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89Discoverable

AI Discovery Audit

[Sample Imprint]

Run 30 May 2026 at 16:17

Titles

1

Avg score

89 / 100

Spend

$4.800

Engines

5

Engines probed

ChatGPT (OpenAI)Claude (Anthropic, web_search)Perplexity (Sonar)Gemini (Google, search-grounded)Rufus · Amazon shopping AI (simulated preview)

Top competing titles

Titles the engines recommended instead. Each is labelled by relevance — true peer vs. listicle padding vs. prompt-echo — so the publisher can tell genuine competition apart from noise.

  1. 1

    The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

    Stephen R. Covey

    Peer38×
  2. 2

    Deep Work

    Cal Newport (2016)

    Peer34×
  3. 3

    Getting Things Done

    David Allen

    Peer21×
  4. 4

    Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

    David Allen

    Peer17×
  5. 5

    Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

    Cal Newport (2016)

    Peer16×
  6. 6

    Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

    Greg McKeown (2014)

    Peer15×
  7. 7

    The ONE Thing

    Gary Keller and Jay Papasan

    Peer11×
  8. 8

    Eat That Frog

    Brian Tracy

    Peer10×
  9. 9

    Feel Good Productivity

    Ali Abdaal (2023)

    Peer9×
  10. 10

    Essentialism

    Greg McKeown

    Peer9×

self-help / productivity

[Sample Book]

[Sample Author]

Score

89

Discoverable

At a glance

89

/ 100 · Discoverable

Confidence: Measured (multi-rep run)

Your book is in the active recommendation graph for at least some reader queries. The detail below shows which engines + which prompts are working, and where the gaps are.

💡 Unlock the AI crawler check. Re-run with your author website URLin the form (under the Amazon URL field). It fetches your robots.txt and tells you which AI crawlers can / can’t reach your site — one of the highest-impact diagnostics, and your structural-pack work is wasted if engines are blocked.

What AI currently says

  • Amazon Rufus:mentions title in 9 of 12 prompts (knows the book when named)
  • Claude (Anthropic):mentions title in 11 of 12 prompts (knows the book when named)
  • Gemini (Google):mentions title in 11 of 12 prompts (knows the book when named)
  • ChatGPT (OpenAI):mentions title in 10 of 12 prompts (knows the book when named)
  • Perplexity (Sonar):mentions title in 10 of 12 prompts (knows the book when named)

Three example prompts

Real prompts from this audit. One the engines got right, one they missed, one where they recommended someone else.

  • Surfaced

    “Best books about self-help productivity published in the last 12 months — give me 10.”

    Amazon Rufus mentioned "[Sample Book]" in 2 of 2 runs

  • Missed

    “Best books about self-help productivity published in the last 12 months — give me 10.”

    Gemini (Google) answered without mentioning "[Sample Book]"

  • Cited competitor

    “Best books about self-help productivity published in the last 12 months — give me 10.”

    ChatGPT (OpenAI) cited penguin.co.nz (and 12 other sources) — not your book

Top missed opportunities

  1. 1.Engines recommend "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" by Stephen R. Covey (38×) instead of yours — your book isn't on the same lists.

Do this first

  1. 1.Replace your Amazon listing with the AI-optimised rewrite below — 30–45 min, live in 24–48h.

Full data, evidence, action roadmap, and copy-paste artefacts in the sections below. Skim what you need; download report.json for the raw data.

Your action roadmap

Concrete steps sorted by speed-to-impact. Do #1 today; #2–4 this week if you can; #5 is the long lever. Each step lists where to submit, how long it takes, and which score axis it moves.

  1. 1
    Quick win

    Replace your Amazon listing with the rewrite below

    How: Open KDP → your book → Description & keywords. Paste the new description, swap the 7 backend keywords, copy the 5 bullets. If you have A+ Content access (Brand Registry / Vendor Central), build the 3 A+ blocks too. Update the short author bio.
    Effort30–45 minTime to impact24–48 hours after KDP saves itAxisAll axes (Amazon)

    Expected outcome: Lifts Amazon Rufus answer-coverage. Doesn't change LLM scores directly but improves on-Amazon conversion when readers DO arrive.

    ↓ See the Listing rewrite below

  2. 2
    Outreach

    Get into the outlets that cited "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" but missed your book

    How: The audit already identified the specific outlets — listed below. For each one: open the page, find the editor / author / contributor name (usually footer or About), then send a short pitch by email or contact form. Pitch template: who your book is for, one sentence on what makes it different from the named comp on their list, link to your Amazon page. Aim for 3 replies and 1 inclusion per 10 outlets contacted.
    Effort3–4 hours of outreach across the 2 outlets below, then ongoing follow-upTime to impact4–12 weeks for new listicles to index, then engines re-train against themAxisMarket authority

    Expected outcome: The single biggest lift available for market authority once structural signals are in. Listicles are how LLMs synthesise 'best of X' answers — being on the same lists as the named competitor closes the visibility gap.

