Peek Discover

Are Your Properties Invisible in AI Search?

Renters are asking ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude where to live. Peek Discover monitors your AI discoverability across every major LLM and shows you exactly how to improve it. AEO/GEO built for multifamily.

Peek Discover hero graphic showing AI discovery score interface.

Trusted by leading multifamily operators

Brookfield PropertiesInvescoUDRVeris ResidentialCAPREITMorgan GroupEdward Rose & SonsSouthern Land CompanyDecronLantower ResidentialAtlantic ResidentialGarden CommunitiesPedcorBettina EquitiesPlatinumMomentum HousingArenaSpyglass CapitalHaverkamp Properties
Brookfield PropertiesInvescoUDRVeris ResidentialCAPREITMorgan GroupEdward Rose & SonsSouthern Land CompanyDecronLantower ResidentialAtlantic ResidentialGarden CommunitiesPedcorBettina EquitiesPlatinumMomentum HousingArenaSpyglass CapitalHaverkamp Properties

Peek Discover Case Studies

Increasing AI visibility and cutting vacant days

Measured every month across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity.

Peek Discover · AI Visibility

Lantower Residential

Peek Discover case study: a 375-unit Austin metro community rose from 55th to 2nd of 274 properties in AI visibility, and was named in 8x more AI answers.

Out of 274 competing properties in its market, in eight months.

Share of AI answers naming the property
Named in 8x more AI answers
DecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulDec: 1.80%Jan: 1.99%Feb: 5.97%Mar: 7.79%Apr: 8.52%May: 9.97%Jun: 12.22%Jul: 14.53%14.5%
Rank 55 / 180Rank 2 / 274

Vacant days fell 13% over the same period, roughly a week off every turn.

375-unit community · Austin metro

8 monthly assessments · Dec 2025 – Jul 2026

Peek Discover · AI Visibility

Peek Discover case study: a 648-unit Jersey City high-rise ranks 2nd of 227 properties in AI visibility, held every month since February.

Out of 227 competing properties, held every month since February.

Average position in an AI answer
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulJan: position 8.70Feb: position 4.39Mar: position 4.63Apr: position 4.44May: position 4.95Jun: position 5.15Jul: position 4.25+51%
Rank 3 / 219Rank 2 / 227

Vacant days fell 29% over the same period, nearly two months off every turn.

648-unit high-rise · Jersey City

7 monthly assessments · Jan – Jul 2026

Your Next Renter is Asking AI Where to Live

Will your properties appear when they do?

With Google search volumes down and ILS costs up, visibility across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity isn't optional anymore. It's table stakes to stay competitive.

The cost of invisibility

In Google, you slip.
In AI search, you fall off a cliff.

Google has page 1, page 2, page 3. AI models give a few recommendations. You either show up, or you don't.

75%

of properties are completely invisible in AI search.

Not ranked low. Absent.

50%+

of AI recs go to just the top 5% of communities.

Early movers are pulling away.

0 of top 10 NMHC managers outperform the average community.

Portfolio size doesn't beat community-level optimization. Listing accuracy and content depth at each property wins.

Source: Peek AI Discovery Black Book

Top performers · Median MAAR

Morgan Properties
73.7%
Veris Residential
71.0%
UDR
64.3%
Equity Residential
61.8%
AvalonBay
60.5%
Connor Group
48.3%
GID
46.4%
Nuveen
46.0%
Continental
44.5%

MAAR (Market-Adjusted Appearance Rate): visibility vs the best property in the same market, scored 0 to 100.

795assessments
3,811competitors
806Kdata points

The AI Discovery Black Book

What makes AI engines recommend certain apartments over others?

The Solution

Find out if you're invisible
with Peek Discover

Discover monitors any community's AI visibility across all major LLMs and dozens of topics renters ask about.

80
Top 10%

Overall Visibility Score

70
Claude
15
ChatGPT
45
Gemini
75
Perplexity

The Recommendation Engine

Customers kept asking us the same thing:

The Peek Discover recommendation engine: a ranked list of content and technical fixes for each community.

Discover reads your website the way an AI crawler does, finds exactly why you're getting skipped, and hands you a ranked list of fixes in two buckets.

Content changes you can make today

Often the fix is just missing copy: commute times, the pet policy, the amenities renters ask about. Discover surfaces the gaps and hands you the copy to fill them, ready to paste.

Priority fixes for your web or technical team

Other times the content is there, but your site hides it where AI crawlers can't see. Discover writes it up for your web team: which page, what's wrong, what to change.

You walk away with a to-do list your team can knock out today, instead of a pile of problems and no idea where to start.

Medium Impact

Commute times to major employers not stated

The neighborhood page names the light rail stop one block away but gives no travel times to downtown or major employers. AI cannot answer “How long is the commute?”

Recommended Fix

Platform Property WebsitePlacement Getting Around sectionCopy Text

Expand the “Getting Around” section: “The light rail stop is one block west of the front door, putting the university campus approximately [X minutes] away by rail. Downtown is about [X minutes] by light rail or [X minutes] by bike. The airport is roughly [X miles / X minutes] by car or rail.”

