# See whether Claude recommends your product

> Track Claude brand visibility: how often Claude mentions your product for buyer questions, how it describes you, and which competitors it names, from incognito chats.

Claude often answers from what it already knows, in plain prose, with no links. That makes Claude brand visibility mostly a question of mentions: does Claude bring up your product when a buyer asks for a recommendation, and how does it describe you? AEOmeter asks Claude your buyers' questions in incognito chats and keeps every answer.

## How Claude answers and cites

For many questions Claude writes a careful answer from its own knowledge and shows no sources. When it uses web search, it adds citation links to the pages it read. Whether that happens depends on the question and on the web search setting in your Claude account.

Because links are rarer, the answer text matters more on Claude. Read how it describes you next to your competitors. A product described in one vague line differs a lot from one listed with its use case.

## How AEOmeter checks Claude

Each Claude check runs in a background tab of your Chrome, signed in with your Claude account.

1. **Open a new incognito chat** A new chat opens on claude.ai in incognito mode. If incognito is not on yet, AEOmeter clicks "Use incognito". Incognito chats stay out of your chat history.
2. **Enter and send the prompt once** The prompt is filled in and checked word for word before sending. A prompt that was already sent is never sent again.
3. **Wait for a finished answer** AEOmeter waits until Claude stops generating, the Copy control appears and the text has stopped changing.
4. **Save the answer and citations** The final response is saved as Markdown, without the thinking summary Claude may show above it. Citation links are saved as citations and other links as inline links.

## Claude-specific caveats

- Many Claude answers have no sources. Expect a low owned citation rate on Claude even when you are mentioned often.
- Claude can group citations. When AEOmeter cannot read every one, the answer is marked "Some sources may be missing".
- Claude has usage limits. Hitting one pauses the check with a red "!" badge until you resume.
- The adapter is experimental. Claude's interface changes and the adapter may need an update after a redesign.

## Example prompts to track in Claude

People tend to give Claude more context. Your prompts can too:

- "I run a two-person SaaS and need product analytics. What would you pick and why?"
- "Explain the trade-offs between Mixpanel and PostHog for an early-stage startup"
- "Which analytics tools are easiest to set up without a data engineer?"
- "What should I look for in a product analytics tool before Series A?"

## What to look for in Claude results

- **Whether you are named at all.** On Claude this is the main signal. Visibility per prompt shows where you are left out.
- **How you are described.** Open the answers and read the sentence about you. Outdated or vague descriptions are worth fixing at the source.
- **Who appears instead.** Gaps show prompts where competitors are named and you are not.
- **Answers with web search.** When Claude does cite pages, the Sources view shows which ones.

## Questions

### Does Claude rank brands?

No. Claude writes an answer, and the order of names in it can change between chats. AEOmeter records whether each tracked brand is mentioned and whether your site is cited.

### Does AEOmeter use the Anthropic API?

No. It uses claude.ai in your Chrome, signed in with your account, in incognito chats.

### Why does Claude show fewer citations than Perplexity?

Perplexity searches for almost every question. Claude answers many questions from its own knowledge and only cites sources when it searches the web.

### Will the checks show up in my Claude history?

AEOmeter uses incognito chats, which stay out of your history. Private mode is best effort, and each check records the evidence that was visible.

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