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Make the shortlist when AI compares.

KailxLabs gets SaaS products named when buyers ask ChatGPT, Google AI Mode, Gemini and Perplexity which tool to pick. We find the comparisons, reviews and pages each engine reads for your category, earn your place in them and fix what AI gets wrong about your pricing and features. SaaS teams start with a $1,500 baseline, then the Growth program at $3,500 a month.

Last updated 26 Sep 2026

What buyers ask AI

What software buyers ask AI.

Examples of the questions we measure for a SaaS company. Yours come from sales calls, demos and lost deal notes.

Best SOC 2 software for a seed stage startup
Alternatives to our biggest rival for a 20 person team
Which CRM integrates with QuickBooks and Slack
Is this tool worth it for a small agency
How much does this product cost per seat
Best open source option for feature flags
Which vendor is easiest to migrate to from spreadsheets

Example questions, not client data.

Where AI gets its answer

Where software answers come from.

Engines mostly cite pages you do not own when buyers compare tools. Each engine reads a different mix, so we map it per app.

Comparison articles

Best of lists and roundups

Third party lists and "best X for Y" roundups carry much of what AI says about software. Where you sit in the lists an engine already cites matters more than a list you publish about yourself.

Review sites

G2, Capterra and peers

Review profiles count most on Perplexity and on review style questions in Google AI Overviews, and far less on ChatGPT. They are a floor to keep clean, not a lever on every engine.

Your own site

Pricing, docs and integrations

Engines read vendor sites directly for pricing, plans and integrations. When pricing is hidden, answers fill the gap from Reddit and third party sites, often in negative terms.

Reddit

Practitioner threads

Users comparing tools in public threads shape the verdict on "is it worth it" questions. We answer there only through your named team, with disclosure.

YouTube

Demos and walkthroughs

Honest walkthroughs and comparisons from real users show up in answers about setup and fit, especially on Google’s AI surfaces.

LinkedIn

Named people, not only pages

AI answers often cite named practitioners on LinkedIn. Your founders and experts writing under their own names count, alongside a maintained company page.

89.3%

of AI search volume sits in categories with no clear leader. In 53.7% of 1,094 categories, no brand led even 3 of 5 prompts.

Growth Memo research, cited by Seer Interactive · 1,094 categories, ChatGPT · Jan to Jun 2026, published 31 Aug 2026 · vendor data

Most categories have no settled leader in ChatGPT answers yet. The brands that fix their sources now set the shortlist others have to break into.

Devtools have a second buyer too. Coding agents read your docs directly, so docs they can use and listings where agents look are part of the work.

How we prove it

Worked questions, untouched questions.

Before we start, we split your buyer questions in two. We work on one half and leave the other alone. Priority questions checked daily, with several runs each time, and every app gets its own row with a count and a likely range. Developer APIs are labelled and never mixed into a headline.

A change counts only when the ranges separate. Alongside the runs we read an open text "how did you hear about us" field on your demo form, so the report shows what buyers say as well as what AI says.

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Offer

The usual path for SaaS.

Programs run month to month after the first 90 days.

Step 1 · Baseline
$1,500one time

A measured read of 50 buyer questions on four to six AI apps: who AI names instead of you, the sources behind them, and the fix list. Five working days. Credited in full if you start a program within 30 days.

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Step 2 · Growth Most SaaS
$3,500a month

Citation engineering on 50 questions, answer ready pages shipped monthly, brand fact fixes, and monthly proof against the untouched half.

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Larger teams · Scale
$6,500a month and up

Everything in Growth on 80 or more questions, per location measurement, and a research study each quarter built on your data.

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Guarantee

Proof guarantee

The baseline, the fixes and the control report are delivered to our published standard, or your baseline fee comes back.

What we never promise

Nobody controls what an AI says. We never promise a fixed spot or a rank.

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FAQ

SaaS questions, answered.

How do we get ChatGPT to recommend our product?

Find the handful of pages ChatGPT reads for your category, then earn a fair place in them and make your own pricing and use case pages easy to quote. KailxLabs starts by measuring which of those pages decide your buyers’ questions today.

What does an AI search agency do for a SaaS company?

It measures what AI says when buyers compare tools in your category, finds the sources behind those answers, earns placement and corrections in them, fixes your own pages and proves the change against questions it left untouched.

How do we prove AI visibility drove pipeline?

Partly. We compare worked and untouched questions per app with ranges, and read an open text "how did you hear about us" field on your demo form. No tool can yet tie AI answers to revenue deterministically, so we report what the evidence supports.

Is llms.txt worth it?

For devtools, yes, because coding agents read docs directly. For Google Search, no: Google says it does not use llms.txt. We treat it, schema and FAQ markup as hygiene, not as levers.

Do you guarantee a spot in AI answers?

No. Nobody controls what an AI says. We never promise a fixed spot or a rank. Serious software buyers read a guaranteed placement as a red flag, so we guarantee the work and the proof instead. The baseline, the fixes and the control report are delivered to our published standard, or your baseline fee comes back.

Last updated 26 Sep 2026
  • 26 Sep 2026: page published with the September 2026 offer.
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