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New from Gist Research · CRM

AI can cite your content and recommend your competitor.

A CRM study on citations, recommendations and the questions that change the answer.

Perplexity · B2B sales question

Cited sourcesCapsule
Salesflare
Suggested productsHubSpot
Salesforce

28 of 28 saved answers showed this separation. Selected question; study limits apply.

New field guides

Choose the next useful step.

Compare tools, inspect the evidence and turn an AI visibility finding into work your team can complete.

01 / IMPLEMENTATION

5 Reasons Your GEO Strategy Sucks

Fix the questions, measurement, and follow-through behind your AI visibility report.

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02 / MEASUREMENT

GA4 vs. AI Visibility Tools: What Each Actually Tells You

Why AI citations, website visits, and revenue tell different parts of the story.

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03 / DISCOVERY

DIY AI Visibility Tracking: When a Spreadsheet Is Enough and When to Pay

A small, repeatable tracking panel can answer your first GEO questions. Here’s how to collect useful evidence, handle missing results, and decide when software earns its cost.

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04 / IMPLEMENTATION

AI Still Doesn’t Cite Your Site? Run This Audit Before Publishing More

Use saved answers, cited pages, and a short evidence worksheet to decide whether your next move is a page update, a technical investigation, or a better source strategy.

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05 / IMPLEMENTATION

AI Has Your Prices or Hours Wrong? Use This Correction Checklist

A working checklist for stale prices, incorrect opening hours, and services assigned to the wrong location, with a versioned correction ledger your team can maintain.

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06 / MEASUREMENT

A Weekly AI Visibility Report Your Team Can Actually Use

A practical reporting format that keeps incomplete runs, revised questions and real changes from getting mixed together, with a worked example and clear owners for the next steps.

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07 / BUYING

Buying an AI Visibility API? Ask for This Sample Record First

Before connecting an AI visibility tool to your own reporting, test whether one response record preserves the answer, its sources and the context needed to compare it fairly.

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08 / COMPARISONS

10 GEO Tools for Agencies: Choose by the Work You Need Done

Compare ten tools by evidence access, client reporting, and the work your agency delivers.

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09 / BUYING

7 GEO Pricing Checks Before You Buy

Questions, engines, brands, and reporting can change the real cost of AI visibility tracking. Use these seven checks to compare a quote with the work you actually need.

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GETTING STARTED

What is GEO, and where do I start?

A starting point for understanding your brand in AI answers.

YOUR WEBSITE

Can AI read my website?

A guide to checking access to your public pages.

Featured study · October 6, 2026

Same first brand. Different source lists.

For a question about cleansers, ChatGPT and Perplexity both recommended Vanicream first. They linked to entirely different websites.

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GEO foundations

Start with the right question.

Start here

A practical starting plan.

What is GEO?

The work and its limits.

GEO and SEO

Where they overlap.

AI visibility

Define the outcome.

Citations

Read the source, not just the link.

Find out how AI sees you.

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