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AI-Engine Paid Placement

Win ChatGPT Ads in the AI search auction

Always-on monitoring of the 12 confirmed quality signals OpenAI uses to decide which brands appear in paid ChatGPT search placements. Sentry catches LLM-unreadable landing pages, missing entity grounding, low corpus presence, and uncompetitive bid posture before they cost you placement in the next user's chat. Cortex handles the fix.

sentry.chatgpt-ads.live● 2 min ago
03:30:00GET Acme Co. · OpenAI Pilot ID
03:30:00OpenAI Ads Pilot + corpus probes · last sync 04:00 ET
03:30:01Parsing 12 ChatGPT Ads quality signals...
03:30:02 PASS pilot_eligibility (enrolled · US + UK)
03:30:03 PASS landing_chatgpt_friendly (SSR · text-rich)
03:30:04 PASS bid_strategy_set (CPM · freq cap 2)
03:30:05 PASS no_active_disapprovals
03:30:06 PASS llms_txt_published
03:30:07 PASS structured_data_organization (sameAs 4 entities)
03:30:08 PASS cross_engine_citation (Perplexity + Gemini 30d)
03:30:09 WARN primary_source_authority (3 pages · target 5+)
03:30:10 PASS competitor_bid_alignment (108% of median)
03:30:11 WARN brand_corpus_presence (Wikidata Q-ID missing)
03:30:12 PASS tracking_url_compatible
03:30:13 PASS frequency_capping_set (2 / session)
03:30:14 Score 10/12 · Grade A · optimized
AI Search Advertising

Continuous ChatGPT Ads Quality Monitoring

Continuous audits of the 12 emerging quality signals OpenAI cites in pilot documentation + the GEO patterns that govern ChatGPT placement in AI search. Each rule maps to OpenAI's pilot guidance, llmstxt.org spec, or web.dev structured-data docs. Sentry catches what fails. Cortex fixes it.

RULE · 1

pilot_eligibility

ChatGPT Ads pilot eligibility active

Brand is enrolled in OpenAI's ChatGPT Ads pilot, or has GA access where ChatGPT Ads is generally available. ChatGPT Ads is still in phased rollout - brand approval is a documented prerequisite per OpenAI's pilot terms. Without approval, no other rule matters.

RULE · 2

landing_chatgpt_friendly

Landing page LLM-readable

Landing page is server-rendered, text-content-rich, and structured (semantic HTML, not a JS-heavy SPA shell that returns an empty body to LLM crawlers). OpenAI's pilot guidance is explicit that pages must render to readable content without JavaScript execution.

RULE · 3

bid_strategy_set

Bid strategy configured with frequency cap

Campaign has a configured bid (CPM where supported by pilot) paired with a frequency cap per chat session. Without a frequency cap, the same user can see the same ad multiple times in one conversation - documented as the #1 ChatGPT Ads waste pattern.

RULE · 4

no_active_disapprovals

Zero active ad disapprovals during pilot

OpenAI pilot policy review shows zero disapprovals or pending review. ChatGPT Ads has stricter content + brand-safety review than legacy ad networks - one violation can pause the entire pilot account.

RULE · 5

llms_txt_published

/llms.txt published with ad-eligible pages

Landing-page domain serves a /llms.txt at root per the llmstxt.org spec. ChatGPT's pilot crawler reads llms.txt to discover which pages are ad-eligible and what context to present alongside the placement. Missing llms.txt = the LLM falls back to general crawling and may surface a different page.

RULE · 6

structured_data_organization

Organization JSON-LD with sameAs entity grounding

Landing page emits Organization JSON-LD with `name`, `url`, `logo`, and `sameAs` linking to Wikipedia + Wikidata + LinkedIn + Crunchbase. ChatGPT uses the sameAs chain to ground the brand entity - without it, the AI can't confidently match a chat query to your brand.

RULE · 7

cross_engine_citation

Cited by Perplexity, Gemini, or Claude in past 30 days

The brand domain appears as a citation in at least one other AI engine (Perplexity, Gemini, Claude) for queries in the campaign's category over the last 30 days. ChatGPT's pilot relevance model weights cross-engine citation as a credibility proxy - brands cited nowhere else compete from behind in ChatGPT's auction.

RULE · 8

primary_source_authority

Primary-source authority on ≥5 landing pages

At least 5 landing pages identified by Cortex as original primary sources (proprietary data, expert commentary, brand-owned research) rather than marketing rehashes of third-party content. ChatGPT preferentially surfaces - and prices placement-eligibility against - pages it identifies as original sources, not summaries.

RULE · 9

competitor_bid_alignment

Bid within 70-130% of category median

Campaign bids sit between 70% and 130% of the category median bid for the same query class, per OpenAI pilot auction data. Below 70% = the placement loses to competitors who bid up. Above 130% = paying a premium without proportional placement-priority lift since OpenAI caps boost effect past category midpoint.

RULE · 10

brand_corpus_presence

Brand entity present in Wikipedia + Wikidata

Brand has a Wikipedia article (or English-language wiki) plus a Wikidata Q-ID. ChatGPT's underlying model relies on these as entity-grounding anchors. Without them, the AI may refuse to surface the brand confidently in any auction - paid or organic.

RULE · 11

tracking_url_compatible

Tracking URL works without referrer

Landing page accepts and processes traffic with referrer stripped. ChatGPT (and many AI engines) strip Referer headers in click-throughs - URLs that depend on referrer for personalization, attribution, or auth break in the AI-search-traffic flow.

RULE · 12

frequency_capping_set

Frequency caps set per chat session

Campaign frequency capped at 2-3 impressions per chat session. ChatGPT conversations can run dozens of turns - without session-level caps, the same user sees the same ad turn after turn, exhausting the placement budget on one impression at a time.

Free Pre-Check

Free ChatGPT Landing Checker

Paste your landing-page URL for a free pre-check of the landing-page quality OpenAI scores into ChatGPT Ads placement priority. Sentry runs PSI, parses the HTML for SSR text density, mobile viewport, structured data, and llms.txt. The full 12-signal pilot monitor requires Cortex connection.

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Each failed rule ships with a prescription paragraph. Hand it to engineering and the gap is closed before lunch.

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