the generated metadata, JSON-LD, llms.txt, and FAQ drafts that close every gap we find. From $49/mo, versus $99–$399/mo for measurement-only platforms.

Measurement-only platforms

Tell you where you're invisible. You still need a separate team, tool, or agency to fix it.

AgenticSEO

Finds the gaps and ships the fixes: generated metadata, schema, llms.txt, drafts, approvals, and safe publishing.

What SMBs and agencies actually need

Knowing you are absent is not the same as knowing why.

Being recommended by ChatGPT or Gemini is a chain: it has to reach your pages, index them, judge them relevant, trust the company behind them, find something worth quoting, and then name you. These are the eight things a small business or an agency needs from a visibility platform — and what we do about each one.

Find out why AI answers skip you — stage by stage

A verdict at every link in the chain: crawler access, indexing, relevance, authority, and whether there is anything on the page worth quoting. We name the one stage blocking the rest.

Turn each finding into a specific page change

Every gap becomes a work item with the target page, H1, the visible answer, FAQ content, title and description, JSON-LD, internal links and the sitemap action — written for you, not described to you.

One approval before anything goes live

Nothing reaches your website until you approve it in Fix & Publish. Approved work is bundled, recorded, and can be rolled back.

Ask the business the questions only it can answer

Send the market and proof questions to people inside the company on a plain private page. No account, no tool to learn, and their answers come back into the work itself.

Publish into the site you actually have

WordPress, Webflow, HubSpot, or a pull request against a GitHub repository — and Google Search Console connected so we read what Google already reports about the site. No connection? The Printed report is a verified package you hand to whoever maintains the site.

Proof that what shipped changed the answers

Each change is recorded with how ChatGPT and Gemini answered before it went live, then checked again later — so you can see what moved, what did not, and what is still too early to tell.

Run many clients under one roof

Per-client logins and websites, section scoping, per-client schedules, and Printed reports in your own brand, logo and colors.

Start free, at a price a small business recognizes

A free preview with no card, $29 for a one-time full report, or from $49/mo for the continuous program.

Where we sit next to other tools

Mention monitors read the last link of the chain. Classic SEO suites read one of the middle links. Both are useful, and we read them as inputs. Several of these platforms now also generate and publish content, so we keep our vendor-by-vendor notes on the comparison pages, dated and maintained, instead of a scoreboard here. Full comparison

Answer engine optimization, end to end

Ask. Fix. Get named.

Being readable by AI is table stakes. Getting named when a buyer asks is the win — so the free check ends with the answers to publish and the fixes to apply, not just a score.

1

Ask

We put three real buyer questions to an AI engine in your category, plus two about you by name, and record who gets named — and who gets named instead of you.

2

Fix

You get the answers to publish, written from your own pages, plus one prompt that applies the markup fixes — paste it into Lovable, Cursor, or hand it to your developer.

3

Get named

Publish, then watch the same buyer questions again to see your mentions change. On a plan we run and publish it for you on a schedule.

Fix it in your stack

Lovable · Cursor · GitHub · WordPress · Webflow · HubSpot — we either push the approved work to a connected website for you, or hand the whole lot over in the Printed report for your web team. Your call.

The continuous loop

Diagnose. Fix. Measure. Repeat.

Every run walks the whole way between a crawler arriving and ChatGPT or Gemini naming you, and a break early on caps everything after it — so we always tell you the one thing to fix first rather than handing over a long list. $29 unlocks your first full pass on one website.

1

Setup — tell us once about the website and the brand

2

Opportunities — read the website, then everything we found, strongest first

3

Fix & Publish — approve each change and put it live

4

Visibility — did it work, in Google and in the AI answers

5

Reports — the picture of where you stand, for the board and for the people doing the work

Start with a free 5-page preview No credit card. Unlock full report for $29 when ready.

$29 covers one full audit of one website — up to 500 pages. Continuous tracking and auto-publishing to your site are on the monthly plans. See exactly what the $29 report includes.

The platform

Every step of the chain, in one system.

Diagnosis at the top, engineering in the middle, publishing underneath — and the standing you have off your own website alongside it.

Retrieval Chain Verdict

Eleven steps from a crawler reaching your page to ChatGPT or Gemini naming you, each judged pass, fail or not measured — with the one step that caps the rest named first.

Five Scores, Not One

Entity clarity, structured data validity, rich result eligibility, evidence readiness and retrieval authority, scored apart so tidy markup can never flatter a broken chain.

