{
  "measured_by": "GetIntel",
  "measured_on": "2026-08-11",
  "question": "When a founder asks an AI engine which visibility tool to use, what does it actually name?",
  "method": "Of our 60 tracked prompts, 11 explicitly frame the asker as a founder, bootstrapped, solo or a small team. We pooled every citation returned on those 11 across all four engines between 10 July and 10 August 2026 and ranked the domains.",
  "scope": {
    "founder_prompts": 11,
    "of_prompts": 60,
    "runs": 412,
    "citations": 3325,
    "distinct_domains": 643
  },
  "top_15": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "domain": "therankmasters.com",
      "citations": 88,
      "share_of_voice_pct": 2.65
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "domain": "llmpulse.ai",
      "citations": 84,
      "share_of_voice_pct": 2.53
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "domain": "reddit.com",
      "citations": 69,
      "share_of_voice_pct": 2.08
    },
    {
      "rank": 4,
      "domain": "otterly.ai",
      "citations": 68,
      "share_of_voice_pct": 2.05
    },
    {
      "rank": 5,
      "domain": "linkedin.com",
      "citations": 66,
      "share_of_voice_pct": 1.98
    },
    {
      "rank": 6,
      "domain": "zapier.com",
      "citations": 64,
      "share_of_voice_pct": 1.92
    },
    {
      "rank": 7,
      "domain": "tryprofound.com",
      "citations": 60,
      "share_of_voice_pct": 1.8
    },
    {
      "rank": 8,
      "domain": "aiclicks.io",
      "citations": 60,
      "share_of_voice_pct": 1.8
    },
    {
      "rank": 9,
      "domain": "trustmary.com",
      "citations": 56,
      "share_of_voice_pct": 1.68
    },
    {
      "rank": 10,
      "domain": "semrush.com",
      "citations": 56,
      "share_of_voice_pct": 1.68
    },
    {
      "rank": 11,
      "domain": "arxiv.org",
      "citations": 55,
      "share_of_voice_pct": 1.65
    },
    {
      "rank": 12,
      "domain": "dageno.ai",
      "citations": 46,
      "share_of_voice_pct": 1.38
    },
    {
      "rank": 13,
      "domain": "trysight.ai",
      "citations": 42,
      "share_of_voice_pct": 1.26
    },
    {
      "rank": 14,
      "domain": "rankability.com",
      "citations": 42,
      "share_of_voice_pct": 1.26
    },
    {
      "rank": 15,
      "domain": "techradar.com",
      "citations": 42,
      "share_of_voice_pct": 1.26
    }
  ],
  "our_own_position": {
    "rank": 55,
    "citations": 13,
    "of_domains": 643,
    "note": "We rank 55th on the prompts closest to our own stated customer. Published because leaving it out would make the rest of this list untrustworthy."
  },
  "finding": "There is no consensus tool. The most-cited domain on founder-framed questions holds 2.65% share of voice, and 643 distinct domains split 3,325 citations. Any product describing itself as the tool founders use is not describing what the engines say.",
  "concentration": {
    "top_15_combined_share_pct": 26.98,
    "note": "The entire top fifteen accounts for under a quarter of citations. The tail is the story."
  },
  "limits": "11 prompts is a small slice, and 'founder-framed' is our own classification based on the prompt wording containing founder, bootstrapped, solo, small team or indie. Pooled across four engines, so an engine with more citations weighs more."
}