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I've bought 4 domains.
Started 6 products.
Launched 0.
Every time one got hard, I'd jump to the next idea.
Today I finally shipped one 🥹
How many half-built projects are you sitting on? 👇
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Only 29 of 1,329 websites got cited by all four: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and perplexity.
- 966 showed up in just one of them
- Same 80 questions, 3 runs each, 960 answers.
- Perplexity cited about 19 sources per answer. ChatGPT cited about 3.
So if you only check chatGPT, you're looking at one answer out of four. And with 3 seats per answer, the pages ChatGPT reads decide almost everything.
Study by Prefer, shared by @alexgroberman xitter.gq/alexgroberman/status/2…
Almost 73% of the websites cited across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity appeared in just ONE of them.
Only 2.2% were cited by all four.
So if you are checking ChatGPT to see whether your company is “showing up in AI search,” you may be looking at a very incomplete picture.
A new study gives us a useful look at just how differently the major AI platforms research and cite the web.
Let’s go through it.
And if you want to see where your business stands across ChatGPT, Claude, Google AI, Perplexity, Grok and broader AI search, start here. It’s free:
seo-stuff.com/free-audit
Prefer ran the same 80 questions through ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude.
Each question was tested three times on each platform, and that produced 960 AI answers and 1,329 different cited websites.
The results were pretty interesting.
966 of those websites appeared in only one AI engine.
205 appeared in two.
129 appeared in three.
Just 29 appeared across all four.
Basically, there really was no universal “AI search result.”
Different systems can research the exact same topic and pull information from very different parts of the web.
SEO Stuff's Done-for-you setup was created with this in mind:
seo-stuff.com/gold-plan-pack…
The number of sources they cited was dramatically different too.
Perplexity averaged 19.48 sources per answer.
Gemini averaged 8.64.
Claude averaged 4.58.
ChatGPT averaged just 3.05.
Across the 240 answers generated by each platform, Perplexity cited 748 different websites, Gemini 580, Claude 333 and ChatGPT 218.
That is why asking “How do I rank in AI?” is not as informative as it sounds.
The questions that make a bit more sense (and will help you more long-term) are:
How often do I appear in ChatGPT?
What does Claude know about my company?
Which sources does Perplexity trust in my category?
What is Gemini surfacing for the questions my buyers ask?
There was another important finding, by the way.
The researchers asked the same questions three times within seconds of each other, yet the cited websites still changed.
Average overlap between repeat runs was:
96% for Perplexity.
68% for Claude.
37% for ChatGPT.
35% for Gemini.
Same question.
That matters enormously for measurement because if you ask ChatGPT one question once and do not see your company, that does not necessarily mean you never appear.
And if you do see your company once, that does not mean you reliably own that answer either.
You need repeated measurements across multiple prompts and multiple platforms, otherwise you can end up building an entire AI strategy around a screenshot.
So what about sources?
Well, Reddit appeared in 207 of the 960 answers, making it the most frequently cited site in the study.
Claude cited Reddit zero times.
Gemini cited YouTube in 113 answers.
ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity cited YouTube zero times in this dataset.
Perplexity cited LinkedIn in 73 answers.
Claude cited it twice.
ChatGPT and Gemini did not cite it at all.
Again, the study focused on 80 questions about AI search, GEO and AEO. Healthcare, finance, ecommerce or local-service prompts could produce a very different source mix, but the larger point is difficult to ignore.
Different AI systems have different retrieval behavior, different source ecosystems and different levels of citation consistency.
That said, the biggest authoritative sources traveled much better across platforms.
Among the 25 most-cited sites, 23 appeared across three or four engines.
Five of the top 10 appeared across all four.
So the fragmentation was much heavier in the long tail, and that may actually be the most useful takeaway for businesses.
You want enough content breadth to appear across many relevant questions, but you also want enough authority that multiple systems repeatedly trust your website and the third-party sources validating your company.
That is where traditional SEO and AI Search Optimization start overlapping again.
Build useful content around the questions buyers actually ask.
Make your company, products and category easy to understand.
Earn credible third-party mentions and contextual backlinks.
Create comparisons, alternatives, use cases and decision-stage content.
That is exactly why SEO Stuff approaches AI visibility across multiple platforms rather than treating it as a ChatGPT-only exercise:
seo-stuff.com/
A company can perform well in ChatGPT and poorly in Claude.
If your company only measures one AI platform, you may be missing most of the picture.
And if you want to see where your business stands across Google, ChatGPT, Claude and the major AI search platforms, start here:
seo-stuff.com/free-audit
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yongfook says skip the SaaS in 2026 and sell a $10k service first. SEO is on his list.
here's the 2026 version of that SEO service, 3 steps:
1. ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity the 10 questions your client's buyers actually ask
2. write down which pages each answer reads
3. get your client onto those pages
no tool needed to start. a spreadsheet is fine.
