I realized my business was completely invisible on ChatGPT so I built a tool to fix it
A few months ago I had a pretty humbling moment so I asked GPT for recommendations in my product's niche just to see what it would say.
It recommended 3 of my competitors and didn't mention me once.
It made me realize that the search game is completely changing. People are bypassing Google entirely to ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini for direct answers. If you aren't in that one single response you basically dont exist. The "10 blue links" are turning into one synthesized answer.
I went looking for a way to track this. I wanted to know:
- Am I being mentioned at all?
- Who is actually beating me in the AI's eyes?
- What websites are these AIs actually reading to get their answers?
I couldnt find a good tool to track this (the industry is starting to call this GEO - Generative Engine Optimization) so I decided to build one myself
It’s called ScanWithBeacon. It automatically finds who you are actually competing against in AI answers, tracks your visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Copilot, and most importantly it tells you exactly what to fix on your site so the AI starts citing you as a source
I'm still actively building out the final phases but I set up a waitlist for early access while I finish it up and gather up some feedback!
I'm genuinely curious though how are you guys handling this shift? Are you actively trying to optimize for AI search yet or is everyone just kind of flying blind and hoping for the best?