Free ChatGPT Sources Finder
Find out for free which websites ChatGPT cites when your prospects ask it for a recommendation. Enter your URL: we ask it five questions about your market with web search on, then rank the sources it relies on (review sites, media, forums, competitors) and tell you how to get on each one.
- Free, no signup
- 5 questions sent to ChatGPT
- Report in about 30 seconds
The sites ChatGPT cites on cold email
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answers cite your site
How do you find the sites ChatGPT cites in your market?
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Enter your website
We read your homepage, even if you paste the address of a deeper page. From it we work out your brand name, your market and the country you target, then write five questions a prospect would ask ChatGPT, without ever naming your brand.
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We ask ChatGPT
Each question goes to ChatGPT with web search forced, so it answers from real pages instead of memory alone. When your business targets a specific country, the search is localized there, to stay as close as possible to what your prospects see.
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You see where to act
Cited sites are ranked by how many answers rely on them. Each one gets a type (media, review site, forum, competitor...) and a sentence on how to get on it. Three priority actions round off the report, which opens on its own page.
What are ChatGPT's sources, and why do they decide who gets recommended?
When ChatGPT searches the web before answering, it reads a handful of pages and links to them in its reply. Those links are its sources, also called citations. Ask it “Which payroll software would you recommend for a 20-person company?” and it will pull up a comparison article, a trade publication or a forum thread, then summarize what it found. The brands it recommends are often the ones those pages already mention.
That is why these sources matter so much for your visibility in AI answers. Someone asking ChatGPT for advice doesn't scroll through ten blue links. They read one answer with a few names in it. If the review site ChatGPT consults features your competitor and not you, your competitor is the one who ends up in the answer, even if your own site ranks well on Google. GEO (generative engine optimization) is the work of getting cited by AI assistants, and showing up on the sites they read is one of its most tangible levers.
The catch is that these sites differ from one market, one country and one question to the next. A generic list of directories to submit to can't tell you which ones ChatGPT reads on your topic. They aren't always the pages that rank first on Google for the same query, either. Without that, your PR budget and outreach time get spread across sites it may never open.
This free tool does the legwork for you, without you writing a single question. It reads your homepage, writes five questions a prospect would ask, runs them through ChatGPT with web search on and localized to your country, then counts which sites keep coming back from one answer to the next. In about 30 seconds you get the sources that carry weight in your market, what kind of site each one is, and how to get on it.
What's in your ChatGPT sources report?
Not a raw dump of links: ranked sites, what they are, and a next step for each one.
Cited sites, ranked by weight
Each site counts once per answer that cites it, no matter how many links it gets. A site that shows up in 4 answers out of 5 ranks above one cited once. Stock photo and logo sites that ChatGPT sometimes pulls in to illustrate an answer are filtered out.
What kind of site each source is
Media, review site or directory, forum or social network, blog or guide, institution, competitor, or off-topic when the page has nothing to do with your market. The type tells you right away what the work looks like: pitching a journalist is nothing like replying on Reddit.
How to get on each site
One concrete sentence per site, based on the titles of the pages cited: ask to be added to the comparison, pitch the author, join the thread. Up to three cited pages are linked for each site, so you can see exactly which article ChatGPT read and who it already mentions.
Competitors whose pages ChatGPT reads
When ChatGPT leans on a competitor's own website, that site goes into a separate list. For each one, the report names the kind of page being cited (comparison, pricing, use case, guide) that you could publish on your own site. It never tells you to get listed on a competitor's site.
A three-number verdict and three actions
At the top: how many sites were cited, how many answers recommend your brand, and how many cite your own site. Below that, three actions drawn from ChatGPT's answers, starting with the sites that come up in several of them. No generic advice.
The five questions and ChatGPT's full answers
Read each question exactly as it was asked, with ChatGPT's complete answer and its links. For every question, the report shows whether your brand was recommended and how many sites were cited. You check the evidence yourself instead of taking a score on faith.
Not sure where to invest to get cited by AI? Start with what it reads.
“Why does ChatGPT recommend my competitor and not me?”
Often the gap has less to do with your product than with the pages ChatGPT reads before answering: a comparison your competitor is in, a forum thread where someone recommends them, their own pricing page. The report lists those pages, competitors' pages included, and tells you for each one how to close the gap. You see where it opens instead of guessing.
“I rank well on Google. Why doesn't ChatGPT mention me?”
Ranking your own pages isn't always enough. ChatGPT readily cites third-party pages and picks up the brands those pages talk about. The report separates two things: answers that cite your site as a source, and answers that actually recommend your brand. If your site gets read but your brand never gets recommended, your presence elsewhere is what needs work.
“PR, reviews, forums, content: where do I start?”
With the sites that come up in several answers, then by type. A review site cited three times deserves an email to its editor before a publication cited once. A Reddit thread calls for a genuinely useful reply, and a cited competitor page points to a page you should publish yourself. Your time goes where ChatGPT actually reads in your market.
How do you get cited by ChatGPT once you have the list?
The report tells you where to act. Here is how to go about it, one type of site at a time.
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Read the cited pages before you reach out
Open the pages listed under each site. Note which brands they mention, the criteria they use to compare them and when they were last updated. A page naming three competitors but not you is your clearest target. A page that names no brand at all, like a how-to guide, is better approached with an expert contribution than a request to be added.
