# CueScout

> See whether AI answers name your brand, which pages they cite instead, and what to publish next.

See whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google’s AI answers recommend your brand, which pages they cite instead, and what to fix first. Free first check.

CueScout tracks whether AI answers name your brand. It asks your buying questions on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode, records whether each answer mentions you, cites your site, or recommends a competitor, and keeps the pages each answer cites. The gaps become evidence-backed To-dos, and later checks show whether the engines start mentioning and citing you (GEO). CueScout never posts anywhere; what you publish goes on a page you own.

## Key facts

- Category: AI visibility / generative engine optimization (GEO): tracking whether AI answers name and cite your brand.
- Answer surfaces checked: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode. Starter checks ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Growth adds Gemini and Google AI Mode. Claude is a paid add-on. The Grok pack is a separate paid add-on: Grok answers 20 prompts the customer picks, once a week. CueScout does not measure Copilot and does not claim to.
- Citation sources: records the URLs AI answers cite for each tracked prompt and ranks the domains behind them.
- Competitors: share of voice against the competitors you track, per engine.
- Brand perception: whether answers about the brand lean positive or negative, what it is praised and criticised for, and wrong facts (such as an old price) that the brand's own site contradicts.
- Listings: the roundups and "best X" lists AI answers cite that leave the brand out, with the publisher contact found and a pitch drafted for the customer to send from their own inbox.
- Buyer questions: prompts are suggested from your site and category and edited by you. Questions that repeat in public forums (Reddit and Hacker News, Quora optional) are one extra input, not the product.
- Output: a visibility baseline (mentions and citations tracked separately), the cited-source list, share of voice, and evidence-backed To-dos.
- Posting model: none. CueScout does not post, draft for posting, schedule, vote, or DM anywhere, and needs no social accounts.
- Google Search Console: an optional, read-only connection that brings in the searches already reaching your site, so To-dos can be ranked against real search demand.
- AI crawler analytics (Growth): which AI bots visit the site, whether they are verified, and which pages they read, from Cloudflare or a small snippet.
- Slack and webhooks (Growth): Slack gets a short visibility report after each scheduled run; a signed webhook sends one weekly what-moved reading, with the digest email, to any https:// URL (Make, Zapier, n8n or your own). There are no event triggers.
- Pricing: Starter is $49/month for 20 prompts on ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Growth is $189/month for 100 prompts on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode. On both, answers that change are re-asked every day, and steady ones at least once a week, and the prompts are one pool split across brands (at least 10 per brand, so up to 2 brands on Starter and 10 on Growth). Annual billing is ten months' price for twelve ($490/year Starter, $1,890/year Growth). Starter has a 7-day free trial: the card is taken at checkout and first charged when the trial ends. Growth has no trial. More than 100 prompts: email for a quote. Pricing last reviewed October 7, 2026.
- Follow-up: after you publish, the same questions get re-checked so you can see whether AI engines started citing your page, and the first time an engine cites a page from a finished To-do, the customer gets an email. A Monday email sums up the week.
- Ideal users: B2B SaaS teams, AEO/content consultants, and small agencies who want to know whether AI answers name them, which sources those answers cite, and what to publish next.

