# Sightkick

> Sightkick is an AI-search visibility autopilot: it tracks how ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI answer your buyers' questions, then writes, publishes and earns the content and citations that get your brand named. Built by Sprike LLC.

## Site

- [Home](https://sightkick.so): what Sightkick does, how it works
- [Pricing](https://sightkick.so/pricing): one plan at $79 per month, or $63 per month billed yearly (50 prompts tracked daily in 3 AI models, 30 articles per month, 100 contact lookups per month, outreach from your own inbox, 100 chat messages per month with Sightkick), with add-ons for more prompts, articles, contact lookups and chat messages, a 4th AI model and a managed inbox. It starts with a 7-day free trial (30 prompts tracked daily in 3 AI models, 7 articles, keyword research, the sites to pitch and the directories, 10 contact lookups). The trial takes a card, nothing is charged until day 7, a reminder goes out 3 days before, and cancelling in the first 7 days costs nothing. Sending outreach starts with the plan. The first charge can be refunded in full within 7 days
- [Free AI visibility report](https://sightkick.so/free-ai-visibility-report): a free account, no card: about 30 buyer questions asked once in AI search, with whether it recommends you, who it names instead, what it says about you and the pages it cites
- [Blog](https://sightkick.so/blog): guides and playbooks on SEO and AI search
- [RSS feed](https://sightkick.so/feed.xml)

## For AI agents

Sightkick is agent-operable: connect your agent (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Hermes, OpenClaw) to a user's Sightkick workspace and it can read the SEO/AI-visibility data, write or edit articles, grade drafts against Sightkick's scoring, schedule and publish – with every action attributed in the workspace's activity feed.

- [MCP server](https://sightkick.so/mcp): what the server does, how to connect each client, tools, limits
- [Agent guide](https://sightkick.so/llm-info): capabilities, connection instructions, tool catalog – written for LLM consumption
- MCP server (remote, streamable HTTP + OAuth 2.1): https://app.sightkick.so/mcp
- [MCP server card](https://app.sightkick.so/.well-known/mcp/server-card.json)

