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Use-case fit · Prompt 2 of 8 · September 2026

A real buyer question from the September 2026 snapshot, asked 3× to each of the three models. 9 answers recorded.

“Our CEO asked why ChatGPT recommends our competitor and not us. What tools help measure and fix that?”

ChatGPT answered 3× this snapshot

…built specifically to track how often LLMs mention you vs competitors. Examples: Profound Scrunch AI Goodie Otterly.AI Peec AI Brandtech / AI brand monitoring tools Semrush AI Toolkit / enterprise AI visibility features if relevant to your stack What they typically do: Track prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, etc. Measure share of mentions Show competitor comparison Surface which sources/citations…

Named across its answers: 1. Profound2. Scrunch AI3. Peec AI4. Otterly.ai5. Semrush

Verbatim excerpt from one collected ChatGPT answer; formatting flattened, words untouched.

Profound dominates this question, appearing in 7 of 9 answers and leading as the first recommendation 5 times, with an average position of 2.1 that puts it well ahead of Otterly.ai's average position of 4.3 across fewer appearances. The gap matters because buyers asking this exact CEO-level question are primed to act, making first-mention status on this use case more valuable than broad category rank.

AI-generated read of the September 2026 measurements.

Who wins this question

Contested Consensus

All three models name Profound and Semrush on this question.

ChatGPTClaudeGemini mentioned · first · avg. pos
Profound 1114611 7/9 · 5× first · #2.1
Otterly.ai 544553 6/9 · never first · #4.3
Semrush 1096332 6/9 · never first · #5.5
Peec AI 45564 5/9 · never first · #4.8
Brandwatch 1124 4/9 · 2× first · #2
Scrunch AI 322 3/9 · never first · #2.3
Ahrefs 9107 3/9 · never first · #8.7
Similarweb 11128 3/9 · never first · #10.3
BrightEdge 12 2/9 · 1× first · #1.5
Mention 22 2/9 · never first · #2
Goodie 23 2/9 · never first · #2.5
Authoritas 33 2/9 · never first · #3

Each square is one collected answer; the number is the brand's position in that answer. Lime = the very first recommendation. Unlinked brands were named by the models here but sit outside this category's published top 15 overall. Showing the top 12 of 38 brands named at least once. Never mentioned here: OpenAI, SerpAPI.

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Part of the AI Visibility & AEO snapshot: 72 answers across 8 prompts. Full category ranking · Compare brands head-to-head · Methodology.