Ashu Dubey is the Co-founder and CEO of Alhena where he is building transformative customer experiences using Agentic AI. Before Alhena, he drove product growth at LinkedIn.
Forrester says 94% of B2B buyers used AI in their last purchase, and chatbots now shape shortlists more than review sites. We compared the 12 best AI visibility tools for B2B companies in 2026, from $29/mo Otterly to enterprise Profound, with honest notes on where each one fits.
Profound is the category leader in AI visibility, and for many enterprises it is the right choice. But price, data overload, and enterprise-first fit send teams looking. Here are eight Profound alternatives for 2026, each organized by the use case it fits best.
Profound, Peec AI, Scrunch, and Alhena are the four AI visibility platforms buyers shortlist most in 2026, and they solve four different jobs. We compare engines, prompt tracking, SKU-level visibility, content action, revenue attribution, and pricing, with every fact verified in July 2026.
A fan-out query is one of the several background searches an AI engine runs before answering a single prompt. This guide explains how query fan-out works across ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Mode, why your AI visibility depends on ranking for those hidden searches, and how to close the gaps.
ChatGPT builds shopping answers from public retail pages, merchant feeds, and its own synthesis. This guide explains how the product card is assembled and gives a seven-step playbook to compete for it, from baselining product visibility to attributing revenue.
AI shopping assistants recommend specific products, not brands. SKU-level AI visibility tracks which of your products appear in ChatGPT's answers, whether the card renders with the right price, and which of your bestsellers are invisible to AI. A concept explainer plus a six-step how-to.