Every AI visibility vendor can show you a list of buyer questions where ChatGPT or Perplexity names a competitor. The useful comparison starts after that list exists: who writes the page, who publishes it, who re-runs the question, and what you pay for each step. The person who turns line 14 of its report into a published page costs more than that every week. So the price of a tool only tells you the price of the list. The comparison that matters is the price of a changed answer, and that depends on who does the next four steps.
Otterly, Peec and Profound rank prompts by volume or by competitor share of voice and leave the choice to you. Gushwork's strategy agent chooses. Lean Labs' strategists choose. SiteSonar ranks gaps by revenue impact (prompt intent, your closest page's AI readability score, and which competitor is winning) and puts the top items in your approval queue each weekday.
Otterly and Peec do not. Profound includes agent credits on its enterprise and agency plans. Gushwork's content agent writes service, comparison and location pages. Lean Labs writes as an agency. SiteSonar drafts an answer-first page, FAQ block and JSON-LD schema per gap, and on the Business and Founders offer our editors rewrite the draft before you see it. On both offers nothing publishes until you approve it.
Otterly and Peec hand you an export. Profound has integrations behind agent workflows. Gushwork auto-publishes to your domain, with optional human review. Lean Labs publishes as part of the engagement. SiteSonar publishes approved drafts to WordPress, Shopify, GitHub, Lovable, Cloudflare Workers or any CMS over MCP, in your site's design, on your domain.
This is the step most vendors skip. Trend tracking shows the overall rate moved; it cannot tell you which page moved it. SiteSonar re-runs the specific prompts seven days after each publish and logs the change per page against the baseline recorded on day one. Gushwork runs a refresh loop. Lean Labs and the three tools report the trend.
Sources: PricingSaaS pages for Otterly and Peec; GEO Toolbox's Profound pricing guide (checked September 28, 2026); Affinco's Gushwork review (September 30, 2026); Lean Labs' own AEO cost FAQ; sitesonar.ai/pricing. Vendors change these prices often. Profound changed plans three times in 2026.
SiteSonar's guarantee is judged at day 90 against the written baseline. Improvement means any one of: AI Visibility Score up 10 points, citation rate up 15 percentage points, or 5 net-new queries where an engine now cites you. If none is met, subscription fees for the period are refunded. The conditions are that you approve the recommended content, keep the platform connected, and attend one review call. We did not find published thresholds from any other vendor in this table.
Otterly is the cheapest way to see where you stand, and a good first check before you spend on anything. Peec has strong multi-model analytics for teams that already have a content function. Profound tracks up to nine engines and is built for enterprise procurement. Gushwork bundles an AI SDR that calls your leads, which we do not do. Lean Labs runs off-site authority at a scale we do not attempt. If one of those is your main gap, buy that.
DoodleWeb, the agency that built SiteSonar, went from zero to 60 percent citation coverage on its tracked buyer queries and recorded 246 ChatGPT visits and 19 leads in 84 days of GA4 data. Wildflower Hemp Co, a live customer engagement, moved from 40 percent to 50 percent citation rate across ten tracked queries in 14 days with 105 AI referral sessions. Baselines are published next to each result on the case studies page. They are specific engagements, not projections.
Run the free snapshot to see your baseline. No card, no trial signup. If the gaps are there, the Agencies offer has a 14-day trial and the Business and Founders offer starts with a call.
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## How do I optimize content for AI search visibility in 2026? URL: https://sitesonar.ai/blog/optimize-content-for-ai-search-visibility-2026 Published: 2026-10-09 Six properties of pages that AI engines cite, the common mistakes, what DIY, freelancers, tools, services and SiteSonar cost in 2026, and a 30-day plan you can run yourself. Prices checked October 8, 2026.Quick answer: Write one page per buyer question, put the direct answer in the first 60 words, keep your company facts identical everywhere the engines look, add FAQ and Organization schema, let AI crawlers in, and re-run the question seven days after you publish to see whether the answer changed. Most teams can do the first four themselves. The last one, re-checking and iterating across seven AI surfaces, is where a platform or an agency earns its fee. SiteSonar runs that loop for you: $599 a month for agencies running it themselves on three domains, or $1,200 a month for one business with our team doing the work. The trade-offs against the other options are set out below.
When a buyer asks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Copilot, Google AI Overviews or Google AI Mode for a vendor, the answer names two to five sources and the buyer rarely looks further. If your site is not one of those sources, that buyer never becomes a visit you can measure. The traffic that does arrive is real: over an 84-day window, GA4 on doodleweb.io, the agency that built SiteSonar, recorded 246 visits from ChatGPT and 19 leads from them, and tracked citation coverage on its buyer prompts went from zero to 60 percent. Wildflower Hemp Co, a live customer engagement, moved from 40 percent to 50 percent citation rate across ten tracked queries in 14 days. Those are specific engagements published with their baselines on the case studies page, not an industry projection.
Engines pull from pages that answer a specific question plainly and that they can verify against other sources. Six properties come up again and again in the pages that get cited:
Comparison pages with real prices, pricing pages with real numbers, "what is X" and "how do I" answer pages, and FAQ blocks. Off-site, Reddit threads, LinkedIn posts from a named person, and YouTube videos with a clear title and description. Long thought-leadership essays and gated PDFs are cited least, because the engine cannot extract a specific answer from them.
Prices checked against vendor pricing pages and public pricing trackers on October 8, 2026.
| Option | What you pay | What you get | What is still on you | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Do it yourself | Your time, plus a monitoring tool: Otterly.AI from $25/mo or Peec AI from $80/mo, billed annually | A list of the prompts you are losing and who is cited instead | Choosing which gaps to close, writing, schema, publishing, re-checking | | Freelancer | Quoted per page; rates vary widely | Pages written to your brief | Prompt research, technical fixes, re-checking; put the day-7 re-check in the brief | | Enterprise monitoring tool | Profound: custom quote for brands; agencies $99/mo base plus $399/mo per client workspace | Up to nine engines tracked, agent credits for drafts | A content team to act on the output | | Done-for-you service | Gushwork from $900/mo; Lean Labs from $12,000 one-time plus $5,000/mo | Pages written and published; Lean Labs adds off-site authority | Measurement terms; neither publishes a guarantee | | Platform with a managed option | SiteSonar: $599/mo for agencies (three domains, self-serve, 14-day trial); $1,200/mo Business and Founders (one domain, run by our team) | Seven surfaces tracked, pages drafted and published after your approval, day-7 re-check per page, written baseline, 90-day guarantee | Approving the content and attending one review call |Answer four questions. Who acts on the report? If someone on your team will write, add schema and publish every week, buy a monitoring tool and run it. If nobody owns that step, you are buying a service whatever the pricing page calls it. Is the site itself the problem? Crawler access, llms.txt, structured data and Core Web Vitals are web development work; a tool can only point at them. What is the baseline? Insist on a dated record of prompts, citations and competitors before any work starts, from any vendor. What happens if nothing moves? Ask for the guarantee terms in numbers. Most vendors on the market publish none.
