# What Is Exibran Radar, and How Does It Measure What AI Says? > Exibran Radar is the private tool I use to ask AI assistants a business's buyer questions, save every answer and measure who gets picked. What it does and where it falls short. By Michael Zacs · Proving It Works · Published Nov 4, 2026 · Last updated Nov 4, 2026 Source: https://exibran.com/blog/exibran-radar ## Quick answer Exibran Radar is a private tool I use to measure what AI assistants say about a business. It asks the AI apps your buyers' questions several times, saves every answer word for word, tags which brands were mentioned and which one was picked, and feeds a report I review before it goes to a client. It is not sold as software. ## Key takeaways - Radar asks the AI apps your buyers' questions, many times, and saves every answer word for word. - It separates a mention from a pick. Being listed is not being chosen. - Every rate comes with a 95% range, and I review the tags before anything is published. - It is a private tool for my own research and client work, not a public product. Exibran Radar is the tool I use to find out what AI assistants say about a business. I run it for my own research and for client work. This page explains what it does, so you can judge the numbers I publish. I update it when Radar changes. ## What Is Exibran Radar? ### A private tool that asks AI your buyers' questions You give me a business name, buyer's location, and a website. Radar works out what the buyers ask, then asks the AI tools those questions many times. ![Exibran Radar checks for AI searches](../../assets/images/posts/exibran-radar/Exibran-Radar-checks-for-AI-searches.png) It saves every answer word for word and records which brands each answer mentions. The result is a set of numbers, the real answers behind them, and a report I check before it goes anywhere. ## Who Uses It, and Is It for Sale? ### Me and my clients. It is not a public product. Radar is not for sale as software, and there is no sign-up. I run it myself. The Index reports, such as the [November 2026 Index](/blog/index-ai-search-optimization-tools-november-2026), come from it, and so do the free AI visibility checks and client reports. If I ever open it up, I will say so here. ## How Does It Work? ### Five steps, from business name to client report 1. **Understand the business.** I start from the website and research who buys and what they ask. 1. **Write buyer questions.** They cover the stages a buyer goes through, from first searching the category to comparing options and checking trust. I label how I found each question, so an observed question is never mixed up with an inferred one. 1. **Ask the AI apps.** Each question is asked several times on each app, with the country and language set. 1. **Read every answer.** Radar records which brands were mentioned, in what order, which sites were cited, and whether one brand was picked. 1. **Review and report.** I read the answers, fix the tags and write the report. ## How Does Radar Know a Tool Was Picked? ### It separates a mention from a pick A **mention** means the brand appears anywhere in the answer. A **pick** means the answer's own verdict chooses the brand, for example, "I'd go with X" or "best overall: X". Being listed first is not a pick. ![When Exibran Radar shows a picked product](../../assets/images/posts/exibran-radar/When-Exibran-Radar-shows-a-picked-product.png) Radar tags both, and I check the tags against the answer text. The full definitions are in the [AI Pick Rate guide](/blog/ai-pick-rate). ## What Does It Report? ![What Exibran Radar reports and more](../../assets/images/posts/exibran-radar/What-Exibran-Radar-reports-and-more.png) ### Rates with ranges, plus the answers behind them - **Mention rate and pick rate**, each with a 95% range, so small gaps show up as ties. - **Results by AI app**, so you can see which one favours you and which does not. - **Which brands AI picks instead**, and what it says about them. - **Which sites AI cites**, and where your competitors are listed and you are not. - **Before and after**, when a check is repeated. ## What Else Does It Check? ### Whether AI crawlers can read the site Radar also checks whether the major AI crawlers are allowed on a site and whether its pages can be read by them. A blocked crawler can keep a good product out of AI answers. ## What Are Its Limits? ### It measures what AI says, not what is true or what sells - AI answers change from ask to ask, so I ask each question several times and report ranges. - The answers Radar collects may not match exactly what a person sees in the app… which is common. - The tagging makes mistakes, which is why I review it. I am one reviewer, with AI help. - The questions come from my research. A different list could give a different ranking. - It shows which sites AI cited, not which page on the site. - It does not measure traffic, leads, or sales. It measures what AI says. The [methodology page](/methodology) covers how I apply it to the Index reports. ## What Has Changed in Radar? ### Changelog - **4 November 2026:** first version of this page. ## What Does AI Say About Your Product? I run Radar for B2B SaaS teams at Exibran. You send your product name, and I send back the real answers, word for word, with your pick rate and its range. ## Frequently asked questions ### Is Exibran Radar available to buy or sign up for? No. It is a private tool I use for my own research and for client work. If that changes, this page will say so. ### Which AI assistants does Radar ask? ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Claude and others, depending on the job. The November 2026 Index used five. ### Does Radar decide on its own which tool was picked? No. Radar tags each answer first. Then I read the answers and fix the tags myself. ### Can Radar tell me why AI picks a competitor? It shows what AI said and which sites it cited, so you can see where a competitor appears and you do not. It cannot prove why an AI chose one tool over another.