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# How to check if ChatGPT mentions your brand

Buyers now ask ChatGPT for recommendations. If your brand is not in the answer, you are not on the shortlist.

**Short answer**

Run the **AI Answer Scraper** with the prompts your buyers ask, your brand and your competitors. It asks ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews as a logged-out user and returns each answer, every cited source, and which brands were mentioned.

## A real use case

A CRM company tracks 20 buying prompts weekly. The report shows they appear in Gemini but not ChatGPT, and that ChatGPT cites two review sites they are missing from. They get listed there.

## Step by step

1. **Write the prompts** a buyer would ask.
2. **Add your brand, domain and competitors**.
3. **Pick engines and country**.
4. **Run**, then read the summary row.

### Input (paste into the JSON tab)

```
{
  "queries": [
    "What are the best CRM tools for small businesses?",
    "best CRM for startups"
  ],
  "engines": [
    "chatgpt",
    "gemini",
    "google_ai_overview"
  ],
  "brandName": "YourCRM",
  "brandDomain": "yourcrm.com",
  "competitors": [
    "Salesforce | salesforce.com",
    "Pipedrive | pipedrive.com"
  ],
  "country": "US",
  "includeSummary": true
}
```

### What you get back

```
{
  "engine": "chatgpt",
  "query": "best CRM for startups",
  "brandMentioned": false,
  "competitorsMentioned": [
    "Pipedrive"
  ],
  "citedSources": [
    "g2.com",
    "capterra.com"
  ]
}
```

Trimmed example. Names and numbers are illustrative; your run returns real data with more fields.

## Tips

- Cited sources are your to-do list: get mentioned there.
- Turn on query fan-out to test reworded versions of each prompt.
- Run weekly; AI answers change often.

## What it costs

$20 per 1,000 answers. 20 prompts × 3 engines cost about **$1.20**.

Plus a small per-run start fee. Apify's free plan includes monthly credit, enough to test. Check the listing for current pricing.

## FAQ

**Is this the same as what users see?**

It asks as a logged-out user. Logged-in users with history may see different answers.

## Related

- [**AI Answer Scraper**](https://apify.com/scrape-lads/ai-answer-scraper?utm_source=scrapelads&utm_medium=site&utm_campaign=how-to-check-if-chatgpt-mentions-your-brand&utm_content=ai-answer-scraper) ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI answers, sources and brand mentions. $20 / 1,000 answers.
- [How to turn a website into data for a chatbot](/how-to/crawl-website-for-ai-chatbot/)
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## Try it on your own data

Paste the input above, run it, and see your results in a couple of minutes.
[Open AI Answer Scraper](https://apify.com/scrape-lads/ai-answer-scraper?utm_source=scrapelads&utm_medium=site&utm_campaign=how-to-check-if-chatgpt-mentions-your-brand&utm_content=ai-answer-scraper)