## Blog posts

- [What Is Brand Visibility? Definition for AI Search](https://sightkick.so/blog/what-is-brand-visibility-ai-search): Your software ranks in Google, but an AI answer recommends a competitor. Brand visibility in AI search measures whether your brand appears inside generated answers, how prominently it appears, and which sources support it.
- [AEO for AI Search: What Actually Gets You Cited](https://sightkick.so/blog/aeo-ai-search): Zero additional technical requirements apply to supporting links in Google’s AI Overviews and AI Mode beyond indexing and snippet eligibility. AEO for AI search means making your content useful as evidence in generated answers, then measuring whether platforms cite your pages or recommend your brand.
- [What Does AEO Mean? Answer Engine Optimization Guide](https://sightkick.so/blog/what-does-aeo-mean): Your SaaS company ranks in Google, but an AI answer recommends a competitor. AEO means Answer Engine Optimization: improving content and measuring whether answer engines cite your pages or recommend your brand.
- [AEO Meaning: What Answer Engine Optimization Really Means](https://sightkick.so/blog/aeo-meaning): AEO means Answer Engine Optimization: the practice of making content useful to systems that deliver direct answers. AEO targets inclusion in responses from tools such as Google AI Overviews and ChatGPT.
- [What Is Query Fan-Out? How AI Search Really Works](https://sightkick.so/blog/what-is-query-fan-out): Your SaaS product appears in an AI answer, but the customer’s prompt never names your category. Query fan-out helps explain why: an AI search system turns one question into multiple related searches, retrieves evidence across those subtopics, and combines the results into an answer.
- [Schema Markup for AI Search: Step-by-Step Setup Guide](https://sightkick.so/blog/schema-markup-for-ai-search-visibility): To add schema markup for AI search visibility, choose types that match your visible content, generate JSON-LD in your CMS or page templates, connect related entities, and validate the published pages. Schema helps describe content; it does not guarantee AI citations.
- [Am I on AI? How to Tell If You're Talking to a Bot](https://sightkick.so/blog/am-i-on-ai): 26% of AI-written text was correctly identified by OpenAI’s discontinued classifier in its English challenge set; 9% of human text was falsely flagged. If you’re asking “Am I on AI?”, a detector cannot settle it.
- [AI Visibility Report: How to Create One (Step-by-Step)](https://sightkick.so/blog/ai-visibility-report-how-to-create): More than 27,000 brands have used Amplitude’s free AI Visibility tool. To create an AI visibility report, define your metrics, map each to a source, test a fixed buyer-prompt set across AI platforms, and compile monthly results with citations, competitor comparisons, business outcomes, and assigned
- [AI Search Market Share: Stats Across Google, ChatGPT, Meta](https://sightkick.so/blog/ai-search-market-share): What is AI search market share in 2026? The answer depends on the metric. Google reports billions of users across its AI Search features. ChatGPT captures 95% of AI search referrals in BrightEdge’s data.
- [SEO AI Agent: What It Is, What It Costs, How to Choose](https://sightkick.so/blog/seo-ai-agent-guide): An SEO AI agent is software that connects to search data and executes SEO tasks toward a defined goal. It can research, draft, monitor, or publish through connected tools. Choose one by its execution permissions, data access, verification process, and total cost, including subscriptions and API
- [Profound vs Peec AI: Which AI Visibility Tool Wins?](https://sightkick.so/blog/profound-vs-peec-ai): Which wins, Profound or Peec AI? Profound wins for enterprise teams that need SOC 2, SSO/SAML, and a broad connector library. Peec AI wins for agencies and mid-market teams that want published pricing from €89 per month and unlimited seats on every plan.
- [Otterly vs Peec AI: Which AI Visibility Tool Wins](https://sightkick.so/blog/otterly-vs-peec-ai): You're watching competitors get named in ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews while your brand doesn't, and you need a tracker. Otterly vs Peec AI comes down to breadth versus depth. Otterly covers 7 AI engines across 65+ countries from $29/month.
- [7 Profound Alternatives: Best & Free Options Compared](https://sightkick.so/blog/profound-alternatives): Profound was named in 36.4% of 8,332 AI answers about Profound alternatives in our tracking from September 8 to October 8, 2026, with Otterly close behind at 33.8%. The strongest Profound alternatives are Otterly for low-cost entry, Peec AI for agencies, Scrunch AI for response-level API data, and
- [7 Best Otterly Alternatives for AI Search Visibility](https://sightkick.so/blog/otterly-alternative): If your team pays for Otterly.AI and sees brand mentions on a dashboard but can't tell what to do next, three alternatives are worth comparing in 2026. Profound fits daily visibility benchmarking. Peec AI fits agencies running multiple projects.
- [Peec AI Review: Pricing, Accuracy & How It Works](https://sightkick.so/blog/peec-ai-review): 24.7%: Peec AI was named in that share of 7,884 unbranded AI answers about AI search visibility software between September 6 and October 6, 2026. Profound (37%) and Otterly (34.3%) were named more often.
- [How to Rank on Perplexity: A Step-by-Step Guide](https://sightkick.so/blog/how-to-rank-on-perplexity): Ranking on Perplexity is the practice of earning inline citations inside Perplexity's AI-generated answers. Every query triggers live web research and produces one synthesized response.
- [7 Best Peec AI Alternatives in 2026 (Compared by Price)](https://sightkick.so/blog/peec-ai-alternative): Profound was named in 37.1% of 7,660 tracked AI answers about Peec AI alternatives, ahead of Otterly at 34.5% and Peec AI itself at 24.4%. The best Peec AI alternative depends on budget and scope.
- [Optimizing Your Website for Generative AI Features on Google Search](https://sightkick.so/blog/optimizing-website-generative-ai-features-google-search): You rank on page one for a core query, yet Google's AI Overviews cite three competitors and skip you. Optimizing your website for generative AI features on Google Search means clearing Google's eligibility gates (indexing, snippet eligibility, Search Console inclusion), then writing pages that
