For Shopify stores and any online brand

When a shopper asks AI what to buy, does it say your name?

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude recommend products every day. PositionBird tracks whether yours come up, shows you which competitor gets named instead, and writes the content that changes the answer.

Install free on the Shopify App StoreOr scan my store first, no signup
Access
Read-only products permission. Never orders, customers, or checkout.
Cost
Free plan, no credit card, no trial clock.
First result
Your first scan and score in about a minute.
Free scan
Brand, website, one category. No account. Five engines, one snapshot.
positionbird // sample scanDEMO

> ask: "best soy candles for gifts"

  • ChatGPTcited
  • Perplexitymentioned
  • Geminiscanning…
  • Claudecited
0/ 100
Tier · Competitive

AI Visibility Score: cited by 2 of 4 engines, up 9 points since last scan.

Sample data. Install to run a live scan on your store.

Up to 5 engines
ChatGPT · Perplexity · Gemini · Claude · Google classic results, all five on Growth and up
0–100
One visibility score, tracked over time
Daily scans
On Scale, monthly to daily by plan
HOW IT WORKS

One loop: measure, diagnose, fix, watch

Score, benchmark, fixes and alerts are not four features. They are four turns of the same loop, and each scan starts it again.

  1. 01 / MEASURE

    Ask the engines what shoppers ask

    Every scan runs your buyer prompts through ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude, plus Google's classic results, several times each. You get one 0 to 100 score and the per-engine, per-prompt record behind it.

  2. 02 / DIAGNOSE

    See who got named instead, and why

    For each prompt you lost, PositionBird shows the competitor the engine recommended and the sources it trusted to get there. That turns a low score into a short list of pages to win.

  3. 03 / FIX

    Generate the content that changes the answer

    One click drafts the answer-first page, FAQ copy and structured data for the prompt you are losing, written to rank in Google, win the answer box, and earn an AI citation. On Shopify it publishes straight to your store.

  4. 04 / WATCH

    Find out the day the answer moves

    The next scan checks whether the fix landed and emails you when a competitor takes a prompt you were winning, with the likely cause. Then the loop starts again from step one.

YOUR FIRST REPORT

Three steps, about a minute

  1. 1

    Connect your store or enter your URLread products only

    One click from the App Store. PositionBird asks for the read products permission and nothing else, so it can build prompts from your catalog. It never sees orders, customers, or checkout.

  2. 2

    Choose the buyer questions to track

    PositionBird suggests the questions shoppers ask AI about your category. Keep the ones that matter, add your own. Typical prompts look like these:

    • Candles“best soy candles for gifts”
    • Skincare“best vitamin C serum for sensitive skin”
    • Coffee“best coffee beans for espresso at home”
    • Pet“best grain-free dog food for small breeds”
    • Outdoor“best insulated water bottle for hiking”
  3. 3

    Get your visibility report

    Your 0 to 100 score with a tier, a row per engine and per prompt showing mentioned, cited, or absent, the competitor named instead on every prompt you lost, the sources each engine trusted, and a generated fix for the highest-value gap. Then it re-runs on your plan's schedule.

PROOF

Built on evidence, not vibes

Methodology

Every prompt is run multiple times per scan and the results averaged, so a single unlucky AI response doesn’t move your score. The full method is public. Read the methodology

What the words mean

Mentioned
Your brand name, or an alias you set, appears in the answer text.
Cited
A page on your domain is among the sources the answer links to. Subdomains count, lookalike domains do not.
Recommended
In the free scan, the engine names your store as a place to buy for that question.

Models in use as of September 5, 2026

  • ChatGPTgpt-4.1-mini
  • Claudeclaude-sonnet-5
  • Geminigemini-3.6-flash
  • Perplexitysonar
  • Googleclassic results only

Every stored answer carries the model identifier, a timestamp, and a hash. See the published citation study

TrackingChatGPTPerplexityGeminiClaudeGoogle classic results
  • SEO gets you into Google's classic results: the ten blue links.
  • AEO gets you into the answer box: featured snippets and People Also Ask.
  • GEO gets you named and cited when ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini or Claude answer.

PositionBird measures all three. Google AI Overviews and AI Mode are a separate surface and are not tracked. See how SEO, AEO & GEO differ

Questions merchants ask before installing

What does PositionBird measure?

PositionBird measures whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Google Search results recommend and cite your brand when shoppers ask buyer-intent questions. It rolls the results into an AI Visibility Score from 0 to 100, tracks competitor Share of Voice per prompt, and keeps a citation ledger of the sources each engine trusts.

Which AI engines does PositionBird track?

ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Claude, each queried through its official API, plus Google's classic results (organic top ten, featured snippet and People Also Ask) for the SEO and AEO layers. Google AI Overviews and AI Mode are not tracked; they are a different surface from classic results and PositionBird does not claim coverage of them. The Free plan checks ChatGPT; Starter covers Perplexity, ChatGPT, Google Search (organic, snippets, People Also Ask); Growth and Scale cover all five.

Do I need Shopify to use PositionBird?

No. PositionBird is available as a Shopify App Store app and, since September 2026, to any website through web signup with card billing. Web accounts crawl your public site to suggest prompts instead of reading Shopify products.

Is the free plan really free?

Yes. The Free plan costs $0, needs no credit card and has no trial clock: 5 tracked prompts checked on ChatGPT with a monthly scan. Paid plans start at $19/month with a 7-day trial.

What does the free scan need from me?

Three fields: your brand name, your website, and one product category. Nothing else. It takes about a minute, needs no account and no access to your store, and asks five AI engines real buying questions about that category. You see how many engines recommended your store and who they named instead. Enter an email if you want the per-prompt breakdown; it is sent to you and never shared.

Run the free scan

Are the answers the same as what shoppers see in ChatGPT?

Not identically. PositionBird queries each engine's official API, so its answers are a proxy for the consumer chat interfaces, which can vary by session, location and memory. Every prompt is run multiple times per scan and averaged so one unusual response does not move your score.

How is PositionBird different from SEO tools?

SEO tools track where your links rank on a results page. PositionBird tracks whether an AI answer names and cites your brand at all, which competitor it names instead, and which sources it trusted, then generates the answer-first pages, FAQ copy and structured data that change the answer.

What AI search monitoring means for a store

When AI gets your brand wrong

Step-by-step guides for the day a customer quotes a wrong AI answer at you.

All fix guides