Platform Feature

Source Gap Analysis:
Know Where AI Looks

Discover which publications, websites, and domains each AI model relies on in your category — and see exactly which sources your competitors are covered in that you're not.

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Why Source Intelligence Is the Foundation of GEO

When you ask ChatGPT to recommend a product, it doesn't search the entire web equally. It retrieves from sources it has indexed and trusts — and those sources vary significantly by product category. A skincare brand's trusted sources are completely different from a furniture brand's trusted sources.

Without knowing which sources AI models trust in your category, your GEO strategy is guesswork. Estran's source intelligence maps give you a ranked list of the exact domains each LLM references when answering queries about your product type.

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Map AI-Trusted Sources

Estran identifies the top 20–50 sources each LLM references when answering product queries in your category — ranked by citation frequency.

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Benchmark Against Competitors

See which of those top sources already feature your competitors — and which sources you're absent from while competitors have coverage.

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Get a Prioritized Action Plan

Estran ranks your source gaps by impact — so your PR, content, and outreach efforts are focused on the sources that will actually move your AI visibility score.

Example: How Source Gap Analysis Works in Practice

A candle brand runs a source gap analysis in Estran. The results show that ChatGPT most commonly cites 5 home decor publications and 3 Reddit subreddits when recommending candles. Their top competitor is featured in 4 of those 5 publications, while the brand is only featured in 1.

Estran's action plan shows exactly which 3 publications to target for press coverage and which Reddit communities to engage in — with estimated visibility impact for each. The brand focuses outreach on the two highest-impact publications, gets featured in both within 60 days, and sees a 2.4x increase in ChatGPT brand mentions.

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