## Core pages

- [Homepage](https://cuescout.com/): what CueScout does.
- [Pricing](https://cuescout.com/pricing): the Starter and Growth plans, add-ons, and billing FAQ.
- [Live demo](https://cuescout.com/demo): preview the workflow without signing up.
- [Methodology](https://cuescout.com/methodology): the full measurement method in seven steps — prompt generation, which engines are queried, citation extraction, cited-page crawling, source classification, occupancy and winnability, and the score formula — followed by a published list of what the method cannot see. This is the page to read before quoting any number CueScout produces.
- [Features](https://cuescout.com/features): all 10 CueScout features, each with its own page, mechanics, and published limits.
- [MCP server](https://cuescout.com/mcp): 5 of the free tools as an MCP server, so an agent can run them directly: check_ai_visibility, check_ai_readiness, check_ai_crawler_access, validate_structured_data, check_sitemap. No account and no API key. Add the hosted server by URL (https://mcp.cuescout.com/mcp) in ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor or VS Code, where ChatGPT can also read a connected CueScout account; for local clients, install with `npx -y @cuescout/mcp`. CueScout is also listed in ChatGPT's app directory (https://chatgpt.com/plugins/plugin_asdk_app_6abe30ec3cec819198b2efaf9a3a2a5a). Per-client setup guides at https://cuescout.com/integrations.
- [Free tools](https://cuescout.com/tools): 18 free tools for checking whether AI answer engines can read and recommend a site.
- [Integrations](https://cuescout.com/integrations): 26 published integration guides, plus an optional read-only Google Search Console connection for search demand, and on Growth a Slack connection that posts a report after each run and a webhook for weekly what-moved updates.
- [Comparison index](https://cuescout.com/compare): all CueScout alternative and comparison pages.
- [Use cases](https://cuescout.com/use-cases): what teams use CueScout for: AI visibility, brand monitoring, competitor analysis, GEO strategy and AI prompt research.
- [About](https://cuescout.com/about): who builds CueScout.
- [Contact](https://cuescout.com/contact): support, billing, privacy and legal addresses.

## Features

- [AI visibility tracking](https://cuescout.com/features/ai-visibility-tracking): Daily tracking of your buying questions across up to five AI engines, scored for mentions and citations separately.
- [AI Overview tracker](https://cuescout.com/features/ai-overview-tracker): Daily tracking of Google AI Overviews and AI Mode for your buying questions: shown or not, named or not, and every page cited.
- [AI rank tracker](https://cuescout.com/features/ai-rank-tracker): Position, mention rate and citation rate for every prompt, per engine, with a history page and a daily change badge.
- [AI share of voice](https://cuescout.com/features/ai-share-of-voice): The share of AI answers that name you, ranked against each competitor, with the change since the previous period.
- [AI citation tracking](https://cuescout.com/features/ai-citation-tracking): Every page the AI answers cited for your questions, whether you are on it, and a verdict on what to do next.
- [Rank overlap](https://cuescout.com/features/rank-overlap): The search position of every page AI engines cite, for the question it was cited for, and how many rank nowhere.
- [GEO audit](https://cuescout.com/features/geo-audit): Eight site checks and five page checks for whether AI engines can crawl, read and quote you, each with its evidence.
- [To-dos](https://cuescout.com/features/todos): Specific tasks backed by audits, cited pages, community questions and Search Console, with steps and a recheck.
- [AI visibility audit](https://cuescout.com/features/ai-visibility-audit): One page per brand: who names you, who they name instead, the pages behind it, and what to fix first. Shareable without a login.
- [Multi-brand workspace](https://cuescout.com/features/agency-workspace): Up to 10 brands in one account, each with its own prompts, rivals, cited pages, To-dos and report.

