ChatGPT now runs ads. Any competitor can buy the sponsored slot under the answer in minutes. But the answer itself — the recommendation your customer actually trusts — can't be bought. Find out where you stand in both.
Get my free auditWhen someone asks ChatGPT "best dentist near me" or "who should I call for a new AC unit," two things appear: the answer, and a sponsored slot beside it. They are bought and earned in completely different ways.
ChatGPT Ads Manager is self-serve: add your website, review the suggested ad, launch. It shows to Free and Go users, clearly labeled "Sponsored." Fast, cheap to test — and gone the moment you stop paying. Your competitors can be there today.
OpenAI is explicit: ads do not influence the answer. The businesses ChatGPT names are the ones it can find clean facts about — machine-readable pricing and services, consistent listings, real reviews, and mentions on other sites it trusts. That is AEO, and it compounds.
We run the questions your customers actually ask — across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overview — and score what comes back.
Tell us your business and website below. We run the checks against real buyer questions in your market.
A short call: your visibility score, who is beating you in the answers, and whether anyone is buying the slot under you. Plain numbers, no jargon.
Take the gap list and fix it yourself, or have us build the AEO foundation and manage the sponsored side. Scope and price are set on the walkthrough, from your actual audit — never a canned package.
No. Ads buy the labeled sponsored slot. The recommendation inside the answer is earned — that's the whole reason AEO exists as a separate discipline.
No — anyone who guarantees AI rankings is guessing. AI answers change as sources change. What we guarantee is the work: close every fixable gap, then re-measure on a schedule so you can watch the score move.
Because most owners have no idea they're invisible in AI answers until they see their own score next to a competitor's. The audit is how we start every AEO engagement — and it stands on its own either way.
Dental practices, law firms, and HVAC / home-service companies — the verticals Compass Claw already builds AI systems for.
We run it by hand against your market — not an automated screenshot with your logo on it.