If you’re starting out in 2026 don’t start a SaaS.
Start an AI-enhanced productized service. Something worth $100k that you offer for $10k.
- SEO optimization
- Security auditing
- Platform migration, etc
Make $1 million doing that. Then build the SaaS around it.
MOAT.
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if you'd rather not do step 1 and 2 by hand, the free check on shortlistedbyai.app does it for one website a month
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ChatGPT is recommending a 2 week old scam clone over the real T3 Code.
if it can happen to Theo, it can happen to your product.
go ask ChatGPT where to download your app. today.
Okay I've been digging into this throughout the day. I have no idea what these crypto scammers did, but their fake T3 Code scam clone gets recommended by ChatGPT constantly.
Can anyone help us figure out wtf is causing this?
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I made $0 in October 2026.
🔎 Shortlisted by AI: $0
What I did:
launched it on X
emailed 6 sites that ChatGPT cites. 0 replies
replied in Reddit threads with "I built this"
Lesson: generic emails get ignored.
So in November I'm tagging founders with their real results instead.
Goal: first paying customer.
It checks if ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity recommend your product, and which pages they read instead: shortlistedbyai.app
Founding 50% off annual ends 3 Nov.
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Reddit's CEO says Google search referrals fell by over 1 million a week in October.
His words: "AI Mode does not drive traffic."
If the click is gone, the only thing left is whether the AI answer names you.
So I check that for founders: does ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity recommend your product, and which pages they read instead.
Free check: shortlistedbyai.app
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#Binance hack still unconfirmed, but my timeline is already full of "send your coins to another exchange NOW" posts.
I work in financial crime compliance. This is exactly when the phishing starts. Fake "Binance security" emails, fake support DMs, fake withdrawal pages.
If it's real, Binance will tell you in the app. Not in your DMs.
Our teams are aware of reports of a potential security issue and are actively investigating.
Our security teams are reviewing all relevant information with urgency, and we will provide updates through official Binance channels as soon as we have verified information.
Users should remain cautious of scams and should not trust unofficial links, messages, or requests for account information.
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Alphabet's Q3 call last night had 2 lines every SaaS founder should read.
1. Apps can now run inside Google Search and Gemini.
2. Ads in AI Mode are expanding to more countries.
So the AI answer is turning into the storefront, and paid slots are moving in.
If ChatGPT, Gemini or Claude don't name your product today, I'd check now, while getting in is still free.
Free check of whether ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity recommend you: shortlistedbyai.app (founding 50% off annual ends 3 Nov)
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X changed its algorithm yesterday and the same "a like is almost worthless" post showed up word for word on at least 3 accounts.
Meanwhile the ranking that decides if a buyer ever hears your name gets almost no posts: which pages ChatGPT reads before it recommends a tool.
Check yours in 5 minutes:
Ask ChatGPT "best [your category] tool for [your user]"
Write down who it names
Look at the sources it cites
Get your product onto those pages
I built a tool that does this across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. Link in the first reply.
Free check here: shortlistedbyai.app (founding offer, 50% off annual, ends 3 Nov)
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Week 1 after launch:
$0 MRR
10 cold emails to founders
15 small SaaS tools checked, 7 picked by no AI assistant
My own tool, checked by my own tool: still 0 of 5 shortlists
Shipping was the easy part. Distribution is the job now.
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Founding offer (50% off year one on annual plans) ends 3 Nov, no extension. Free check takes a minute, no signup: shortlistedbyai.app
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> everyone checks if their site works on the iPhone Duo
> I check if ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity recommend 15 small marketing SaaS tools
> 7 of 15 get picked by none of them
> layout bug: 1 hour fix
> not being in the answer: most founders don't even know
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btw you can check yours free here, takes about a minute. founding price is still on for early users if you want tracking too: shortlistedbyai.app
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ChatGPT sent 0.62% of the traffic Google organic did, per @Marie_Haynes' data across 100 sites.
Everyone's posting that as "GEO is dead."
The part they skip is that those visitors converted at 13.8% vs 3.02%.
And when ChatGPT does name tools in your category, it's reading a handful of listicles, not your homepage.
I built a free check that shows you which ones. Link in reply.
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Launched my first SaaS today, lets see how it goes.
It's called Shortlisted by AI.
People now ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity what to buy, and get a shortlist of 3 to 5 names. If you're not on it, you lose the sale and never find out.
Free check, about a minute, no sign-up:
shortlistedbyai.app
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It's called Shortlisted by AI.
People now ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity what to buy, and get a shortlist of 3 to 5 names. If you're not on it, you lose the sale and never find out.
Free check, about a minute, no sign-up:
shortlistedbyai.app/?utm_sou…
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