## Free tools

- [AI Visibility Checker](https://cuescout.com/tools/ai-visibility-checker): One buying question asked on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews at once, with whether each one names your brand, links your site, or recommends someone else. (Free, no signup)
- [ChatGPT Visibility Checker](https://cuescout.com/tools/chatgpt-visibility-checker): Ask a buying question the way your customers would and see whether ChatGPT names your brand, cites your domain, or recommends someone else. (Free, no signup)
- [Perplexity Visibility Checker](https://cuescout.com/tools/perplexity-visibility-checker): The same question put to Perplexity, which retrieves and cites far more heavily than ChatGPT, so a brand can be visible in one and absent in the other. (Free, no signup)
- [Grok Visibility Checker](https://cuescout.com/tools/grok-visibility-checker): The same question put to Grok, the one engine that reads X as well as the web, so you can see which of the two it actually pulled your answer from. (Free, no signup)
- [AI Overview Checker](https://cuescout.com/tools/ai-overview-checker): Up to three keywords read live from Google: whether an AI Overview shows, whether it links your domain and at which position, and which sites it cites instead. (Free, no signup)
- [Query Fan-Out Tool](https://cuescout.com/tools/query-fan-out-tool): The searches an AI engine runs behind one question, typed by what each adds, and, if you give a URL, which of them your page already answers. (Free, no signup)
- [AI Category Teardown](https://cuescout.com/tools/category-teardown): Two leaderboards for one category: who the AI answers name, and who they actually recommend. Every stored answer judged one at a time, with the run time and the cost printed on the page. (Free, no signup)
- [AI Citation Source Radar](https://cuescout.com/tools/ai-citation-source-radar): Which sites supply the AI answers in your category, ranked by share of citations, and whether your domain shows up in that corpus anywhere. (Free, email required)
- [AI Readiness Checker](https://cuescout.com/tools/ai-readiness-checker): An AEO checker for your whole site: crawler access, llms.txt, Organization and FAQ schema, canonical and meta tags, server-rendered copy, and whether an about and pricing page exist. (Free, no signup)
- [GEO Checker](https://cuescout.com/tools/geo-checker): Paste one post and get the five checks that decide whether an engine can quote it: something liftable, Article schema, a real date, an answer before the first subheading, an inbound link. (Free, no signup)
- [AI Crawler Checker](https://cuescout.com/tools/ai-crawler-checker): Reads your robots.txt and tells you whether GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, or Google-Extended are blocked, including by a blanket rule you never wrote. (Free, no signup)
- [llms.txt Checker](https://cuescout.com/tools/llms-txt-checker): Validates your llms.txt against the llmstxt.org format: the H1, the summary, the link lists, whether the links answer, and whether the file is really text and not your homepage. (Free, no signup)
- [Schema Markup Validator](https://cuescout.com/tools/structured-data-validator): Read the JSON-LD on any page: which types it declares, which blocks fail to parse, and whether the fields that earn a citation are actually filled in. (Free, no signup)
- [Sitemap Checker](https://cuescout.com/tools/sitemap-validator): Whether a crawler would get a usable list of pages out of your sitemap: reachable, parseable, declared in robots.txt, and free of cross-host entries it will discard. (Free, no signup)
- [llms.txt Generator](https://cuescout.com/tools/llms-txt-generator): Build the markdown file assistants read to work out what you are and which of your pages answer what. Copy or download it, then drop it at the root of your domain. (Free, runs in your browser)
- [Schema Markup Generator](https://cuescout.com/tools/schema-markup-generator): Write valid Organization, FAQPage, Product and Article JSON-LD, including the sameAs links most sites leave out. The code is built in your browser as you type. (Free, runs in your browser)
- [FAQ Schema Generator](https://cuescout.com/tools/faq-schema-generator): Type your questions and answers, copy valid FAQPage JSON-LD. The format answer engines lift answers from, written for you in the browser. (Free, runs in your browser)
- [Robots.txt Generator](https://cuescout.com/tools/robots-txt-generator): Say what you actually mean about AI crawlers. Training bots and answer-engine bots are different agents, and the one people block is usually not the one they meant. (Free, runs in your browser)

## Use cases

- [AEO Tool: Answer Engine Optimization That Ends in Work](https://cuescout.com/use-cases/ai-visibility): CueScout is an AEO tool that checks ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI answers for your brand, shows the pages they cite, and turns gaps into To-dos.
- [AI Brand Visibility: Monitor What AI Says About You](https://cuescout.com/use-cases/brand-monitoring): Monitor your AI brand visibility: whether ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI name your brand, what they say about it, and which pages they read it from.
- [Competitor Analysis in ChatGPT and AI Search](https://cuescout.com/use-cases/competitor-analysis): See which competitors ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI recommend for your category, how often, and which pages put them in the answer.
- [GEO Strategy: Plan Content From AI Answer Gaps](https://cuescout.com/use-cases/content-planning): Build a GEO strategy from evidence: the questions where AI answers leave you out, the pages they cite instead, and the Search Console queries you nearly win.
- [AI Prompt Research: Find the Questions Buyers Ask](https://cuescout.com/use-cases/demand-intelligence): Build your prompt list from the questions buyers really ask, check whether AI answers name you for them, and use Search Console to find queries you nearly win.