SiteSonar, on whichever offer matches who will do the work. It was built in 2026 by DoodleWeb, a Seattle web agency founded in 2019 that builds on Drupal, WordPress, Webflow and Shopify, because the agency needed one loop that measured, fixed and proved on the same data. If you want an agency to run the whole program, including the technical website work, DoodleWeb is the agency we recommend; it runs SiteSonar for its own clients. Five things set the platform apart from the other options in the table:
If week four shows movement and you want it to continue without doing weeks one to three yourself every month, that is the point to put the loop on a platform. SiteSonar runs the same four weeks continuously and puts one ready-to-approve item in your queue each weekday.
How quickly do results show? Branded and long-tail prompts often move inside 30 days. Broader commercial prompts commonly take 60 to 90 days.
Do I need to rewrite my whole site? No. Start with the prompts where a competitor is cited and you have a credible answer, usually three to five pages.
Does social media affect AI search visibility? Yes. Engines cite LinkedIn posts, Reddit threads and YouTube videos directly, and a consistent LinkedIn presence for a named executive gives the engine a second source for your company facts.
Should I keep doing SEO? Yes. The on-page foundations overlap. The target is different: a ranked link versus being one of the sources an engine names inside its answer.
Can I run SiteSonar next to an existing tracker? Yes. The baseline is recorded from your existing tracker and reported against both.
See where you stand. Run the free snapshot on this site, no card and no trial signup. If the gaps are there, the Agencies offer has a 14-day trial and the Business and Founders offer starts with a call.
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## FAQ **What is SiteSonar?** SiteSonar is an AI search visibility platform for B2B companies that measures whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode cite your brand, writes and publishes the fixes for the queries you are losing, and re-verifies the citation lift seven days later. **How is SiteSonar different from measurement-only tools like Profound, Otterly, or Peec AI?** Measurement-only tools report which AI answers cite you and stop there, while SiteSonar completes the loop by generating the fix, publishing it to your site, and re-checking the engines to prove the citation changed. **Does SiteSonar publish content automatically?** SiteSonar drafts every fix and places it in an approval queue, and it publishes to WordPress, GitHub, or any CMS over MCP only after a human approves the change, with fully automatic publishing available as an opt-in on managed engagements. **What is an AI credit?** An AI credit is the unit SiteSonar consumes when it runs an AI operation such as generating buyer queries, drafting a page fix, or building an llms.txt file, and each plan includes a monthly credit allowance that resets every billing cycle. **How much does SiteSonar cost?** SiteSonar has three priced offers and a custom option. Agencies is $599/mo for three domains and 600 monthly AI credits, or $509/mo billed annually. Done for you Core is $1,200/mo for one domain, run by the SiteSonar team. Done for you Custom starts from $2,500/mo, scoped on a call. Larger programs get a custom quote after a meeting at https://sitesonar.ai/book. **Is there a free plan?** SiteSonar offers a 14-day free trial with no credit card required, and there is no free tier after the trial ends. **Can agencies resell SiteSonar?** Agencies pay $599/mo for the agency website plus two client domains, 600 monthly AI credits, white-label reporting, and one agency parent account. **What is the difference between SiteSonar self-serve and SiteSonar Managed?** Agencies is the self-serve offer at $599/mo; Done for you Core is the done-for-you offer at $1,200/mo, with SiteSonar researching, writing, publishing after approval, and reporting the measured citation lift. **What proof does SiteSonar have that it works?** SiteSonar publishes its own engagements as case studies, including DoodleWeb moving from zero to 60 percent citation coverage on tracked buyer queries and Amplify's measured citation gains, and every engagement is published at the 90-day mark including the misses. **Which CMS platforms does SiteSonar support?** SiteSonar publishes to WordPress through a plugin, to static and Jamstack sites through GitHub pull requests, and to any other CMS through its MCP publishing connector, and tracking works on any site with a single script tag. **What add-ons does SiteSonar offer?** SiteSonar has exactly three paid add-ons, each a separate recurring subscription: Site Answers at $149/mo, Visitor Tracking at $149/mo, AI Agents at $299/mo. All three are available with either core offer, and connectors such as WordPress, GitHub, MCP, HubSpot, Slack, and Google Search Console are free. **Is the AI chat widget included in the SiteSonar plan price?** No. The on-page AI chat assistant is the Site Answers add-on at $149/mo, billed as a separate line on the same subscription, and it is available with either core offer. **How much does visitor identification cost on SiteSonar?** Visitor identification is the Visitor Tracking add-on at $149/mo on top of any self-serve plan, and it includes the Visitor Reveal identification provider, which we configure for you rather than charging for separately. **Do I have to pay extra for the SiteSonar WordPress plugin?** No. Every SiteSonar connector is free and included on every plan, including WordPress, GitHub, the MCP connector, HubSpot, Slack, Google Search Console, HeyGen LiveAvatar, and Visitor Reveal. Only the three add-ons carry a price. **Who is behind SiteSonar?** SiteSonar is operated by SiteSonar, LLP, a Utah limited liability partnership at 3061 Fairway Hills Ct., Park City, UT 84060. It is built by the team behind DoodleWeb and led by Chandan Sharma and Dan Cone. **What is SiteSonar?** SiteSonar is an AI search visibility platform that measures how often ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode cite your company, diagnoses why they don't, and ships the fixes to your site. It runs a closed loop: measure, fix, prove. Unlike reporting tools, it drafts the answer-first content, FAQ blocks and schema that make a page quotable, then re-checks the engines to confirm the change moved the number. **How is SiteSonar different from Profound, Otterly or Peec AI?** Those tools measure AI visibility and hand you a report; SiteSonar measures it and then ships the fix. Profound, Otterly and Peec AI are strong at tracking prompts and citations, but the remediation work still lands on your content team. SiteSonar generates the page-level fixes, routes them through an approval queue you control, publishes them via WordPress, GitHub or MCP, and re-verifies the engines afterwards. **Do I need to rebuild my site to use SiteSonar?** No. SiteSonar reads your existing site by crawling it, and publishes changes through the CMS you already use — WordPress, GitHub-backed static sites, or any system reachable through MCP. There is no migration, no theme change and no redesign. If you prefer, you can export the fixes and publish them yourself. **How long until I see results?** Most teams see the first measurable movement within 14 days of the first published fixes, and the guarantee is judged at 90 days. AI engines re-crawl and re-rank on their own schedule, so citation gains build over weeks rather than hours. Your baseline is locked in writing on day one so every change is measured against the same number. **Which AI engines does SiteSonar track?