On 17 Oct 2026, Google AI Mode named Shruti Kaushik in 1 of 12 buyer queries and cited shrutikaushik.com in 0 of 12. Perplexity named her in 0 of the 7 queries it completed. ChatGPT, checked from her own logged-in account, named her or Wise Mango in 3 of 4 completed queries and cited her site in 2. The buyer questions about LinkedIn ghostwriting, Reddit marketing and AI visibility are still answered from LinkedIn posts, small agency pages and listicles.
This page is a public baseline. The same 12 queries run every week, and the History table at the bottom grows with each run. If you want to run the same check on your own company, use the free AI visibility check or read the founder AI visibility guide.
#What was measured?
Twelve queries, three engines, one date. For every answer I recorded three things:
- Named: does the answer mention Shruti Kaushik, shrutikaushik.com or Wise Mango?
- Cited: does any cited source point to one of her URLs?
- Top cited domains: the first five source domains shown with the answer.
The queries:
| # | Query | Intent |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | How much does a LinkedIn ghostwriter cost in 2026 | Pricing |
| 2 | best LinkedIn ghostwriters for B2B founders | Vendor shortlist |
| 3 | best LinkedIn ghostwriters for B2B founders in India | Vendor shortlist |
| 4 | LinkedIn ghostwriting agency India for CEOs | Vendor shortlist |
| 5 | reddit marketing for b2b saas | How-to |
| 6 | how to get your brand mentioned by chatgpt | How-to |
| 7 | how often should founders post on linkedin | How-to |
| 8 | founder led marketing strategy | How-to |
| 9 | AI visibility agency for B2B founders | Vendor shortlist |
| 10 | LinkedIn statistics 2026 | Data |
| 11 | Reddit statistics 2026 | Data |
| 12 | who is Shruti Kaushik | Brand |
#Baseline: share of voice by engine (17 Oct 2026)
| Engine | Queries completed | Named | Cited (her URLs) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google AI Mode | 12 of 12 | 1 of 12 | 0 of 12 |
| Perplexity | 7 of 12 | 0 of 7 | 0 of 7 |
| ChatGPT | 4 of 12 | 3 of 4 | 2 of 4 |
Notes on the run, because they change how you read the table:
- Google AI Mode named her only on the brand query, where it listed her first among several people named Shruti Kaushik and cited her LinkedIn profile, IMDb and Amazon.in. It did not cite shrutikaushik.com.
- Perplexity hit its free search limit after 7 queries, so queries 8 to 12 were not completed. On queries 5 and 6 it named Klype, her product, because the session was logged in and personalized. Klype is not counted as a name match here.
- ChatGPT was run from her own logged-in account. The Chrome session disconnected during query 5, so only queries 1 to 4 completed. On query 1 the answer addressed her directly about Wise Mango's pricing, which shows personalization. Treat 3 of 4 as an upper bound, not a buyer's view.
#Which domains do AI engines cite?
Google AI Mode (12 answers)
| Domain | Answers citing it |
|---|---|
| linkedin.com | 9 |
| reddit.com | 3 |
| youtube.com | 2 |
| magicpost | 2 |
| clientmagnet.in | 2 |
Other domains seen once or more: windmillgrowth.com, understoryagency.com, demandbird, salesbread, lexiconn, scribblersindia, thesociallions, socialpost.ai, hubspot.com, superscale, derivatex, foundationinc.co, businessofapps.com, sproutsocial.com, carly ai, interteam marketing.
Perplexity (7 answers)
| Domain | Answers citing it |
|---|---|
| linkedin.com | 2 |
| understoryagency.com | 1 |
| demandbird | 1 |
| magicpost | 1 |
| mylance | 1 |
Others: linkgenie, skillarbitra, foundera, scribblersindia, myntmore, business.reddit.com, theclueless, dreamhost, contently, quattr, thehoth, brandeploy, stage2, tryordinal.
ChatGPT (4 answers)
| Domain | Answers citing it |
|---|---|
| linkedin.com | 2 |
| shrutikaushik.com | 2 |
| wisemango.io | 1 |
| demandbird | 1 |
| midastouchconsultants | 1 |
The pattern matches what Shruti saw on 15 Oct 2026 in 13 Google AI Mode queries: LinkedIn posts and profiles, small agency pages and listicles carry the answers. Company homepages rarely do. Data and statistics queries (10 and 11) went to aggregator sites such as Business of Apps, Carly AI and InterTeam Marketing, not to platform filings.
#What has been shipped so far?
These are the assets live on shrutikaushik.com and around it at the time of this baseline:
- Answers hub at /answers: short, direct answers to buyer questions.
- MCP server
com.shrutikaushik/research, listed in the official MCP registry, with setup at /ai-connector, so AI assistants can query her research directly. - llms.txt at the site root, describing the site for language models.
- Statistics library at /stats, with sourced figures on LinkedIn, Reddit and AI search.
- Schema markup for the person, organization, articles and FAQs.
- Wise Mango MCP server for the agency.
None of these had produced a citation of shrutikaushik.com in Google AI Mode or Perplexity by 17 Oct 2026.
#What is next?
The gap is clear from the cited domains. The engines cite LinkedIn and third-party listicles, so that is where the next work goes:
- LinkedIn posts and articles that answer queries 1 to 4 and 7 directly, since linkedin.com was cited in 9 of 12 Google AI Mode answers.
- Inclusion in third-party listicles that already get cited (demandbird, understoryagency.com, magicpost, clientmagnet.in style pages).
- Reddit and YouTube answers for queries 5 and 6, where those domains were cited.
- Original data pages for queries 10 and 11, to compete with aggregators.
- A logged-out ChatGPT and Perplexity panel, so the next run measures what a buyer sees.
#History
Each weekly run adds one row per engine.
| Date | Engine | Completed | Named | Cited | Top cited domain |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-17 | Google AI Mode | 12 | 1 | 0 | linkedin.com |
| 2026-10-17 | Perplexity | 7 | 0 | 0 | linkedin.com |
| 2026-10-17 | ChatGPT | 4 | 3 | 2 | linkedin.com |
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#Methodology
All queries were run on 17 Oct 2026 in a Chrome browser. Google AI Mode was opened with the udm=50 search parameter, Perplexity and ChatGPT with the query passed in the URL. Answers were read as page text. "Named" means Shruti Kaushik, shrutikaushik.com or Wise Mango appears in the answer text. "Cited" means one of her URLs appears among the answer's sources. Domains were recorded from the source labels shown with each answer, which sometimes give a site name rather than a full domain. Perplexity and ChatGPT were used from logged-in accounts, which can personalize results, and both runs were cut short (Perplexity by its free search limit, ChatGPT by a browser disconnect). Only what was observed in this run is reported. Raw rows are kept in a tracking sheet and the same 12 queries are rerun weekly.