Track where AI search actually sends your buyers.
ChatGPT cites your brand. But 70% of those clicks get wrapped in affiliate redirects — Skimlinks, cna.st, Sovrn — before they reach your site. Aqxle resolves the full path and shows you exactly how much margin is leaking to competitors.
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Phase 1 is the lens. Phase 2 is the lever.
Visibility tools tell you that you were cited. Aqxle tells you where the click landed, who captured it, and what it cost you.
What Profound / Gumshoe show you
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- You were cited
- You have share of voice
- You know nothing about the click
What Aqxle shows you
- Every affiliate redirect, resolved
- Which competitor captured the click
- The exact GMV you're losing
METHODOLOGY NOTE: BRAND AND PUBLISHER DATA SHOWN REPRESENTS INDEPENDENT PUBLIC BENCHMARK ANALYSIS CONDUCTED BY AQXLE USING SYNDICATED THIRD PARTY DATA. IT DOES NOT IMPLY CLIENT ENDORSEMENT OR PARTNERSHIP.
Five layers. One view.
From AI citation to cash register — every step instrumented.
Share of voice on AI answer pages across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude.
Which URLs the model picked — and which it ignored.
Research, comparison, deals, purchase. TOFU / MOFU / BOFU split.
What each cited page links out to — Amazon, affiliate networks, retailers, DTC.
Where every commercial link finally lands. Affiliate redirect resolve, commission rail tag.
Original Research & Teardowns
Independent benchmark analysis of AI commerce attribution. See exactly who captures the margin when AI sends a buyer to your category.
How Allure Routes AI Citations: MAC vs. NARS
We traced 211,898 affiliate links on Allure.com. MAC captures 73% DTC in roundups. NARS routes 60% through Nordstrom. The $29.2k gap explained.
Where Do PCMag's Laptop Citations Actually Go?
We audited 1.85 million outbound links on the most AI-cited laptop publisher. The most-cited laptop brand barely appears on the site. Only 35 go direct to a brand.
Editorial-First vs Pure-Affiliate: Runner's World vs RunRepeat
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METHODOLOGY NOTE: BRAND AND PUBLISHER DATA SHOWN REPRESENTS INDEPENDENT PUBLIC BENCHMARK ANALYSIS CONDUCTED BY AQXLE USING SYNDICATED 3rd PARTY DATA. IT DOES NOT IMPLY CLIENT ENDORSEMENT OR PARTNERSHIP.
Built on best-in-class. Not reinventing the wheel.
We ingest visibility data from AI monitoring platforms like Profound and Gumshoe, crawl data from sources like SEMrush and SimilarWeb, and apply the Aqxle Path Resolution layer to connect the dots. Bring your own data feed and we'll work with it.
Editorial-first or pure-affiliate — we map any operating model.
Two running publications, two completely different outbound economies. Aqxle resolves both with the same primitives.
Runner's World
OUTBOUND MIXEditorial-first — outbound stays in the Hearst ecosystem
- Hearst graph86.6%
- Social8.1%
- Amazon1.9%
- Affiliate0.9%
- Retailer0.2%
- DTC0.2%
- Other2.1%
RunRepeat
OUTBOUND MIXPure-affiliate — every outbound link is monetizable
- Amazon44.0%
- Affiliate40.9%
- Retailer13.6%
- DTC0.1%
- Other1.4%
of RW outbound is internal Hearst graph vs. ~0% for RR.
of RW outbound is commercial vs. 98.6% for RR.
of RW affiliate is Skimlinks vs. 0% for RR.
METHODOLOGY NOTE: BRAND AND PUBLISHER DATA SHOWN REPRESENTS INDEPENDENT PUBLIC BENCHMARK ANALYSIS CONDUCTED BY AQXLE USING SYNDICATED THIRD PARTY DATA. IT DOES NOT IMPLY CLIENT ENDORSEMENT OR PARTNERSHIP.
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