** SiteSonar tracks ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode. For each tracked buyer query it records whether you were cited, how prominently, and which competitor was cited instead. Agency accounts receive weekly reports, while done-for-you customers receive a measured citation-lift report every month. **Who is SiteSonar for?** SiteSonar is built for B2B marketing teams, agencies and founders whose buyers now research inside AI assistants before they ever visit a website. Marketing teams run it themselves, agencies resell it to clients under their own brand, and teams who want the outcome without the work hire SiteSonar Managed. Agencies use the $599/month self-serve offer, while businesses and founders use the $1,200/month done-for-you offer. **What does the SiteSonar platform actually do?** The platform runs one loop across three stages: Measure tracks your citations across the AI engines, Fix drafts and publishes the page changes that make you quotable, and Prove re-verifies the engines and reports the delta. Every module feeds the next, so a gap found on Monday can be a published fix by Friday and a re-verified citation the week after. **What data does the platform run on?** SiteSonar combines four data sources: live prompt runs against ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode; a full crawl of your own site; Google Search Console and Google Analytics if you connect them; and offsite mention data from the sources the engines cite. Nothing is inferred from a single source, which is why the score is reproducible. **What does SiteSonar change on my site?** It changes page content and markup: answer-first opening paragraphs, FAQ blocks, structured data such as FAQPage and Organization JSON-LD, internal links, and llms.txt. It does not change your design, templates or navigation. Every change sits in an approval queue until a human approves it. **Which plan includes the full platform?** The Agencies offer is $599/month for three domains and includes measurement, AI readiness, GEO Autopilot, the Resource Hub, an approval queue, weekly reports, white-label reporting and an agency parent account. Done for you Core is $1,200/month for one domain, run entirely by our team. **Can I use only the measurement side?** Yes. Agencies can use the $599/month offer to measure visibility, review gaps and approve work through the Resource Hub. Automated publishing remains under human control. **What does the AI Visibility Tracker do?** It runs your tracked buyer queries against ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode on a schedule, and records whether your brand was cited, in what position, and which competitors were cited instead. The result is an AI Visibility Score plus a per-query citation rate you can trend over time. It's the number the 90-day guarantee is measured against. **What data does it use?** It uses live prompt runs against the engines themselves, not a third-party index or an estimate. Each run stores the full answer text, the cited sources and the timestamp, so any score can be traced back to the exact response that produced it. Google Search Console data is layered on as supporting evidence when you connect it. **What does it change on my site?** Nothing on its own — the tracker is read-only. It produces the query list, the citation history and the ranked gaps that the Fix modules act on. Changes to your site only ever happen through the approval queue. **Which plan includes AI visibility tracking?** Every offer includes AI visibility tracking. Agencies pay $599/month for three domains and 600 monthly AI credits; Done for you Core pay $1,200/month for one domain with our team reading the results and doing the work. **How many queries can I track?** The Agencies offer includes 600 AI credits per month, reset monthly. One credit is one billable AI operation: a tracked query run against an engine, an AI-drafted resource page or LinkedIn post, a generated share image, or a page scanned for AI readiness. **What are Curated Answers?** Curated Answers are the approved, answer-first responses SiteSonar places on your own pages so that both buyers and AI crawlers get a clean, quotable answer to a real question. They render inline in the page, not in a chat bubble. Each one is written from your own source material and approved by a human before it publishes. **What data are the answers generated from?** Only your own content: your crawled pages, documentation, product copy and any source material you upload. SiteSonar does not invent product claims, and every generated answer is linked back to the source passage it was drawn from so a reviewer can check it. Anything unsupported is flagged rather than published. **What does it change on my site?** It adds or rewrites the opening answer paragraph and FAQ block on a page, and attaches matching FAQPage structured data. Layout, design and navigation are untouched. The change is visible in a diff before you approve it. **Which plan includes Curated Answers?** The Agencies offer includes the Resource Hub, approval queue and GEO Autopilot for three domains at $599/month. The $1,200/month Done for you Core offer includes answer writing and publishing by our team, always subject to your approval. **Can I edit an answer before it goes live?** Yes, and most teams do. Every draft lands in the approval queue where you can edit the wording, reject it, or ask for a regeneration with different framing. Nothing publishes without an explicit approval. **What does Visitor Identification do?** It identifies the companies visiting your site — including visitors arriving from AI assistants — and routes the high-intent ones to your CRM, Slack or a webhook. It answers the question AI-referred traffic usually leaves unanswered: which accounts actually read the page you just fixed. Company-level firmographics and the pages viewed come with each alert. **What data does it use, and is it personal data?** It uses reverse-IP and firmographic enrichment to resolve company-level identity, not named individuals. SiteSonar does not build personal profiles or store PII without consent, and honors Global Privacy Control and CCPA opt-out signals. Configuration for GDPR regions is available on request. **What does it change on my site?** It adds one lightweight script tag; nothing else on the page changes. There is no visible widget, no cookie banner change required beyond your existing disclosure, and no impact on your design. Removing the tag stops collection immediately. **Which plan includes Visitor Identification?** It is available as a paid add-on to the Agencies and Done for you Core offers. Talk to us if you need a volume-based quote for a high-traffic site. **What does Conversion Routing do?** It decides what a high-intent visitor sees and where their signal goes: which CTA to surface, which page to route them to, and which sales channel gets the alert. It closes the gap between an AI-referred visitor landing on a page and your team knowing about it. Rules are set by you and can be changed without a developer. **What data does it use?** It combines on-site behaviour (pages viewed, dwell, repeat visits), the identified company from Visitor Identification, and the referring source including AI assistants. Those signals produce an intent score that triggers your routing rules. All of it is company-level, not personal profiling. **What does it change on my site?