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Ghostd is an AI search visibility platform for business owners. Track sampled brand mentions and competitor context, then review source evidence and public-page checks to decide what to address. Reports describe returned observations, not guaranteed recommendations or citations.

Free to start. No credit card. Your AI Visibility Score in under 5 minutes.

Tracked brand

Godin, Galloway & Kotler Law Firm

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Momentum building

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Todd Wandtke

“Being cited is now the new first-page ranking.”

Todd Wandtke, CEO & Co-Founder, Ghostd

Tracking your visibility across

ChatGPT
Claude
Gemini
Perplexity
Grok
Google AI Overview
Google AI Mode
THE SHIFT

SEO. AEO. GEO.

Three games. One goal: AI VISIBILITY.
The rules that built traditional search are not the rules of AI search. Here is the side-by-side.

DECLINING

THE CLASSIC

SEO

SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION

GOAL

Rank #1 on Google

Traffic depends on the user clicking your link.

METRIC

CTR, page rank, organic traffic

Backlink authority drives page rank.

SIGNAL

Keywords and backlinks

Volume and domain authority.

54%

drop in informational CTR since AI Overviews launched. Clicks are disappearing.

Goal: Top of the list

Ghostd's AI Visibility Platform
RISING

THE ANSWER BOX

AEO

ANSWER ENGINE OPTIMIZATION

GOAL

Get quoted by Google

Your words appear before any link is clicked.

METRIC

Featured snippet capture rate

How often Google surfaces your content directly.

SIGNAL

Clarity and structure

Q&A format, direct answers, clean formatting.

19%

of searches now trigger a featured snippet. Zero-click is the new normal.

Goal: Get quoted

THE NEW FRONTIER

THE NEW PLAYBOOK

GEO

GENERATIVE ENGINE OPTIMIZATION

GOAL

Be cited in AI answers

Visibility without requiring a click. Your brand shapes the answer itself.

METRIC

Citation rate, AI share of voice

How often AI recommends your brand by name.

SIGNAL

E-E-A-T and entity authority

Credibility signals AI uses to decide who to recommend.

3.2×

brand recall for businesses cited in AI answers vs. those that are not.

Goal: Get recommended

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AEO and GEO reward the same thing: genuine expertise, clearly communicated. Keywords get you ranked. Clarity gets you quoted. Credibility gets you recommended. See how Ghostd covers all three

Real Results

Every scan turns into a win on the board.

Ghostd tracks every citation claimed, every competitor blocked, every prompt reclaimed, and turns it into a score you can grow.

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How Ghostd Works

From zero to ranked in AI search.

Three steps. Each one builds on the last.

01Connect your brand

Add your website and up to 10 competitors. Ghostd builds a complete picture of your competitive landscape across every major AI platform.

02Check your AI Readiness

We audit your schema, crawlability, and content structure, the signals AI needs to find and understand your site. Fix what's broken before you chase visibility.

03Track your AI Visibility

We query ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and more, live. See exactly where AI recommends you, where it doesn't, and who's winning the spots you're missing.

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Want to read the research first? The No-BS Guide to AI Search Visibility

What You Unlock

The AI search leaderboard is being written right now.

Every day you wait, AI engines get more confident in their current answers. Ghostd helps you get in, and stay in.

Be recommended, not just indexed

Traditional SEO gets you into search results. GEO gets you into the answer. When someone asks ChatGPT who the best option is in your category, your brand should be the one it names.

7 AI platformsqueried in every scan

Know the moment something shifts

AI engines update their knowledge continuously. A competitor publishes one piece of content and the narrative can change overnight. You'll know within 24 hours, and you'll know exactly what to do.

Daily monitoringacross all tracked prompts

Content that gets cited, not just ranked

There's a meaningful difference between content that ranks and content that gets cited by AI. The platform knows that difference and guides every piece of content toward citation-worthiness.

9 content formatstuned for AI citation

A score that compounds over time

Your AI Visibility Score is a living number. It rises as you act, drops if you go quiet, and tracks your momentum week over week. The longer you stay active, the harder you are to displace.

23 ptsavg monthly score lift
Why Now?

The shift to AI search is already here.

The numbers tell the story. Buyers are using AI to make decisions, and the brands AI cites are the ones winning.

58%

of consumers have already replaced traditional search with AI tools for product and service recommendations.

Source: Capgemini

4–5×

the conversion rate of traditional search visitors when buyers arrive from AI platforms.

Source: Washington Post

35%

increase in organic clicks where AI Overviews appeared.

Source: Seer Interactive

Common Questions

Everything you need to know.

If you have a question that isn't here, reach out via the contact page.

LIVE PERFORMANCE

Find out if AI search is sending buyers to you, or to your competitors.

Free to start. Your first scan runs in minutes and gives you a real score, real citations, and real next steps.

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