How to check what ChatGPT says about your brand (Reddit's methods, upgraded)

The crowd-sourced prompt set, consolidated:

1. Recognition: "What do you know about [brand]?" — in a fresh chat, no context.
2. Recommendation: "What are the best [category] tools for [use case]?" — does your brand appear unprompted?
3. Comparison: "[Brand] vs [competitor] — which should I pick?"
4. Sentiment: "Is [brand] good? What are its downsides?"
5. Freshness: ask with web search toggled on AND off — the answers often differ sharply.

All correct. Do this today; it's free.

Why a manual spot check misleads:

• Sampling noise — AI answers vary between generations; one good answer doesn't mean a good average.
• One engine ≠ the market — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Grok and DeepSeek know different things about you and answer differently. Buyers use all of them.
• No score, no trend — you can't tell if last quarter's content work moved anything without comparable, repeated measurement.
• Your session is contaminated — logged-in ChatGPT personalizes; your history biases what you see vs what a stranger sees.

A proper audit runs a fixed prompt battery against all five engines in clean sessions, in both trained-data and web-search modes, scores six dimensions (recognition, knowledge depth, competitive context, sentiment, recall, discoverability) 0–100, and repeats weekly so trends are real. That's literally what BrandGEO automates — the free audit gives you the scored baseline in about two minutes, and you can keep using the Reddit DIY prompts as your gut check between runs.