Sipi

Helping B2B SaaS see how ChatGPT/Perplexity/Gemini recommend their brand → founder, $0 → $10K MRR in public

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Built RankSurf because most B2B brands have no idea how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini describe them to potential buyers.

Scanned a B2B SaaS company last week.

When buyers type prompts like "best [their category] tool" into ChatGPT, this company showed up in 0 out of 12. Their top competitor: 75%.

When prompts asked about them by name? They're #1, 88% citation, ahead of much bigger players.

The AI knows the product. It just doesn't surface it where new buyers are in discovery mode.

The gap between what AI knows and what AI recommends is the whole game right now.

Most brands aren't paying attention yet.
https://t.co/EBLL7vteok

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Someone told me RankSurf was too complicated.
So I cut everything that wasn't a decision-driver and kept only the metrics that actually tell you "are you winning or losing in AI answers".
Here's the new overview. Too far, or about right?

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@NaivaidyaY66600 https://t.co/HqGH3irkaD - helping B2B SaaS brands get seen and cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity & Gemini

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@ionleu hey, I'm building RankSurf, helping B2B SaaS brands get seen and cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity & Gemini

https://t.co/fXa3eW938M

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Got my Gemini API bill for last month and it was $93. I'd been running RankSurf across 10+ projects so I expected something, but my own cost tracking said it should be more like $5.

Turns out $67 of it was Google search grounding. It gets billed per search, not per token, and my scanner was quietly firing around 8 searches on every single run without me realizing it.

If you build on these APIs, go actually look at the provider's usage dashboard, because your own numbers will not match what they end up charging you.

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@SimonHoiberg yep, and honestly, it'd be very painful to write code by hand again. I mean, I really love coding, but I got comfortable with vibe coding and got used to going 10x faster

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@vadym_petryshyn I just switched to it, let's see how it works. I really didn't like Opus 4.7, after 2 days I switched back to 4.6, hopefully 4.8 will be better

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@arthuryuzbashew @mediafa_st i hope once I'll wake up for similar notifications :D congrats Arthur!

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Link if you want to try it: https://t.co/eGCwyDkqRx

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Most brands are completely invisible to ChatGPT.

I wanted to check my own, so I built a free tool that just does it.

Enter the domain, it runs 5 real ChatGPT queries with web search then it shows if you're mentioned, cited, or nowhere.

What's the first brand you'd check?

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RankSurf is on @UneedLists today

https://t.co/Icm9Bs0YWG

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@wickedguro Freelancing is also difficult nowadays. The best is to keep your current job, start a side project and once it makes equal or more money, quit the job and focus for your own project. This is what I actually do

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how did you get your first paying customer for your saas?

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@T_Zahil launching tomorrow actually🤞 https://t.co/Icm9Bs0YWG

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If it works, it's a repeatable playbook, I'll build more free tools.
If it doesn't, I'll know in 30 days from the data.
Either way, I'm sharing the numbers here.

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I just shipped a free AI readiness scanner.
You enter the domain and it score out of 100 in 5 seconds and shows what to fix.

Why I built it, what I expect, and whether it'll actually work?

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What it checks:
- can GPTBot/ClaudeBot crawl your site?
- do you have llms.txt?
- structured data (schema markup)
- technical SEO signals
- content authority signals
score out of 100 + prioritized fix list with exact point gains. It's totally free, no signup, no email gate

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Scanning n8n tomorrow.
If you want your SaaS scanned reply with your domain, I'll do the first 5 free and post the results. Built the tool that runs this https://t.co/fXa3eW938M

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Scanned Pipedrive across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini today with 20 buyer-intent prompts.
They're actually #1 in the CRM category which surprised me, but there's a weird thing happening with their citations. Let me show you

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So what IS getting cited instead?
G2 pages, reddit threads, 3rd party comparison articles.
Not https://t.co/30gHAvk9y9.
The brands winning citations aren't optimizing their own site, they're optimizing the sites AI already trusts