    2 outlets to pitch — surfaced by this audit

    Each URL is a real outlet an engine cited when answering a reader prompt — and your book wasn’t in their list. Open it, find their contact / contributor address, send a one-paragraph pitch positioning your book as a peer addition.

Listing rewrite

Sonnet 4.6 · claude-sonnet-4-6

DRAFT — verify all factual claims before publishing

The rewriter is anti-hallucination — it refuses to invent claims that aren’t in source material (6 refusals logged at the bottom of this section). But it DOES accept claims FROM your source material, and not all source material is verified. Before pasting into KDP / Vendor Central, double-check:

  • Review counts & star ratings — Amazon updates these continuously; what was true at audit-time may differ when you ship
  • Publication date & page count — sometimes wrong on Google Books for re-issues / edition updates
  • Endorsement wording — make sure quoted endorsers actually said the exact words attributed to them
  • Biographical anecdotes — anything personal (hospitalisation stories, years of suffering, exact dates) should match what you can defend publicly
  • “Bestselling” / “featured in” claims — the rewriter refuses these without a citation; if you see one, ask why it was accepted and check the source

The provenance pills ([AMZ], [GB], [WP], [BIO], [CAT]) inline in the description + bios mark which sentences came from which source — you can audit each one against the original.

How to use this on Amazon

  1. 1.Open KDP → your book → "Edit book details" or "Edit eBook content".
  2. 2.Replace the **Description** with the long copy below. Keep paragraphs as-is — Rufus reads them as separate answer chunks.
  3. 3.Replace the **Subtitle** (if you have one) with whichever of the 3 variants matches your strongest positioning.
  4. 4.Open the Keywords tab and replace each of the 7 backend keyword slots with the suggestions below.
  5. 5.Update the **Author bio** on your KDP author page (Author Central → Bio → paste the Long version).
  6. 6.If you have Brand Registry / A+ Content access: build the 3 A+ modules below in the A+ Content Manager.
  7. 7.Save. Amazon takes 24–48 hours to re-index. Rufus picks up changes on its next crawl cycle (~3–7 days).

Heads up: Don't paste everything blindly — read each variant and pick the framing that's true to your book. The rewriter refusal log at the bottom shows what we declined to claim; that's a feature, not a gap.

Subtitle variants

  1. 1.Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results
  2. 2.The Proven System for Busy People Who Want Lasting Change
  3. 3.Build Better Habits With a Clear, Practical Framework

Backend keywords (7)

Bullets (5)

  • Discover why small, 1% improvements compound into life-changing results — this book is for anyone who has tried and failed to build lasting habits and wants a clear, repeatable system instead of willpower alone.
  • Works through a four-law framework — Make It Obvious, Make It Attractive, Make It Easy, Make It Satisfying — giving you concrete actions to design your environment and stack new behaviours onto existing ones.
  • AMZ James Clear draws on research in psychology, neuroscience, and biology to explain the mechanics of habit loops, translating scientific principles into practical daily techniques any reader can apply.
  • This book is not a motivational pep talk or a one-size-fits-all morning-routine prescription; readers who prefer abstract theory or narrative-driven case studies over practical, system-based guidance may find the format too structured.
  • Leave every chapter with a specific, testable change you can make today — so that by building identity-based habits rather than outcome-based goals, your new behaviours become self-sustaining over time.

Description

Provenance pills mark sentences grounded in a specific source — untagged sentences are framing/synthesis

Atomic Habits is for anyone who has set a goal, started strong, and quietly given up — and wants to understand why, then fix it for good. If you are juggling work, family, and ambition and can never seem to make new behaviours stick, this book offers a ground-level explanation of how habits actually form and a practical architecture for building ones that last. AMZ James Clear argues that the root cause of most habit failure is not lack of motivation but a poorly designed system. Rather than chasing dramatic transformations, the book shows how improvements of just 1% — repeated consistently — compound into remarkable long-term results. The central claim is that you do not rise to the level of your goals; you fall to the level of your systems. The practical core of the book is the Four Laws of Behaviour Change: Make It Obvious, Make It Attractive, Make It Easy, and Make It Satisfying. Each law comes with inversion strategies for breaking unwanted habits. Clear shows readers how to redesign their physical and digital environments, use habit stacking to anchor new routines to existing ones, and shift their sense of identity so that new behaviours feel natural rather than forced. The approach is cumulative — each chapter builds on the last, and every principle arrives with an immediately actionable technique. AMZ Clear synthesises findings from psychology, neuroscience, and behavioural economics, translating research into plain language without sacrificing rigour. The book is grounded in mechanisms — why cues trigger cravings, why rewards wire behaviour into memory — rather than anecdote alone. Readers who will get the most from this book already accept that change requires sustained effort and want a structured method to direct that effort. It is less suited to readers seeking a narrative-driven exploration of human psychology or a broad cultural history of behaviour — those readers may prefer the storytelling approach of The Power of Habit. Equally, if your primary challenge is deep concentration rather than routine-building, Cal Newport's Deep Work addresses that more directly. Atomic Habits is a practitioner's manual: specific, modular, and designed to be used alongside real life rather than read once and shelved.

