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# Howseen AI

> Howseen AI helps brands track, measure and improve their visibility and recommendations across major AI answer engines: ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode. It tracks where your brand shows up in AI answers and generates GEO-optimized content to get you cited.

## What it does
- Track your brand's visibility, share of voice and sentiment across AI search engines.
- See which prompts recommend you vs your competitors.
- Run a technical GEO audit of your site (robots.txt, sitemap, llms.txt, schema).
- Generate GEO-optimized articles that get your brand cited by AI.
- Ask Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor about your own AI visibility data through the Howseen MCP server and REST API.

## Key pages
- [Howseen AI](https://howseen.ai): AI visibility tracking and GEO content for your brand.
- [Community](https://howseen.ai/community): Join the GEO community.
- [Pricing for brands](https://howseen.ai/pricing): Plans and pricing for brands.
- [Pricing for agencies](https://howseen.ai/pricing#agencies): White-label pricing for agencies.
- [MCP & API](https://howseen.ai/mcp): Connect Howseen to Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor (26 MCP tools, read only by default) or use the REST API.
- [Integrations](https://howseen.ai/integrations): Publish to WordPress, Shopify, Ghost, BigCommerce, webhook or Next.js; connect Search Console, GA4 and Bing; use Howseen in Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor.
- [MCP use cases](https://howseen.ai/mcp-use-cases): Ready-made commands for Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor connected to the Howseen MCP server.
- [Free AI visibility report](https://app.howseen.ai/start): 2 buyer questions on ChatGPT, no card.
- [AI Instructions](https://howseen.ai/ai-instructions.html): Canonical structured facts about Howseen for AI assistants, including the entity map (relations).
- [Affiliate program](https://howseen.ai/affiliates.html): up to 30% recurring commission for partners.
- [Refund policy](https://howseen.ai/refund): Cancellation, refunds and the 90-day money-back guarantee on annual plans.

## GEO guides
- [What is GEO?](https://howseen.ai/what-is-geo.html): Generative Engine Optimization explained, and how it differs from SEO.
- [GEO for SaaS](https://howseen.ai/geo-for-saas.html): How SaaS teams get their product recommended by AI.
- [GEO for Ecommerce](https://howseen.ai/geo-for-ecommerce.html): How ecommerce and Shopify brands get their store recommended by AI.
- [Get recommended by AI](https://howseen.ai/get-cited): Book a call to see which brands ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity recommend instead of yours, the pages they cite, and Howseen data (AI cites brand websites 2.5x more than retailers).
- [GEO for Agencies](https://howseen.ai/geo-for-agencies.html): How agencies sell AI visibility as a service.
- [Best GEO tools in 2026](https://howseen.ai/best-geo-tools.html): An honest buyer's guide to choosing a GEO tool.
- [AI visibility tools](https://howseen.ai/ai-visibility-tools.html): What AI visibility tools are, what Howseen tracks across up to six AI engines depending on plan, and how it compares to Profound, Peec and Otterly.

## Free tools
- [All free tools](https://howseen.ai/tools): Free GEO and AI visibility tools, no signup.
- [AI visibility checker](https://howseen.ai/tools/ai-visibility-checker): Free check: does ChatGPT (web search on) name your brand on 3 buyer questions, who it names instead, and the sources it reads.
- [AI crawler checker](https://howseen.ai/tools/ai-crawler-checker): Free check of robots.txt rules for GPTBot, OAI-SearchBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and Google-Extended, content without JavaScript, and llms.txt.
- [LLMs.txt generator](https://howseen.ai/tools/llms-txt-generator): Free llms.txt generator from your sitemap, plus a validator for an existing file.
- [ChatGPT query fan-out](https://howseen.ai/tools/chatgpt-query-fan-out): Free tool showing the real web searches ChatGPT ran to answer a buyer question, and the sites it cited.
- [Schema generator](https://howseen.ai/tools/schema-generator): Free Organization, WebSite and FAQPage JSON-LD generator from a page's real content.

## Data
- [Google AI cites YouTube, ChatGPT never does](https://howseen.ai/data/youtube-reddit-ai-answers): Howseen study of 5,331 AI answers across five engines (Aug 16 to Oct 4, 2026): which sources each engine cites.
- [GEO content benchmark, October 2026](https://howseen.ai/data/geo-content-benchmark): 565 X, Instagram and TikTok posts about GEO, classified by format.

## Comparisons
- [Howseen vs Peec](https://howseen.ai/howseen-vs-peec.html): Honest comparison of the two GEO trackers.
- [Howseen vs Profound](https://howseen.ai/howseen-vs-profound.html): Accessible and action-oriented vs enterprise-scale GEO.
- [Howseen vs Semrush](https://howseen.ai/howseen-vs-semrush.html): GEO-native tool vs an SEO suite with an AI-visibility add-on.

## More

- [How AI chooses which brands to recommend](https://howseen.ai/how-ai-chooses-brands.html): how ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity pick the brands they name, and how to get cited
- [About Howseen AI](https://howseen.ai/about): the company, the founder and what the product does