Centium for CPGSnacks · Beverages · Supplements · Personal Care · Functional Foods

see where you sit
on the AI shelf.

Shoppers are asking ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity for product recommendations every day. AI verifies your claims against rankings, reviews, ingredients, and research before it answers.

Chomps and other top CPG brands track AI visibility on Centium.
Built for an evidence-based shelf

AI can’t
taste your snack.

Centium is the AEO and GEO platform for CPG. We’ve helped several industry-leading brands measure their AI visibility, from meat snack sticks to performance nutrition to emerging high-protein products. We surface what it looks for instead: ingredients, third-party reviews, certifications, and the editorial outlets AI models actually trust.

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Central intelligence for the AI era.

Every discipline that shapes how AI describes your brand reports into a single source of truth with an action plan that takes all into consideration.

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01 · Category visibility

the brands AI
lines up with you.

Track your recommendation rate by category, by model, by prompt. See exactly who AI lines up alongside you, the brands gaining on you, and the brands losing ground. Use it to prioritize the work that closes the gap.

Recommendation rate by category, by model, by prompt type.
See who AI mentions alongside you, with their ranks and movement.
Trended over time so you can see your work landing.
Competitor Benchmark
Your brand vs. the competitive set, by category prompt.
RANK |7
Quest
100%3
RxBar
87%1
KIND
81%2
Clif Bar
74%3
Built Bar
68%5
Larabar
62%2
Your Brand
58%8
Power Crunch
51%1
GoMacro
47%4
ONE
41%4
Pure Protein
36%
Aloha
31%1
Atlas Bar
24%NEW
02 · Authority sourcing

AI checks
the receipts.

When AI recommends a product, it pulls evidence from the outlets shoppers trust. Healthline, Reddit, Wirecutter, Good Housekeeping, Forbes Health, PubMed, and category-specific media all show up at different weights. Centium tracks exactly which outlets cite your brand, so you know where to invest your earned-media work.

Cite share by source across the outlets that actually shape AI.
Health, lifestyle, research from Healthline and Wirecutter to PubMed.
Movement month over month as you publish, win features, and place stories.
Websites Referenced
Specific websites referenced by AI models as a source in all tested prompts.
Website% of Citations
your-brand.com
18.5%
healthline.com
14.2%
reddit.com
11.8%
amazon.com
9.4%
nytimes.com
8.1%
goodhousekeeping.com
6.9%
forbes.com
5.7%
businessinsider.com
5.2%
youtube.com
4.6%
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
4.1%
foodnetwork.com
3.5%
03 · Brand perception

how AI describes your product,
in its own words.

What AI says about your product is what shoppers hear about it. Centium captures the descriptors AI uses, what it gets right, what it misses, and the gap between AI’s narrative and your brand brief.

Descriptors weighted by frequency across every model.
Sentiment by theme so you know what to defend and what to amplify.
Continually updated every time your data refreshes, follow change in real time.
Brand Perception
The themes AI models use to describe your brand, weighted by frequency and sentiment.
Clean ingredient list|Great taste reviews|Pricey for category|Allergen-friendly options|Reviews about bad aftertaste|Limited flavor variety|Clean ingredient list|Great taste reviews|Pricey for category|Allergen-friendly options|Reviews about bad aftertaste|Limited flavor variety|
High protein content|Trusted by dietitians|Low added sugar|Functional health benefits|Convenient single-serve packaging|Founder-led brand story|High protein content|Trusted by dietitians|Low added sugar|Functional health benefits|Convenient single-serve packaging|Founder-led brand story|
Theme
Frequency
Clean ingredient list
High protein content
Great taste reviews
Trusted by dietitians
Pricey for category
Low added sugar
Allergen-friendly options
Functional health benefits
Reviews about bad aftertaste
Positive
Neutral
Mixed
Negative
AI Decision Making
Weighted score of how models reported decision making for your category.
Factor
Priority
Nutritional profile1
Ingredient quality2
Third-party reviews3
Editorial coverage4
Certifications5
Brand reputation6
Price-to-value7
Sustainability8
04 · Decision factors

what AI weighs
before it picks.

