Traditional SEO tools stop at Google. AI search has changed the job.
Buyers increasingly ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews instead of scrolling ten blue links — and those engines cite a different, smaller set of pages than rank #1 in classic search. An AI SEO tool built for 2026 has to do two jobs: keep you ranking in Google and get you cited in AI answers. Optimizing one while ignoring the other leaves half your traffic on the table.