AI search visibility & AEO monitoring
Semrush is still the best tool for Google rankings. Its AI visibility tracking costs more: about $99/month per domain, or $199+/month in a Semrush One bundle. Meanwhile, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity are answering the questions your customers actually ask. helloAISearch tracks all four, with plans from $29/month, and hands solo operators one thing to do about it every day: Today's Move.
The problem
The rules are completely different. There's no “page 1.” There's no SERP. There's no domain authority that means anything. Either AI mentions you, or it doesn't. The $139.95/month SEO toolkit you're paying for? It was built for Google. Tracking AI answers is a separate purchase.
The SEO toolstack obituary
They tell you about keywords, backlinks, and SERP positions. None of which exist inside ChatGPT. The big suites now sell AI visibility too (Semrush's AI Visibility Toolkit runs about $99/month per domain), and if you already live in their dashboards it's a reasonable pick. But their core product was built for Google, and it's priced like it.
How helloAISearch works
Semrush and Ahrefs were built by SEO people for SEO people. They turned every search-engine question into a dashboard of dropdowns, score widgets, and a backlog you'll never finish. That's not a product. That's homework.
Your prompts go to the engines on a schedule.
A competitor was named. You were not.
One specific page to write today.
Share of voice moves. Or it doesn't.
You add the questions your customers actually ask. “Best tool for [your category].” “Alternatives to [your competitor].” Your exact category queries. We send them to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity overnight.
You wake up to a feed. Like an inbox, but for AI mentions of your brand. Each card shows what the AI said, your name highlighted in yellow, your competitors crossed out. You can read it in 90 seconds with coffee.
▾ Today's Feed · 23 mentions
“For small agencies, helloAISearch is particularly well-suited…”
ChatGPT featured your brand in 8 responses today. Your top competitor was mentioned in 12. You're trending up.
Read all →Every morning, the system looks at what the AIs said yesterday and surfaces the single highest-leverage thing you could do today. A page to write. A comparison to publish. A piece of structured data to add. A pitch to send.
It's not generated by an LLM hallucinating “best practices.” It's pulled from the actual gaps in your actual data. The AIs already told us what would move the needle. We just made it readable.
⚡ Today's Move
Write a comparison page targeting "alternatives to [competitor]"
ChatGPT mentioned this comparison 4× this week. Your competitor dominated. A direct comparison page closes a 9-point Share of Voice gap. Difficulty: 1 hour.
Get a briefSemrush tells you what Google thinks. helloAISearch tells you what the four AI engines that just answered your customer's question think.
The right rail of your dashboard shows a Share of Voice ladder. You, your competitors, ranked by how often AI engines mention each of you. You'll see yourself climb (or slide). You'll see why. You'll know which competitor to target next.
▾ Share of Voice · 30-day trend
You moved from 4.1% → 7.2% in 28 days.
Your closest competitor slipped behind you last Tuesday. Next target: 11 points away. At your current pace, you'll pass them in 6 weeks.
View competitorsOnce you've watched the numbers climb for a few weeks, a question shows up: where exactly do I sit in the AI landscape? Which brands cluster around me? Which are far away? Which engine is my home territory and which one ignores me entirely?
helloAISearch answers that with a competitive map. Your brand at the center. Competitors orbiting by share of voice. Engine territories drawn as cluster halos. A first-class view, not a report buried in a suite, built from what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity actually said.
⊕ Competitive Map
See your brand's network in AI's mind.
A force-directed map of the brands AI engines mention alongside yours. Cluster halos by engine. Co-mention edges in real time. Hover any node to see the prompts where you appeared together.
Open mapvs. the SEO toolstack
Semrush has over 100,000 customers and nearly two decades of head start on Google rankings. They're not going anywhere, and they now sell AI visibility too: the AI Visibility Toolkit runs about $99/month per domain, and Semrush One bundles start around $199/month. If you're a solo operator who wants ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity tracked, plus one clear move a day, you don't need a bigger suite. You need a sharper tool.