- [AI Share of Voice: How to Measure It (Step-by-Step)](https://sightkick.so/blog/ai-share-of-voice-how-to-measure): How do you measure AI share of voice? Run a fixed set of category prompts across ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Google AI Mode. Tag every brand mention and citation. Divide your brand's count by the category total and multiply by 100.
- [ChatGPT Rankings 2026: How AI Visibility Really Works](https://sightkick.so/blog/chatgpt-rankings-how-they-work): ChatGPT rankings are the probabilistic pattern of which brands, pages, and sources ChatGPT mentions or cites when it answers a prompt. No fixed position list exists. Visibility depends on crawl eligibility for OAI-SearchBot, which model and mode is answering, and whether trusted third-party pages
- [Profound AI Reviews 2026: Pricing, Reddit Takes, Reliability](https://sightkick.so/blog/profound-ai-reviews-2026): Profound is an answer-engine optimization (AEO) platform that tracks how often brands appear, get cited, and rank inside AI answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews. In 2026 it leads its category on AI mention share.
- [How to Rank in AI Overviews: A Step-by-Step Guide](https://sightkick.so/blog/how-to-rank-in-ai-overviews): Ranking in AI Overviews is getting a page cited as a supporting link inside Google's AI-generated summaries. Google sets no separate requirements. The page must be indexed, snippet-eligible, and built on the same SEO fundamentals as classic Search, then written as helpful, clearly structured,
- [SEO Competitor Analysis: A Step-by-Step Guide](https://sightkick.so/blog/seo-competitor-analysis): A competitor outranks you on your core keyword and you can't see why. SEO competitor analysis answers that. Identify the sites that actually rank for your queries. Compare their keywords, content, backlinks, and technical health. Validate the gaps against Google Search Console.
- [AI Overviews Tracker: How to Monitor AI Search Results](https://sightkick.so/blog/ai-overviews-tracker): An AI Overviews tracker is software that re-checks a fixed set of search queries on a schedule to record whether Google shows an AI Overview, whether your brand or URL is cited inside it, and how that citation changes over time.
- [Otterly AI Reviews (2026): Is It Worth Buying?](https://sightkick.so/blog/otterly-ai-reviews-2026): Otterly AI is an AI search visibility platform that queries ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, and Microsoft Copilot on your behalf to track where and how often your brand gets recommended. It monitors AI mentions; it does not write content.
- [AI Visibility Audit: What Reddit Actually Says Works](https://sightkick.so/blog/ai-visibility-audit-reddit): You typed your own product into ChatGPT, watched it recommend three competitors and skip you entirely, and now you're wondering if that was a fluke. An AI visibility audit answers that: it's a repeatable process of running buyer-intent prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI
- [Generative Engine Optimization Service: What Actually Works](https://sightkick.so/blog/generative-engine-optimization-service): A generative engine optimization service tracks how often AI platforms like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews recommend your brand, then improves that visibility through content, structure, and off-page signals — no AI-only files or special markup required.
- [AI Visibility SEO Strategy 2026: 8 Steps That Work](https://sightkick.so/blog/ai-visibility-seo-strategy-2026): AI visibility is an added layer on crawlability, indexing, and grounding — not a replacement for core SEO fundamentals [1][2][4]
- [Peec AI vs Scrunch AI (2026): Which Wins for AI Search?](https://sightkick.so/blog/peec-ai-vs-scrunch-ai): Peec AI uses a credit-based system (10,000–65,000 credits across agency plans) while Scrunch AI uses prompt-based tiers starting at $250/month for 125 prompts
- [AI SEO Optimization: The 2026 Guide to AI Search Visibility](https://sightkick.so/blog/ai-seo-optimization-guide-2026): AI SEO optimization is still SEO — Google confirms generative AI features run on the same ranking and quality systems, so foundational SEO isn't optional (fact 1, 3, 4).
- [Free AI Visibility Checker (2026): Best Tools & Limits](https://sightkick.so/blog/free-ai-visibility-checker-2026): Free AI visibility checkers (Ahrefs, SEMrush, Amplitude) give a one-time snapshot; none offer the daily, multi-model monitoring that ongoing brand tracking requires.
- [Free AI Tools for SEO Optimization in 2026: 9 Picks](https://sightkick.so/blog/free-ai-tools-for-seo-optimization-2026): Free AI SEO tools split into two jobs: visibility/citation monitoring (Otterly, Peec, Rankscale) and content drafting (ChatGPT, Gemini) — no single free tool does both well
- [Monitor Brand in AI Search Results: 2026 Setup Guide](https://sightkick.so/blog/monitor-brand-in-ai-search-results): Mentions and citations are different signals — track both separately or you'll misread incidents and competitive shifts
- [8 Best AI Search Visibility Tools for 2026 (Ranked)](https://sightkick.so/blog/best-ai-search-visibility-tools-2026): AI search visibility means being mentioned and cited inside AI answers (ChatGPT, Perplexity, AI Overviews) — not ranking blue links.
- [AI SEO Automation Platform: 9 Best Tools for 2026](https://sightkick.so/blog/ai-seo-automation-platform-2026): 75% of SEOs already use AI to cut manual work, but full automation still splits into three distinct layers: tracking, content, and links
- [8 Best AI Answer Engine Optimization Tools (2026)](https://sightkick.so/blog/ai-answer-engine-optimization-tool-2026): AEO tools track brand visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and Claude — but pricing mechanics (prompt limits, credits, model counts) vary wildly and are rarely compared side-by-side
- [GEO Audit Tool: The 2026 Guide to AI Search Visibility](https://sightkick.so/blog/geo-audit-tool-2026-guide): A GEO audit measures how your brand appears in AI answers (ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Claude) — it's not a separate discipline from SEO, per Google's own 2026 guidance