** It can swap the CTA block on a page and trigger routing events; it does not restructure the page or alter your content. Every variation is defined by you in advance. If routing is turned off the page renders exactly as it did before. **Which plan includes Conversion Routing?** Routing capabilities are available through the relevant paid add-ons for Agencies and Done for you Core. Our team configures the applicable routing for done-for-you engagements. **What is Interactive Video?** Interactive Video places a live AI presenter on a page that a buyer can actually ask questions to, rather than a pre-recorded clip they watch passively. It answers from your approved content, so the answers match the rest of the site. It is most often used on pricing and product pages where buyers stall. **What data does the presenter answer from?** Only your approved knowledge base: crawled pages, documentation and uploaded material. It uses the same source-linked answers as Curated Answers, so an answer given on video matches the answer written on the page. Out-of-scope questions are handed off to a form or a call booking rather than guessed at. **What does it change on my site?** It embeds a player on the pages you choose. No other layout, template or content change is required, and it can be limited to a single page while you test it. **Which plan includes Interactive Video?** Interactive Video is an add-on rather than a bundled plan feature, and is included in Managed engagements where we configure and maintain it for you. Pricing depends on session volume — ask for a quote on a scoping call. **How do the SiteSonar modules relate to each other?** They form one loop rather than a menu of tools. Measurement modules produce the gaps, Fix modules turn gaps into drafted page changes, publishing modules ship them through your CMS, and reporting modules re-verify the engines and show the delta. Running only one stage is possible, but the compounding effect comes from the full loop. **What runs automatically and what needs a human?** Measurement, scoring, gap detection, drafting and re-verification run automatically on a schedule. Publishing never does — every content or schema change waits in an approval queue for a human. That boundary is deliberate: SiteSonar automates the analysis and the drafting, not the decision to change your site. **What is an AI credit spent on?** One billable AI operation: a tracked query run against an engine, an AI-drafted resource page or LinkedIn post, a generated share image, or a page scanned for AI readiness. The Agencies offer includes 600 monthly credits that reset each month. Extra credit packs can be added when needed. **Do I have to turn on every module?** No. Modules are independent and can be enabled per domain, so you can run measurement only on one site and the full loop on another. Most teams start with measurement plus fix drafting, then add publishing automation once they trust the drafts. **How often does each module run?** The Agencies offer includes weekly reporting. Done for you Core receives a monthly measured citation-lift report, with our team operating the underlying checks and readiness work. **What paid add-ons does SiteSonar offer?** There are exactly three: Site Answers at $149/mo, an on-site AI answer widget that responds in your own approved language; Visitor Tracking at $149/mo, which identifies the companies arriving from AI engines; and AI Agents at $299/mo, which runs the drafting and monitoring work automatically. Each is a separate monthly subscription on top of your plan. **How much does the SiteSonar AI chat widget cost?** The Site Answers widget is a $149/mo add-on available with either core offer. It answers visitor questions using only your approved SiteSonar content, so the on-site answer matches what ChatGPT and Perplexity are told about you. **How much does visitor identification cost?** Visitor Tracking is $149/mo on top of any paid plan and includes the Visitor Reveal identification provider, company-level de-anonymisation, AI-source attribution and CRM sync. It is not bundled into plan pricing because identification data carries its own per-lookup cost. **Are connectors like WordPress and HubSpot free?** Yes. Every connector — WordPress, GitHub, MCP, HubSpot, Slack, Google Search Console, HeyGen and Visitor Reveal — is included free on every plan and is never sold as an add-on. A few connectors only become useful once a related add-on is active, but the connector itself never carries a charge. **Can I add AI Agents to either core offer?** AI Agents is a $299/mo add-on available with either core offer. Site Answers and Visitor Tracking are also available with either offer. **Can I cancel an add-on separately from my plan?** Yes. Add-ons bill as separate lines on the same subscription and can be removed at any time, taking effect at the end of the current billing cycle. Your plan is unaffected. Annual billing saves 15 percent on add-ons, the same discount as plans. **What is the difference between Core and Custom?** Core is one domain, 20 questions, one page a day, approvals by email. Custom is scaled to your market with up to 100 questions, two pages a day, LinkedIn and YouTube, competitor tracking, and a weekly working session. **Why is Custom priced from $2,500?** Because the scope is set per brand after a scoping call: number of questions, pages, channels and domains all move the price. $2,500 is the floor for the standing weekly engagement. **What if I need more than Custom?** Book a meeting at sitesonar.ai/book. We scope a custom program for more domains, languages, markets or channels and quote it after the call. **Can I start on Core and move to Custom?** Yes, at any monthly renewal. **What is an AI credit?** One AI credit is one billable AI operation: a tracked query run against an engine, an AI-drafted resource page or LinkedIn post, a generated share image, or a page scanned for AI readiness. Agencies includes 600 credits per month, reset monthly. **What happens if I run out of credits?** Nothing breaks. Your dashboards, published content and reports keep working, and new citation checks simply pause until the next billing cycle. **How much does SiteSonar cost?** SiteSonar has three offers. Agencies is $599/month for three domains and 600 monthly AI credits. Done for you Core is $1,200/month for one domain, run by our team. Done for you Custom starts from $2,500/month, scoped on a call. If you need more than Custom covers, book a meeting and we quote a custom program. **Is there a free plan?** There is a 14-day free trial with no card required, but no permanent free tier after that. The trial includes the full measurement stack so you can see your real AI visibility baseline before you pay. A free one-off AI visibility snapshot is also available at /free-snapshot. **Can an agency use SiteSonar for clients?** Yes. Agencies is $599/month for the agency website plus two client domains and includes white-label reporting and one agency parent account. It includes a 14-day free trial. **What is the difference between self-serve and managed?** Agencies is the $599/month self-serve offer. Done for you Core is the $1,200/month done-for-you offer where our team handles buyer questions, writing, publishing, technical fixes, listings and monthly citation-lift reporting. **Do you offer annual billing?** Yes. Annual billing for Agencies saves 15 percent and costs $509 per month billed annually. Done for you Core is billed monthly by invoice using card or ACH. **Can I change plans later, and what if I cancel?