Tracks Google rankings & backlinks
Tracks AI engines
Tracks Claude
Tells you the ONE thing to do today
Built for solo operators & small teams
Price
Maps your brand's AI competitive network
Daily feed of AI mentions
Don't cancel Semrush for Google. Keep it for what it's good at. Add helloAISearch for the AI engines, from $29/month, and see what ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity told your customers yesterday.
Pricing
Lite covers three engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini). Studio and up include all four, adding Perplexity, plus daily prompt slots. No add-ons. For reference: Semrush SEO Toolkit Pro is $139.95/month, and its AI Visibility Toolkit is about $99/month per domain.
For solo operators
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For consultants
For multi-brand agencies
Free 3-day trial: two full scans of your brand across ChatGPT and Gemini. No credit card required. Pick your plan when the trial ends; everything we found is saved and unlocks instantly. Plans renew monthly at the listed price until you cancel. Cancel anytime in Settings, fully self-serve. CSV and JSON export of everything we hold on you is included on every plan, never gated. Questions about white-label or 10+ projects? Talk to us → Full plan table and pricing FAQ on the pricing page →
FAQ
helloAISearch is an AI search visibility tool. It sends the questions your customers actually ask to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity on a schedule (daily on Studio and up, weekly on Lite), records whether each engine mentions your brand or your competitors, and turns the gaps into one specific recommendation per day. It is operated by PulseSpark.ai LLC in Pittsburgh, PA.
AEO, sometimes called GEO or AI search optimization, is the practice of getting your brand mentioned and recommended inside AI answers, the way SEO gets you ranked in Google results. There's no page 1 inside ChatGPT: either the AI names you, or it doesn't. helloAISearch measures which one is happening, daily.
Semrush and Ahrefs are built for Google rankings, keywords, and backlinks. Semrush also sells AI visibility tracking (its AI Visibility Toolkit is about $99/month per domain; Semrush One bundles start around $199/month). helloAISearch is built only for AI answers: it queries ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, shows the actual response excerpts with your brand highlighted, computes your share of voice against competitors, and gives you one recommendation a day, from $29/month. Keep your SEO tool for Google; add helloAISearch for the AI engines.
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity. The Lite plan ($29/mo) covers ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini; Studio ($59/mo) and above include all four engines.
Every new account starts with a free 3-day trial: 10 tracked prompts scanned on ChatGPT and Gemini, once right after onboarding and again on day 3, plus Today's Move recommendations and Share of Voice tracking. No credit card required. When the trial ends you pick the plan that fits; until you do, scans pause but everything we found is saved and unlocks the moment you subscribe.
The best AI visibility tools for small agencies query ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity on a schedule, show the actual answer text with the client's brand highlighted, measure share of voice against named competitors, and cost less than one SEO seat. helloAISearch does all four: $29 a month for three engines, $59 a month for all four including Perplexity. Profound, Otterly AI, and Peec AI are the tools AI engines most often recommend today; our guide compares them.
For AI search the alternatives to Semrush's AI Visibility Toolkit (about $99/month per domain) are dedicated AI visibility tools, not other SEO suites. helloAISearch queries ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity directly, from $29 a month for three engines and $59 for all four, and runs alongside Semrush rather than replacing it.
Send ChatGPT the questions your customers ask on a fixed schedule, record whether your brand or a competitor is named in each answer, and compare over time. ChatGPT has no built-in mention report, so you do it by hand, script it against the API, or use helloAISearch, which does it on a schedule (daily on Studio and up) across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity and highlights your brand in the answer text.
Yes. Plans are monthly with no annual lock-in, and you can cancel self-serve from Settings. You can also export all of your data (prompts, scans, mentions, and Share of Voice history) as CSV/JSON in one click, in line with GDPR and CCPA portability rights.
One last thing
You can be the operator who figured this out while it was still cheap. Or the one playing catch-up while paying enterprise prices for the same insight in 2027.
that's all for now.
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