## Blog

- [Does llms.txt Work? We Checked 537 SaaS Sites Against Google AI Mode](https://cuescout.com/blog/does-llms-txt-work): What is llms.txt, and does it get you cited by AI? Half of 537 B2B software vendors already publish one. In 80 Google AI Mode answers, 24% of vendors with an llms.txt were cited against 22% without, and the gap disappeared once we controlled for site size. Full dataset included.
- [AEO vs GEO vs SEO: Does Ranking on Google Get You Cited by AI? We Checked 189 Page-One Results](https://cuescout.com/blog/aeo-vs-geo-vs-seo): AEO and GEO are mostly two names for the same work. The real question is how much of it SEO already covers. We asked 24 B2B software questions on Google and four AI surfaces on one day: 73% of Google's page-one results were cited by none of them, and ChatGPT cited 6 page-one URLs out of 184.
- [How Do I Build a Prompt Library for Buyer Journeys?](https://cuescout.com/blog/prompt-library-for-buyer-journeys): A worked prompt matrix for AI visibility tracking: seven journey stages, nine dimensions, a 40-prompt set labelled core, competitor, branded, monitoring and experimental, a test for near-duplicates, and the refresh rules that keep a trend line readable.
- [How Do I Prioritize Content Tasks From AI Visibility Findings?](https://cuescout.com/blog/how-to-prioritize-content-tasks-from-ai-visibility-findings): A priority matrix for AI visibility work: one task per row tied to a prompt, source, page, competitor or wrong claim, two hard gates that go first, five scores that order the rest, and a separate record for whether the answers changed.
- [Which AI Visibility Tool Fits a Small Marketing Team? CueScout, Profound, OtterlyAI, Peec AI and Semrush Compared](https://cuescout.com/blog/ai-visibility-tools-for-small-marketing-teams): Five AI visibility tools compared for a small team that wants to track competitors and act on citation gaps: price, prompts, engines, check frequency, citations, competitor data and what happens after the chart. Read from each vendor's page on 13 October 2026.
- [AI Visibility Tools for Agencies (2026): 11 Platforms Compared on Client Workspaces, White-Label and Pricing](https://cuescout.com/blog/ai-visibility-tools-for-agencies): Eleven AI visibility platforms compared for agencies: client workspaces, prompt allocation, engines, answer and citation evidence, client reporting, white-label, pricing and partner programs. Vendor facts read from each vendor's own page on 13 October 2026, kept apart from our interpretation.
- [What Should a Monthly or Quarterly AI Visibility Report Include?](https://cuescout.com/blog/ai-visibility-reporting-template): A copyable AI visibility report template for agencies and marketing leads: a summary line, a methods box, KPIs with their definitions, prompt-by-engine evidence, five gap types, owned actions, and separate monthly and quarterly versions. Works without any tool account.
- [What Checklist Should I Use for AI Search Optimization?](https://cuescout.com/blog/ai-search-optimization-checklist): An AI search optimization checklist that splits eligibility checks from visibility work, with a pass condition, an owner and a recheck signal for each line, every rule dated to the source it came from.
- [How Does Google AI Overviews Choose Which Sites to Cite?](https://cuescout.com/blog/how-google-ai-overviews-choose-sources): Google says a page only has to be indexed and eligible for a snippet. We lined up 683 links from 100 AI Overviews against the ordinary top 10 for the same questions: 35% matched, and the #1 result was cited less often than #4.
- [Claude Citations: Claude Cites the Page That Looks Like the Question (295 Citations, Measured)](https://cuescout.com/blog/claude-citations): Which pages does Claude cite, and how do you get cited by Claude? We asked it 30 B2B software questions on Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 and kept all 295 citations. Best-X questions pulled listicles 90% of the time, A-vs-B questions pulled comparison pages 87% of the time, how-to questions pulled guides 85% of the time. Full dataset included.