Per-Crawler Judgement

Blocking a search crawler is a fault; blocking a training crawler is your choice and costs you nothing. We also flag when your own security layer is turning legitimate crawlers away.

Authority & Corroboration

How well the wider web backs you up, read from the sources engines cite, Search Console, competitor co-mentions and reviews. Link data is an optional add-on and its absence never scores you down.

Source Ecosystem Analysis

Which kinds of source the engines actually quote for each question cluster — and every cluster where you appear nowhere at all.

Original Source Opportunities

The asset that would earn you a place among those sources: a benchmark, index, survey, calculator, dataset, market map, methodology or case study, named per cluster.

AI Visibility Measurement

Real AI engines answering the real questions your buyers ask — and whether you are named. ChatGPT and Gemini on every plan.

Buyer Question Intelligence

Questions start from the buyer’s problem, not your brand name, and similar wordings collapse onto the one page that should answer them.

Category Bridge & Questions-to-Pages

Inventing a category nobody searches yet? We start with the words buyers already use, name the page that answers them, and introduce your term in that same visible copy — plus, for every question, the heading, visible answer, Q&As, title, description, structured data, internal links and sitemap step, ordered by impact and flagged where a claim needs review.

Citation & Share of AI Voice

Brand-mention rate, domain-citation rate, share of AI voice, and head-to-head competitor leaderboards.

Buyer Questions With No Page

Every question where AI cannot find your answer becomes one line of work — and the app writes the first draft of the page that answers it, for you to edit and approve.

FAQ Publishing API

Same FAQ drafts, exposed via our MCP server and REST API. Forward cached FAQ answers to any connected downstream target (Quid live today; webhook / WordPress / HubSpot adapters plug in server-side). One integration, any partner.

AI Consumption Layer

The structured foundation that lets AI systems interpret your content, extract answers, and cite your pages correctly.

Knowledge Graph + AI Index

Pages assistants can read without running JavaScript, JSON-LD schema and a complete sitemap. llms.txt comes as an optional extra: crawler logs show assistants read ordinary pages and sitemaps far more often.

One-Click Publish to Your Site

Push generated head tags, JSON-LD, sitemap entries, llms.txt and whole new pages straight to WordPress, Webflow, HubSpot or a GitHub repository. No copy-paste, no developer ticket. No connection? The Printed report hands the same work to whoever maintains the site.

Repeat Runs On Your Schedule

Re-checks on the day and time you pick, with the work list rebuilt each time so visibility compounds instead of drifting.

AI Crawler Analytics

See which AI engines actually fetched your pages — GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended — and which pages they read. Paste a log export or forward logs continuously.

Prompt Demand Scoring

A 0–100 demand score on every tracked phrase, built from your own Search Console demand, so you answer the questions buyers really ask first.

Brand Perception

Sentiment, the storylines AI keeps repeating about you, and any claims that contradict your own site — with the wording to correct them.

Markets & Languages

Answer engines reply differently by country. Each market you sell into is measured on its own, with its own runs, sentiment and coverage numbers.

One Work List, Strongest First

Every finding is one line of work naming what to do, why it matters and the page it affects — ruled out in Opportunities, or carried into Fix & Publish.

Email and Slack Alerts

Be told the day visibility drops or an AI crawler stops fetching your pages, instead of at your next review.

Automated Routines

Chain demand evidence, engine runs, coverage and your work list into one routine on a daily, weekly or monthly cadence.

Headless — MCP Server + REST API

Run the entire loop from your own systems or an AI engine: discover, audit, run prompts, score visibility, draft fixes, publish. Every function is exposed over our MCP server and a matching REST endpoint with a scoped, rate-limited project token. Nobody has to open our UI.

Product & SKU Visibility

For commerce brands: sync your Shopify, WooCommerce or merchant-feed catalog and see which products answer engines actually recommend — mention rate, recommendation rate, average position, and the list of SKUs no engine names. Available in the app on Pro and Agency; drive it headlessly over our MCP server and REST API on Enterprise or an OEM agreement.

Enterprise

Built to clear procurement, not just a demo.

Enterprise accounts get your identity provider, your security reviewers' questions answered, and your own Semrush data flowing into the loop.

SAML single sign-on

Included with Enterprise

Sign in through Okta, Entra ID, OneLogin, or Google Workspace SAML, routed by your email domain. Admin capability stays enforced server-side after sign-in.

