§ Sample report
What you’ll get in your inbox.
This is a real diagnostic we ran on Pyg: A Contemporary Sapphic Novel by Pip Landers-Letts — the 2025 Kindle Storyteller Award winner — on 25 April 2026. We chose it because it’s a great example of a partially-visible indie book: real awards, real reviews, real Goodreads presence, but still missing from the listicles that LLMs cite. Score: 76 / 100.
The output below is verbatim — including the verdict, the competitor list, and the three fastest fixes. We didn’t edit it for marketing.
§ The full report
AI-Discovery Readiness Check — Pyg: A Contemporary Sapphic Novel
Your score: 76 / 100
Rubric: 80+ = well-indexed (cited in genre listicles + structured data present, LLMs surface it for category queries). 60-79 = partially visible (findable by direct title search, weak in genre context). <60 = effectively invisible to LLM retrieval.
Verdict: Pyg is visible to AI systems — the 2025 Kindle Storyteller Award win, the Goodreads page, and the sapphic-focused review mentions are all working — but it doesn't yet appear in the major year-end curated listicles that shape LLM recommendations.
What the AI currently knows about your book
The book is indexed on Goodreads as a 2025 Kindle Storyteller Award winner and a modern sapphic retelling of Pygmalion, with a dedicated listing on I Heart SapphFic. The Amazon page ranks #6,929 in LGBTQ+ Romance and carries 144 five-star reviews (4.5-star average), and is stocked at Barnes & Noble.
What's missing: the book does not yet appear in the major "best sapphic books 2025" listicles from Lesbrary, The Lesbian Review, or Literary Grind — and these are exactly the sources LLMs draw from when readers ask "what should I read?" in this genre.
Who's being recommended for your genre instead
- The Isle in the Silver Sea · Tasha Suri · star-crossed sapphic fantasy romance, frequently featured in 2025 best-of lists
- Cursebound · Saara El-Arifi · second novel in the Faebound trilogy, acclaimed sapphic fantasy with diverse cast
- Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil · V.E. Schwab · sapphic gothic fantasy, repeatedly cited in 2025 roundups
- It's a Love/Skate Relationship · Carli J. Corson · YA sapphic romance with animosity-to-lovers dynamic
The three fastest fixes
1. Secure a feature or review on Lesbrary
- Where: lesbrary.com (submit via contact form, or pitch directly if they have an open review window)
- Setup effort: 1 hour (research editor contact, draft pitch, one-paragraph summary of the queer literary hooks)
- Time to impact: typically 4–8 weeks for review cycle, then immediate lift in retrieval when cited
- Why it's first: Lesbrary's curated "15 Best Sapphic Books of 2025" list is explicitly cited by ChatGPT and Perplexity when readers ask for year-end recommendations. A single feature there moves you into the retrievable competitive set.
2. Add Pyg to Goodreads' "Sapphic Fiction 2025" list and push for higher ranking
- Where: the Goodreads list of Sapphic Fiction 2025 (log in, add the book, ask existing readers to vote)
- Setup effort: 0.5 hours (add book if not already there, craft a one-line pitch for voters)
- Time to impact: votes accumulate over 2–3 weeks; ranking effects appear in Goodreads search and LLM recall within a month
- Why it's second: Goodreads list rankings feed directly into LLM retrieval inference. The 144 reviews give momentum; the reader base needs to vote the book up the list.
3. Pitch sapphic literary / LGBTQ+ media outlets for an author interview or essay
- Where: DIVA Magazine (which already covered you in May), Autostraddle, Lambda Literary, The Advocate
- Setup effort: 2 hours (identify 3–4 outlets, draft a pitch around the Kindle Award win and the Pygmalion retelling angle, personalise emails)
- Time to impact: no published SLA — typical turnaround 6–12 weeks; byline usually appears 1–2 months after acceptance
- Why it's third: A feature in any of these establishes third-party authority and generates citations that compound in LLM training cycles over 12–18 months. The £20,000 Kindle Award is a natural hook outlets rarely pass on.
How this score breaks down
Retrievability — 10 / 10 Amazon page surfaces, title is searchable
Structured-data depth — 14 / 20 Goodreads, Wikipedia, Wikidata — the citation graph LLMs train on
Listicle / peer-set presence — 18 / 25 Inclusion in 'best [genre] books' round-ups — primary retrieval signal
Institutional authority — 16 / 20 Genre-specific endorsements (Kindle Storyteller Award win, Indigo staff pick)
Author graph — 8 / 15 Author Wikipedia, bylines, podcast trail
Cross-source citation — 10 / 10 Reddit, Substack, niche forum discussion
The bigger pattern
Training data is static once a model ships; retrieval — the live pull from Goodreads, listicles, and news — is how new books surface in ChatGPT and Perplexity answers. The Kindle Award and strong Amazon presence got the book visible to the indie-publishing world, but it's not yet in the canonical sapphic-romance roundups that influence how large LLMs rank titles when users ask for recommendations. The books dominating the retrieved set (Tasha Suri, V.E. Schwab) are traditionally published with major-publisher amplification. The path to parity is narrower but proven: land one prestigious listicle, convert that into secondary media coverage, and the book moves from "partially visible" to "regularly cited" within 3–4 months.
§ What the diagnostic actually does
- Runs three live web searches against your book and its retrievable peer set (no training-data guessing — this is what AI assistants are seeing today).
- Verifies every competitor it names against Google Books — hallucinated titles are dropped.
- Strips self-referential brand mentions, citation XML, and duplicate authors before delivery.
- Produces a score, a verdict, the genre’s retrievable competitive set, and three fixes ranked by leverage.
- Takes about 90 seconds end-to-end. Free.
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Run my AI-discovery check →Methodology: the report above was produced by /ai-check on 25 April 2026 in launched-mode against the Amazon URL for Pyg: A Contemporary Sapphic Novel. We picked this book because its score (76) sits in the “partially visible” band — high enough that the diagnostic has signal to work with, low enough that there are real fixes to recommend. Bestsellers tend to score 92–98 in our calibration set; the diagnostic’s value is most evident in the 60–85 range where most working indie authors land.