When a buyer asks AI who to choose, is your business in the answer?
Buyers now ask AI who to choose, and the answer names someone. We ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI Overviews ten of your buyers’ questions and show you all fifty answers, with their sources.
Free, no card, about a minute.
Buyer question
“Feature requests for my small SaaS are scattered across email and chat, which tool lets customers vote on ideas and see our roadmap?”
- ChatGPTNames you, 2nd
- GeminiDoesn’t mention you
- PerplexityNames you
- ClaudeDoesn’t mention you
- Google AI Overviews the AI answer above Google’s resultsLinks to your site, names others
- 51 of 100
- Your score
- ChatGPT
- Gemini
- Perplexity
- Claude
- Google AI Overviews
Engines we ask. Ten questions to each of the five make fifty answers. A plan asks them all again every Monday.
How a rating works
Give us your website. In about a minute, you see all fifty answers.
Found on heronboard.comExample Feedback boards, a public roadmap and a changelog in one place.
heronboard.com
Customers post ideas and vote for the ones they want most.
heronboard.com/boards
The free plan has no time limit.
heronboard.com/pricing
11 of 11 pages read
What your site says you areExample Heronboard
Feedback boards, a public roadmap and a changelog, for small software teams of 2 to 15 people.
Rivals foundRidgevoteFerrylogLupinpost
Buyer question 110 written “Feature requests for my small SaaS are scattered across email and chat, which tool lets customers vote on ideas and see our roadmap?”
1 of 10 questions
Answers that name HeronboardOut of 10 each - ChatGPT4 of 10
- Gemini3 of 10
- Perplexity4 of 10
- Claude1 of 10
- Google AI Overviews2 of 10
Your scoreTop 2 fixes 51of 100
- +3A page that answers your buyers’ questions
- +2An About page
What we look for
All fifty answers, checked three ways: are you in it, how high, and its sources.
Feature requests for my small SaaS are scattered across email and chat, which tool lets customers vote on ideas and see our roadmap?
- Ridgevote, voting boards with a public roadmap.
- Heronboard, feedback boards, a roadmap and a changelog.
- Ferrylog, a changelog with an ideas board.
g2.comridgevote.com
Are you in it?
Heronboard Yes, you’re named.
How high?
Second of three, after Ridgevote.
Which sites did it use?
G2 and Ridgevote’s own site. Not yours.
Your score
One score out of 100: the answers you’re in, where you’re listed, how you’re described, whether AI can read your site.
Example · heronboard.comPoints
Answers you’re in
17 of 50
- Names you
“…Heronboard, a feedback board with a public roadmap.”
+1 - Only links to your site
“…Ridgevote.”heronboard.com in its sources
+1
Listed near the top
13 of 20
- 1st
- 2ndYou
- 3rd
- Later
Described like your site
13 of 15
ChatGPT said
Heronboard, feedback boards, a roadmap and a changelog.
Matches your site. Counts in full.
Gemini said
The free plan ends after a 14‑day trial.
Your site says
The free plan has no time limit.
One fact wrong. Counts half.
Every answer that names you gets checked against your site, on all five assistants.
Easy for AI to read
8 of 15
Passed
- Robots.txt, the file that lets assistants read your site
- Words that show without JavaScript
- A homepage that says what you do
Missing
- An About page
- A question heading
- A paragraph AI can quote
Assistants’ crawlers read your site, and most of them don’t run JavaScript.
The four parts add up to your score: 17 + 13 + 13 + 8 = 51 of 100.
Named instead of you
Ridgevote is named in 28 of 50 answers. You, in 17.
How do I let customers know the feature they asked for has shipped, without emailing each of them by hand?
To tell customers when a feature they asked for has shipped, a common pick is Ridgevote.
ridgevote.comg2.com
HeronboardNot in this answerFour of five assistants name Ridgevote here. None name you.
Ridgevote
YouHeronboard
The sites these answers usedAnswers, of 50
- g2.comReview site17
- reddit.comForum13
- ridgevote.comRidgevote’s own site11
- heronboard.comYour site6
What to fix first
Two changes, ranked by what they’d add. Add one and watch the forecast climb.