** Agency subscriptions can be changed or cancelled before renewal. Done for you Core is billed monthly and can be cancelled with 30 days' notice; content already published remains yours. **What does the managed team actually do each month?** A SiteSonar analyst runs the full loop for you: refreshes the query set, reviews citation movement across all engines, writes and publishes the highest-impact page fixes, and delivers a monthly report with the same three numbers every time. You get a weekly async update and one review call a month. Typical output is 8 to 20 published fixes a month depending on tier. **What is not included in a managed engagement?** Managed does not include net-new website design or development, paid media management, general SEO link-building campaigns, or PR outreach. It also does not include writing content outside the AI visibility scope agreed at kickoff. Anything outside scope is quoted separately before work starts. **How is the guarantee measured on a managed engagement?** Your AI Visibility Score, citation rate and tracked query wins are locked as a written baseline before work begins, and judged again at day 90. Improvement means any one of: score up 10+ points, citation rate up 15+ percentage points, or 5+ net-new queries where an engine now cites you. If none is met, subscription fees for the period are refunded. **How does managed compare to hiring someone in-house?** You also get a team that has run this loop across multiple sites rather than one person learning AI search on your budget. In-house wins when you need deep, daily product knowledge in the writing. **What happens after the first 90 days?** Done for you Core continues month to month at $1,200 for one domain. You can cancel any time with 30 days' notice, and content already published remains yours. **Do I need a minimum number of clients to join the partner program?** No minimum client count. Agencies is $599/month and includes the agency website plus two client domains, with 600 AI credits that reset monthly. **Can I set my own retail price?** Yes, entirely. What you charge your client is your decision and we never see or police it. The Agencies offer is billed to your agency at $599/month, and the difference between that and your retail price is yours. **What happens if a client leaves?** Remove the site from your parent account and billing adjusts on the following cycle — there is no per-client contract or termination fee. Historical reporting for that client stays available to you for export. **Will my client ever see SiteSonar branding?** Reports use your logo and brand colors, and the agency parent account keeps client work organized under your agency. **Do you sell directly to my clients?** No. Deal registration protects any account you source, and we route inbound enquiries from a registered domain back to you. Our direct offer for businesses and founders is separate from the agency account you operate. **What exactly is guaranteed?** That your AI search visibility measurably improves within 90 days, or subscription fees for that period are refunded. Improvement means any one of three things measured against your locked baseline: AI Visibility Score up 10+ points, citation rate up 15+ percentage points, or 5+ net-new queries where an AI engine now cites you and previously did not. Hit any one and the guarantee is met. **How is it measured?** Against a baseline locked in writing on day one and never changed. The same tracked query set is checked daily across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, with Google Search Console and Google Analytics wired in as third-party supporting evidence. You can see the live numbers at any time — we are not grading our own homework at the end. **What do I have to do for the guarantee to apply?** Three things: publish the content we recommend (you approve every word), keep SiteSonar connected for the full 90 days, and attend at least one review call. If recommended fixes sit unapproved for weeks, the guarantee is void because the work never shipped. Everything else is on us. **What happens if the guarantee is not met?** We refund the subscription fees you paid during the 90-day period. There is no argument phase and no requirement to prove anything — the numbers are already on the dashboard and either cleared a threshold or did not. Content already published to your site stays yours. **Who is eligible for the guarantee?** Managed engagements and self-serve customers who complete a baseline during their trial and stay on a paid plan for the full 90 days. It does not apply to sites blocked from AI crawlers, to brand-new domains with no crawlable content, or to accounts that skip the baseline step. Agencies can pass an equivalent commitment to their clients, backed by ours. **Do you guarantee number one rankings?** No, and anyone who does is guessing. AI answers vary between runs and no vendor controls how ChatGPT or Perplexity assemble a response. We guarantee measured visibility improvement across a tracked query set, which is the part that can actually be verified. **What do I have to do?** About five minutes a day. Every weekday morning one ready-to-publish piece lands in your approval queue — a resource page answering a real buyer question, or a LinkedIn post in your voice with the image already made. You read it, tweak it if you like, and press Approve. Nothing publishes without you. **How fast is setup?** Days one to three, after one 15-minute kickoff call. We deploy your resource hub on your own domain at yourcompany.com/resources, style it to your brand automatically, and wire up tracking. Your baseline week starts immediately afterwards. **Do you need access to my website?** Not necessarily. You can connect Google Analytics, Search Console and LinkedIn yourself from your own login — guided, two clicks each — or hand us access and we do it. Publishing runs through Cloudflare Workers, WordPress, Shopify, Lovable or GitHub, whichever you already use. **What is in the weekly report?** Citations won across all seven AI surfaces, real reactions and comments on your LinkedIn posts, resource page reads, and leads captured. It also explains how each AI engine changed its sourcing behaviour this month and what we adjusted because of it. A monthly results call is optional. **Which integrations are live today?** Cloudflare Workers, WordPress, Shopify, Lovable, GitHub, LinkedIn, Google Search Console, GA4, IndexNow, Slack, HubSpot, email delivery, and our partner API plus a remote MCP server. Everything listed on the integrations page is shipped and running on customer accounts. **How do I serve the resource hub on my own domain?** Most non-WordPress sites use Cloudflare Workers. We give you the exact worker script and routes, and your hub goes live at yourcompany.com/resources in minutes. WordPress sites use the native auto-updating plugin, and Shopify uses hub serving plus a theme script tag. **Can my own AI tools read SiteSonar data?** Yes. We ship a partner API and a remote MCP server, so Claude or your own custom agents can query your SiteSonar data directly rather than screen-scraping a dashboard. **What about Webflow, Squarespace, Wix, Ghost, Drupal or Salesforce?** Those are on request, not shipped connectors. We have delivered them inside scoped engagements and will tell you honestly what the work involves before you buy. They are not included in a self-serve plan. **What happens on day one?** On day one we agree your tracked buyer query set, connect Google Search Console and Analytics if you use them, and start the first crawl and engine baseline. Nothing changes on your site yet. By the end of day one you have a locked baseline number and a first view of who the engines cite instead of you. **How long does the crawl take?