Directory submission services optimize for a backlink count. Orbator optimizes for the only thing buyers now see first — whether AI assistants recommend you when they ask. Same submissions, a completely different scoreboard.
The AI Recommendation Index measures which sources AI assistants cite, weekly. Run the free scan to see the cited sources behind your category and where you're missing.
A traditional directory submission service is graded on volume: how many directories it submitted you to. But your buyers no longer scroll a list of backlinks — they ask an AI assistant "what's the best tool for X" and act on the answer. If that answer never names you, the directory count didn't matter. The question that decides the sale is now: does AI recommend you?
Orbator aligns the submission catalog to the sources AI engines actually cite. Directories AI never cites are flagged and deprioritized so your effort lands where it changes an answer. You still get the submissions — they just point at the places that move your AI visibility instead of padding a list.
Run one real query and see whether AI recommends you today, plus exactly which sources it read to decide. That's the same axis Orbator then improves: submit to cited sources, re-score, repeat. No backlink spreadsheet required.
Run one real query and see whether AI recommends you — and exactly which sources it read to decide. That's the gap Orbator closes.
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