katman / Our category, measured
OUR OWN CATEGORY · 2026-09-05 · 20 ANSWERS · 5 FAMILIES
Who the models name for AI visibility measurement — and which pages they read to decide
This is our product pointed at our own category. Four questions a buyer of AI visibility measurement would ask, put to OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI and Perplexity with each provider's own retrieval, the same day. Below: who was named, who was recommended, and the pages the models cited while deciding. katman was named in 0 of 20 answers. That number is the reason this page exists, and the source list is what we are doing about it.
The questions
- EN What are the best tools to track if ChatGPT and Claude recommend our B2B software?
- EN Which GEO or AI visibility measurement platforms should we use to monitor LLM brand citations?
- TR ChatGPT ve Claude gibi yapay zeka motorlarında markamızın tavsiye edilip edilmediğini ölçen en iyi araçlar hangileri?
- TR Yapay zeka arama motorlarında (Perplexity, ChatGPT) marka görünürlüğünü ve kaynak alıntılarını takip etmek için hangi programlar kullanılır?
Questions were written by the engine from our own pages, in the markets the site publishes for; two are Turkish because the site has a Turkish edition. None contain the brand.
Who the models named
Out of 114 brand mentions across 20 measured answers. Named is any appearance; recommended is being put forward as an option — the one a buyer acts on.
| # | Brand | Named in | Recommended in | Share of mentions | Share of recommendations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Profound | 19 | 15 | 16.7% | 20% |
| 2 | Peec AI | 18 | 12 | 15.8% | 16% |
| 3 | Otterly.ai | 15 | 9 | 13.2% | 12% |
| 4 | AthenaHQ | 13 | 8 | 11.4% | 10.7% |
| 5 | Ahrefs Brand Radar | 12 | 8 | 10.5% | 10.7% |
| 6 | Scrunch AI | 10 | 7 | 8.8% | 9.3% |
| 7 | Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit | 9 | 3 | 7.9% | 4% |
| 8 | MaxAEO | 6 | 3 | 5.3% | 4% |
| 9 | LLM Pulse | 3 | 3 | 2.6% | 4% |
| 10 | Geoptie | 2 | 2 | 1.8% | 2.7% |
| 11 | PromptSignal | 2 | 1 | 1.8% | 1.3% |
| 12 | Visby | 2 | 1 | 1.8% | 1.3% |
| — | katman us | 0 | 0 | 0% | 0% |
Who else is named is indicative: on 2026-09-05 the panel's competitor set overlapped 25–58% with logged-out ChatGPT (agreement study). Whether a given brand appears agreed 6 of 6.
Which pages the models read
Every domain a model cited while answering, with how many times and by which families. This is the corroboration layer of the category: the pages an assistant trusts enough to build an answer from. A brand absent from all of them is absent from the answer.
Google's 30 citations arrive through an opaque redirect (vertexaisearch.cloud.google.com) and cannot be attributed to a domain; they are counted but not listed.
Per family
| Family | Answers | Citations | Named katman | Cost |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAI | 4 | 29 | 0 | $0.69 |
| Anthropic | 4 | 67 | 0 | $0.36 |
| 4 | 30 | 0 | $0.14 | |
| xAI | 4 | 28 | 0 | $0.41 |
| Perplexity | 4 | 80 | 0 | $0.07 |
What this tells us to do
The models decided from 14 roundup and comparison pages more than from any vendor's own site. Vendor pricing pages were read too — Otterly's, Peec's, Profound's — but the shortlists came from third parties. So the work is not another page on katman.pro; it is being evaluated by the people who write these:
- maxaeo.ai — The 12 Best Tools to Track Your Brand in ChatGPT in 2026 (Tested & Compared) - MaxAEO Blog
- llmpulse.ai — 8 Best Claude AI Tracking Tools in 2026 - LLM Pulse
- getpassionfruit.com — 10 Tools That Track LLM Brand Visibility and Citations | AI Search Optimization
- brandviz.ai — Best AI Visibility Tools for 2026: Track Your Brand in ChatGPT & Claude | BrandViz.AI - AI Brand Monitoring
- visible.seranking.com — 8 Best AI Visibility Tools You Need to Know In 2026
- flint.com — Best AI Visibility Tracking Tools (2026) - Flint
- useomnia.com — AI Search Monitoring Tools 2026: The Best Platforms to Track Mentions, Citations, and Visibility
- get-ryze.ai — Track How Often ChatGPT Recommends Your Products (2026)
- sealglobalholdings.com — Best AI Search Visibility Tools 2026: Complete Platform Guide
- withgauge.com — Top 10 Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) Platforms for AI ...
- reddit.com — (B2B SaaS) Top 5 tools to monitor your brand's presence in ...
- memetik.ai — 10 Best Tools for Tracking ChatGPT Product Recommendations
- linkedin.com — 8 Best AI Visibility Tools (Tested for ChatGPT, Gemini, ...
- rankability.com — 22 best AI search rank tracking & visibility tools for 2026 | Rankability Blog
We will ask each to evaluate katman against their published criteria, and log every answer — including declines — in the observation log. No paid placement, no reciprocal reviews: the sixth criterion of the one directory that has accepted our application is "no synthetic signals", and it is ours too.
The measured stage for katman is selected: You appear in some answers and not others. What remains is which questions and which models, not whether you exist to them.
Raw data
This run as JSON — questions, leaderboard, sources, per-family cost. The full answers are in the workspace run record; the engine version is 0.2.0, retrieval native, total cost $1.67.
Run this on your own category. The free audit tells you whether your site can be read; the paid run tells you who the models name instead of you and which pages they read to decide. Same engine, same honesty about the zero.