** Most sites finish the first full crawl within a few hours; 250-page sites are usually done in under an hour and large portfolios can take up to a day. The first engine baseline across all tracked queries completes within 24 hours. After that, refresh runs on your plan's cadence — weekly, twice weekly or daily. **What needs my approval before anything goes live?** Every content and markup change. Drafted intros, FAQ blocks, JSON-LD schema and llms.txt updates all sit in an approval queue with a visible diff until a human approves, edits or rejects them. Measurement and reporting run without approval because they change nothing on your site. **What integrations are required?** The only requirement is a crawlable site. Publishing automation needs one of: the WordPress plugin, a GitHub connection for code-based sites, or an MCP connector for other CMSs — and if you'd rather not connect anything, you can export the fixes and publish manually. Google Search Console and Analytics are optional but strongly recommended as third-party evidence. **How quickly do published fixes show up in AI answers?** Re-verification runs seven days after publish, and that is usually the first point where movement is visible. Engines re-crawl on their own schedules, so some queries move in days and others take several weeks. The 90-day guarantee window exists because that is the honest timeframe for a full loop to prove out. **Are these results typical?** They are real and independently verifiable in Google Search Console, but they are not a promise of the same outcome. Both published studies are B2B service businesses with existing crawlable content, which is the profile where AI visibility work moves fastest. A brand-new site with thin content will take longer. **Why are the first case studies companies inside your own network?** Because we ran SiteSonar on ourselves before selling it to anyone. DoodleWeb builds SiteSonar and Amplify is a partner agency, and we disclose that on every page rather than dressing them up as arm's-length customers. Client studies are being published as accounts reach the 90-day mark. **How long did these results take?** Both studies cover a 90-day window from locked baseline to final measurement, with the first visible movement inside the first three weeks of publishing fixes. The bulk of gains landed between weeks 4 and 10 as engines re-crawled the changed pages. **What plan do these case studies correspond to?** Both used the full fix-and-publish workflow. Agencies can run that workflow at $599/month for three domains and 600 monthly AI credits; Done for you Core can have our team run it for $1,200/month on one domain. **Can I talk to a reference before buying?** Yes. Ask on a scoping call and we will arrange a conversation with a customer running a comparable site and query set. We do not send references cold to prospects, so there is a scheduling step. **What was actually changed on the DoodleWeb site?** Answer-first opening paragraphs on the highest-intent service pages, FAQ blocks with matching FAQPage schema, Organization and Service JSON-LD, an llms.txt file, and internal links that connected orphaned pages to the pages engines were already reading. No redesign and no migration. Every change was reviewed and approved before it published. **How long did the work take?** The first fixes shipped in week one and the measured window ran a full 90 days from the locked baseline. Most of the citation movement appeared between weeks 4 and 10 as the engines re-crawled changed pages. Ongoing work has continued at a lower volume since. **Are these results typical for a services business?** They are at the strong end. DoodleWeb had a well-crawled site with real depth of content, which is the ideal starting point — the work was making existing expertise quotable rather than creating it. A site with thin content would need content production first, which takes longer. **What plan does this correspond to?** The work used the same capabilities included with Agencies at $599/month for three domains and 600 monthly AI credits, plus hands-on delivery comparable to Done for you Core at $1,200/month. **Is DoodleWeb an independent customer?** No, and we say so on the page. DoodleWeb builds SiteSonar, so this is us running the product on our own business before selling it. It is disclosed precisely because a hidden relationship would undermine every other number on the site. **What was changed on the Amplify site?** The highest-intent service and comparison pages were rewritten to lead with a direct answer, FAQ blocks and FAQPage schema were added, Organization schema and llms.txt were published, and internal linking was rebuilt around the topics engines were already citing competitors for. Design and structure stayed as they were. **How long did it take to see movement?** First movement appeared within about three weeks of the initial publishes, with the full measured window running 90 days from baseline. Queries where a competitor was already cited took longest, because the engine had to be given a clearly better source. **Are these results typical?** They are representative of an agency with existing authority and a crawlable site, not a guarantee. Results depend heavily on how much genuine expertise already exists on the domain. We publish the baseline alongside the outcome so the starting point is visible. **What plan does this correspond to?** The work used the full fix-and-publish loop. An agency can run this through the $599/month Agencies offer; a business can use the $1,200/month done-for-you offer. **What is your relationship to Amplify?** Amplify is a partner agency inside our own network, disclosed openly on the page. That means the engagement had closer collaboration than a typical arm's-length account. Independent client studies are being published as those accounts hit 90 days. **What results did Wildflower Hemp Co see with SiteSonar?** The AI citation rate across ten tracked buyer queries rose from 40 percent to 50 percent in 14 days, a 10-point gain measured against a locked day-0 baseline on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode. AI referral sessions reached 105 in the measured period, up 9.4 percent period on period, with 104 of those coming from ChatGPT. **How quickly did AI referral traffic appear?** Inside the first week of the first fixes going live, which is faster than the three-week window we usually quote. The catalogue already had genuine product, sourcing and lab-testing depth, so the engines had real material to cite once it was structured answer-first with schema and an llms.txt at the root. **Is the Wildflower Hemp Co engagement finished?** No. It is active and fixes ship weekly. The numbers published here are the two-week checkpoint, not a final result, and the day-90 guarantee checkpoint is still ahead. We update the page as each measured window closes rather than waiting for a tidier number. **Did Google search traffic improve at the same time?** No, and we publish that too. Classic Search Console clicks and impressions were down across the same window for reasons that predate the engagement. AI visibility moved first; the broader organic recovery is separate work that is still in progress. **What was actually changed on the site?** Answer-first rewrites on the highest-intent category and product pages, FAQ blocks with FAQPage schema, Product and Organization JSON-LD across the catalogue, an llms.txt at the root, and AI referral tracking split out from organic in GA4. Because hemp is a regulated category, every draft went through client approval before publishing. **What is the honest difference between SiteSonar and other AI visibility tools?