# AI visibility checker for AI startups > See if AI assistants name your startup when buyers ask which AI startups specialize in your use case, and which newer rivals they name instead. Free check. Teams scouting new AI products ask an assistant which startups do the job before they book a demo. Enter your startup and the job your product does. We ask Claude, with Perplexity as a second opinion, three scouting questions and show which startups were named. - Page: [AI visibility checker for AI startups](https://www.rankli.io/tools/ai-visibility-checker-for-ai-startups) - Free, with no account and no email. ## How the check works You give your business name and the job your product does, and for whom, and your website if you want a link to it to count. The check asks ChatGPT 3 questions with web search on, the way a customer's question reaches it: 1. Which AI startups specialize in AI contract review for in-house legal teams? 2. Which AI startups specialize in AI contract review for in-house legal teams and are mature enough for a pilot this quarter? 3. Which early-stage AI startups specialize in AI contract review for in-house legal teams, and what makes each one different? (Shown with the page's example values; the check fills in yours.) For each answer it shows whether ChatGPT named your business, who it named instead, and which sites it read. An answer to the same question is shared for 7 days, and the report says when it was given. ## Scouting questions buyers ask AI about young AI companies A buyer looking at AI startups is weighing a new vendor against an incumbent that added an AI feature. Their question names the job, the data involved and how much risk they can take on. - Which AI startups specialize in automating insurance claims intake? - Which startups build AI agents for customer support that hand off to a human cleanly? - Which AI startups specialize in clinical documentation and say they are HIPAA compliant? - Is there an AI startup that reads supplier invoices and posts them to NetSuite? - Which young AI companies specialize in sales call coaching for mid-market teams? - What AI startups are building tools for property managers to answer tenant messages? - Which AI startups that came out of Y Combinator specialize in legal research? - Which AI startups specialize in code review, and do any run on our own servers? The check asks 3. On Growth, Rankli asks 50 of yours every week on Claude and Gemini. ## What an assistant reads before it names an AI startup Asked which startups do a job, an assistant searches and reads startup sites, launch posts, funding news, directories and forum threads. It names the companies those pages tie, in plain words, to the job in the question. ### A homepage line that names the job, not the model "AI contract review for in-house legal teams" matches a question. "The agentic platform for the future of work" matches nothing. Say the task, the buyer and the input your product takes in the first lines of the page. ### Launch posts and listings that agree with your site Launch announcements, Product Hunt pages, accelerator directories and funding news are often what a search for new startups finds first. When each describes the same use case your site does, the assistant has one story to repeat. ### A page for each use case you sell A startup that serves legal teams and procurement teams in one paragraph is matched to neither. A page per use case, with the workflow, the inputs and the result, gives each scouting question something to land on. ### Security and data handling in readable text Buyers ask whether a young vendor is safe to pilot. A plain page on where data is stored, whether it trains models and which reviews you have completed answers that, provided every claim on it is true today. ## What three scouting questions tell an AI startup, and what they leave out - New startups move fast and so do the pages about them. An answer can still describe an older positioning, so one run is a snapshot of what the assistant found that day. - It checks one use case per run. Growth tracks 50 questions a week, across use cases, rivals and buyer types, and counts how often you are named. - For now it asks Claude, with Perplexity as a second opinion, and says which assistant gave each answer (ChatGPT resumes once our OpenAI access is restored). ChatGPT and Gemini can name other businesses for the same question. - It reads the answer for your startup name and domain. If you renamed the company or the product recently, run it under the old name as well. ## Questions ### Why do AI assistants name other startups for my use case? Their search found pages that tie those startups to the job in plain words: a launch post, a directory entry, a comparison. Your pages may describe the technology more than the task. Rankli shows each question you lose and writes the page that answers it. ### Does funding news help an AI startup get named? Funding coverage is often among the pages a search for new startups finds, and it usually repeats your own one-line description. So that line matters more than the round. Rankli checks that your site states it clearly. ### Who answers the check right now? ChatGPT is paused until our OpenAI access is restored, so for now each question goes to Claude through Anthropic’s API with web search on, and to Perplexity for a second opinion. The report names the assistant behind each answer. Rankli shows the full answer, so you can read why each startup was named. ### Which questions should an AI startup track? The ones a buyer asks before a pilot: by use case, by industry, by the incumbent they want to replace, and by data or security need. Rankli drafts that list from your site, and you can edit it. ### Is the AI startup check free? Free, with no signup. The 7-day free trial asks Claude and Gemini up to 50 questions about your use cases and starts writing for the ones you are losing. ## Related checks - [AI visibility checker for MCP servers and agent tools](https://www.rankli.io/tools/ai-visibility-checker-for-ai-agent-tools): See whether AI assistants name your MCP server or agent tool when developers ask which tools specialize in their task. - [AI visibility checker for AI agencies](https://www.rankli.io/tools/ai-visibility-checker-for-ai-agencies): See whether AI assistants name your agency when a business asks who can build AI automations or agents for it. - [AI visibility checker for AI consultants](https://www.rankli.io/tools/ai-visibility-checker-for-ai-consultants): See whether AI assistants name you when leaders ask which AI consultants specialize in their industry. - [AI visibility checker for Chrome extensions](https://www.rankli.io/tools/ai-visibility-checker-for-chrome-extensions): See whether AI assistants name your extension when people ask which Chrome extensions do the job it does. - [AI visibility checker for SaaS](https://www.rankli.io/tools/ai-visibility-checker-for-saas): See whether ChatGPT puts your product on the shortlist when buyers ask for software in your category. - [AI visibility checker for law firms](https://www.rankli.io/tools/ai-visibility-checker-for-law-firms): See whether ChatGPT names your firm when people in your city ask which lawyer to call. - [Every free tool](https://www.rankli.io/tools) ## About Rankli Rankli is an answer engine optimization (AEO) tool that gets businesses recommended by ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini. Every week it asks the questions your customers ask AI. It publishes an article for each question you are losing, then asks again 7 and 14 days after it goes live. Find the questions customers ask AI. Publish the answers. See if AI starts recommending you. - [How it works](https://www.rankli.io/how-it-works) - [Pricing](https://www.rankli.io/pricing) - [Everything about Rankli, for AI assistants](https://www.rankli.io/llms.txt)