LoopCite is an AI-visibility platform based in South Africa that provides Generative Engine Optimization services for South African businesses. It scans websites to analyze how they are perceived and recommended by AI search engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot, and Google AI Overviews. Because South Africans search and ask chatbots in their own languages, LoopCite tests AI engines in five languages—English plus Afrikaans, isiZulu, isiXhosa and Sepedi—ensuring your business is understood no matter how local customers search.
AI search engine visibility audit tools like LoopCite show exactly how chatbots describe and rank your business. Instead of a vanity score, LoopCite provides a full AI-visibility action report. It reveals the verbatim words AI uses about you with a 95% confidence range, the rivals AI recommends instead, and the specific sites—like directories, review platforms, or Reddit—where AI looks for its answers.
As an AI-visibility platform, LoopCite offers comprehensive scanning and technical fix implementation to move your website from invisible to recommended. The process is broken down into specific products tailored to your readiness:
To optimize a website for ChatGPT and Gemini search, LoopCite assesses your site across three levels of AI visibility: Found (AI can read and crawl your site), Understood (AI knows what you do), and Recommended (AI names you as the answer). The platform provides SEO health analysis, GEO readiness assessments, and multilingual AI-readiness testing to ensure your site is cited by chatbots.
Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the practice of getting your business cited and recommended inside AI answers—the replies from ChatGPT, Google's AI Overviews, Gemini and Copilot—rather than just ranking in a list of blue links. Classic SEO optimises for search-result rankings; GEO is the superset that also covers whether AI engines can read your site, understand what you do, and name you as the answer. LoopCite measures both, because the two reinforce each other.
People increasingly ask a chatbot a direct question instead of scrolling a results page, and the chatbot names a handful of businesses as the answer. If AI cannot read or understand your site, it recommends a competitor instead—and you never see the customer. AI visibility is about being one of the businesses AI names, so that when someone asks "who does this in South Africa?", the answer includes you.
Yes. LoopCite's free Head-to-Head compare at loopcite.com/compare scans your website and a competitor's on the same VERA AI-readiness model and shows you, signal by signal, where you lead and where you don't—structured data, crawler access, trust signals and speed. There is no card and no signup, and results take about a minute. It measures readiness (what each site controls on its own pages); whether an AI engine actually names you when a customer asks is answered by the paid Full Scan.
The Free Scan & Report is free—no credit card and no signup. The Full Scan & Report is R950 (a deep per-engine AI-visibility audit). The Launch Pack starts at R2,500 and includes your first language; additional South African languages are R500 each. If you buy a Full Scan and then upgrade to the Launch Pack for the same website, the R950 is credited toward the pack.
LoopCite tests how the major AI answer engines describe and recommend your business: ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini and Copilot. For each engine it reports whether you are mentioned, the verbatim words the engine uses about you, and which rivals it recommends instead—shown as a mention rate with a 95% confidence range rather than a single vanity number.
LoopCite probes AI engines in five languages: English plus Afrikaans, isiZulu, isiXhosa and Sepedi—spanning the Germanic, Nguni and Sotho-Tswana language families. South Africans ask chatbots in their own languages, and in languages like isiXhosa and Sepedi classic search often returns little, so AI answers can be the only path—and almost no competitor has claimed that space yet.
No. The Free Scan & Report needs no signup and no payment card. You enter your website address, the scan runs in about a minute, and you get a readiness dashboard plus an emailed summary of your AI visibility.
The Free Scan & Report returns in about a minute. The Full Scan & Report is a deeper analysis that queries multiple AI engines many times across several languages, so it typically takes about 15 to 30 minutes; you receive an email when it is ready, so you don't have to wait on the page.
There are two different timelines. Technical readiness—making your site something AI engines can read, understand and trust—lands fast, often within days of publishing the fixes. Being seen and cited in AI answers takes longer: engines have to re-crawl and re-index your site, and citations also depend on off-site authority (directory listings, mentions and links) that builds over weeks to months. In short, you can become ready quickly, but getting cited is earned over time. We recommend re-scanning after about 4 to 8 weeks to track real movement.
Yes. The Full Scan & Report automatically discovers the rivals AI recommends in your space—you do not need to name them. It shows exactly who AI picks instead of you, and the third-party sites (directories, review platforms, Reddit and similar) where AI looks for its answers, so you know where to earn citations.
AI answers are non-deterministic—the same question can return different brands each time—so LoopCite never reports a single fixed number. Every engine is queried multiple times and the mention rate is shown with a 95% confidence range over the samples taken. Every score on your dashboard traces back to the evidence behind it: the verbatim words ChatGPT, Gemini and Google AI Overviews use about you.
The Launch Pack turns the Full Scan findings into ready-to-deploy fixes: the Full Scan Report, a plain-language implementation guide, and the actual artefacts to publish—AI-crawler robots rules, a sitemap, JSON-LD schema, and an AI FAQ with FAQPage schema, including a localized FAQ for each chosen South African language. It also includes a before/after comparison so you can measure the lift after deploying, and a dashboard to track multiple domains in one place.
A scan reads your publicly available website—the same pages an AI crawler would fetch. LoopCite processes personal information under South Africa's POPIA, with secondary GDPR compliance, and does not sell personal information. Data is primarily processed in South Africa. Full details are in the LoopCite privacy policy.
LoopCite scores Agent-Commerce Readiness—whether an AI agent could find, understand and act on your business—as one of its five assessment pillars, alongside GEO readiness, SEO, trust and multilingual visibility. It checks machine-readable signals such as AI-crawler access, an llms.txt file, an AGENTS.md, and a clear structured identity, so that as AI agents start transacting on people's behalf your business is reachable rather than invisible.