** Most tools in this category measure AI visibility very well and stop there; SiteSonar measures it and then drafts, publishes and re-verifies the fix. If your bottleneck is knowing where you stand, several competitors will serve you well. If your bottleneck is that nobody has time to act on the report, that gap is what SiteSonar was built for. **When should I choose a measurement-only tool instead?** Choose a pure measurement tool when you already have a content team with spare capacity, when you need very large prompt volumes for research rather than remediation, or when your organisation forbids any external system writing to your CMS. Those are real cases and we would rather you buy the right thing. **Do these comparisons stay current?** We review them quarterly and after any major competitor release, and we date the last review on each page. Competitors ship fast, so if you spot something out of date tell us and we will correct it. Where a competitor is genuinely better at something, that is stated on the page. **Can I run SiteSonar alongside another tool?** Yes, and some teams do during evaluation. Running both for a month is the cleanest way to compare citation data, since methodologies differ between vendors. Nothing in SiteSonar conflicts with another tracking tool. **Does Gushwork offer a guarantee?** None published as of October 2026. **Can I use both?** Yes. SiteSonar reports against any existing tracker. **Which is cheaper?** SiteSonar Agencies at $599 is lower. **Does Lean Labs offer a guarantee?** None published on its pricing FAQ as of October 2026. **Can I use both?** Yes. SiteSonar reports against any existing tracker or agency baseline. **Which is cheaper in year one?** **What is the honest difference between SiteSonar and Profound?** Profound is an enterprise-grade AI visibility analytics platform with deep prompt-volume data; SiteSonar is a closed loop that measures, fixes and re-verifies. Profound will give a large team richer analytical surface area. SiteSonar will give a small team published changes and a measured delta without adding headcount. **What does Profound do better?** Profound has more mature enterprise analytics: larger prompt datasets, deeper conversational analytics and share-of-voice modelling, and an enterprise procurement motion with the compliance paperwork that comes with it. If you have a dedicated AI-search analyst and want the richest dataset to interrogate, Profound is the stronger analytics product. **When should I choose Profound instead of SiteSonar?** Choose Profound when you are a large enterprise with an in-house team that will act on the data themselves, when you need very high prompt volumes for market research, or when procurement requires a vendor at that scale. SiteSonar makes more sense when the remediation work is the constraint. **How do the prices compare?** SiteSonar Agencies is $599/month, while Done for you Core is $1,200/month and done for you. Profound is quote-based enterprise pricing and typically lands well above that range. Compare on total cost including the people needed to act on the output. **What is the honest difference between SiteSonar and Otterly?** Otterly is a focused, affordable AI search monitoring tool; SiteSonar is a full measure-fix-prove loop. Otterly tells you where you are cited across engines at a low monthly cost. SiteSonar adds the drafting, approval and publishing layer plus re-verification, at a higher price point. **What does Otterly do better?** Otterly is cheaper and simpler. If all you want is a clean weekly readout of brand mentions and links across AI search, it does that with far less setup and a much lower bill than any SiteSonar plan. For a small team monitoring one brand on a tight budget, Otterly is the better-value purchase. **When should I choose Otterly instead?** Choose Otterly when monitoring is genuinely all you need, when your budget is under a few hundred dollars a month, or when your content team already has capacity and just needs a signal. Move to SiteSonar when the reports keep arriving and nothing on the site changes. **Can I switch from Otterly without losing history?** You keep your Otterly history in Otterly; SiteSonar starts its own baseline from the day you connect. We recommend running both for 30 days so you can compare methodologies before cancelling anything. Your tracked query list can be imported as a simple list. **What is the honest difference between SiteSonar and Peec AI?** Peec AI is a well-built European AI visibility analytics tool with strong competitor benchmarking; SiteSonar closes the loop by shipping the fix and re-verifying it. Both measure citations across the major engines. The divergence is entirely in what happens after the gap is found. **What does Peec AI do better?** Peec AI has a cleaner competitive benchmarking view and a strong European footprint, including EU data residency that matters to some buyers. Its interface for comparing your share of citations against a named competitor set is excellent and, for pure benchmarking, arguably nicer to use than ours. **When should I choose Peec AI instead?** Choose Peec AI when EU data residency is a hard requirement, when competitor benchmarking is your primary use case, or when your team will do the remediation in-house regardless of tooling. SiteSonar is the better fit when you want the fixes written and published for you. **Do you both track the same engines?** Broadly yes — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode are covered by both, though sampling methodology and refresh frequency differ, so absolute numbers will not match exactly. Trend direction is the number to compare across tools, not the raw score. **What is the honest difference between SiteSonar and Intercom?** They solve different problems: Intercom is a customer messaging and support platform, SiteSonar is an AI search visibility platform. Intercom answers people who are already on your site; SiteSonar works on whether AI assistants cite you before anyone arrives. Most teams that compare them end up running both. **What does Intercom do better?** Everything to do with conversations and support: live chat, ticketing, help centre, AI support agents, and the workflows around a customer who already has a question. SiteSonar does not compete with any of that and does not try to. **When should I choose Intercom instead?** Choose Intercom when your problem is support volume, response time or on-site conversation. Choose SiteSonar when your problem is that ChatGPT or Perplexity recommends a competitor when a buyer asks about your category. **Does SiteSonar replace on-site chat?** No. SiteSonar's Curated Answers render inline on the page rather than in a chat bubble, and they are designed for buyers and crawlers reading a page, not for support conversations. If you need a support inbox, keep your support tool. **Where is my data stored?** Data is stored on managed cloud infrastructure in the United States, encrypted in transit with TLS and at rest. Access is role-based and limited to the staff who need it to operate the service. Regional hosting can be discussed for enterprise and managed engagements. **What data does SiteSonar retain, and for how long?