$ geo inspector for chatgpt and perplexity

See exactly how ChatGPT picks its sources.

FanoutFox reads your own ChatGPT and Perplexity sessions. You get the searches it ran, the pages it fetched, who it cited and who it mentioned. It's free and nothing leaves your browser.

Works with ChatGPT Perplexity Gemini soon
922 users ★★★★★ reviews v1.1.12 live
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FanoutFox dashboard showing mentions across captured AI answers
100% answers that mention you · 2 of 2
live capture, one prompt, the fan-out it triggered cited in the answer fetched, not cited
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00 / First reviews

What the first reviews say.

★★★★★
Read the reviews on the Chrome Web Store →
★★★★★
This tool is a goldmine in order to understand the inner workings of ChatGPT. A local working prompt tool that gives insights that you can take action.
Volkan Çonchrome web store · 21 jul 2026
★★★★★
Wowsers, this is cool stuff indeed. Lots in there, amazing work.
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Dan Richardsonchrome web store · 21 jul 2026
★★★★★
Absolutely superb. Game changing for modern SEOs.
PM
Piers Moore-Edechrome web store · 15 jul 2026
★★★★★
This extension is fantastic. I like that it does everything fully locally, and that I can look at my collections of conversations all together and track mentions across them, like having a little local prompt-tracking tool for free.
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Martin Aberasteguechrome web store · 12 jul 2026
01 / The problem

AI search is a black box. Your rank tracker can't see inside it.

/ 01

The engine rewrites your keyword

ChatGPT and Perplexity don't run your keyword. They rewrite it into their own searches, fetch pages you never see, and work out on their own who gets mentioned.

/ 02

Position three is worth nothing

Rank tracking measures a results page your buyers open less every year. Position three is worth nothing if the answer never mentions you.

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Read the answer's own data

FanoutFox reads the answer's own data. You get the queries it wrote, the pages it fetched, the ones it cited and the brands it mentioned.

02 / How it works

Three steps, and you don't set anything up.

There's nothing to create, configure or learn. It reads the sessions you already have.

01

Install it and open ChatGPT

Add it from the Chrome Web Store or install it by hand. Then use ChatGPT the way you normally would. There's nothing to configure.

02

Ask what your buyers ask

Comparisons, recommendations, best-tool-for-the-job questions. The ones people type before they buy something.

03

Click the fox

You get the searches, the sources, who was cited, who was mentioned, and where you came out. One click.

03 / Features

Everything the answer is hiding.

The DevTools work from the teardowns, turned into six views you can act on.

Fan-out explorer

The queries it wrote instead of yours

Every search the engine actually ran. The rewrites, the angles it took, and the intent it decided you had.

Fan-out explorer view
Sources vs cited

Who got fetched vs who made the answer

Dozens of pages get fetched and only a handful get cited. You see which side of that line you were on.

Top domains view comparing fetched and cited sources
Mentions

Mentions are the outcome that counts

Most buyers never click the citation, but they do read the text around it. You get the exact sentence that mentioned you or a rival.

Mentions view with brand breakdown
The trail

The ordered path the model took

Every step from your question to the answer, in order, with the model's own words about why it picked a source.

Chain of thought trail view
Shopping tiers

Product card or text mention

On shopping questions a product card and a passing mention aren't the same win. You see which one you got.

Shopping tiers view
Runner-up ledger

Pin, re-run, diff

Pin an answer, run the same prompt next week, then compare the two. You see who entered, who dropped out, and who moved from mentioned to cited.

Runner-up ledger diff view
04 / Privacy

100% local. On purpose.

Most SEO tools want your data on their servers. This one doesn't have a server.

Reads only your own ChatGPT and Perplexity sessions. Nothing else.

Captures save in your browser as you go and are never uploaded.

Your ChatGPT token is used once and discarded. Perplexity needs no token at all.

Two optional lookups make the only outbound calls, a domain rating and Reddit thread stats. You can switch both off.

There's no account to create and nothing here tracking you.

Uninstall it and every trace goes with it.

outbound calls: 0 by default
05 / Credibility

Built on the research behind three teardowns of how AI engines pick their sources.

Read the research in how ChatGPT actually picks sources, the follow-up teardown and how Perplexity picks its sources.

made by Suganthan Mohanadasan

FanoutFox

Read your first AI answer in 60 seconds.

Install it, ask what your buyers ask, click the fox.

free forever · no account · nothing leaves your browser

06 / FAQ

Questions, answered.

Yes. There's no paid tier or trial counting down. I built it because I wanted it to exist.

Both work and both are the same code. The Chrome Web Store is one click and it updates itself, so start there. The catch is that ChatGPT changes its internal format often, sometimes twice in a week, and every store update waits in Google's review queue for a day or three. When a format change breaks captures I can put the fix on the download page the same day. The store copy catches up later. Keep that page bookmarked for those days.

No. It all runs on your machine. Captures sit in your browser's own storage and are never uploaded. Two optional lookups make the only outbound calls, Ahrefs domain ratings and Reddit thread stats, and you can switch both off.

ChatGPT and Perplexity. Perplexity reads the same way, the fan-out, the sources and the citations, and it also returns per-source trust notes that nothing else surfaces. The Compare view puts the same prompt side by side across both engines. Gemini is next. One capture format covers all of them, so your saved sessions carry over.

Generative Engine Optimisation. It's the work of getting your brand picked, cited and mentioned inside AI answers instead of ranked on a results page. It's what SEO becomes when the answer replaces the results page.

No. On ChatGPT it uses the session token your browser already holds, once, to fetch your own conversation, then throws it away. It's never stored or sent anywhere. On Perplexity it reads no token at all, because it only watches the answer your browser is already receiving.

No. It does nothing at all until you click the fox. It never intercepts, proxies or changes your conversations.

Yes. Capture the answers for a client's queries, pin them, run them again later and compare who entered or dropped out. Plenty of people use it as a light GEO rank tracker across several client brands.