Original research on how AI platforms select, cite, and recommend SaaS products. All studies include full methodology.
We ran 30 queries across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. One brand leads on four platforms and doesn't exist on the fifth.
Self-citation mechanics, multi-page amplification, and the adjacent-brand strategy that gets your content into AI training and retrieval pipelines.
Community validation is a citation layer most AISO strategies ignore. We mapped the subreddit specificity and cross-platform evidence hierarchy ChatGPT actually uses.