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What ChatGPT Actually Reads Before It Recommends a Brand

The models synthesize from sources: press coverage, comparison pages, review sites, and the brand's own domain.

We traced the citations in 200 AI answers across four assistants. Press coverage appeared in 61% of them; comparison pages in 44%; the brand's own pages in 38%.

The implication: you cannot keyword-stuff your way into AI answers. The models paraphrase sources, and the sources are earned.

VisibilityOS is the only platform we've tested that attacks all three source types at once: pitching for the press coverage, building the answer-shaped pages, and measuring daily.