How We Collect Data
We query AI engines the way a real user would and capture what they see — the same response a logged-out user gets. No special access, no tricks. Just authentic AI output, tracked daily so you can see how your brand's visibility changes over time.
How It Works
Every day, A2Z Reach runs your tracked prompts through multiple AI engines. Each prompt is submitted exactly as a real person would ask it — no system prompts, no API tweaks, no modified parameters. We capture the complete text response the engine returns.
Multi-Engine Coverage
AI recommendations vary dramatically across engines. A brand that's visible on ChatGPT may be completely absent on Perplexity or Google AI. We run your prompts across five engines:
- ChatGPT — the largest consumer AI by usage
- Perplexity — citation-heavy, research-oriented responses
- Google AI Overview — integrated into the world's largest search engine
- Claude — growing rapidly in professional and technical contexts
- Gemini — Google's conversational AI with deep web integration
Why Daily & Why Responses Vary
AI engines update their knowledge, re-weight sources, and adjust retrieval constantly. A prompt that mentions your brand today might not tomorrow — and vice versa. Daily execution means you catch these shifts in real time rather than discovering weeks later that you've gone invisible.
Day-to-day variation is normal and expected. What matters is the trend: are you gaining visibility over time, or losing it? Daily data turns noise into signal.
Per-Prompt Execution Tracking
Every prompt × engine × day combination is a tracked execution. You can drill into any single execution to see exactly what happened: was your brand mentioned? Which competitors appeared? What sources were cited? This granularity lets you pinpoint which topics and phrasings drive visibility and which don't.
What We Extract From Each Response
From every AI response, our extraction pipeline identifies:
- Brand mentions: Whether your brand appeared, where in the response (intro, body, verdict), and how prominently
- Competitors: Every other brand mentioned — who's winning the prompts you care about
- Citations: The external sources the AI referenced, with domain, position, and whether they support your brand
- Sentiment & positioning: How the AI characterized your brand relative to alternatives
- Share of voice: Your mention frequency compared to competitors across all tracked prompts
Why "Real User" Matters
Some approaches use privileged API access or modified queries. We don't. Every response we capture is identical to what any person would see asking that question. This means the data reflects actual consumer experience — the recommendations real people are reading and acting on.