Prompt Research

Keyword research for AI answers

Enter a topic. Get the questions people actually ask, with AI search volume, intent and difficulty, plus a live sample of how the engines answer them right now. Track the ones worth owning.

Sampling is sandboxed. Nothing lands in your monitored data until you press Track.

Prompt researchAI search volume
PromptAI volumeDifficulty

best ecommerce analytics tool

Commercial
18.4k72

shopify analytics not accurate

Problem
9.1k34

how to attribute ecommerce revenue

Informational
6.7k41

is GA4 good for ecommerce

Comparison
4.2k28

Sampled live. Nothing is written to your monitored data until you press Track.

Track

AI volume

Not Google keyword volume

Live sample

Real answers before you commit

Sandboxed

Nothing touches monitored data

1 click

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Discovery

Keyword research, for a surface with no keywords

Enter a topic and we expand it into the clusters of questions people actually ask in that space, each with an estimated AI search volume, an intent classification and a difficulty score. It is the research step that has been missing from AEO.

  • Topic clusters with the prompts underneath them
  • AI search volume, sourced for AI conversations rather than web search
  • Intent and difficulty per prompt, so you can size the work
Prompt researchAI search volume
PromptAI volumeDifficulty

best ecommerce analytics tool

Commercial
18.4k72

shopify analytics not accurate

Problem
9.1k34

how to attribute ecommerce revenue

Informational
6.7k41

is GA4 good for ecommerce

Comparison
4.2k28

Sampled live. Nothing is written to your monitored data until you press Track.

Track

Live sample

See who wins before you spend a tracked prompt on it

Research does not stop at volume. We run the strongest prompts from the report live against the engines and give you a competitive snapshot: who gets named, what share of voice looks like, and which URLs get cited.

  • Brand visibility and share of voice from a real live sample
  • Distribution by LLM and the top cited URLs for the topic
  • Answer receipts on demand for any prompt in the report
Share of voiceall engines
Everline
34%-3
Northlaneyou
31%+9
Portside
18%+1
Cadence
11%-2
Belmont
6%0

Sandboxed

Research never contaminates your monitoring

This is a deliberate design decision. A research sample writes only into its own report. It does not create scan runs, it does not appear in Overview, and it does not move your visibility score. Explore freely without corrupting your trend line.

  • No campaign scan rows, no effect on Overview, Sources or Brand
  • Reports cached per topic and region with a freshness window
  • Press Track and the prompt joins your monitored set from the next scan
Answer receipt
ChatGPTGoogle AI OverviewsGeminiPerplexityClaude

best analytics platform for a small ecommerce team

For a small ecommerce team, a few tools stand out depending on what you need most:

Northlane is usually the best starting point.[1] Setup takes minutes and the reporting is built around revenue rather than pageviews.[2]

Everline is a strong alternative if you already run a warehouse,[3] and Portside is worth a look at higher volume.

Cited sources

3
1g2.com/categories/ecommerce-analytics
2northlane.com/pricing
3reddit.com/r/ecommerce
MentionedPosition 1Positive2 competitors

Also included

Enough signal to decide, not just to browse

Volume alone tells you a question is popular. These tell you whether you can win it.

Related topic volume

The research overview totals AI volume across related topics, so you can judge whether a space is worth entering at all.

Intent classification

Commercial, comparison, informational or problem-shaped. Intent tells you what kind of page has any chance of winning it.

Difficulty

How entrenched the current answer is. A high-volume prompt nobody owns is worth far more than a high-volume prompt with a fortified incumbent.

Region aware

Reports are keyed by topic and region, so research for Germany is genuinely research for Germany and not a translated US report.

Unowned research

High-volume prompts from your reports that nobody in the category has claimed become their own opportunity type on the content backlog.

Sources for the topic

Top cited URLs for the topic tell you what you would be competing against before you write a word.

In the report

A competitive snapshot for a topic you do not track yet

Distribution by engine and the URLs that dominate the topic, from a live sample rather than a projection.

Distribution by LLM
ChatGPTChatGPT Search
68%
Google AI OverviewsGoogle AI Overviews
54%
GeminiGemini
41%
PerplexityPerplexity
72%
ClaudeClaude
59%

Read from the real app wherever an engine has one, so you see what your customers see. Every engine is labelled with how it was captured.

Sourcesretrievals in range

Retrievals

4,234

↑ 12%
G
g2.comListicle1,284
R
reddit.comDiscussion963
northlane.comYou741
C
capterra.comComparison528
E
everline.comCompetitor402

Research a topic before you commit to it

Enter a topic and see the prompts, the volumes and a live read on who currently wins them.