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Do AI Tools Recommend You?
Do AI Tools Recommend You? is CataSEO's direct measurement of AI visibility. Rather than inferring it from rankings, we ask: we take five real buyer questions — each grounded in a search term people actually type, with its monthly volume — and put the same five to ChatGPT, Google's AI (Overviews and Gemini), Claude and Perplexity. For each tool we count how many of its answers named your store or cited one of your pages. Answers that listed only other stores don't count; an answer that names you alongside three competitors does.
The score is shown per tool because they behave differently: one may search the web live and find you; another may answer from memory and not know you exist. The "basis" beside each result — live search or model memory — tells you which, and therefore how fast the gap can close. This is the metric that most often surprises store owners, because a site that ranks respectably on Google can be entirely absent from AI answers. The two aren't the same test, and this one is increasingly the one shoppers are running.
What it means for your store
The percentage is the share of that tool's answers that named your store or cited one of your pages — 20% (1 of 5) means it recommended you in 1 answer out of 5. If a tool failed to answer some questions, its percentage covers only the questions it answered.
Invisible (0 tools): when a shopper asks where to buy what you sell, you don't exist.
Inconsistent (1–2): findable but unreliable — a live-search basis is fixable fast, model memory is slower.
In the answer set (3+): you're being recommended; protect it.
Why it matters
A growing share of buying questions are asked of an AI tool, and the tool names two or three stores. If you're not one of them, there is no page 2.
How CataSEO helps
CataSEO's Visibility Optimization writes product pages the way AI tools read them — plain statements of what the product is, structured data they can verify, descriptions that answer the question — one change, every tool.
What you can do yourself
AI tools recommend pages they can read and verify. Check the basics: price, availability, product type, brand and specs on the page as text, not only in images; product structured data with those same fields (paste a URL into Google's Rich Results Test to confirm); a description that states plainly what the product is and answers the questions buyers ask; and no robots rule blocking AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended) — many themes and firewalls block them by default. Then ask the five questions yourself, monthly, and note who gets named; when a competitor does, open their page next to yours and look for what they state that you don't.
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