See SSO sign-in

SOC 2 readiness pack

Included with Enterprise

Control descriptions mapped to the Trust Services criteria, cross-tenant isolation test evidence, subprocessor list, retention schedule and restore-drill records. No audit is claimed — we say so plainly.

Read our security page

Semrush connector

Custom quote

Bring your own Semrush subscription: keyword volume and difficulty, domain and backlink data, and position tracking feed prompt demand scoring, gap selection and your reports.

See Enterprise add-ons

Outcomes

Win the answer. Displace the competition.

Visibility is no longer a ranking — it's inclusion in the answer. Our platform is built to engineer that inclusion across every AI system that matters.

Other tools report rankings. We measure AI visibility and then close the gaps. ChatGPT with web search, Gemini and Google AI Overviews answer on every plan — between them the most divergent retrieval behaviour in B2B and B2C, so wins across all three predict wins elsewhere. Claude and Perplexity are built but switched off, and we do not bill you for coverage you are not getting.

  • Increase AI answer inclusion across the prompts your buyers actually use
  • Win more AI citations and reduce competitor recommendations
  • Control how your category is described — narrative and language
  • Compound visibility through scheduled re-runs and prioritized actions

11 steps

Every step from crawler access to being named, judged separately

5 scores

Entity clarity · structured data validity · rich result eligibility · evidence readiness · retrieval authority

3 engines

ChatGPT with web search · Gemini · Google AI Overviews — on every plan

Five areas

Setup → Opportunities → Fix & Publish → Visibility → Reports

Engine coverage

Three engines answering today, on every plan.

ChatGPT with web search, the real consumer Gemini product, and Google AI Overviews all answer your buyers' questions on every plan — between them the two most divergent retrieval systems plus Google's own answer box. Claude and Perplexity are built and registered but switched off today; ask us and we will tell you honestly where they stand.

EngineStatus todayWhat's unique about itBuyer segment that cares
ChatGPT
Every plan
Largest share of "ask an AI" buyer behavior. Citation patterns set the baseline other engines often follow.B2B buyers and B2C shoppers researching brands, products, and services
Gemini
Every plan
Built on Google's index. Most divergent retrieval behavior from ChatGPT — different sources, different weighting.High-intent commercial searchers and everyday consumers on Google surfaces
Google AI Overviews
Every plan
Google's own answer box, read from the live search result — closer to classic SEO than to LLM behaviour.High-intent B2B and B2C searchers in Google Search
Perplexity
Built, not switched on today
Aggressively cites fresh content and forum threads. Surfaces sources ChatGPT often suppresses.Researchers, analysts, journalists, and consumers comparing reviews before buying
Claude
Built, not switched on today
Behaves like ChatGPT most of the time. Differs mainly in tone and how it ranks competitors when no clear winner exists.Enterprise, regulated, and privacy-minded B2C audiences

Honest positioning: ChatGPT with web search, Gemini and Google AI Overviews are the three engines answering today, on every plan. Claude and Perplexity are wired in but switched off, so we do not count them as coverage you are getting. When that changes we will say so here.

What you get

A powerful suite of AI Visibility features — built to get you cited.

Every output below is real, runs on demand, and lives in one of the five areas you work through: Setup, Opportunities, Fix & Publish, Reports, Visibility.

