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A Claude visibility checker measures whether Anthropic's Claude names your brand for buyer questions in your category, and which sources it cites when it searches the web. Claude writes short, considered recommendation lists, so each mention carries weight: MaxAEO's free check records the answers, the citations and the competitors Claude puts forward instead.
Sample: Cursor · real MaxAEO report, June 2026
Claude mentions Cursor in 100% of sampled answers (10/10)
Here are some great code editors with strong AI-assisted coding features: Full IDEs with built-in AI - Cursor — probably the most popular AI-first editor right now.
There are several solid options depending on what you're looking for: Cursor – A fork of VS Code built around AI assistance from the ground up.
Developers today rely on a few main tools for smart code completion: AI-powered assistants have taken over as the dominant approach: - GitHub Copilot — the most widely adopted, integrates into VS Code, JetBrains, Neovim, etc.
| Asking the engine yourself | Traditional SEO tools | Claude Visibility Checker | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coverage | One Claude conversation at a time | Google positions — Claude is out of scope | Your category's buyer questions, asked to Claude with web search on |
| Repeatability | Depends on whether search was triggered | Tracks positions, not answers | Consistent prompt set, so results are comparable |
| Competitor context | Only the rivals one answer mentions | Keyword competitors, not recommended brands | Every brand Claude names, with position and sentiment |
| Sources | Citations shown only when Claude searched | Backlinks, not AI citations | Cited domains collected across all answers |
Claude's audience skews toward exactly the people who decide on software, services and vendors: developers, analysts, operators and professional teams who use it as a research assistant. When one of them asks Claude what to use for a job, the reply is typically a short list with reasoning attached — three brands with trade-offs, not twelve names. Being one of the three shapes real shortlists; being absent means the evaluation happens without you, in a channel you cannot see.
The check works the same way a buyer does: it puts category questions to Claude and keeps the whole answer. Two behaviors are worth understanding. Claude decides per question whether to answer from what it learned in training or to run a live web search — and when it searches, it cites the pages it relied on. The report records which happened each time, so you can tell whether Claude's picture of you comes from current pages you can influence or from an older learned description that only new, widely-referenced content will overwrite.
In the Cursor sample above, Claude names the brand in every sampled answer — the pattern you want. When your own numbers come back lower, the levers are the sources Claude trusts: clear documentation, honest comparison pages, and the community discussions where practitioners already talk. Re-run the check after each Claude model release; recommendation lists reshuffle noticeably between versions.
Claude's users skew toward technical and professional buyers who ask it for tool recommendations.
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Claude decides per question. For recommendation questions that depend on current products and prices it usually runs a web search and cites the pages it read; for general questions it may answer from training data with no citations. MaxAEO records which happened for each answer, so you can see whether Claude's picture of you comes from live pages or from what it learned earlier.
When Claude uses web search, it attaches source links to the claims in its answer. A citation of your site means Claude read one of your pages and relied on it; a citation of a review or comparison site means that page is speaking for you. The report groups citations by domain and by type — owned, competitor-owned or community — so you know who is shaping Claude's answer.
Claude tends to write shorter, more hedged recommendation lists and often explains trade-offs instead of listing ten options. That makes each mention more valuable: being one of three brands named carries more weight than being ninth in a list of twelve. It also means small changes in your content can move you in or out of the shortlist.
Claude has a strong following among developers, analysts and professional teams — exactly the people who evaluate software, agencies and services. In the sample report a developer tool is named in 100% of Claude's answers. If your buyers are technical or research-heavy, Claude may shape more purchase decisions in your category than its overall market share suggests.
Monthly, or after any significant content or product launch. Claude's model versions change a few times a year and its web search follows the live index, so both what it knows and what it reads move. Re-running the same prompt set is what lets you attribute a change in mention rate to your work rather than to noise.
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