5-step checklistNov 3, 2026 · Vasco

Get Your Brand Recommended by ChatGPT in 30 Days

Most brands are invisible in AI search because nobody ever checked which prompts they're missing from. Fix that in one hour today, then 30 minutes a week, and you'll go from zero mentions to being recommended for the prompts your buyers actually type. Five steps. Tick the boxes.

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1. Get your prompts 10 min

• Paste this into ChatGPT. Replace the two placeholders.

Give me a list of prompts I can type into an LLM AI chat that don't mention {your_brand} / {your_product} in the prompt, but where you're confident the reply might mention it.

Research my website and competitors' sites, as well as socials, to learn what I do and the niche I'm in: {yoursite.com}

• Delete any prompt that contains your brand or product name.
• Save the rest in a .txt file, one prompt per line.

2. Track them 5 min

• Add your URL and the prompt list to an LLM monitor (Arvow's or any other - or just manually in your browser for free).
• Write down how many prompts mention you today. That's your baseline.

3. Find out why you're missing 30 min

For each prompt where you're not mentioned:

• Open the sources the AI cited.
• Check: is my brand in there? Is the page old?
• Note the page type: list article, Reddit, YouTube, LinkedIn, news.

4. Make one move per source

• It's your page: update it. New date, 2026 info, the prompt's wording as a heading.
• It's someone else's list: email them and ask to be added (template below).
• No good source exists: publish it yourself. "Best {category} tools in 2026", you first.

5. Make more of what gets cited

• Count the page types from step 3. Whichever wins, produce that for the next 30 days.
• Re-check the monitor in 2–4 weeks against your baseline.

What AI actually cites: 73,884 citations, 284 brands, 2,080 prompts

This is from Arvow's monitor, last 30 days, across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. Four things most people get wrong:

1. Your own website is 11–16% of citations. Everything else is someone else's page.

So 84–89% of what gets you recommended lives on pages you don't control. On-page SEO alone will not get you mentioned. Step 4 (get into other people's sources) is where the results are.

2. Reddit, LinkedIn and YouTube get cited widely but thinly.

They appear in more prompts than any other site (Reddit in 256 of 2,080), yet each is only about 1% of total citations. The AI reaches for them as one source among many, not as the answer. A thread or video gets you in the door; a list article or directory listing in your niche is what gets you recommended.

3. News sites barely register either.

0.1–2.1% of citations. A press mention is nice, but it's not what the AI pulls in to answer a buying question.

4. Six of the 20 most-cited sites are free review or directory listings.

BBB, Yelp, Trustpilot, Thumbtack, Angi and Google Business Profile. If you sell a service, claiming and filling those profiles is the cheapest AI-visibility win there is, and almost nobody does it on purpose.

Every week 30 min

• Re-run the monitor.
• Pick the 3 highest-intent prompts you're still missing.
• Make one move on each: update, email, or publish.

Outreach email copy, fill, send

Subject: Quick add to your "{article title}"?

Hi {name},

Your "{article title}" is being cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity when people ask "{the prompt}". Nice.

I run {brand}, which {one line}. It fits the list because {one concrete reason}.

Happy to send a free account, a short write-up and screenshots so it's zero work for you. Open to a sponsored placement too.

Thanks either way,
{your name}

The 20 sites AI cites most, and how to get on each

Ranked by the number of distinct prompts (out of 2,080) in which the site was cited, 4 Oct to 3 Nov 2026, across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. Our tracked brands skew towards local services, therapy and e-commerce, so the directories rank higher than they would for pure SaaS.

Tick the ones that apply to you, then add them to your step 4 moves:

• Claim every free directory or review profile on this list that fits your business
• Pick one media or blog site and send the outreach email above
• Pick one community or social site and commit to a weekly post there