Feature / outputWhat generates itWhere you'll see it
Technical foundation check (Classical SEO + JSON-LD + AI-crawler access + evidence readiness + llms.txt + sitemap.xml)Setup — tell us about the website onceOpportunities — the audit and everything it found
Site-wide llms.txt (optional extra)Fix & Publish — written for you, then approvedPublished to a connected website, or in the Printed report
AI visibility measurement — ChatGPT + GeminiOpportunities — the audit asks the engines your buyers’ questionsVisibility — one card per buyer question
Buyer questions — built from real search demand and your own site wordingOpportunities — the words and questions we measure you againstOpportunities — the list you can rule lines out of
Citations and competitors — brand mentions, domain citations, share of AI voice, competitor leaderboardEach engine run, recomputed after it finishesVisibility — the numbers and the trend
AI writes the first draft of every page and answer — you edit and save itFix & Publish — "Write the first draft", grounded in your own pagesFix & Publish — saving the draft is the approval
Buyer questions with no page at all — and the page that should answer themOpportunities — the findings listFix & Publish — one line of work per question
Third-party presence — review sites, directories, profiles, analyst listsOpportunities — findings about sources that are not youReports — the marketing team’s work list
Original research and answer pages — the work only you can publishOpportunities — original-source opportunities per question clusterFix & Publish, then Reports
Knowledge graph + AI index layer (JSON-LD + llms.txt)Fix & Publish — drafted, then approvedPublished to a connected website, or in the Printed report
Repeat runs on a schedule you pickSetup — automatic re-checksVisibility — each new run alongside the last
AI crawler activity — which AI crawlers fetched which pagesPaste a log export, or forward logs continuouslyVisibility — AI crawler activity
Demand evidence on every measured phraseSearch Console and the AgenticSEO Search APIOpportunities — beside each phrase we measure
Brand perception — sentiment, recurring storylines, claims that contradict your siteEach engine runVisibility — brand perception
Markets and languages — per-country runs, sentiment and coverageSetup — the markets you sell intoVisibility — per market
Work list, strongest first, with email and Slack alertsRecomputed after each audit and each runOpportunities, then Fix & Publish
Enterprise: SAML single sign-on, security review pack, Semrush connectorEnterprise agreement — configured with TGPSSO sign-in page · Pricing → Enterprise add-ons
Online report on screen, and a Word (.docx) Printed report to hand outReports — built from what was measured, never inventedReports — Online report, Printed report, and past reports
Publish for you — head tags, JSON-LD, sitemap, llms.txt and new pages pushed to WordPress, Webflow, HubSpot or a GitHub repositorySetup — connect the website; Fix & Publish — approve, then publishPublished to your website after approval in Fix & Publish
Work assignments for the web team and the marketing team, when the website is not connectedFix & Publish — hand the approved work overReports — Printed report
Finn — your in-app AI guide (trained on Bruce Cleveland's Traction Gap + Market Engineering IP and every screen in the app)Built in — appears as a chat bubble on every app pageBottom-right "Ask Finn" launcher

The AI Consumption Layer

The structured foundation AI systems need to cite you correctly.

Six discoverability layers per report — the four that move traffic and citations, plus llms.txt and an optional experimental annotation. Generated, validated, and packaged as deploy-ready instructions your team can ship today.

Layer 1 — Classical SEO

Classical SEO fundamentals

Title, description, canonical, Open Graph, Twitter Card. Non-negotiable baseline for Google, Bing, and social previews.

Result: stronger baseline SEO hygiene.

<title>meta descriptionog:imagecanonical
Most distinctive

Layer 2 — Structured Data

Schema.org (JSON-LD)

Per-page JSON-LD matched to real page intent (Product, FAQPage, HowTo, Article, LocalBusiness). The single biggest lever for rich results and AI-answer citation.

Result: knowledge-graph inclusion and AI citations.

@type ProductFAQPageHowToArticle

Layer 3 — Crawler Access

Per-crawler judgement

Each crawler judged by what it controls: turning away a search crawler such as OAI-SearchBot, Claude-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Googlebot or Bingbot is a fault we score. Turning away a training crawler such as GPTBot or ClaudeBot is your choice and costs you nothing. We also flag when your own security layer is quietly refusing legitimate crawlers.

Result: the crawlers that decide whether you can be answered from actually get in.

search vs trainingOAI-SearchBotsecurity layerIndexNow

Layer 4 — Evidence readiness

Are you the source?

Scored on being worth quoting rather than tidily formatted: your own data and figures, first-hand experience, an honest comparison, stated limits, and a self-contained answer. Pointing at other people's sources earns less than being the source.

Result: pages ChatGPT or Gemini can quote and attribute to you.

own datafirst-handcomparisonstated limits

Layer 5 — llms.txt (optional)

Site-wide llms.txt index

A single plain-text index of every published URL, hosted at /llms.txt. An emerging convention, not a confirmed ranking factor — Google has said it neither helps nor harms, and crawler-log studies find almost no AI crawler requesting the file. We generate it as cheap future-proofing; it earns no points in your score.

Result: ready if the convention is adopted — no score penalty if you skip it.

/llms.txtunscoredemerging convention

Annex A — Optional, off by default

Experimental ai:* annotations

An optional ai:* meta-tag block. Not a published web standard, and no mainstream LLM (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity) documents consuming these tags at query time. We ship the emitter only as a self-documenting audit trail of what our analysis believed each page was about — enable per report if you want it.

