AI Mention Watch: are LLMs recommending you?

Periodically ask AI search engines category questions and track whether your brand gets mentioned and which page gets cited

Problem

Traditional SEO gives rankings, clicks, and backlinks, but when users ask ChatGPT, Perplexity, or Gemini for recommendations, whether your brand appears and whether the cited source is your site, an old blog post, or a Reddit thread is a black box. Someone on r/SaaS is wrestling with exactly this, and there is little lightweight monitoring for small site owners.

Solution

Users define a set of category questions and competitors; the tool periodically queries multiple AI search engines and records answers: whether the brand appears, its position, and the cited source. It produces weekly reports and trend comparisons and flags which page needs work.

Users

Small SaaS and ecommerce operators, content marketers, indie developers, SEO consultants

MVP

Enter brand, competitors, and 10-20 questions; scheduled calls to multiple AI search APIs; extract mentions and cited sources; weekly email report and simple trend charts

Revenue

Monthly subscription tiered by monitored questions and AI platforms; white-label reports for SEO consultants at a markup

Why now

AI search is siphoning traditional search traffic, but monitoring tools are still priced for enterprises, leaving a clear gap for an indie-built lightweight version