- [Which Sources ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity Cite When They Recommend Products (And How to Track Them)](https://cuescout.com/blog/which-sources-chatgpt-gemini-perplexity-cite): We asked five AI engines the same 50 B2B buying questions on two days and kept every link they cited: 4,709 of them. ChatGPT leaned on vendors' own pages, Perplexity on 'best tools' lists, Google's AI Overviews on YouTube and Reddit. Here is how each engine picks its sources, what that means for getting recommended, and how to track it.
- [Search Console + AI Citations: The Demand-Plus-Citation Fix-First Workflow](https://cuescout.com/blog/search-console-ai-citations): Search Console tells you what people search. AI citation tracking tells you who the answer engines name. Read either one alone and you fix the wrong page. Here is how we join them, on one real query from our own site.
- [12 Best AI Search Visibility Tools (2026): Compared & Ranked, with Pricing](https://cuescout.com/blog/best-ai-search-visibility-tools): Twelve AI visibility tracking tools compared on engines, prompts per dollar, citation data, Reddit, Quora and Hacker News coverage, check frequency and published pricing, read from each vendor's own pricing page on 29 September 2026.
- [Being Mentioned in AI Answers Is Not the Same as Being Recommended](https://cuescout.com/blog/mentioned-is-not-recommended): A mention count scores 'named and ignored' identically to 'the one recommendation'. We read 63 stored answers a second way to separate them: what it cost, what it found, and what we refused to let a model decide.
- [How to Audit Brand Mentions in AI Engines](https://cuescout.com/blog/audit-brand-mentions-in-ai-engines): A brand audit for LLMs is four passes over one question list: build the list, run it on each engine, check the crawlers can reach you, then read the pages that got cited instead of you. With the numbers from our own audits, including the ones that embarrassed us.
- [I Put 63 Buying Questions to ChatGPT and G2 Was Cited Zero Times](https://cuescout.com/blog/does-chatgpt-cite-g2-capterra): The standard advice for AI visibility is to farm G2 and Capterra reviews. I collected 322 citations from 63 buying questions across 20 B2B categories in September 2026. G2 appeared zero times, Capterra once. A UK consumer-tech review site appeared 44 times. It is not a robots.txt problem, and the dataset is included.
- [Grok Cited X Posts 24 Times Across 36 Questions, and Every One Came From the Same Kind of Question](https://cuescout.com/blog/what-grok-actually-cites): Everyone selling Grok optimisation says the same thing: Grok reads X, so post on X. We put 36 questions to Grok, ChatGPT and Perplexity, kept all 740 citations, and found Grok's X citations sit entirely inside one question shape. Buying questions got zero. Full dataset included.
- [The 533 URLs AI Reads About One Category: A Citation Corpus Study](https://cuescout.com/blog/ai-citation-corpus-study): We pulled every source three AI engines cited across 50 buying questions in the AI-visibility category, classified all 533 URLs, then fetched the top 30 pages to see who was named on them. Listing presence tracked visibility almost one to one. Full dataset included.
- [AI Citation Strategy: How to Get Into the Pages Answer Engines Read](https://cuescout.com/blog/ai-citation-strategy): An answer engine builds its recommendation out of a handful of pages it retrieved seconds ago. This is the guide to finding those pages in your category, working out which ones are reachable, and getting your name into them.
- [Listicle Link Building for AI Search Is a Different Job From Link Building](https://cuescout.com/blog/listicle-link-building-for-ai-search): For Google you wanted links from strong domains. For an answer engine you want your name inside pages that get retrieved, and the link is close to beside the point. That changes which pages you chase.
- [How to Pitch a Roundup Post Inclusion (With the Emails I Send)](https://cuescout.com/blog/how-to-pitch-a-roundup-post-inclusion): The email itself: subject lines, the four-part body, three full templates for the different kinds of list owner, what to do about follow-ups, and the lines that get you ignored.
