The $139.95/month tool you're paying tracks Google rankings. Meanwhile, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity are answering the questions your customers actually ask. They're recommending whoever figured this out first. helloAISearch watches the AI engines for you — all four, every day, on Studio and up — and tells you the one thing to do about it.
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 SEO tool you've been paying $139.95/month for? It can't see any of this.
The SEO toolstack obituary
They tell you about keywords, backlinks, and SERP positions. None of which exist inside ChatGPT. Most have rebadged “AEO” features bolted on as afterthoughts because they have to. But their core product was built for a search engine that's losing market share.
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.
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. Nobody else can show you this because nobody else is querying ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity to map it.
⊕ 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. But the moment your customers stopped Googling and started asking ChatGPT, Semrush stopped being enough. You need a second tool. The one built for the engines that are eating Google's lunch.
Tracks Google rankings & backlinks
Tracks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity
Shows the actual AI response excerpts
Tells you the ONE thing to do today
Built for solo operators & small teams
Entry price
Maps your brand's AI competitive network
You'll actually open it daily
Don't cancel Semrush. Keep it for what it's good at. But spend $29/month to also see what the four AI engines that answered your customer's question yesterday are saying. The math isn't even close.
Pricing
Lite covers three engines (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini). Studio and up include all four, adding Perplexity, plus daily prompt slots. No add-ons. Compare to Semrush at $139.95/month and you'll see why.
For solo operators
★ Most popular
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 →
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 track Google rankings, keywords, and backlinks. None of those exist inside AI answers. helloAISearch queries ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity directly, shows you the actual response excerpts with your brand highlighted, and computes your share of voice against competitors. It's a complement to your SEO stack, not a replacement.
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 are dedicated AI visibility tools, not other SEO suites: Semrush tracks Google rankings and backlinks, which do not exist inside an AI answer. 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.