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Get into comparisons and directories
For a comparison or a “best tools” roundup, find the author or the publisher's contact form. Send a short note built around their own criteria: who your offer is for, your pricing, what sets you apart. On a directory, marketplace or review platform, create or complete your listing and ask satisfied customers to leave a review.
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Join the conversations ChatGPT reads
When a Reddit thread, a Quora answer or a niche forum gets cited, that discussion answers your prospect's question. Reply there under your real identity, with useful advice before any mention of your product. Communities spot and remove disguised promotion, and a deleted reply won't be read by anyone, ChatGPT included.
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Pitch the media and blogs it cites
A cited news article or blog guide is a way in. Contact the author with something they can use: numbers from your own business, an expert take on where the market is heading, a customer story. A cited institutional site works differently: look for the official lists, registries or certifications it publishes and check whether you qualify.
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Publish the pages ChatGPT reads on competitors' sites
If ChatGPT cites a competitor's pricing page, comparison or use-case guide, that format answers the question being asked. Publish your own version with precise, up-to-date facts: prices, who it's for, use cases, how you differ from the alternatives. Then run a new analysis a few weeks later to see whether the sources have shifted.
Who needs to know which sites ChatGPT cites?
Founders watching competitors get recommended
Your product is good, your site holds up, and yet ChatGPT keeps naming the same rivals whenever someone asks for a solution like yours. One analysis shows you which sites those names come from, and you leave with a list of outreach you can start this week.
Marketing teams deciding where the budget goes
PR, content, review platforms, partnerships: everyone has an opinion on where to invest for AI visibility. The report gives you a factual starting point, the sites ChatGPT really consults on your questions, so you can defend your priorities in a meeting and rerun the analysis later to see what moved.
SEO and GEO consultants preparing an audit
Before a first call or during an audit, run the analysis on the site in question and share the report link. It shows, with ChatGPT's own answers as evidence, where the brand is missing and which sites to work on. A solid basis for scoping a PR or content engagement.
Businesses serving one city or one country
A law firm in Manchester doesn't get recommended through the same sites as software sold worldwide. When your business is local, the questions mention your city or country, and web search is localized to the country you target. The sources you get reflect the market you actually sell in.
Ready to see which sites ChatGPT reads in your market?
Enter your URL. In about 30 seconds you'll know where to show up so ChatGPT cites you, and where to start.
Frequently asked questions
Is the AI sources finder really free?
Yes. No signup, no credit card, no email address to hand over. You can run 3 analyses per 24 hours from the same IP address. The cap exists because every analysis really queries ChatGPT five times with web search, and that has a cost. Come back the next day to analyze more sites.
What questions do you ask ChatGPT?
Five questions written from your homepage, in your site's language, short and phrased the way people talk to an expert. Each one asks for named recommendations from a different angle: the core need, a specific use case, a specific audience, alternatives, and value for money. None mentions your brand or any other, so you see who ChatGPT recommends unprompted.
Why force web search?
Without web search, ChatGPT often answers from memory and shows no sources at all, which leaves nothing to analyze. Forcing it to search means every answer rests on real pages found at the time of the analysis. The search is also localized to the country your business targets, when it targets one, so you don't get sources from another market.
Will my prospects see the same sources?
Not necessarily word for word. We query ChatGPT through OpenAI's API, the access OpenAI provides for software, with web search on: close to the app, but not an exact replica. Answers also shift with the day, the wording and each user's history. The report is a snapshot taken at the time of the analysis, which is why it counts how many answers cite each site instead of relying on a single one.
How is the ranking of sites calculated?
Each site counts once per answer that cites it, even if it appears there with several links. Sites are ranked by that number of answers. When two are tied, the one with more distinct pages cited comes first. The top 20 sites are analyzed, the top 10 places to act and the top 5 competitors are shown in detail, and the rest are listed after them.
My own site shows up in the list. What does that mean?
It's a good sign: ChatGPT reads your site to answer questions about your market. It's recognized even on a subdomain or a country-specific domain, and flagged as “Your site”. The sentence next to it says what to strengthen on the page that was cited. Check whether the answer also recommends you, though: being read by ChatGPT doesn't guarantee being named.
What happens if the analysis fails?
If we can't read your homepage, for example because the site is down or blocks automated visits, the report page tells you so and you can check the address. If one of the five questions fails, the report is built from the answers that came back. And if sorting the sites by type fails, they still show up, just without a type or advice.
Can I come back to my report or share it?
Yes. The report opens on its own page with a unique address you can bookmark, send to a colleague or drop into a slide deck. While the analysis runs, that page refreshes on its own until the result appears. It isn't indexed by Google, so only people who have the link can see it.
What data do you keep?
Three things: the URL you analyzed, the result of the analysis, and the IP address used to enforce the daily limit. The URL and the result are kept so your report link keeps working. The questions asked to ChatGPT are part of that result, since they appear in your report. No account is created and no email address is requested.
What about Claude, Perplexity and Gemini?
This tool only asks ChatGPT, once, on five questions. Mentionable, the paid platform, asks the questions you choose every day to ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overview. You track the sources each engine cites and the competitors recommended instead of you, with alerts when you gain or lose a mention. 7-day free trial, no credit card required.