Find out if AI recommends your startup or your competitors
Buyers are asking ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity what tools to use. Cypress shows whether your startup appears, how strongly it is recommended, who wins instead, and what to improve.
Track category prompts, competitor recommendations, source influence, and content gaps before incumbents own the AI shortlist. No credit card required.
Win the AI shortlist for your category
Traditional SEO tools show where your startup ranks in search. Cypress shows whether AI answer engines recommend you when buyers ask what to use, who to compare, and which tools solve their problem.
Recommendation Score
See how strongly AI recommends your startup compared with the incumbents and alternatives in your category.
Startup Buyer Prompts
Benchmark the natural-language questions buyers ask when they compare tools, categories, use cases, and competitors.
Source Intelligence
See which pages, sources, and content signals influence how AI assistants position your startup.
Competitor Intelligence
Find out which incumbents, alternatives, and adjacent tools AI recommends when your startup does not appear.
Category Gaps
Identify the topics and buyer problems where your startup is underrepresented or missing entirely.
Action Plan
Turn AI visibility gaps into a practical list of pages, positioning, sources, and categories to improve next.
From buyer questions to startup growth signals
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Build the benchmark
Cypress benchmarks the category, competitor, and use-case questions SaaS buyers ask AI assistants.
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Test across AI assistants
Prompts are benchmarked across major AI systems including ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity.
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Score recommendation strength
Responses are scored by placement, endorsement strength, sentiment, context, and frequency.
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Explain why you won or lost
Cypress identifies which competitors won, which sources shaped the answer, and which categories you are missing.
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Track progress over time
Every run becomes a visibility baseline so founders and growth teams can see whether content, PR, and positioning work.
Go beyond whether your startup was named
A passing reference is not the same as a strong recommendation. Cypress scores how AI assistants actually position your startup when buyers ask for advice, comparisons, and product suggestions.
Position
A startup recommended first should score higher than one listed near the bottom.
Strength
Direct endorsements matter more than passive or throwaway references.
Context
Sentiment and surrounding language show whether the recommendation helps or hurts.
Frequency
Consistent recommendations across benchmark prompts reveal durable visibility.
The prompt library is your unfair early signal
AI visibility is only as useful as the questions you benchmark. Cypress uses a continuously expanding library of hundreds of natural language prompts based on real AI search behavior, including category searches, comparison questions, use-case prompts, and competitor alternatives.
- 100s
- Natural-language prompts
- Multi
- Category and use-case coverage
- Real
- Modeled on AI search behavior
- Live
- Continuously expanded over time
AI is becoming the new buyer shortlist
Search is no longer only a results page. AI assistants compress research into three to five recommendations. That favors incumbents unless startups measure where they appear, who beats them, and which gaps to fix.
SEO rank trackers
Measure search result positions, not how AI assistants synthesize recommendations.
Social listening
Tracks public conversation, not AI model perception or answer-engine visibility.
Manual ChatGPT checks
Too inconsistent to benchmark, trend, or report across teams.
Basic mention tools
Count appearances, but miss recommendation strength, source influence, and category gaps.
Built for lean SaaS teams that need signal fast
Cypress turns AI visibility into a repeatable growth loop for founders, marketers, content leads, and small teams trying to win category demand.
Startup-friendly pricing
Affordable recommendation tracking for startups that need to learn where AI sends buyers before the category is locked up by bigger competitors.
See where you stand
No credit card required. Start benchmarking in minutes.
- 1 brand tracked
- 5 curated buyer prompts
- Simulated benchmark runs
- Full console: overview, answers, trends
Free forever. Upgrade only when you want live answers.
Win AI recommendations
Early access — start free in the app, upgrade anytime. Billing coming soon.
- 3 brands tracked
- 50 prompts — write your own
- Live benchmarks on your API keys (BYOK)
- All supported models
- Competitor and source intelligence
- Scheduled runs (coming soon)
Prices in USD. Supported models and benchmark limits may vary.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions
What is Cypress? +
Cypress helps B2B SaaS startups see whether AI assistants recommend them when buyers ask about their category, competitors, and use cases — and how strongly.
How is this different from SEO tools? +
SEO tools measure search-result rankings. Cypress measures how AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity synthesize recommendations and shortlists from many signals.
Is this just mention tracking? +
No. Cypress focuses on recommendation strength. A passing mention is not the same as being recommended first, with positive context, across many buyer prompts.
Which AI assistants are supported? +
Cypress is designed around major AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. Supported models may change as the platform expands.
Do I need a credit card to start? +
No. Cypress has a free plan — 1 brand, 5 buyer prompts, simulated benchmarks, no credit card. Upgrade to Pro ($39/month or $390/year) when you want live benchmarks against the real models on your own API keys.
Who is Cypress for? +
B2B SaaS founders, growth teams, content marketers, and SEO leads who want to win AI-driven category discovery.