- [How to Get Your Brand Into AI Recommendations](https://cuescout.com/blog/how-to-get-your-brand-in-ai-recommendations): What it takes to be one of the names ChatGPT or Perplexity gives when someone asks for tools like yours: how the answer gets assembled, the four levers you actually have, and the order to pull them in.
- [How to Get Added to a "Best Tools" Listicle](https://cuescout.com/blog/how-to-get-added-to-a-best-tools-listicle): The operational version: how to tell which lists are worth pitching, what the four types of list owner actually want, what they say yes and no to, and how long it takes to land.
- [How to Find Which Listicles ChatGPT Cites in Your Category](https://cuescout.com/blog/how-to-find-which-listicles-chatgpt-cites): Every GEO post tells you to get into the best-of lists. None of them tell you which lists. Here is the manual method, what it costs you in time, and the tool we built because we got tired of doing it by hand.
- [Do Backlinks Help You Get Cited by AI? Perplexity Cited Ahrefs and Two Unknown Startups in the Same Answer](https://cuescout.com/blog/do-backlinks-help-you-get-cited-by-ai): We went through the citations behind six buying questions in our scan data. One answer quoted Ahrefs, Semrush, and two tools with no backlink profile at all. Here is what that says about authority and retrieval, and where the argument runs out.
- [I Looked at Every URL Perplexity Cited for 6 Buying Questions. 14 of 23 Belonged to a Vendor.](https://cuescout.com/blog/what-perplexity-cited-23-urls): A small, honest teardown of 23 URLs Perplexity cited across six buyer questions in our own database. Most of them were vendors' own marketing pages. One was a Reddit thread.
- [Does SEO Still Generate Inbound Leads, or Did AI Search Break It? (I Tried to Answer This on Reddit and Got Auto-Removed)](https://cuescout.com/blog/does-seo-still-generate-inbound-leads): Someone in r/SEO asked whether long-term SEO still produces inbound leads now that AI answers everything. Our scanner has seen that exact question 13 times this month. Here's the answer, plus what happened when I tried to post it as a comment.
- [What a Reddit Buying Question Actually Looks Like: I Read All 148 Highest-Intent Threads](https://cuescout.com/blog/what-a-reddit-buying-question-actually-looks-like): I read every thread our scanner has ever scored as strong buying intent, 148 of them across 50 subreddits, and wrote down the exact words people use when they're about to buy. Also how many were spam wearing a buyer's clothes.
- [11% of My Search Console Impressions Are Competitor-Monitoring Bots](https://cuescout.com/blog/search-console-competitor-bots): 87 of 777 impressions on cuescout.com came from queries with a dozen -site: operators in them. Zero clicks, average position 6.9, while the rest of the site sits at 53. Here's how to spot them in your own data.
- [I Got Shadowbanned Building a Reddit Tool](https://cuescout.com/blog/i-got-shadowbanned-building-a-reddit-tool): I built a tool to help people market on Reddit, and got shadowbanned trying to market it on Reddit. Here's exactly what happened, what Reddit actually punishes, and how to engage without getting nuked.
- [Generative Engine Optimization (GEO): How to Get Your Product Cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity](https://cuescout.com/blog/generative-engine-optimization-geo-guide): Generative Engine Optimization is the practice of getting your brand recommended inside AI-generated answers. What GEO is, how the answer pipeline actually works, what the research and our own citation logs support, and what to do about it.
- [How AI Engines Decide Which Brands to Recommend](https://cuescout.com/blog/how-ai-engines-choose-brands-to-recommend): When ChatGPT or Perplexity recommends three tools, how does it pick them? A breakdown of what actually happens inside the answer, what our own citation logs show, and what any of it means for getting named.

