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We're using our own product on our own blog to enhance our AI search visibility | HarperFlow

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Last spring, I asked ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini the same buyer questions ("best X for Y") via live API and logged who they recommend. Two numbers rewired how I think about AI search visibility:

  • On ~98% of commercial questions, the engines name specific brands.

  • All three engines agreed on a common pick on just 56% of questions.

Bonus: Perplexity's most-cited source is Reddit — on ~87% of questions.

Naturally, I fell into a bit of a rabbit hole and decided around enhancing business' AI-search visibility. Given my background in content... automated blogging engines seemed like the best place to start. We started using our own SaaS on our own blog... and despite having a very young domain that's less than 2 months old, we've still managed to get more than 8.5k AI citations.

Considering most of us are founders here or building and launching things? Is AI search visibility something that you care about? What steps have you taken to make your website/app AI search friendly?

Here's a link to our Product Hunt launch page btw if you'd like to stay updated:

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the 87% Reddit citation stat is the one that'd change what I do, more than the blog rewrite would. does that hold across categories or is it skewed by a few question types where reddit threads just dominate the index anyway?

 it tends to hold up across categories, but since shutting down their data access to Google... we've found that there has been a significant drop in the number of times Reddit was cited (think 87% to 18%).

You can actually check out the full dataset here