Why Discover

This Isn't Brand Monitoring.
It's Community-Level AI Visibility

Most AI visibility tools track whether your company name gets mentioned. Discover tracks whether your specific communities show up when real renters ask real questions in LLMs.

Generic tools check if "Acme Properties" gets a mention somewhere in an AI response.

Discover checks if The Washingtons at Lakewood shows up when a renter asks "best apartments near downtown Denver with a pool."

Peek Discover community-level AI visibility score dashboard

AI discovery tools built by SEO providers still think in keywords and rankings.

Discover simulates the actual questions renters ask — about neighborhoods, pet policies, amenities, price ranges — across every major AI platform.

Peek Discover real renter topic simulation across AI platforms

One-size-fits-all AI monitoring tools are built for any industry. They don’t know what matters to renters, so they can’t tell you what to fix.

Discover was built for multifamily. Every topic, score, and competitor set is auto-generated based on how renters actually search in each market.

Peek Discover AI visibility scoring by topic categoryPeek Discover AI visibility scoring by platform breakdown

What You Get

Everything You Need to Win in AI Search

AI Discovery Monitoring

Track how often your properties appear in responses from ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, and other AI platforms renters are using to search.

Citation Tracking

See exactly when and where AI engines cite your communities. Know which platforms mention you — and which ones don’t.

Competitor Benchmarks

Compare your visibility scores against direct competitors in your market. See who’s winning in AI search and where you have room to close the gap.

Optimization Recs

Get actionable, prioritized recommendations to improve your AI visibility. Know exactly what to fix to start showing up where renters are looking.

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Peek Discover is an AI search visibility platform that monitors how your properties appear across AI discovery engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude. It provides an AI Discovery Score that measures how often your properties are recommended in response to renter queries.
Most renters start with an open-ended question — something like “I’m moving to Denver in June, need a 1-bedroom under $2,200, dog-friendly, walkable to coffee shops.” ChatGPT (or Gemini, Claude, or Perplexity) responds with a short list of communities — usually the ones with enough structured, high-quality information online for the model to recommend them confidently. With Google, you had roughly 10 chances to make the consideration set. With LLMs, you get maybe 3 to 5, and for now, there’s no way to advertise your way into that list. If your community doesn’t show up in the responses, the renter doesn’t know you exist.
AI platforms like ChatGPT build their recommendations from a mix of available data — your website content, review sites, internet listing sites like Zillow and Apartments.com, and other online sources. If your community isn’t showing up, it’s usually because AI models don’t have enough structured, relevant information about your property to confidently recommend it. Peek Discover identifies exactly where the gaps are so you know what to fix.
Key factors include accurate listing data across ILS platforms, strong property website content, structured pricing and availability data, and broad distribution across Zillow, CoStar, and Yardi networks. Peek Discover identifies specific gaps and provides actionable recommendations.
AEO — Answer Engine Optimization — is the practice of making your content visible to AI platforms like ChatGPT and Gemini, not just Google. You may also hear it called GEO (Generative Engine Optimization). For multifamily, this means ensuring your communities show up when renters search for apartments using AI assistants. It’s a new discipline, separate from traditional SEO, and it’s becoming critical as more renters shift to AI-first apartment search.
Google returns a ranked list of links. AI platforms like ChatGPT give direct apartment recommendations — they name specific communities based on the individual needs of the user. There’s no page 1 vs. page 2. You’re either in the AI-generated answer or you’re not. This means the strategies that work for Google (paid ads, keyword-stuffed pages) don’t directly translate to LLM visibility. It requires a GEO-focused approach, and that’s what Peek Discover helps you measure and improve.
Peek Discover runs hundreds of renter-style queries across multiple AI platforms and tracks which properties get recommended. Your AI Discovery Score is the percentage of relevant queries where your property appears, benchmarked against local competitors.
Peek Discover monitors all major AI discovery engines including ChatGPT (OpenAI), Gemini (Google), Perplexity, and Claude (Anthropic), providing visibility into how each platform treats your listings differently.
Most AI discoverability and AEO tools track generic brand mentions and over focus on your domain. Peek Discover is purpose-built for multifamily AI discoverability — we track whether your specific communities show up when renters search for apartments in ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, and Perplexity. That means we’re not just looking for “Acme Property” mentions. We’re checking if “The Washingtons at Lakewood” appears when a renter asks “best apartments near downtown Denver with a pool.” Community-level LLM visibility, across every major AI platform, with topics that reflect how renters actually search.
Basic reports cover Gemini visibility only and include monthly reports with competitor analysis and include a 2-month free trial. Premium reports cover all major AI models (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot), include customizable topics, and provide detailed competitor analysis. Both include actionable optimization recommendations.
Yes! Basic plan customers get their first 2 monthly reports completely free. Sign up with your email, organization name, and payment method — you won’t be charged until your third report.

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