## Comparisons

- [Profound Alternatives (2026): 6 Tools With Published Prices](https://cuescout.com/compare/profound-alternative): Profound no longer sells a self-serve plan to brands: a 7-day trial, then Enterprise at a custom price. Six alternatives with prices on their own pages, from $29/mo, checked 22 September 2026.
- [Peec AI Alternatives: Pricing and Engines Compared (2026)](https://cuescout.com/compare/peec-alternative): Peec AI starts at $95/mo (€85 in Europe) for 50 prompts on three models you pick. Here is what a fourth model costs, and the alternatives that include more engines for less. Checked 22 September 2026.
- [Writesonic Alternative for AI Visibility Tracking (2026)](https://cuescout.com/compare/writesonic-alternative): Writesonic now sells itself as an AI search visibility platform from $79/mo. If you want the tracking without the article writer, here is what the alternatives cost and which engines they check. Checked 22 September 2026.
- [Otterly.AI Alternatives: When 15 Prompts Is Not Enough](https://cuescout.com/compare/otterly-alternative): Otterly.AI Lite is $29/mo for 15 prompts; the next tier is $189 for 100. Alternatives for the gap in between, with engines and prices read on 22 September 2026.
- [Semrush AI Toolkit Review: Pricing and Alternatives (2026)](https://cuescout.com/compare/semrush-ai-toolkit-review): The Semrush AI Visibility toolkit is $99/mo per domain for 25 prompts tracked daily on ChatGPT, Google AI, Gemini and Perplexity. What it does well, what 25 prompts covers, and when the $199 bundle makes more sense. Checked 22 September 2026.
- [Otterly vs Peekaboo (vs CueScout): Pricing Compared, 2026](https://cuescout.com/compare/peekaboo-vs-otterly-vs-cuescout): Otterly and Peekaboo both start at $29/mo. Otterly sells fixed tiers with daily checks; Peekaboo repriced on 21 September to one plan with sliders. What $29 buys on each, and where CueScout fits. Checked 22 September 2026.
- [Frase Alternative for AI Visibility Tracking: Pricing (2026)](https://cuescout.com/compare/frase-alternative): Frase pairs an AI writer with AI Visibility tracking from $49/mo: 50 prompts a day on ChatGPT and Google AI. When that bundle fits, and when a tracker that ends in evidence-backed To-dos fits better. Checked 13 October 2026.
- [Rankability Alternative: Agency Suite or AI Tracker? (2026)](https://cuescout.com/compare/rankability-alternative): Rankability sells agencies content, Google rankings and AI tracking on 11 platforms in one workflow, from $97/mo. Where that bundle is the better buy, and where a narrower AI-visibility tool fits. Checked 13 October 2026.
- [LLMrefs Alternative: Keyword Volume or Your Own Questions? (2026)](https://cuescout.com/compare/llmrefs-alternative): LLMrefs tracks 500 prompts generated from your keywords on every major AI engine for $79/mo, refreshed at least weekly. When that volume is the right buy, and when a short list of your own questions, with the cited sources sorted into work, fits better. Checked 13 October 2026.
- [Searchable Review: Pricing, Plans and Limits (2026)](https://cuescout.com/compare/searchable-review): Searchable Pro is $125/mo ($100 billed yearly) for 100 prompts per model, run daily on ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity. Scale is $400. What each plan includes, what costs extra, and the limits. Checked 16 October 2026.
- [Gauge Review: Pricing, Limits and Alternatives (2026)](https://cuescout.com/compare/gauge-review): Gauge has one self-serve plan: Growth at $599/mo for 600 prompts run daily on six AI platforms, with 18 articles and 5 seats. What it includes, where it stops, how it compares with Profound on price, and cheaper options. Checked 16 October 2026.
- [Botric Alternative: off-page GEO to pair with on-page audits](https://cuescout.com/compare/botric-alternative): Botric audits your own site for generative-engine readiness. CueScout covers the half an on-page audit cannot see: the third-party pages AI engines actually cite in your category, and the competitors they name instead of you. Plans start at $49/mo.