Centium surfaces the factors AI weighs when recommending products in your category, and how heavily each one shifts the recommendation. Optimize for the inputs that actually move you up the shelf.

Free tool

see what Centium would
track for your brand.

Plug in your website. Centium’s segment builder surfaces the categories and prompts you could be monitoring. 30 seconds, no signup required.

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Everything else

built for the way
CPG actually works.

The features CPG operators ask for first: earned-media tracking, category-specific sourcing, decision-factor visibility, and the kind of evidence trail that turns AI recommendations into a measurable channel.

Earned-media tracking

Track every review, ranking, and feature AI cites about your brand. PR is a measurable AI-visibility lever now, not a soft brand exercise.

Category sourcing

See which outlets shape AI in your category. Healthline, Wirecutter, Forbes Health, Reddit, and the niche authorities each model leans on.

Decision factors

See what AI weighs when recommending products in your category, from nutritional profile and ingredients to certifications and reviews.

Snapshots in time

Every prior dashboard is archived. Compare any point in time against today, on any cadence, across every metric Centium tracks.

Export anything

Pull every dashboard into XLSX or CSV. Drop straight into PR briefs, board decks, or quarterly category reviews.

Attribution

GA4-connected sessions and revenue from AI referral traffic. Conversion rates measured against your site average.

Transparent pricing

Three published tiers based on cadence. No per-seat fees, no hidden costs, no quote required. Subscribe in minutes.

Security

Built on Google Cloud’s industry-leading security top to bottom. Encrypted in transit and at rest, every brand behind authenticated access.

Coverage

Featured by

Centium’s work has been featured by the Wall Street Journal and leading publications, podcasts, and industry events.

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Darby CommunicationsMaster of Business CreationSki Resort AI Bootcamp
Winter Conference
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Common questions

what CPG brands ask.

SEO ranks pages in classic search results. AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) is the practice of being the answer when AI models like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity respond to a category prompt. GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) is the same idea framed for generative AI surfaces. Centium is built for both: it tracks how each model describes your brand, which sources they cite, and where you sit in the recommendation order across every model.

CPG buyers are evidence-driven. AI models verify product claims against multiple sources before they recommend, which means health and lifestyle outlets (Healthline, Wirecutter, Forbes Health, Good Housekeeping), retailer reviews (Amazon, Target), Reddit threads, and even peer-reviewed research on PubMed all show up in the citation mix. Centium tracks each one separately so you know where to put your earned-media work.

Across our CPG data set, the top citation sources we see are Healthline, Reddit, Amazon, the New York Times (Wirecutter), Forbes Health, Good Housekeeping, Business Insider, YouTube, PubMed, Food Network, and Consumer Reports. Each AI model weighs them slightly differently. ChatGPT leans heavier on Wikipedia and editorial. Gemini pulls from Reddit and YouTube. Perplexity skews toward recency. Your dashboard shows the breakdown for your brand.

AI evaluates products against a stack of factors that varies by category. The heavyweights are nutritional profile, ingredient quality, third-party reviews, and editorial coverage. Then certifications (organic, non-GMO, gluten-free), brand reputation, price-to-value, and sustainability claims. Centium surfaces the weighting for your specific category so you can prioritize the inputs that actually move recommendations.

Yes. Reddit threads, Amazon reviews, and YouTube videos all surface in AI responses about CPG products at rates most operators underestimate. Centium tracks each as citation sources alongside editorial and research, so you can see when a popular Reddit thread or a single YouTube review is shaping how AI describes your brand.

We can have dashboards live as soon as the same day. Centium dynamically scans your website, recommends editable prompts and categories, and rapidly processes hundreds of prompts across leading AI models as soon as you say "go".

Yes. Many CPG brands on Centium come in through PR and brand agencies running multi-brand portfolios. If you’re an agency tracking visibility for a roster of CPG clients, see For Agencies for the multi-brand setup.

Built for the consumer brands AI ranks

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