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Your buyers ask AI before they ask you. ziptie.ai shows what ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, and the other engines you track tell them, finds the gaps worth closing, and lets you mark each fix on your trend so you can see how the answers move afterwards.
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Published research on how buyers use AI answers. Each figure comes from its publisher, with the date and the sample behind it. These are third-party findings: ziptie.ai measures what the answers say about you, not the visits or sales that follow.
51% of B2B software buyers start their research in an AI chatbot more often than in Google.
The Answer Economy: G2's 2026 AI Search Insight Report (opens in a new tab) G2. March 2026. Sample: 1,076 B2B decision-makers in North America, EMEA and APAC.
69% chose a different vendor than they had planned because of what an AI chatbot told them.
The Answer Economy: G2's 2026 AI Search Insight Report (opens in a new tab) G2. March 2026. Sample: 1,076 B2B decision-makers in North America, EMEA and APAC.
60% higher conversion from AI-referred visits to US retail sites than from other traffic.
Adobe: AI-referral traffic spending, converting more than counterparts (opens in a new tab) Adobe Digital Insights, reported by Digital Commerce 360. July 2026 data, reported August 2026. Sample: More than 1 trillion visits to US retail sites.
<1% chance that the same prompt returns the same list of brands twice.
AIs are highly inconsistent when recommending brands or products (opens in a new tab) SparkToro. January 2026. Sample: 2,961 runs of 12 prompts by 600 volunteers.
Every AI answer either cites your pages, names your brand, or leaves you out. ziptie.ai captures the answer each engine actually returned for your prompt, measures all three on every engine you track, and rolls them into one score your leadership can follow. Every AI visibility number traces back to the answers behind it, and in the Data Explorer every value opens them. We don't sell a rank in ChatGPT.
Your pages used as sources in AI answers, as a share of the answers that carry source links. A citation lists your site among the sources the engine shows its reader.
Your brand named inside the answer itself, with or without a source link. A mention is counted when a brand name you configure appears as a whole word in any capitalization.
How the answer portrays you when it names you: positive, mixed, or negative. Sentiment shows whether a mention helps or hurts.
The three, in one number.
Citations, mentions, and sentiment in one 0-100 trend line. Sentiment is weighted by how often you are mentioned, so it is not a plain average. One glance shows whether your AI visibility is rising or falling.
Order inside an answer changes from run to run, so ziptie.ai reports how often you are named and cited across many checks, never a position in ChatGPT. Read how each metric is calculated.
One loop in three steps: discover what the engines say, prepare the change, verify what followed.
What do the engines say, and why?
The Project Wizard interviews you, researches your business, and proposes prompts written the way your buyers ask. Every prompt runs in the country you pick, on the engines you track, on the schedule you set. ziptie.ai keeps the full answer and the sources behind it, including the Reddit threads and YouTube videos the engines lean on. Your history starts with your first check: no engine publishes what it said before, so nothing can be backfilled.
What should we change?
The Action Center turns those answers into one ranked queue per project, ordered by severity, then action type, then age. Items include a prompt where no engine has named or cited you across consecutive checks, an engine that stopped naming you, and a competitor that just passed you. Each item links to the screen where you do the work. With the Content Generation add-on, you can turn a prompt you want to win into a brief and then a draft, grounded in material you supply.
Did the answer move?
Record the URL where a piece went live and see which engines cite it. Mark the date on your AI Success Score trend, with Search Console clicks and impressions alongside. The trend shows what changed after that date, not what caused it. You publish the change where you always do; ziptie.ai never touches your site.
Then the loop starts again: new prompts to track, fresh gaps in the queue, the next brief.
Built by SEO experts who saw AI search coming. Priced so the whole team, and every brand it manages, fits on one plan.
One prompt, checked once on one engine, works out at $0.01. You pay for the prompts and engines you choose, not for a package you have to outgrow.
Every engine costs the same: 7 AI surfaces, including Microsoft Copilot and Bing AI Overview, at about a cent a check, with no add-on engines. Price follows how many engines you run, never which ones, and which engines run depends on your country.
Track hero prompts daily and the long tail monthly, on one plan. Cadence is set per project, so run hero prompts in a daily project and the long tail in a monthly one, from one subscription.
Bring your whole team and every brand you manage. Pricing never counts seats, projects or competitors.
The three-step loop runs on top of the core modules and three optional add-ons, each built to answer one question well.
Public API & MCP is a flat $10 a month, Content Generation is $20 a month per content context, and UGC Impact Analysis multiplies your whole prompts-and-engines subtotal by 1.8x.
Your AI presence at a glance. AI Success Score, Citations Rate, Mentions Rate, and Sentiment Score, each with its change over the date range you pick, a score for every engine you track, plus best and worst prompts and your top competitors, all on one page.
The brands AI names and the domains it cites in your tracked prompts, ranked across five views: Citations, Top Sources, Mentions, Google Organic and Bing Organic. A Your Position card shows your rank, your share, and the gap to first or your lead over the next domain. Shares are counts inside your own prompt set, never market share. See which prompts pull a competitor instead of you. See your AI answers beside your Google and Bing organic positions too (top 10 results), captured at no extra cost whenever each search engine's AI Overview check runs.
Your full library of tracked queries. Each one shows its AI Success Score, per-engine citation, mention, and sentiment indicators, and the full AI-generated answer for every engine. Link your pages to prompts to see which content wins citations. Filter the list and save views, and open the Changes tab to see which prompts gained or lost mentions or citations.
