When your buyers ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity or Google’s AI Overviews for a shortlist, Ask Hercules shows whether you’re on it, ships the fixes to your own site, and proves what moved.
Free shortlist assessment on your own buyer questions. Trial needs no card.
A buyer asks an AI assistant
“Which compliance automation platforms should a 200-person fintech evaluate?”
The answer names three vendors:
Competitor Acited · g2.com
Competitor Bcited · competitor-b.com
Competitor Cmentioned · no citation
Your company isn’t named. Your pricing page was read, but nothing on it answered the question the buyer asked.
Illustrative example. Your assessment runs on your real buyer questions across four models.
Your buyers changed how they search.
The shortlist now forms inside AI answers, before anyone visits your site or talks to sales.
80%
of technology buyers use generative AI at least as much as search to research vendors.
Responsive, Inside the Buyer’s Mind, 2025
90%
of B2B buyers do their research before they ever contact a vendor.
Responsive, Inside the Buyer’s Mind, 2025
8% vs 15%
Google click-through on results with an AI summary, versus without one.
Pew Research Center, 2025; Google disputes the method
How it works
One loop, run weekly on the same set of buyer questions, so movement is real and comparable.
I
See it
We ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity your buyers’ questions and show who gets named, who gets cited, and where you’re missing.
Citations are kept separate from mentions, so the score doesn’t flatter you.
II
Fix it
Approve a fix and it ships to WordPress, Webflow, Shopify, HubSpot or a GitHub pull request. No developer queue.
Every change is reviewed by a person and reversible in one click.
III
Prove it
Weekly scans on an unchanged question set show what moved, what didn’t, and what we’re fixing next.
Reports you can forward to your CEO without rewriting.
IV
Run it
Run the platform yourself, or have our senior strategists run AI, search and social as one program.
Same method either way. You choose who does the work.
Fixes you own. Verified as AI sees them. Reported honestly.
Most tools stop at the diagnosis, or change what AI sees without changing your site. We fix the page everyone reads, humans and AI alike.
The usual approach
Ask Hercules
A dashboard that shows the problem
Ships the fix to your CMS
A separate page served only to AI crawlers
One page for people and AI, on your own site
Fixes that disappear when the contract ends
Every fix stays yours
Scores that blend citations with mentions
Citations and mentions reported separately
Software, then you’re on your own
A named strategist on every managed program
AI answers, search and social, run as one program
AI visibility is where we start. Muse Platforms has run marketing and digital transformation programs for years, so the channels your pipeline still depends on are covered too.
AI answers
Get named and cited in ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google’s AI Overviews for the questions that create shortlists.
Search
Technical SEO, schema, comparison and category pages, and the rankings that still feed both Google and AI models.
Social
Founder-led LinkedIn and community presence that builds the third-party signals AI reads when it decides who to trust.
Evidence, not promises
Every case shows what improved and what is still developing.