Responses
Every time Asky runs one of your prompts, an AI platform returns an answer. The Responses page is where you read those answers in full, see who was mentioned and cited, and understand why your scores move the way they do.
Accessing Responses
Go to AI Search → Responses in the sidebar.
How Asky Captures Answers
Unlike most AI visibility tools that query AI platforms through their developer APIs, Asky captures answers the way real users see them. This matters more than it sounds.
| Approach | What You Get |
|---|---|
| API queries | Raw model output, often without live web search, with different citations and different wording from the consumer app |
| Asky | The actual answer a real person would see, including live search results and the citations that come with them |
If you optimize against API output, you are tuning for something your customers never see. Asky shows you the real thing, so the gaps you close are the gaps that matter.
What’s in a Response
Open any response to see the full picture:
- The full answer text, exactly as a user would read it
- The AI search engine that produced it (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, or Google)
- Citations, the sources the answer references
- Mentions, the brands and competitors named in the answer
- Sentiment, whether your brand is described positively, neutrally, or negatively
Cited and Mentioned
Two quick signals tell you how an answer treats your brand:
- Mentioned means your brand name appears in the answer
- Cited means the answer links to your website as a source
A brand can be mentioned without being cited, and cited without being mentioned. Tracking both shows you whether AI is talking about you, pointing to you, or ideally doing both.
Sentiment
Asky reads each mention and classifies it as positive, neutral, or negative. Those individual reads roll up into your Brand Sentiment score, a 0 to 100 scale where 50 is neutral. Above 50 means AI describes your brand more positively than negatively. You can see the rolled-up score on the Dashboard.
| Sentiment | Typical Signals |
|---|---|
| Positive | Recommendations, praise, “best” associations |
| Neutral | Factual mentions and plain listings |
| Negative | Criticism, warnings, “avoid” associations |
Finding the Right Responses
Use the search box to find answers containing specific wording, and use the filters to focus by date range, topic, location, AI model, prompt, and whether your brand was mentioned or cited. This makes it easy to pull up, say, every Perplexity answer in the last month where a competitor was cited but you were not.
AI answers are not fixed. They change as models update, as new content enters the web, and as live searches return different results. That is why tracking trends over time matters more than any single answer.
Next Steps
- See which sources earn the citations in Citations
- Make sure AI can reach your content in Crawler Logs