## Integrations

- [Webflow (Site platforms)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/webflow): The robots.txt setting that only works on a custom domain, where JSON-LD goes, and why /llms.txt needs a proxy.
- [WordPress (Site platforms)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/wordpress): The virtual robots.txt, the Yoast and Rank Math settings that produce sameAs, and where llms.txt goes.
- [Shopify (Site platforms)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/shopify): The robots.txt.liquid template, Organization schema in theme.liquid, and the file Shopify will not serve.
- [Squarespace (Site platforms)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/squarespace): Two checks Squarespace makes impossible, and the schema ones you can still pass through code injection.
- [Wix (Site platforms)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/wix): The built-in robots.txt editor, the custom schema field, and the Velo-shaped rendering trap.
- [Framer (Site platforms)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/framer): The robots.txt setting, custom head code on paid sites, and why /llms.txt needs a proxy.
- [Ghost (Site platforms)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/ghost): robots.txt lives in the theme, llms.txt goes in /public, and Ghost already writes half the schema.
- [Substack (Site platforms)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/substack): Almost nothing here is yours to fix — and that changes what is worth doing instead.
- [HubSpot CMS (Site platforms)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/hubspot): The per-domain robots.txt, Design Manager for root files, and the schema HubSpot never writes.
- [Mintlify (Site platforms)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/mintlify): llms.txt and robots.txt are already handled. What is left is schema, and the link to your pricing.
- [Docusaurus (Site platforms)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/docusaurus): static/ handles the files, headTags handles the schema, and pre-rendering handles the rest.
- [Next.js (Site platforms)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/nextjs): app/robots.ts, a route handler for llms.txt, JSON-LD in the layout, and the client-component trap.
- [Claude Code (AI clients)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/claude-code): One `claude mcp add` line, then ask about your site's AI visibility mid-session.
- [Claude Desktop (AI clients)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/claude-desktop): Paste one block into claude_desktop_config.json and ask about your site in ordinary chat.
- [Cursor (AI clients)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/cursor): One block in ~/.cursor/mcp.json, and the agent editing your site can check what engines see of it.
- [Windsurf (AI clients)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/windsurf): One block in mcp_config.json and Cascade can check what the engines see of your site.
- [VS Code (AI clients)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/vs-code): A .vscode/mcp.json block — note the key is `servers`, not `mcpServers`.
- [Zed (AI clients)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/zed): Zed calls them context servers — same block, different key, in settings.json.
- [OpenClaw (AI clients)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/openclaw): Register one read-only stdio server under mcp.servers and expose five public site checks.
- [Hermes Agent (AI clients)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/hermes): Add CueScout under mcp_servers in config.yaml, then discover five read-only public tools.
- [ChatGPT (AI clients)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/chatgpt): Listed in ChatGPT’s plugin directory: five free checks, and your own CueScout data once you connect your account.
- [Slack (Alerts and automation)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/slack): A formatted weekly message: the number, which way it moved, and who turned up where you are not.
- [Discord (Alerts and automation)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/discord): A channel webhook and the plain JSON body, once a week.
- [Zapier (Alerts and automation)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/zapier): Catch Hook, then map visibility_pct and delta into whatever you already run.
- [Make (Alerts and automation)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/make): A custom webhook module, then whatever your scenario already does.
- [n8n (Alerts and automation)](https://cuescout.com/integrations/n8n): A Webhook node, and the one place signature verification is worth actually doing.

## Full version

- [llms-full.txt](https://cuescout.com/llms-full.txt): the same map with the measurement method, plan pricing, and every feature expanded inline — what each one does, how it works, and what it does not do.

## Contact

- Support: support@cuescout.com