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May 11

ChatGPT Workspace Agents: Pricing Silence Risk

OpenAI shipped Workspace Agents on a credit model with no per-credit dollar rate. Day six of opaque pricing. Here is the B2B SaaS procurement angle.

AI Visibility·10 min read
May 11

Why GPT-5.5 Cites Brand Sites Less

GPT-5.5 cites brand domains in 47% of responses versus 57% under GPT-5.4. The drop comes from one query change. Here is what to do about it.

AI Visibility·10 min read
May 8

ChatGPT Is Reading Customer Gmail. Email Is Now GEO.

OpenAI's May 5 to 6 rollout made GPT-5.5 Instant the new default and shipped Memory Sources with connected Gmail. Your email program is now a GEO surface.

AI Visibility·9 min read
May 3

The Anatomy of a ChatGPT-Cited Page: 33,000 URLs Analyzed

Evertune tracked 33,000 to 40,000 URLs that received ChatGPT citations across nearly 50 product categories over 60 days. The median cited page is 941 words, has 4 H2 headers, 15 external links, and 10 images. Half of all ChatGPT citations go to listicles, and 58% of those are ranked lists. Here is what the structural data means for how you should be writing.

GEO Strategy·9 min read
May 3

A Brand With Zero Domain Authority Ranked Top-3 in ChatGPT in 14 Days. Here Is the Playbook.

Otterly.ai built a fictional GEO agency with 7 pages, no schema, and zero domain authority. Then they built 16 off-page citations across 14 days. The result was rank #7 against established competitors, top-3 in ChatGPT, position 2 in Google AI Overviews, and 90 brand mentions. Here is the exact placement mix, the platform-by-platform breakdown, and what the 74% prompt-specificity finding means for content teams.

GEO Strategy·10 min read
Apr 24

GPT-5.5 Is Live. What 'Reliability-First' Actually Means for Your AI Citations.

GPT-5.5 ('Spud') launched April 23, 2026 with a 'reliability-first' design focused on reducing hallucinations. In practice, that means heavier reliance on training data and less live web retrieval. Here's what the third citation pool compression event looks like, and which brands survive it.

AI Visibility·9 min read
Apr 22

Ghost Citations: 62% of the Time AI Cites You, Your Brand Name Never Appears

Kevin Indig's analysis of 3,981 domains across 14 countries found that 62% of AI citations are ghost citations: the URL appears as a source, but the brand name never appears in the response. Only 13.2% of domains achieved both a citation link and a brand name mention in the same response.

AI Visibility·9 min read
Apr 21

ChatGPT's Citation Pool Shrank by 21%. Your Baseline Data Is Now Wrong.

A 14-week study of 27,000 ChatGPT responses found that the shift to GPT-5.3 Instant as the default experience cut cited domains from 19 to 15 per response. Any GEO baseline captured before March 2026 reflects a citation pool that no longer exists. With GPT-5.5 detected in live API testing, a second compression is likely days away.

AI Visibility·9 min read
Apr 15

Two-Thirds of ChatGPT Answers About Your Brand Come From Training Data. Not the Web.

Semrush data from February 2026 confirms ChatGPT only enables real-time web search for 34.5% of queries, down from 46% in late 2024. The other 65.5% come from training data. Most GEO programs are optimizing for the smaller half.

GEO Strategy·9 min read
Apr 2

Which Domains Do AI Search Engines Actually Cite? Data from 30 Million Sources

Reddit, YouTube, and LinkedIn top the list. But the rankings shift dramatically depending on which AI platform you're looking at. Here's what 30 million citation sources reveal about where AI pulls its answers from.

Data·9 min read

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