See what AI search actually searches for
A browser extension that reveals the real fan-out queries ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity run behind their answers — and which sources they cited.
The problem
When you ask an AI assistant a question, it rarely searches for what you typed. It quietly expands your prompt into several different searches, reads the results, and writes an answer from a handful of them. That middle step is invisible, and it is where the decisions get made.
What this shows
- The real fan-out queries — the searches the assistant actually ran, in order
- Every source it retrieved, grouped by domain
- Which sources it cited, and which it read and passed over
- Your retrieval rate, citation rate, retrieval-to-citation rate and mention rate
- Share of voice against a competitor set you define
Observed, not simulated
Most tools in this space guess what an AI system would probably search for, or run their own prompts on a schedule and report back. This one reads the actual response stream in your own browser. What you see is what happened.
Retrieved is not the same as cited
Assistants read far more pages than they quote, and the gap between the two is the useful part. Enter your domain and every answer tells you which side you landed on: retrieved and cited, retrieved but passed over, or never found at all. Those are three different problems with three different fixes, so the extension never blurs them together.
Your metrics, with the working shown
| Metric | What it measures |
|---|---|
| Retrieval rate | How often your content is found by the AI |
| Citation rate | How often your content is cited in the answer |
| Retrieval to citation rate | How often your found content actually gets cited |
| Mention rate | How often your brand is named, with or without a link |
Hover any metric and it shows both the definition and the arithmetic behind the number on screen, so you can check the figure before you report it. Prompts that already name your brand are excluded from mention rate and flagged on the card — an answer echoing your own prompt is not organic visibility.
Private by design
No server, no account, no analytics. The extension reads a copy of the response your browser already received, stores it locally, and sends nothing anywhere.
Measuring brand mentions means the answer text is stored on your computer too. You can switch that off in the panel if you would rather not keep it. Full details in the privacy policy.
Supported
| Site | What is read |
|---|---|
| chatgpt.com | Fan-out queries, retrieved and cited sources, answer text |
| claude.ai | Fan-out queries, retrieved and cited sources, answer text |
| perplexity.ai | Fan-out queries, pages opened, follow-up suggestions, retrieved and cited sources, answer text |
Works in Chrome, Brave, Arc and other Chromium browsers. On browsers without a side panel, such as Arc, the interface opens in a tab instead.
Install
Available from the Chrome Web Store, or install from source — see the repository for instructions.