We are small and unknown. Is this pointless?

It is the opposite. Assistants answer narrow questions from thin evidence, so being the only product that has clearly written up a specific use case is worth far more than it would be in traditional search, where the big sites take the general terms and the long tail both.

Should we buy G2 placement?

That is a real option and it is not what this measures. The report tells you which sources are being cited for your category; what you do with that is a budget decision.

Does content volume help?

Not by itself, and this is where we differ from most tools in this space. Thirty posts nobody asked for do not get you cited. One page that answers a question buyers actually ask does.

Can you publish to our site?

Not yet. WordPress is first, behind approval; today the report gives you the change and your team ships it — which for a software company on a custom marketing site is usually faster anyway.

How do you pick the questions?

They are generated from what your site says it does and who it says it is for, then asked the way a buyer types them. The full list is in the report, so you can judge whether they are the right questions.

Do you track rankings weekly?

No. The re-test being built re-asks the same questions after you publish something, so the before and after is attributable to your change rather than to a week of drift. Weekly tracking is a different product and there are good ones.

SaaS products

AI assistants recommend software. Is yours on the list?

30 buyer questions across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini, run against a real scheduling tool. It was named on a third of the questions that never mention it. The rest went to competitors' own sites and to Software Advice, Capterra and G2.

Real report

We ran this on SavvyCal

Tested 30 buyer questions across ChatGPT (API), Perplexity, Gemini. 21 of them never name SavvyCal — those are the ones a buyer who has not heard of them would ask.

Run on 2026-09-16 against ChatGPT (API) openai/gpt-5.4-mini, Perplexity perplexity/sonar-pro, Gemini google/gemini-3-flash. Engines answer differently over time — this is what they said that day.

7 of 21: questions that never name them, where they came up anyway
14: questions answered entirely without them

The questions, and who got recommended instead

Asked exactly as written below. The domains are the ones each engine actually cited.

“most recommended scheduling software”
ChatGPT (API)
- zapier.com
Perplexity
- efficient.app
- forbes.com
- workflowautomation.net
- sigmadax.com
- youcanbook.me
Gemini
named nobody in particular
“who is the best scheduling software for small teams”
ChatGPT (API)
- calendly.com
- acuityscheduling.com
Perplexity
- salesforce.com
- worldmetrics.org
- peoplemanagingpeople.com
- shifton.com
- scheduling-tools.org
Gemini
- peoplemanagingpeople.com
- forbes.com
- jotform.com
- omidsaffari.com
- zeeg.me
“best scheduling software for sales teams”
ChatGPT (API)
- chilipiper.com
- blog.hubspot.com
Perplexity
- cleverly.co
- youcanbook.me
- albato.com
- learn.g2.com
- revenuehero.io
Gemini
- revenuehero.io
- zencal.io
- bestpage.ai
- salescadia.com
- hubspot.com
“affordable scheduling software”
ChatGPT (API)
- calendly.com
- squareup.com
- acuityscheduling.com
Perplexity
- emailtooltester.com
- business.org
- forbes.com
- blog.supersaas.com
- squareup.com
Gemini
- cometly.com
- peoplemanagingpeople.com
- zapier.com
- fitsmallbusiness.com
- twizzlo.com
“calendar overlay pricing”
ChatGPT (API)
- marketplace.microsoft.com
- incodesoftwaresolutions.com
- shutterfly.com
Perplexity
- marketplace.microsoft.com
- etsy.com
- softwareworld.co
- incodesoftwaresolutions.com
- meetingstack.io
Gemini
named nobody in particular
“cheapest scheduling software that is still good”
ChatGPT (API)
- squareup.com
- setmore.com
- support.setmore.com
- acuityscheduling.com
Perplexity
- emailtooltester.com
- stackscored.com
- forbes.com
- flozic.ai
- cal.com
Gemini
- techhassle.com
- tidycal.com
- bizsoftscout.com
- usecarly.com
- lemcal.com

What the engines cited

Directories, threads and roundups — the pages holding the answer. The claimable ones are the fastest item on any report.

softwareadvice.comDirectory you can claim17 questions
3 engines
capterra.comDirectory you can claim15 questions
3 engines
g2.comDirectory you can claim10 questions
3 engines
producthunt.comDirectory you can claim7 questions
2 engines

Other domains the engines cited

Every other domain the answers named — competitors, directories and publishers alike. Cited by more than one engine on more than one question.

youcanbook.me21 questions
3 engines
cal.com19 questions
3 engines
zapier.com16 questions
3 engines
calendly.com14 questions
3 engines
forbes.com14 questions
3 engines
acuityscheduling.com10 questions
3 engines

What the site never says

For each question, what the model needed to find on the site and did not — in its own words.

“most recommended scheduling software”
The site would need to explicitly compare itself to other scheduling tools or state that it is one of the most recommended options.
“who is the best scheduling software for small teams”
The site would need to say which type of small team it is best for, or claim it is the best scheduling software for small teams.
“affordable scheduling software”
The site would need to state that it is affordable or give pricing details that support that claim.
“calendar overlay pricing”
The site would need to say whether Calendar Overlay costs extra, is included in a specific plan, or has its own price.

The prescription

What the report told them to do

Generated from the questions they lost, not from a checklist. Each one names the questions it is meant to win back.

Own your listings on softwareadvice.com, capterra.com, g2.com
change9 questions
On 9 of the questions you lose, the assistants cite a directory rather than any business's own site. Those listings are the answer buyers are being shown.
Add structured data describing the business
change6 questions
The site states nothing machine-readable about what it is or where it is, so assistants have to infer both from prose.
Answer "who is the best scheduling software for small teams" on /pricing
change5 questions
The site would need to say which type of small team it is best for, or claim it is the best scheduling software for small teams.
Answer "most popular scheduling software options" on /articles
change5 questions
The site would need to list popular scheduling software options or provide a popularity ranking.

Get this for your own client

Named on a third of the questions. The price questions went elsewhere.

SavvyCal was named on seven of the twenty-one questions that never mention it, which for a small vendor is a real presence. Look at who took the rest: YouCanBookMe's own site was cited on twenty-one of the thirty questions, Cal.com on nineteen, Calendly on fourteen — and beside them Software Advice on seventeen, Capterra on fifteen, G2 on ten. The sharpest losses are the price questions. 'Affordable scheduling software' was answered with Calendly and Square. 'Calendar overlay pricing' — a SavvyCal feature, asked for by name — was answered with Microsoft's marketplace and Etsy, because no page on the site says whether that feature costs extra. The report's list for this one is short: claim the three review listings, put a price next to the feature, and answer 'best for small teams' on the pricing page it already has.

What to do about it

This is the shape of every report we produce, split two ways: the changes we will make for you on WordPress once the plugin ships (as drafts, behind approval), and the ones only you can do — claiming a listing, fixing a profile, answering the questions a page has been avoiding. We mark which is which rather than pretending the second column does not exist.

01
Write the comparison pages, honestly
Including where the other tool wins. A page that only says you are better reads as marketing and gets treated as marketing.
02
Put a price next to every feature buyers ask about
'How much does X cost' is asked constantly, feature by feature. A pricing page that lists plans but never says which plan a named feature is in gets the question answered by someone else, usually badly.
03
Keep the review profiles current
G2 and Capterra are cited more than your site is. A stale profile with old screenshots and a two-year-old feature list is what gets quoted.

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