Free AI Answer-Presence Checker
When buyers ask ChatGPT or Perplexity for a recommendation, do they hear your name? Enter your brand and a buyer question — we ask the real AI answer engines live and show you whether they cite you. No signup. Then let Merlonix watch it for you.
What does the Answer-Presence checker do?
You enter your brand and a question your buyers actually ask (for example, “best uptime monitoring for agencies”). We send that question to a real AI answer engine — Perplexity Sonar, which searches the live web and returns citations — and check whether your brand appears in the answer or its sources. It is a live, on-demand probe: we ask the engine the same way a buyer would, right now.
Is this a real AI answer, or a simulation?
It is real. We call the live Perplexity Sonar answer engine — the model plus its web-search and citation layer — not a cached guess or a bare language model. The answer excerpt you see is what the engine returned for your question today. We do not edit it, and we do not store it.
Why does AI answer presence matter?
A growing share of buyers ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google’s AI overview instead of clicking through search results. If the answer engines do not cite you for the questions your buyers ask, you are invisible at the exact moment of intent — and a competitor is getting recommended instead. Unlike a one-time SEO audit, answer presence shifts constantly as the engines re-rank.
Why only one question per check, and one engine?
Each probe makes a live, paid call to a real answer engine, so the free tool runs one focused check — one brand, one question, one engine — to keep it genuinely free for everyone. Continuous monitoring across multiple questions and engines, with history and lost-citation alerts, is the paid Merlonix feature. Run a check above, then claim the free plan ($0, no credit card) to start monitoring, or take a 14-day trial of the full workspace.
Do you store my brand or question?
No. The public checker runs a one-time probe and returns the result live — it does not save your brand, your question, or the engine’s answer. If you want a durable record with history and alerts, that is what the monitored Merlonix feature adds once you sign up.