A+ Content blocks

comparison

How Atomic Habits Differs From The Power of Habit and Deep Work
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg explores the science and cultural history of habits through narrative case studies — it is an excellent explanation of why habits exist. Atomic Habits begins where that explanation ends: it is a prescriptive system for what to do next. Where Duhigg investigates, Clear instructs. If you have already read about the habit loop and want a step-by-step method to act on that knowledge, Atomic Habits is the more practical next step. Deep Work by Cal Newport targets knowledge workers whose core problem is sustained, distraction-free concentration. Atomic Habits addresses the broader challenge of behaviour design across all areas of life — health, finances, relationships, and work. The two books complement each other well, but if you can only choose one and your priority is building any consistent routine from scratch, Atomic Habits is the natural starting point.

use-case

When Atomic Habits Helps Most — Typical Reader Scenarios
This book helps most at three points in a reader's life. First, after a resolution has failed. If you set a goal in January — exercise, diet, study — and it quietly dissolved by February, the Four Laws framework gives you a structural diagnosis of what went wrong and a concrete rebuild plan. Second, when you feel productive in bursts but cannot maintain consistency. The habit stacking and environment design chapters are particularly useful here, showing how to attach new behaviours to existing anchors rather than relying on motivation that fluctuates. Third, when you want to shed an unwanted behaviour. The inverted Four Laws — Make It Invisible, Make It Unattractive, Make It Difficult, Make It Unsatisfying — provide a mirror-image toolkit for disrupting routines you want to break. The book is modular: chapters can be revisited individually when a specific habit challenge arises, making it a reference as much as a cover-to-cover read.

credibility

About James Clear — The Thinking Behind Atomic Habits
AMZ James Clear is a writer and speaker who has focused his career on habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement. He began publishing research-backed articles on behaviour change that attracted a large readership before Atomic Habits was published, establishing him as a practitioner-writer rather than an academic researcher — someone who tests ideas against real behaviour and refines them publicly before committing them to a book. AMZ Atomic Habits draws on published research across psychology, neuroscience, and behavioural economics. Clear is transparent about his sources, citing the underlying studies and naming the researchers whose work informs each principle, which allows readers and professionals to trace claims back to primary literature. The book's credibility rests not on a single institutional credential but on the coherence and testability of its framework: readers can apply each law within days of encountering it and evaluate the results themselves. This empirical, outcome-oriented approach is consistent throughout the text and distinguishes it from purely inspirational self-help writing.

Author bio

Short

AMZ James Clear is a writer and speaker specialising in habits, decision-making, and continuous improvement. He synthesises research from psychology, neuroscience, and behavioural economics into practical frameworks, and has built a substantial readership through his writing on behaviour change before and since the publication of Atomic Habits.

Long

AMZ James Clear is a writer and speaker whose work centres on habits, decision-making, and the science of continuous improvement. He is the author of Atomic Habits, a practical guide to building good habits and breaking bad ones through incremental behavioural change. AMZ Clear's approach is grounded in published research across psychology, neuroscience, and behavioural economics. Rather than working from within an academic institution, he developed his framework publicly — testing, refining, and publishing ideas through long-form articles and a widely read newsletter before consolidating them into book form. This process-oriented, reader-tested method of development is reflected in the practical, modular structure of Atomic Habits itself. His writing is characterised by a commitment to traceability: he names the researchers and studies his principles draw on, enabling readers with a deeper interest in the science to pursue primary sources independently. This places his work in a distinct category within self-help publishing — closer to applied behavioural science than to motivational literature. AMZ Clear also speaks to organisations and teams on the application of habit science to professional performance, extending the Atomic Habits framework beyond individual self-improvement into group and institutional contexts. He is based in the United States.

Rewriter refusals

Claims not supported by source material

  • Refused to state any bestseller status, sales figures, or chart positions — no named list or year provided in source material.
  • Refused to name any specific awards, longlists, or media appearances — none present in source material.
  • Refused to provide a verified page count, ISBN, publisher name, or publication date — not present in source material.
  • Refused to quote any review or endorsement — none present in source material.
  • Refused to state Clear's educational background or specific institutional affiliation beyond what AMZ source implied — not present in source material.
  • Refused to use "groundbreaking", "unputdownable", "must-read", or equivalent fluff terms throughout.