Result: optional machine-readable annotation, opt-in per report.

optionalnot a standardopt-in per report

Sample report

Preview the report your team can deploy from.

Two reports, both built only from what was measured: an Online report you read on screen, and a Printed report you hand to the people doing the work — the summary, the page-level instructions, copy-ready code blocks, JSON-LD, llms.txt and who does what.

report.tractiongap.com / sample · acme.com / pricing
Sample

acme.com/pricing

Pricing — Acme Robotics

Industrial automation pricing for mid-market manufacturers. Tiered plans, custom enterprise quotes, and an ROI calculator.

pricingindustrial automationroi calculatormanufacturingenterprise quote
Intentcommercial
Audienceops + procurement
SchemaProduct · Offer · FAQPage
Status AI-ready

// generated <head> · acme.com/pricing

<title>Pricing — Industrial Automation by Acme Robotics</title>
<meta name="description" content="Tiered pricing for mid-market plants. Calculate ROI in minutes." />
<link rel="canonical" href="https://acme.com/pricing" />

<meta property="og:title" content="Acme Robotics — Pricing" />
<meta property="og:image" content="https://acme.com/og/pricing.png" />

<!-- Annex A: experimental ai:* annotations (off by default; not a published standard) -->
<!--
<meta name="ai:summary"  content="Pricing tiers for industrial automation, with a built-in ROI calculator and enterprise quote path." />
<meta name="ai:intent"   content="commercial" />
<meta name="ai:audience" content="operations leaders, procurement" />
<meta name="ai:keywords" content="industrial automation pricing, ROI, manufacturing" />
-->

<script type="application/ld+json">
{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "Product",
  "name": "Acme Automation Suite",
  "offers": [{ "@type": "Offer", "price": "Custom", "url": "/contact" }]
}
</script>

Plus a site-wide llms.txt

One file at the root of your site that tells AI agents what's where.

GET acme.com/llms.txt → 24 indexed pages

Each report includes

  • A plain-English summary for people who do not do the work
  • Everything the audit found, counted, nothing hidden
  • Page-by-page instructions, copy-ready head tags
  • JSON-LD structured data and llms.txt
  • Work assignments for the web team and for marketing
  • What to do first, and why it comes first

Run this for your site

Free 5-page preview first. $29 to unlock the rest. No subscription.

Use cases

Built for the teams responsible for getting found.

For marketing leaders

  • Turn AI discoverability into an actionable initiative
  • Give content and dev teams one aligned metadata plan
  • Show executives what needs to change and why
Start with one site audit

For developers

  • Get copy-ready head tags and JSON-LD
  • Avoid vague SEO tickets
  • Implement from clear, page-level instructions
See implementation output

For content teams

  • Clarify each page's summary, audience, and intent
  • Spot pages with weak AI-facing signals
  • Refresh metadata as content changes
Review sample page

For agencies

  • Deliver a polished client-ready report
  • Add AI SEO/AEO to retainers
  • Run repeatable audits across multiple clients
See the agency platform

For founders

  • Get the SEO foundation right before scaling content
  • Avoid waiting for a specialist to start
  • Make your site understandable to AI search tools
Run first report

For AEO specialists

  • Add agentic metadata to existing SEO workflows
  • Ship FAQPage and Article JSON-LD across every page
  • Hand over deployable work, not just analysis
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Monthly plans

First-month delivery guarantee

If we don't ship the agreed number of published items to your site in your first month, your next month is free. A published item is one approved fix pushed live, one published answer-ready FAQ, or one published page — and every one is recorded in an auditable delivery ledger with the page URL and a timestamp, visible in Reports as you go.

Fair-play caveat, stated up front: we can only publish what you approve to a connected site. If nothing is approved, the period pauses instead of paying out. Applies to Starter, Pro, and Agency — not the one-time report.

Start engineering your AI visibility today.

See exactly how ChatGPT and Gemini describe, cite, and recommend you today — then deploy the AI Consumption Layer that makes you the answer tomorrow. One $29 unlock includes both pillars: the AI Visibility Audit and your first visibility scan.

No credit card needed for the preview. Upgrade to $29 one-time or a monthly plan when you're ready.

Nothing publishes without approval

Every change is reviewed, recorded, and reversible. Security

Your client data stays yours

Per-company isolation on every audit, report, and publish. Privacy policy

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