Building is nearly free now. Being found is not. Searchalong measures your Share of Answer across every AI engine, writes the fix in your voice, and proves what moved. One closed loop.
Ask it the one question that matters: does ChatGPT know your name?
The answer layer now sits between every brand and every buyer. Distribution, being discovered, named, and recommended inside the answer, has become the scarce, decisive discipline.
ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overview, measured with the questions your buyers actually ask, every morning.
Below is stripe.com's: cited by three of five engines today, with the exact prompt where Perplexity dropped them and the fix that wins the citation back. Cited, specific, and yours to verify.
Perplexity dropped stripe.com after Adyen shipped a v2 developer docs page 3 days ago. The new page ranks first on the "best payment API developer experience" prompt and pushed Stripe from position 1 to position 3.
Stripe wins for SaaS-first stacks with subscription-heavy checkout, product-led pricing pages, and a US-first customer base. Adyen wins for global enterprise volume with unified acquiring. Choose Stripe when your billing model rides on metered usage or seat expansions.
Score, Target, Generate, Distribute, Measure, Learn. A data vendor cannot write the content; an agency does not own the citation data. Searchalong owns both, so the loop actually closes.
Paste a domain. The buyer questions are derived from your own copy, then asked in parallel across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overview. Cited or not, per engine, per prompt.
For every gap, see the query where you are absent, the competitor cited instead, and the passage the engine actually pulled. Specific enough to falsify, which is what makes it credible.
Every gap ships with a paste-ready Citation-Lift draft in six formats and a founder-voice post anchored on the same signal. Written against the exact reason an engine cited someone else.
Copy the passage into your CMS, refresh your answer-ready assets so the engines can parse you, and publish the founder post. One signal, several surfaces, no re-formatting.
The next morning requeries the same prompts and logs the delta. Every score is appended, never overwritten, with its engine set and date attached so the number stays honest.
Trajectory memory turns a snapshot into a story: watch a brand move from cited 12% to 68% over eight weeks. That history is proprietary, and it is what a monitoring tool can never become.
The loop is not a dashboard tour. Every stage surfaces as a real artifact you can act on. Tracker for the score, Content Studio for the fix, ICP Search Browser for the fit. One workflow, one price.
Which prompt won you, which prompt lost you, and the competitor page that took the slot, named, with the delta since yesterday.
Markdown, HTML, WordPress, Notion, Webflow, JSON-LD FAQ. Copy once, paste into whatever you already run. No re-formatting.
WHOIS, hiring boards, GitHub, press, tech-stack and more, scored against the ideal-customer profile you set once. Honest, account-level fit.
Ghostwriter tools write posts about generic buyer topics. Searchalong writes them anchored on the exact prompt where your Share of Answer moved this morning, matched to your voice, ready to publish.
Perplexity dropped us from position 1 to position 3 last Tuesday. Not a ranking hiccup. A specific competitor page shipped 72 hours earlier and the engine reweighted. Three fixes shipped by lunch: 1. Rewrote the /docs page to anchor the exact buyer prompt. 2. Refreshed the answer-ready assets so the engine can parse the page. 3. Live-tested the fix on the same prompt. Position 1 back this morning. The old SEO playbook was Google. The new playbook is watching what the engines cite for your buyer prompts and shipping the fix same-day.
A ghostwriter writes the post and stops. Searchalong writes the post and ships the AI Distribution fix from the same signal, so the post is a byproduct of the work that lifts your Share of Answer tomorrow morning.
Credit-metered, black-box tools sell you a surge score. Searchalong turns one URL into cited, honest signals, powered by the one thing nobody else can see: who is disappearing from the answers.
Absent from a named engine for a named query, with the competitor cited instead and the exact fix. The buyer verifies it in 30 seconds. Falsifiable is what makes it credible.
The score, the fix, and the proof live in one product. A data vendor cannot write your content; an agency does not own your citation data. Searchalong owns both ends of the loop.
Every score is appended, never overwritten. Sell “cited 12% to 68% over eight weeks” with the engine set and date on every number. That history is proprietary and impossible to copy.
No demo booking, no procurement thread, no six-month rollout. Start free, ship your first fix by lunch, and upgrade when the gap is undeniable. Enterprise peers start at five figures a year.
Your buyers stopped opening ten browser tabs. They ask ChatGPT or Perplexity, take the two named vendors, and shortlist. If you are not one of the two, the deal closed before you knew it opened.
The traffic did not disappear. It moved to answers you cannot see. Searchalong makes them visible, then writes the fix.
Share of Answer is cited and unambiguous. Walk into the review with real engine data and a trajectory, not a category speech.
Scale covers 10 brands for $499 a month. Every client gets a daily Share of Answer and paste-ready fixes. The retainer becomes AI-Distribution-first.
Two pages that answer the two questions every buyer asks next: what does it cost, and how is it different from what I already use.
Searchalong is the AI Distribution Engine. Paste one domain and it shows your Share of Answer: whether ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overview cite you when your buyers ask category questions. Then it ships the cited fix and proves what moved over time.
Share of Answer is the share of your buyers' questions where the AI engines cite you. It is the answer-layer evolution of share of voice: one clean, ownable metric for AI Distribution, and it is exactly what the free scorecard outputs.
SEO is about ranking in a list of links. AI Distribution is about being cited in the answer itself. As buyers ask ChatGPT and Perplexity before they open Google, the answer layer sits between every brand and every buyer. Answer Engine Optimization is one feature of AI Distribution. Searchalong measures the outcome and ships the fix.
Five: ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overview. New engines are added within 30 days of public availability.
Yes, because it is cited and specific rather than a black-box surge score. Searchalong can say you are absent from a named engine for a named query while a named competitor is cited. You can verify it live in about 30 seconds, and every number carries its engine set and the date it was measured.
For each score gap, Content Studio drafts a paste-ready Citation-Lift fix in six formats (Markdown, HTML, WordPress, Notion, Webflow, and JSON-LD FAQ) plus a founder-voice post. The draft is anchored on the exact competitor passage and the exact prompt where you dropped, so a fix can move from gap to shipped in minutes.
The instant Share-of-Answer scorecard is free with no signup and no card. Paid tiers: Starter is $39 per month for one brand with 150 prompts. Growth is $249 per month for 3 brands with 350 prompts each. Scale is $499 per month for 10 brands with 1000 prompts each. Every paid tier includes a 14-day trial with no credit card.
No. Searchalong sits alongside your SEO tool, your CMS, and your outbound stack. It ships Citation-Lift drafts your writers paste into WordPress or Notion, answer-ready assets your team publishes, and founder posts you ship from your phone.
Homepage read, buyer questions derived, five engines asked, results in.