What we change
Questions about Heronboard
- Can customers vote without creating an account?
- How do you keep a public board free of spam?
- Does the free plan run out?
What you gain+3Adds a question heading and a paragraph AI can quote.Aimed at the 3 questions no assistant names you on. What we change
About Heronboard
Heronboard makes feedback boards, a public roadmap and a changelog for small software teams of 2 to 15 people.
Customers vote on ideas and hear when they ship.
What you gain+2Passes the About page check.Aimed at the 3 questions where you’re only a link.
We write both pages for you. You, or whoever built your site, publishes them.
What the plan adds
No one checks fifty answers a week by hand. We do, every Monday, with their sources.
MonEvery Monday, we ask again
All five AI assistants get your buyer questions again. Ten questions make fifty answers, and we note who wins each one and which sites it used.
- ChatGPT
- Gemini
- Perplexity
- Claude
- Google AI Overviews
MonYou get one email
Your new score, what moved, and the fixes to make next.
SubjectHeronboard: 58 this week, up 2
Your FAQ page’s questions now get you named in 2 of 18 answers, up from 0.
Open your dashboard
Any dayYou mark a fix done
We note where its questions stood that day, then watch them.
A page that answers your buyers’ questionsDone 26 Aug
An About page+2
Mon · and round again
And the score movesScore out of 100
- 18 AugYour free rating51
- 24 AugNo new page; answers moved52+1
- 31 AugYour FAQ page went live55+3
- 7 SepNo new page; answers moved56+1
- 14 SepYour About page went live58+2
Seven points in four weeks, five of them in the two weeks a new page went live.
Pricing
Your first rating is free. Plans start at $29 a month.
Indie
$29 a month, per website
For one product. Asked again every Monday, with the fixes written for you.
- Buyer questions10
- RivalsUp to 3, you choose
- AI assistantsAll five
- Answers a week50, with sources
Starter
$79 a month
For a product with more than one kind of buyer, and more of their questions.
- Buyer questions25
- RivalsUp to 3, you choose
- AI assistantsAll five
- Answers a week125, with sources
Company
$129 a month
For a company, and the rivals taking its answers. Or $1,290 a year, by email.
- Buyer questionsUp to 50
- RivalsUp to 5, you choose
- AI assistantsAll five
- Answers a weekUp to 250, with sources
Questions
Before you rate your site, the short answers.
Still unsure? Your first rating is free. Rate your site.
- What do I need to start?
- Your website and an email address, no card. You get one rating per website every 30 days, and it takes about a minute.
- Why not type the question into ChatGPT myself?
- You would get one answer, from one assistant, at one moment; ask again tomorrow and the wording changes. We ask all five assistants your ten buyer questions and show you all fifty answers, so you see a measurement rather than one reading. A plan does it again every Monday; by hand, that is fifty prompts and fifty answers to read and log each week.
- Are the points guaranteed?
- No, they are a forecast from your answers and site. Assistants word their answers a little differently each time they are asked, so two ratings of one site on the same day can differ by about 4 points.
- What is the difference between recommended, named and cited?
- Recommended means an assistant names you before anyone else. Named means it writes your business into its answer. Cited means it links your site as a source. The score counts named or cited.
- What does “described like your site” mean?
- Whether what an assistant says about you matches your own site. A description that gets everything right counts in full, one with a wrong fact counts half, and a wrong one counts nothing. You see the claim beside your site’s own line.
- What does $129 buy, and what does it not?
- One website, up to 50 buyer questions and 5 rivals, asked on all five assistants every Monday, with the pages assistants cite read for you and every answer exported as a spreadsheet. It does not cover a second website, extra seats, or runs every day.
- Can I cancel a plan?
- Yes, on your billing page, which our payment provider runs. It also shows when your paid period ends.
- Who’s behind this?
- An independent product, built by a small team. Who runs it and how a rating is made are on the about page.
Is your business in the answer? Find out in about a minute.
Free, no card. One per website every 30 days.
Is yoursite.com in the answer?
- ChatGPT?
- Gemini?
- Perplexity?
- Claude?
- Google AI Overviews?
- Answers you’re in
- ? of 50
- Your score
- ? of 100