# Track AI-answer presence, not just referrals

> Beyond referral traffic, you track whether each engine names or links your store for your top category queries, since answer-presence is the leading indicator of whether you're even in the consideration set.

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- **Affects (funnel stage):** Discovery
- **Evidence:** hypothesis
- **Confidence:** Low
- **Impact:** 2/3
- **Status:** active
- **Last verified:** 2026-07-08

## Per-platform status

Undocumented platforms show "unknown" - honest unknowns, never invented.

| Platform | Status | Notes | Source |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| ChatGPT | unknown | Not documented by this platform. | - |
| Gemini / Google AI Mode | unknown | Not documented by this platform. | - |
| Perplexity | unknown | Not documented by this platform. | - |
| Copilot | unknown | Not documented by this platform. | - |
| Claude | unknown | Not documented by this platform. | - |

## Evidence and sources

This is a hypothesis (our own inference); no external source is cited.

## How to act on this

For each top category query, log whether every engine names or links your store, tracked over time and separately from referral clicks.

### Related checklist items
- [Track whether your store appears in AI answers for category queries, not just referral traffic.](https://agentmint.net/tools/agent-selection-checklist/#b-measurement-03) (Selection)

### Related signals
- [Defined agent win-rate measurement](https://agentmint.net/signals/agent-win-rate-measurement/)
- [Agent-readiness monitoring and ownership](https://agentmint.net/signals/agent-monitoring/)

## Notes

Discovery-stage measurement (whether engines name you at all), distinct from the choice-stage agent win rate.