** We retain your crawled page content, tracked query results, engine responses and account records for as long as your account is active, because the history is what makes trend measurement possible. On cancellation, data is deleted within 30 days on request, and export is available before then. Visitor Identification data is company-level and configurable to a shorter retention window. **Is my content used to train AI models?** No. Your content is used only to serve your account — analysis, drafting and reporting — and is never used to train models for SiteSonar or anyone else. Where third-party model APIs are used to generate drafts, they are called under agreements that exclude training on submitted data. **What is your compliance posture?** SiteSonar operates GDPR- and CCPA-aware processing, honors Global Privacy Control signals, and uses subprocessors under data-processing agreements. A DPA is available on request for paid accounts. We are happy to complete standard security questionnaires during procurement. **Can SiteSonar publish to my site without permission?** No. Publishing requires an explicit connection you authorise — WordPress plugin, GitHub connection or MCP connector — and every individual change requires a human approval in the queue. Revoking the connection stops all write access immediately. **Who builds SiteSonar?** SiteSonar is operated by SiteSonar, LLP, a Utah limited liability partnership. It is built by the team behind DoodleWeb with Amplify AI as a partner on AI systems work, and led by Chandan Sharma and Dan Cone. **What is the relationship between SiteSonar, DoodleWeb and Amplify?** SiteSonar, LLP operates SiteSonar. The team behind DoodleWeb builds it, and Amplify is a partner agency that helped shape the AI-agent side of the product and also runs it on its own site. Both appear in our case studies and both relationships are disclosed on those pages. Neither is presented as an independent customer. **Why was SiteSonar built?** Because agency clients started asking why ChatGPT recommended a competitor, and none of the existing tools could do anything about it beyond producing a report. The team was already doing the remediation work by hand — answer-first rewrites, schema, llms.txt — and productised it. The closed loop is the part that was missing from the market. **How big is the team, and who would I work with?** SiteSonar is a small, senior team rather than a layered account structure — on managed engagements you work directly with the analyst doing the work and with one of the founders. That is a deliberate trade-off: less bureaucracy, and a limit on how many managed accounts we take at once. **What does GEO Autopilot automate?** It automates the loop between detection and publication: it finds where an engine cites a competitor instead of you, drafts the page fix (answer-first intro, FAQ block, JSON-LD schema, llms.txt updates), stages it for approval, publishes on approval, and re-verifies the engines seven days later. What is automated is the analysis, the writing and the shipping — not the decision. **Does anything publish without me approving it?** No. Every draft — copy, schema or page change — lands in an approval queue with a visible diff, and nothing ships until a human clicks approve. You can edit any draft before approving, or reject it outright. That boundary does not change on any plan. **How does the re-verification work?** SiteSonar snapshots the citation rate for each affected query at the moment a gap is detected, then re-runs the exact same prompts across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode seven days after publish. You see the before and after side by side per query. If a fix did not move the number, it goes back into the queue with a different approach. **Where does Autopilot publish to?** The WordPress plugin, a GitHub commit for code-based sites such as Next.js or static builds, or any other CMS through the MCP connector — Webflow, Shopify, Wix and custom systems included. If you prefer not to connect anything, every fix can be exported and pasted in manually. **Is my brand voice preserved?** Yes. Autopilot writes against brand guidelines extracted from your own site plus any style rules you add, and every draft is fully editable in the queue before it ships. Teams typically edit heavily in the first two weeks and barely at all after that. **Which plan includes GEO Autopilot?** GEO Autopilot is included in the Agencies offer at $599/mo for three domains and 600 monthly AI credits. In Done for you Core, our team runs the work for your one included domain. **What is included in the free AI visibility snapshot?** The snapshot checks how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode answer a set of buyer queries for your category, shows whether you are cited and who is cited instead, and flags the top structural issues on your site that keep you out of the answers. It is a genuine read of your current position, not a lead-gen teaser. You get it as a written report. **How long does the snapshot take?** Most snapshots are back within one business day of submitting your URL and company name. Larger sites or unusual categories can take up to two. You only need to give us a URL and a company name to start. **Do I need a credit card?** No card, no trial signup and no obligation. The snapshot is free and there is nothing to cancel afterwards. Agencies can continue at $599/mo with a 14-day free trial. **How is the snapshot different from the free trial?** The snapshot is a one-off, human-reviewed read of where you stand today. The 14-day free trial gives you the live product: continuous tracking, your own dashboard, gap ranking and drafted fixes. Many people take the snapshot first and start a trial afterwards. ## About URL: https://sitesonar.ai/about SiteSonar is operated by SiteSonar, LLP, a Utah limited liability partnership at 3061 Fairway Hills Ct., Park City, UT 84060. It is built by the team behind DoodleWeb and led by Chandan Sharma and Dan Cone. The team ran the full Measure, Fix, Prove loop on its own properties before selling it to any customer, and publishes those results as case studies. ## Security URL: https://sitesonar.ai/security SiteSonar keeps every workspace isolated, never trains models on customer content, and operates in line with GDPR and CCPA. SOC 2 is in progress. The tracking script is loaded asynchronously and can be removed cleanly at any time. ## Prove It: a separate B2B growth offer URL: https://sitesonar.ai/prove-it SiteSonar and Amplify AI offer a proof-first program for five qualified B2B technology companies with 50+ employees. First 30 days: $1,000 with $5,000+ in stated service value. Months two and three: $5,000 per month. This is separate from standard SiteSonar subscriptions. Source: the supplied Prove It offer. The 90-day commitments are 100 founder posts, 30 corporate and industry posts, 300 personalized LinkedIn DMs, 250+ signal-based ICP prospects per month, one founder profile optimization, weekly competitive intelligence, 50 AI visibility recommendations, 50 AI-optimized deployed pages, 30 YouTube videos, 1,500+ ideal buyers reached, and at least five completed qualified meetings with criteria agreed before launch. A 30% visibility improvement is a target measured from an agreed baseline, not a guaranteed lift. If agreed Month-One deliverables are not completed and the client supplied required access, information and approvals, they can end after the initial proof period with no additional obligation. No refund promise or overnight revenue guarantee. Month-One scope is agreed before launch. Apply with first name, work email, company, website, employee count and growth priority, or discuss fit through the embedded calendar. Last updated: 2026-10-24