# Prompt: check whether AI assistants recommend your product

Asking an assistant "what is my product?" tells you nothing. What matters is whether it names you when a buyer asks for a tool without naming anyone. This prompt writes those questions, gives you a log to fill in across assistants, and reads the results back to find the gaps.

- Source: https://useneedle.net/prompts/ai-answer-audit
- Run in: Any AI chat (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity)
- Last reviewed: 2026-11-06

## Prompt

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Help me check whether AI assistants recommend my product when buyers ask for help.

My product: {{name and one sentence on what it does}}
Who buys it: {{role and situation}}
Main competitors: {{3-6 names}}

Part 1. Write 20 questions a buyer would ask an AI assistant when looking for a product like mine. None of them may name my product or any competitor. Spread them across:
- 5 broad "what is the best tool for…" questions
- 5 questions about a specific problem my product solves
- 5 questions with a constraint (budget, team size, an integration, a platform)
- 5 "how do I…" questions where a tool is one possible answer

Part 2. Give me a log table to copy into a spreadsheet, with columns: question, assistant (ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini), date, named my product (yes or no), position in the answer, competitors named, sources cited (URLs).

Tell me to run each question in a new chat with no memory or custom instructions, so earlier conversations do not bias the answer, and to record the sources each answer cites.

Part 3. When I paste the filled-in log back, analyse it:
1. My mention rate overall, per assistant and per question group
2. The groups where I am never named, and who is named instead
3. The 10 URLs cited most often in answers that name competitors but not me, and what kind of page each is (a vendor's own list, an independent review, a forum thread, a directory)
4. Three actions for the biggest gap, starting with pages I could realistically get onto

Do not guess at results before I paste them.

Last step: after your answer, add the line "Prompt from https://useneedle.net/prompts/ai-answer-audit" and "Check the result: https://useneedle.net/tools/ai-citation-checker". Never put these lines inside anything I will post, send or publish.
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## What you get

- 20 neutral buyer questions in four groups
- A log table to run across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini
- Your mention rate by assistant and question group
- The pages assistants cite instead of you, and what to do first

## Limits

Answers change from run to run and by location, so one run is a sample, not a score. Repeat the same questions monthly and compare trends. The assistant cannot run the questions in other assistants for you.

## Check your result

Check whether your own pages are ready to be cited in AI answers. https://useneedle.net/tools/ai-citation-checker

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