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AEO MCP for ChatGPT: setup in two minutes

Add https://mcp.sprites.ai/mcp as a custom MCP connector in ChatGPT, sign in to Sprites, and ChatGPT can read your AI visibility (AEO) account and propose changes to it. Setup takes about two minutes and needs no API key. Every write comes back as an approval before it touches the account.

MCP server URLhttps://mcp.sprites.ai/mcp

5 steps · about 2 minutes

ChatGPTSprites connected

Who gets cited for "best AI ads platform"?

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SpritesAEONeeds your approval
  • Competitor Acited in 14 / 20
  • Competitor Bcited in 9 / 20
  • Youcited in 2 / 20
Both rivals are cited from one comparison page eachFix it

Add Sprites to ChatGPT

Available on Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu, on the web app. Not available on Free. You need a Sprites account with AI visibility (AEO) already connected — the connector acts on that connection, so ChatGPT never handles a AEO credential.

  1. Turn on developer mode

    Open Settings, go to Security and login, and switch Developer mode on. ChatGPT shows a warning that custom connectors run third-party code on your behalf — read it and accept. On Business and Enterprise workspaces an admin has to allow developer mode first.

    Developer modeSettings → Security and login
  2. Create the Sprites app

    Go to Settings → Plugins — this section used to be called Connectors, which is why older guides send you to an Advanced tab that no longer exists. Press the + button to create a developer-mode app.

    ChatGPT
    SettingsPlugins+ Create
  3. Paste the endpoint and choose OAuth

    Give it a name and description, paste the Sprites endpoint, and set Authentication to OAuth. Tick the box confirming you trust the application, then click Create.

    Create app
    NameSpritesMCP server URLhttps://mcp.sprites.ai/mcpAuthenticationOAuth
  4. Sign in and approve the scopes

    Connect the new app. ChatGPT sends you to the Sprites consent screen; sign in with the account holding your ad platforms and approve. The app then appears under Drafts in app settings and in the composer under the Developer mode tool.

    Spriteswants access on behalf of ChatGPT
    • Read your connected ad accounts and site data
    • Draft campaigns, creatives and pages for your approval
    • Apply only the changes you approve
    AllowCancel

Run the first prompt

Ask ChatGPT this. It routes to a Sprites door, which reads your AI visibility (AEO) account and answers — no account to name, no confirmation to give first.

  • With Sprites, who gets cited when someone asks ChatGPT for the best AI ads platform?
  • Ask Sprites to check our AI visibility against our three named competitors.
  • Use Sprites to write a comparison page for "us vs [competitor]" and draft it on the site.
  • Have Sprites draft an llms.txt from what we actually publish.
  • With Sprites, set up a weekly check on our top 20 buying prompts.

Open the composer's Developer mode tool and confirm Sprites is listed with its tools enabled, then ask it what it can do.

What ChatGPT can do with AI visibility (AEO)

The same doors, whichever client you are in. Developer mode gives ChatGPT full read-and-write MCP tools rather than the search-and-fetch pair the built-in connectors are limited to, and the Apps SDK renders the Sprites card in the thread.

Find out whether you exist

The prompts your buyers type, run against the answer engines, with who gets named and who does not.

See who is taking the citation

The competitor being cited, and the page the engine is reading to do it.

Write the page that wins it back

Answer pages, FAQ pages and comparison pages, structured the way answer engines actually lift from.

Draft an llms.txt that is not a stub

An index of the pages you actually publish, drafted from the site for you to review, rather than hand-listed and forgotten.

Track it over time

Visibility per prompt per engine, so a change is attributable to the page that caused it.

Get told when it slips

A scheduled check that messages you when a citation you had is gone.

How approvals work here

ChatGPT draws the Sprites approval card in the thread. A AEO change arrives with its before and after filled in, editable in place, and applies when you click approve.

What it reads

  • Answer-engine responses for the prompts you care about
  • Which brands and pages get cited, and how often
  • Your own site structure and existing answer coverage
  • Competitor pages the engines are reading

What it can change

  • Answer pages, FAQ pages, comparison and "vs" pages
  • llms.txt and entity pages
  • All drafted onto your site and published only on approval

When it does not work in ChatGPT

Three things go wrong in this client specifically, and each has a one-line fix.

There is no Advanced tab under Connectors.

Connectors was renamed Plugins, and developer mode moved to Settings → Security and login. Follow the path above rather than an older guide.

Sprites answers but the approval card never appears.

Developer mode is off, or the app was created before you turned it on. The card is an Apps SDK surface and only renders for a developer-mode app.

The tools stop appearing after a Sprites release.

ChatGPT caches the tool list. Use Refresh on the app in settings to pull the current tools and server instructions.

AI visibility (AEO) and ChatGPT: questions

Which URL do I paste into ChatGPT?

https://mcp.sprites.ai/mcp. There is one endpoint and every client uses it — every OAuth grant is bound to exactly that address, so a variant of it will not be honoured.

Can ChatGPT change my AI visibility (AEO) account without asking?

ChatGPT draws the Sprites approval card in the thread. A AEO change arrives with its before and after filled in, editable in place, and applies when you click approve.

Do I need a AI visibility (AEO) API key or developer token?

No. AI visibility (AEO) is connected once inside Sprites through Your site, plus AI answer-engine tracking, and the connector acts on that connection. ChatGPT never sees a credential for it.

Why ChatGPT for AI visibility (AEO) specifically?

Developer mode gives ChatGPT full read-and-write MCP tools rather than the search-and-fetch pair the built-in connectors are limited to, and the Apps SDK renders the Sprites card in the thread.

What is AEO?

Answer engine optimization: getting cited in the answers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and Google’s AI results give, rather than ranking in a list of ten blue links. The unit of success is a citation, not a position.

How does it know whether we are cited?

It runs your prompts against the engines and reads the answers, recording which brands and sources are named. It is a measurement, not an estimate.

Keep going

The same ChatGPT connector reaches every other channel — nothing else to add.

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AI visibility (AEO), from ChatGPT

Paste one URL, sign in once, and the next AEO question you ask ChatGPT gets answered from the live account.