sourcesignal.ai is an AI visibility platform with an outreach layer. It tracks how AI engines answer buyer questions, benchmarks competitors and drafts outreach to the sites AI cites. Built for marketing teams and agencies, it shows where AI names a brand and which pages to pitch next.
For each tracked buyer question (prompt), sourcesignal.ai collects answers from nine AI engines: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, Microsoft Copilot, Llama, Mistral and Qwen, and stores each answer in full with the engine, date, brands named and sources cited. Engines are chosen per project, and prompts refresh weekly (custom schedules on Enterprise). The category is also called answer engine optimization (AEO) or generative engine optimization (GEO).
What it measures
- Mentions and share of answers: how often AI names the brand for each prompt, and its share of answers against competitors over time.
- Position: whether the brand is usually the lead recommendation, one of a list or a footnote.
- How AI presents the brand: whether each answer recommends it, mentions it or compares it unfavorably, so prompts where AI criticizes it stand out.
- Competitor benchmarking: prompt by prompt, including where AI names a competitor but not the brand, and brands AI names that are not tracked yet.
- Sources behind the answers: the pages each answer cites, and the domains that shape answers across prompts and engines, ranked.
The outreach layer
Pages that AI answers cite as sources for tracked prompts become opportunities, each with a 0 to 100 priority score across 294 signals that opens to show how it was worked out and why.
When a page moves to outreach, sourcesignal.ai researches who edits it, checks the email address and drafts a pitch built on a correction, missing evidence or an omission. For forums, Reddit threads, directories and review sites, it drafts a reply, post, listing or profile for a person to review and publish themselves. Every email sequence stays a draft until someone approves it, then sends from the team's own Gmail or Outlook inbox, never a shared pool, and stops when the publisher replies. An autopilot prepares research and drafts just ahead of the daily review pace the team sets.
Results and reporting
Each placement or published post the team records is linked to the email or post that preceded it, if any, and the live page is re-checked for the brand. sourcesignal.ai then shows whether the win was followed by movement in AI mentions, labeled as association, never as cause. Every plan includes a report on AI visibility, share of voice and verified wins, refreshed weekly, with branded client share links on Growth and Agency.
