{"slug": "we-checked-whether-ai-recommends-our-own-product-it-doesn-t-yet", "title": "We checked whether AI recommends our own product. It doesn't, yet.", "summary": "Envoyra, a tool that checks whether AI assistants recommend a brand, ran its own product through ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity on 21 October 2026, asking 18 questions once each for 72 total answers. The assistants described Envoyra accurately in 9 of 20 answers to branded queries, said they didn't know it in 8, and misdescribed it in 3 (all Gemini); across 36 open-question answers the tool was recommended zero times, with Semrush, Otterly, Profound, Ahrefs and Brandwatch named instead. Founder Golara Serio said the company will re-run the same 36 open questions in four weeks and publish the count.", "body_md": "We build a tool that checks whether AI assistants recommend a brand, so we ran it on ourselves.\n\nOn 21 October 2026 we asked ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity 18 questions, one run per question (72 answers).\n\nWhen someone asked about Envoyra by name, the assistants described us accurately in 9 of 20 answers. In 8 they said they didn't know us, and in 3 (all Gemini) they described something else.\n\nWhen someone asked an open question, like \"what tools show whether ChatGPT recommends my business?\", they recommended us in 0 of 36 answers. They named Semrush, Otterly, Profound, Ahrefs and Brandwatch instead.\n\nWhat we learned:\n\nWe'll re-run the same 36 open questions in four weeks and post the count, whatever it is.\n\n*Golara Serio, founder, Envoyra (Washington, DC)*", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/we-checked-whether-ai-recommends-our-own-product-it-doesn-t-yet", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/connect_envoyra/we-checked-whether-ai-recommends-our-own-product-it-doesnt-yet-1k7p", "published_at": "2026-10-22 19:04:03+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-22 19:11:39.615794+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["generative-engine-optimization", "ai-search", "ai-tools"], "entities": ["Envoyra", "ChatGPT", "Claude", "Gemini", "Perplexity", "Semrush", "Otterly", "Ahrefs"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/we-checked-whether-ai-recommends-our-own-product-it-doesn-t-yet", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/we-checked-whether-ai-recommends-our-own-product-it-doesn-t-yet.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/we-checked-whether-ai-recommends-our-own-product-it-doesn-t-yet.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/we-checked-whether-ai-recommends-our-own-product-it-doesn-t-yet.jsonld"}}