AI Answer Visibility Tracker

What does it do?

Ask a live AI engine your buyers' questions and measure whether your brand appears. Gemini with Google Search grounding is available now. Perplexity support is prepared but requires an API key to be enabled by the operator; until then it returns a free engine_unavailable row. Each usable answer produces one ANSWER row. SUMMARY is saved to the key-value store and dataset.

How to use

1. Enter your brand, website and up to 10 competitors.
2. Add up to 10 buyer questions. Category questions without your brand name (for example, "Which CDN should a small business use?") measure whether an engine recommends you. If left empty, 10 questions containing your brand name are generated to inspect how the engine describes you.
3. Choose gemini (default) and optionally perplexity. Set samples to 1–5 to repeat each question on each engine.
4. Run on a paid Apify plan. Review brandMentioned, mentionPosition, citations and SUMMARY.shareOfVoice. For missed mentions, follow geoAuditUrl to the GEO readiness audit.

Example: {"brand":"Cloudflare","domain":"cloudflare.com","competitors":["Akamai","Fastly"],"queries":["Which CDN should a small business use?"],"engines":["gemini"],"samples":3}.

Input

• brand, domain (required): exact brand name and public website.
• competitors: up to 10 names.
• queries: up to 10 buyer questions; when empty, 10 brand questions are generated.
• engines: gemini (default); perplexity requires the operator's Worker API key.
• samples: 1–5 repeated answers per question and engine (default 1). Every successful sample is a separate engine query.

Output

Each successful ANSWER has brand, domain, query, engine, sample, checkedAt, success, brandMentioned, mentionPosition, competitorMentions, citations, answerSummary, grounded, providerCostUsd, geoAuditUrl, and charged. Failed rows instead carry errorType and error. mentionPosition is the first appearance order among the monitored brand/domain and competitors in the answer text; it is not search-result rank. citations contains up to 20 source URLs. charged on a stored answer means charge eligible; confirmed charges are in the summary. providerCostUsd is the Perplexity API cost reported for that answer; Gemini has null.

SUMMARY has status, queriesAttempted, successfulQueries, failedQueries, brandMentions, visibilityScore, competitors, shareOfVoice, brand, domain, engines, samples, chargedEvents, notProcessed, estimatedGrossUsd, geoAuditUrl, unavailableEngines, and availabilityNote. visibilityScore is successful answers mentioning the brand divided by successful answers. shareOfVoice lists the brand and competitors with name, mentions and sharePercent; the denominator is all monitored-name mentions across successful answers, so one answer can count multiple brands. With no mentions, sharePercent is null. Failed samples are excluded.

Cost and limitations

$0.12 per successful engine query (engine-query), including each repeated sample. Failed, unavailable, skipped and free-plan queries are free. A spending limit stops further queries. The default maximum is 10 questions × 1 engine × 1 sample = $1.20; selecting both engines and 5 samples makes the theoretical maximum $12.00.

Live engine calls require a paid Apify plan. Free-plan runs return up to three paid_plan_required explanation rows without contacting either provider or charging. Perplexity stays unavailable until its key is approved and installed. AI answers vary; repeated samples help expose variation but do not represent a search ranking. Exact-name matching does not count nicknames or misspellings. The GEO audit predicts readiness and cannot guarantee citation.

FAQ

Am I charged when an engine fails? No. Only a saved, usable answer is charge eligible.

Can I monitor weekly? Yes. Save the input as a task, schedule it, and compare the summary over time.