Honest by design: this checker does not print a fake visibility score. It computes the genuine prompt set Formative Digital would test your business on across four AI engines, built from what you type. We then run that set against the live engines the same way we ran our May 2026 analysis of 1,732 real AI citations across nine Ontario cities, and send you the measured result.

Build your AI prompt set

Enter your details. The tool runs in your browser and shows a live preview of the discovery prompts straight away, then builds the full brand and comparison set for the measured report.

How to use it

  1. Enter your business name, city, and industry. Website is optional but sharpens the brand-specific prompts. Use the category a customer would say out loud, for example "physiotherapist" or "roofing contractor", not your legal entity name.
  2. Click Generate prompt set. You immediately see a live preview of the discovery prompts (the questions asked without naming you). The full set adds brand-aware prompts (your name included) and comparison prompts (you against local rivals).
  3. Unlock the full set with name, email, and business to reveal the complete prompts and have us run the measured check, or use the reveal link to copy everything yourself first.
  4. Copy the set and paste each prompt into ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini for a first look, or let us run all four engines, including Google AI Overviews, and return your citation rate per engine plus the competitor gap.

Why it matters

Buyers now ask AI engines the questions they used to type into Google. When someone asks ChatGPT or Gemini "who is the best {your category} in {your city}", the engine returns a short synthesized answer that names a handful of businesses. If your name is not in that answer, you are invisible at the exact moment of intent, and there is no second page to rank on. The first job is to find out which prompts you already win and which ones name a competitor instead.

That diagnostic is Vector 1 (Diagnose) in our 12-Vector method: we baseline your citation rate across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews before we change anything, so every later move is measured against a real floor. Our May 2026 analysis of 1,732 AI-engine citations across nine Ontario cities found that 83.7% of cited sources were unique to a single engine, which means a business can be recommended on Perplexity and absent on ChatGPT at the same time. A single in-browser score would hide that. The prompt set this tool builds is the honest first input to the real, per-engine check.

Get the real cross-engine citation report

Formative Digital, Brantford, Ontario

This tool shows you the questions; our AI Visibility Audit measures the answers. We run your generated prompt set against ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, then deliver a written read of where you are cited, where a competitor is named instead, and which gaps to close first. No invented score, no obligation.

Request your free AI Visibility Audit or see the full AI Visibility Audit service.

Frequently Asked Questions

Does this AI visibility checker tell me my score right now?

No, and that is deliberate. A real cross-engine citation check needs live calls to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, which cannot run honestly inside a static web page. So this tool does the part it can do for real: it builds the exact prompt set we would test your business on. We run that set against the live engines and send you the measured result. Any tool that prints an instant in-browser visibility score with no live engine calls is showing you an invented number.

How does Formative Digital run the real check?

We use the same method behind our May 2026 analysis of 1,732 real AI-engine citations across nine Ontario cities. We send each generated prompt to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, then record which businesses and source domains each engine cites, where your name appears in the answer, and which competitors outrank you on the same prompt. You receive a written read per engine, not a single vanity number.

Why generate prompts instead of just checking my keywords?

Because AI engines answer questions, not keywords. A buyer does not type dentist Brantford into ChatGPT; they ask who the best dentist in Brantford is, or which one takes new patients. Citation depends on how your business is referenced inside a synthesized answer to a natural-language prompt. The prompt set this tool builds mirrors the real questions your buyers ask, which is what our Vector 1 (Diagnose) baseline measures.

Is the tool free and is my information stored?

The prompt generator is free and runs entirely in your browser. The discovery preview and the full prompt set are built on your own device. We only receive your details if you choose to submit the unlock form to request the measured cross-engine report, at which point the inputs you typed are sent to us so we can run the real check on the right business.

What do I do with the generated prompts?

Two options. You can copy the set and paste each prompt into ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini yourself to see whether you get cited, which is a fair first look. Or you can send the set to us and we run all four engines, including Google AI Overviews, and return the measured citation rate, competitor comparison, and the specific gaps to close. The tool shows you the questions; we measure the answers.

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