Free check · asks Claude live while ChatGPT is paused, with a second opinion from Perplexity

ChatGPT rank checker

Type your business and what you sell. We ask 3 questions your buyers ask, answered by Claude, with Perplexity as a second opinion, and show whether each answer named you, your place in the list it gave, and who it put ahead of you.

Phrase it as a buyer types it into a chat: "CRM for small agencies" or "pediatric dentist in Columbus".

Try one:

Asks ChatGPT (or Claude, Gemini or Perplexity if ChatGPT is unavailable), then Perplexity for a second opinion. Free, no account, about a minute. Add your website and a link to it counts too.

The questions the check will ask

  1. Give me a ranked list of the top payroll software for restaurants options.
  2. Rank the five best payroll software for restaurants choices and explain the order.
  3. Which payroll software for restaurants would you put first, second and third, and why?

ChatGPT (or Claude, Gemini or Perplexity if ChatGPT is unavailable), then Perplexity for a second opinion searches the web for each answer. An answer to the same question is shared for 7 days.

How it works

Three steps, about a minute

  1. Type your business name, your website and what you sell in the words a buyer would use.

  2. With web search on, we put 3 shortlist questions to Claude, with Perplexity as a second opinion.

  3. Read your place in each list, the names above yours and the sites the answer drew on.

Shortlist questions where the order of names matters

A buyer who asks for a ranked list usually contacts the first two or three names and stops. These are the shapes of question where being third or fifth is a different result from being first.

  • Rank the top three payroll providers for a restaurant group with four locations.
  • Which video editing agencies in Chicago would you shortlist for a product launch?
  • List the five best CRMs for a recruiting firm, best first.
  • Who are the top-rated HVAC companies in Nashville, in order?
  • Which immigration lawyers in Seattle should I call first?
  • Order these by value: the main bookkeeping services for Etsy sellers.
  • What are the three strongest SEO agencies for dental practices?
  • If you had to pick one wedding photographer in Savannah, who would it be?

The check asks 3. On Growth, Rankli asks 50 of yours every week on Claude and Gemini.

What "rank" means in an AI answer

There is no page two in a chat. An assistant either names you in the handful of businesses it lists or leaves you out, and the order it lists them in is the closest thing to a ranking position.

  • Named, or left out

    The first result is whether your business appears in the answer at all. A business the answer never mentions has no position, however well its own site ranks in a search engine.

  • Your place in the list

    When the answer recommends you inside a numbered or bulleted shortlist, the check reports your place in it, such as #2. Mentioned in passing outside the list is reported as named, with no position.

  • Who sits above you

    Every business the answer named instead of you is listed, with how many of the answers named it, so you can see which competitors the assistant reaches for first in your market.

  • Why positions move

    An assistant writes a fresh list each time it is asked. Search results it reads change, the model is updated and the wording of a question shifts the order. One run is a reading, not a fixed position.

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What one ranking check can and cannot tell you

  • This check asks through an assistant’s API, not the consumer app: OpenAI’s for ChatGPT, or, while ChatGPT is paused until our OpenAI access is restored, Anthropic’s for Claude. So it sees no one person’s location or history.
  • 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.
  • Three questions on one day is a snapshot. Tracking your place every week across 50 questions is what Growth, the paid plan, does, starting with a 7-day free trial.
  • A position is only reported when the answer recommends you inside a list. Your business name has to match the one in the answer, so use the name customers know.

Frequently asked questions

Does this rank checker ask ChatGPT itself?

Not 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’s paid plans ask the same questions every week on each assistant they cover.

Is there a ranking in ChatGPT like Google’s positions?

Not a fixed one. An assistant writes a new list for every question, so "rank" means whether you are named and where you sit in the list that answer gave. Measured over many weeks it becomes a share of answers, which is what Rankli tracks.

Why do I rank first for one question and not at all for another?

Each question is its own shortlist. A narrower question, with a place or a type of customer in it, draws on different pages from a broad one. Rankli finds the questions you are missing from and writes a page for each.

How do I move up the list?

Give the assistant more to quote: a page that answers the buyer’s exact question, prices and places in plain text, and other sites that describe you the same way. Rankli writes those pages and asks again 7 and 14 days after each one goes live.

Can I track my ChatGPT rank every week?

On the paid plan, with ChatGPT added once it is back: today Growth asks 50 of your questions every week on Claude and Gemini and shows how often you are named and where. It starts with a 7-day free trial.

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Rankli asks Claude and Gemini the questions your customers ask, every week. It writes a page for each one you lose, publishes it to your site and asks again to show what moved.

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