AI-generated visibility summary

AI visibility summary for Northflank

Northflank achieves an overall AI visibility score of 46.2, placing it ahead of competitors like GitHub (29.5), DigitalOcean (22.6), and Modal (21.8). Its strongest engine is Google Search, where it scores 71.3 with a 77.8% mention rate and 66.7% citation rate. Its weakest engine is ChatGPT, scoring only 14.6 with a 22.2% mention rate and 22.2% citation rate, indicating near-invisibility in that channel. Northflank performs well on high-volume prompts such as "alternatives to Heroku for deploying microservices" and "best platform to deploy AI models with GPU support," where it is cited in all five engines. However, it is absent from the "deploy Postgres and Redis with CI/CD on Kubernetes without DevOps" prompt, suggesting a citation gap in how-to queries. Its own domain accounts for only 4.6% of cited sources, far behind Reddit (11.6%) and Amazon (5.9%), meaning external platforms drive its AI visibility more than its own content. A practical implication is that Northflank should strengthen its presence in ChatGPT and increase authoritative content on its own domain to reduce reliance on third-party citations.

Scan evidence for Northflank

Visibility score
46.2
Mention rate
46.7%
Citation rate
48.9%
Engines
5
Prompts
9

Strongest engines

EngineScoreMentionsCitations
Google Search 71.3 77.8% 66.7%
Google AI Overview 55.6 55.6% 55.6%
Bing Search 49.3 44.4% 55.6%
Perplexity 36.9 33.3% 44.4%
ChatGPT 14.6 22.2% 22.2%

Visibility gaps

EngineScoreMentionsCitations
ChatGPT 14.6 22.2% 22.2%
Perplexity 36.9 33.3% 44.4%
Bing Search 49.3 44.4% 55.6%
Google AI Overview 55.6 55.6% 55.6%
Google Search 71.3 77.8% 66.7%

Competitive landscape

  1. Northflank brand northflank.com Score 46.2
  2. Github github.io Score 29.5
  3. Digitalocean digitalocean.com Score 22.6
  4. Modal modal.com Score 21.8
  5. Qovery qovery.com Score 21.2
  6. Vercel vercel.com Score 17.2
  7. Humanitec humanitec.com Score 12.9
  8. Nvidia nvidia.com Score 12.5

Most cited domains

  1. reddit.com 190 citations · 11.6%
  2. amazon.com 97 citations · 5.9%
  3. northflank.com 75 citations · 4.6%
  4. arxiv.org 61 citations · 3.7%
  5. youtube.com 46 citations · 2.8%
  6. google.com 43 citations · 2.6%
  7. github.com 42 citations · 2.6%
  8. microsoft.com 42 citations · 2.6%

Prompt highlights

PromptEnginesBrand mentionsBrand citations
best platform to deploy AI models with GPU support and preview environments 5 5 5
alternatives to Heroku for deploying microservices and databases in your own cloud 5 4 4
internal developer platform that supports multi-cloud and bring your own VPC 5 4 4
platform to run untrusted code execution and sandboxed environments at scale 5 4 4
how to set up preview environments for every pull request on AWS 5 2 2
best developer platform for AI agents and long-running inference jobs 5 1 1
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