Compare slices of one project on the same charts. Branded against unbranded prompts, and the same pair for a competitor, is one view. Read it as a trend over time, or as a snapshot that tells you, for each gap against your baseline, whether it is likely a real difference, could be noise, or rests on too few answers. That read says nothing about what caused a gap. Click any number to open the answers behind it.
Performance trends for every engine you track, side by side. Spot a Perplexity drop early. Catch a ChatGPT win and double down. Toggle between citation, mention, sentiment, and AI Success Score views.
Guided chat onboarding that interviews you, researches your business on the web, and proposes prompts written the way your customers ask AI engines, including category, comparison, and persona queries. You review every prompt before it is saved. Skip the spreadsheet exercise.
Connect Google Search Console, read-only: clicks, impressions, top queries, and top pages next to your AI visibility numbers. Queries you do not monitor yet are flagged, so you can add them as prompts from the same table. Connecting backfills a short window, not Google's full archive, and collects forward from there.
CSV, Excel, and PDF exports, client reports branded with your logo and your client's, and share links for stakeholders who live outside the dashboard. A link opens a file that stops working when it expires. People who never log in still see the results.
The third-party sources shaping AI answers, ranked by citation share with per-platform trends. Every cited Reddit thread and YouTube video gets a deep read; other sites are ranked and counted without a page-level read. Auto-clustered topics, a topic graph, and suggested new prompts to track come from the conversations that keep coming up.
Briefs and full content pieces written for AI search. Learn your writing style from your existing pages, draft pieces from material you supply with a built-in verification pass and revision loop, and get inline citations and a bibliography. You publish it where you always do, then read what the next scheduled check shows.
REST and Model Context Protocol access at api.ziptie.ai. Pull prompts, answers, mentions, citations, and metrics programmatically, or hand the same surface to Cursor, VS Code, Claude Code, and other MCP-aware agents with a project token. The full reference, with the OpenAPI spec and live requests, is at docs.ziptie.ai.
For agencies with a client roster and in-house teams with a portfolio of brands.
ziptie.ai tracks how AI search engines talk about your brand and finds the gaps worth closing. We monitor ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Microsoft Copilot, Bing AI Overview, and Google Gemini, capturing mentions, sentiment, citations, full responses, and competitor recommendations, then turn that data into ranked next steps.
What you get:
A single project is set up through the Project Wizard: it interviews you about your business, researches it on the web, proposes prompts you review and edit before anything is saved, and takes your country, language and check frequency. First data points arrive within a few hours of project creation (Google Gemini's first data point waits for the next scheduled cycle), and nothing on your site has to be wired up first. ziptie.ai measures; it does not move the numbers on its own, so any change depends on what you publish. A multi-brand or multi-region rollout is one project per brand or market, set up the same way.
Each tracked prompt gets a single 0-100 score that summarizes how well you're performing on that prompt across AI engines. The score is built from three signals captured for every prompt:
Sentiment counts in proportion to how often you are mentioned, so the score is a weighted composite rather than a plain average. Sentiment itself runs 0 to 100 with 50 as neutral and only reads answers that name you. Across engines, the combined figure is the unweighted mean of the engines that returned data, and a failed check is left out, never counted as zero. Sort by score and you have your optimization queue: work on what's underperforming first.
A single AI answer is a sample, not a fact. The same prompt can vary cycle to cycle. ziptie.ai captures and archives every measurement, so trends are built across many measurements over time rather than depending on a single snapshot. Rates are computed across many prompts and repeated checks, so one odd answer carries little weight in a rate, and one-off outliers stay visible as data points beneath the trend. We publish no run-to-run variance figure, so read a before-and-after on a chart as a chart read, not a controlled study. In the Data Explorer, a snapshot comparison gives an indicative read on whether a gap between two slices is likely real. You can drill into any score and see the actual responses that produced it.
No. Your prompts, the AI responses captured on your behalf, and your account data are used to operate the ziptie.ai monitoring service for you, not to train any model, and not shared with third parties for training purposes. The AI engines we monitor are public consumer products; the data we generate from them on your behalf belongs to you.
Yes. A 7-day free trial covering ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Microsoft Copilot, with no card required at signup. The other engines (Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Bing AI Overview, and Google Gemini) unlock on a paid plan. You can downgrade or cancel from workspace settings any time. We don't refund paid subscriptions, so we recommend using the trial to validate ziptie.ai fits your workflow before upgrading.
What's in it: 25 monitored prompts on a daily refresh.
What isn't: the API and MCP surface and the add-ons (UGC Impact Analysis, Content Generation) start on a paid plan, and the trial is once per person.
Nothing is tiered: you build your own plan from prompt count, refresh frequency, and engine coverage, with optional add-ons on top. Every engine costs the same: 7 AI surfaces, including Microsoft Copilot and Bing AI Overview, at about a cent a check, with no add-on engines. Price follows how many engines you run, never which ones, and which engines run depends on your country. Adding a client adds only that client's prompts to the bill, with no seat, project or brand fees. The pricing page shows current numbers. Longer billing periods are paid upfront and take a discount off the plan price, not the flat add-ons: 3 months -5%, 6 months -10%, annual -20%. For unusual configurations or large prompt volumes, see custom plans below.
These never appear on an invoice:
What you pay for is the prompts you monitor, how often they run and how many engines run them, plus any add-on you switch on. The pricing page shows the numbers.
7 days free: 25 daily prompts across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, and Microsoft Copilot. No card required, no auto-billing.
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