AEO · AI prompt & topic research

Find the prompts worth tracking before you decide what to fix.

Surgbly generates prompt candidates from your site content, keywords, products, and competitors, classifies them by intent, and flags the ones where a competitor is cited and you're not.

Every tracked prompt gets an immutable version, so the same wording is measured every time.

You can't track a citation gap on a prompt you never thought to check.

Most teams pick a handful of obvious prompts and stop there. The prompts actually shaping AI answers — comparisons, local variants, buying-journey questions — are the ones nobody wrote down.

Guessed, not generated

A short manual list of prompts misses the comparison and local variants buyers actually ask.

No intent grouping

Without intent classification, a commercial prompt gets tracked the same as a support question.

Wrong citation URL

A prompt can cite the brand’s domain while linking a page that has nothing to do with the question.

Prompts drift over time

Re-typing a prompt slightly differently each check makes week-over-week comparison meaningless.

How this feature works

From site content to a tracked, versioned prompt set.

01

Generate prompt candidates

Prompts are generated from site content, target keywords, categories, products, and named competitors. Each seed also fans out into related sub-questions and entities automatically.

Near-duplicates get merged automatically — 18 removed from this run alone.

From keywords86
From competitors72

212 candidates generated

Prompt generationRunning
From keywords86
From products54
From competitors72
Query fan-out540 sub-questions
Duplicates removed18
Deduplicated automatically
02

Classify by intent

Each prompt is classified as informational, commercial, comparison, local, transactional, or support-oriented. All six groups stay visible, not folded into one count.

A commercial prompt never gets measured the same as a support question.

Commercial58 prompts
Comparison34 prompts

6 intent groups

Intent groupsClassified
Commercial58 prompts
Comparison34 prompts
Informational45 prompts
Local19 prompts
Transactional12 prompts
Support44 prompts
03

Find where a competitor wins

Prompts where a competitor is mentioned or cited but the brand is absent are flagged directly. Each gap prompt links straight to the full provider-by-provider evidence, not just a flag.

Flagged automatically the moment a competitor appears and you don’t — no manual comparison needed.

Gap prompts6
Prompts checked212

6 gap prompts found

Competitor-only prompts6 found
ai visibility monitoring for agenciesCompetitor cited
Prompt intentCommercial
Prompts checked212
  • You are absent from this prompt on all 5 providers.
Priority review
04

Check the citation URL, not just the domain

Prompts where the brand is cited with the wrong URL are separated from prompts with no citation at all. A wrong-URL citation still counts as visibility, but it sends the click to the wrong page.

A domain match isn’t enough — the exact URL is checked against the page that should actually rank.

Cited URL/blog/old-pricing-post
Correct URL/pricing

1 wrong-URL citation

Citation accuracy1 flagged
Promptpricing calculator tool
ProviderChatGPT
Cited URL/blog/old-pricing-post
Correct URL/pricing
Detected3 days ago
05

Version and lock the prompt set

Once selected, prompts are versioned and locked so measurement stays consistent over time. Every version keeps a changelog, so anyone can see when and why a prompt’s wording moved.

Locked wording keeps this week’s result comparable to last week’s — not a slightly different question.

Prompts locked38
Locked byYou, 2 days ago

38 prompts versioned

Tracked prompt setLocked
Prompts locked38
Versionv1
Locked byYou, 2 days ago
Next reviewIn 60 days
Ready for daily tracking
Prompt generationRunning
From keywords86
From products54
From competitors72
Query fan-out540 sub-questions
Duplicates removed18
Deduplicated automatically

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Prompt candidates · 212
From keywords86
From competitors72
From products54
Query fan-out540 sub-questions
Duplicates removed18

Key capabilities

Everything prompt research needs to stay measurable.

Generation

  • Prompt ideas from content, keywords, categories, products, and competitors
  • Intent classification: informational, commercial, comparison, local, transactional, support
  • Query fan-out to related sub-questions and entities

Gap detection

  • Competitor-appears-you-don’t prompts
  • Mentioned-but-not-cited prompts
  • Cited-with-the-wrong-URL prompts

Measurement

  • Immutable prompt versions
  • Demand proxies clearly labeled as estimates
  • Saved prompt sets ready for daily tracking

Business outcomes

What changes once prompts are found, not guessed.

Track what buyers actually ask

Comparison and local prompts get found instead of skipped for the obvious ones.

See the exact gap prompt

Know which specific prompt a competitor wins, not just a vague sense of falling behind.

Citation accuracy, checked

Catch a citation pointing at the wrong page before it costs the click.

Consistent measurement

Locked prompt versions mean this week’s result is comparable to last week’s.

Why Surgbly does it better

A locked prompt set instead of a re-typed guess.

Traditional

  1. 1Someone types a handful of obvious prompts into ChatGPT.
  2. 2No intent grouping or gap detection.
  3. 3Prompt wording drifts between checks.
  4. 4Comparison stays a hunch.

Surgbly

  1. 1Prompts generated from content, keywords, and competitors.
  2. 2Every prompt classified by intent and checked for gaps.
  3. 3Prompt versions locked for consistent measurement.
  4. 4Gap prompts routed straight into AI visibility tracking.

Integrations

Built from the content and data you already have.

  • Google Search Console
  • WordPress
  • Webflow
  • Shopify

Questions

Answers before you have to ask.

Where do prompt ideas come from?

Site content, target keywords, product and category names, and named competitors.

What does "immutable prompt version" mean?

Once a prompt is locked for tracking, its exact wording doesn’t change — so this week’s result is measuring the same question as last week’s.

Are demand numbers exact search volume?

No — true AI prompt volume isn’t directly available yet, so demand is shown as a labeled proxy, not exact volume.

How is a "gap prompt" different from a normal prompt?

A gap prompt is one where a competitor is mentioned or cited and the brand is not — flagged for priority review.

Find the prompts worth tracking.

Generate a prompt set from your own site and see the first gap prompt.