Every day, millions of people ask AI platforms for product recommendations, service comparisons, and brand advice. When they ask about your category, does your brand appear in the response? If you do not know the answer, you are not alone. Until now, there has been no reliable way to find out. Today, we are changing that.
Answered is an AI visibility intelligence platform built for marketing teams, brand strategists, and founders who need to understand how their brand is represented across the new generation of answer engines. We track your brand's presence across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini, giving you real-time insight into whether you are being mentioned, how you are being described, and how you compare to your competitors.
This is the launch announcement. Here is what Answered does, why we built it, and why it matters for every brand that depends on being discoverable online.
The problem we are solving
The way people discover brands is changing faster than most companies realize. AI-powered answer engines are rapidly replacing traditional search for a growing number of use cases. When someone asks ChatGPT to recommend a project management tool, the response does not include ten blue links. It includes a short list of specific recommendations, often with explanations of why each tool is suited to the user's needs.
This creates an entirely new visibility challenge. In traditional search, you could track your rankings with tools like Ahrefs, SEMrush, or Google Search Console. You could see exactly where you appeared for every keyword that mattered to your business. You had data, and you could act on it.
In the world of AI answer engines, that infrastructure did not exist. Marketing teams had no systematic way to answer basic questions: Does ChatGPT recommend us? What does Perplexity say about our product? How do we compare to our competitors in AI-generated responses? Are we being described accurately?
These are not hypothetical concerns. For SaaS companies, e-commerce brands, and financial technology firms, AI answer engines are already influencing purchase decisions at scale. Every day that a brand is absent from these responses, or described inaccurately, represents lost revenue and lost mindshare.
What Answered does
Answered is built around four core capabilities that give marketing teams the visibility intelligence they need to compete in the age of answer engines.
1. Multi-platform AI monitoring
Answered continuously queries the major AI platforms, including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini, with the questions your potential customers are asking. We track whether your brand appears in the responses, how it is positioned, what language is used to describe it, and whether the information is accurate.
This is not a one-time audit. It is continuous monitoring that captures changes over time, so you can see trends, detect problems early, and measure the impact of your optimization efforts.
2. Competitive intelligence
Answered does not just track your brand. It tracks your competitors across the same AI platforms and the same queries. You can see which competitors are being recommended in your category, how often they appear relative to you, and what language the AI uses to describe their strengths and weaknesses.
This competitive context is essential because AI visibility is a zero-sum game for many queries. When a user asks for the best tool in a category, every mention of a competitor is a missed opportunity for your brand. Understanding the competitive landscape is the first step toward improving your position.
3. Visibility scoring
Raw data is useful, but actionable metrics are better. Answered calculates a proprietary AI Visibility Score that quantifies your brand's presence across AI platforms. The score accounts for citation frequency, sentiment, accuracy, and competitive positioning, giving you a single number that captures how well your brand is performing in AI-generated responses.
The score is updated regularly, allowing you to track progress over time and correlate changes with specific actions you have taken, whether that is publishing new content, earning press coverage, or updating your structured data.
4. Actionable insights and recommendations
Knowing your score is important. Knowing how to improve it is essential. Answered provides specific, actionable recommendations based on your monitoring data. These recommendations cover content strategy, structured data optimization, third-party review management, and other tactics that influence how AI platforms perceive and recommend your brand.
Answered queries AI platforms with the same questions your customers ask. We track your brand's presence, compare it to competitors, calculate a visibility score, and deliver actionable recommendations to improve your AI discoverability. It is like rank tracking, but built for the AI era.
Why we built this
We built Answered because we experienced this problem firsthand. As the AI search landscape evolved rapidly through 2025 and into 2026, we watched marketing teams struggle with a fundamental gap: they had sophisticated tools for tracking their performance in Google, but nothing equivalent for the AI platforms that were increasingly driving their customers' decisions.
The conversations we had with marketing leaders at SaaS companies, healthcare organizations, law firms, and real estate companies all pointed to the same frustration. They knew AI was changing how their customers found and evaluated products. They suspected their competitors might be getting an advantage. But they had no data and no tools to act on their concerns.
We built Answered to fill that gap. The platform is designed from the ground up for the specific challenges of AI visibility monitoring, not adapted from an existing SEO tool. The data models, the scoring methodology, and the recommendation engine are all purpose-built for the unique dynamics of answer engine optimization.
Who Answered is for
Answered is built for teams and individuals who are responsible for their brand's discoverability online and who recognize that discoverability is no longer limited to traditional search engines.
Marketing leaders and CMOs
If you are responsible for your company's visibility strategy, Answered gives you the data you need to make informed decisions about where to invest. You can see exactly how your brand performs across AI platforms, benchmark against competitors, and report on AI visibility as a key performance metric alongside your existing SEO and paid media metrics.
Brand strategists
If you manage brand positioning and messaging, Answered shows you how AI platforms are interpreting and presenting your brand. You can identify inaccuracies, gaps, and opportunities to strengthen your brand's association with the categories and attributes that matter most to your business.
Founders and product leaders
If you are building a product in a competitive market, Answered helps you understand whether AI platforms are working for you or against you. Early-stage companies that establish strong AI visibility can build a durable competitive advantage that becomes harder for later entrants to overcome.
Agencies and consultants
If you manage visibility strategy for multiple clients, Answered gives you a new capability to offer and a new set of insights to deliver. AI visibility monitoring is rapidly becoming a standard service expectation, and Answered provides the platform to deliver it at scale.
How Answered fits into your existing stack
Answered is not a replacement for your SEO tools. It is a complement to them. Your existing tools tell you how your brand performs in Google. Answered tells you how your brand performs in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini. Together, they give you a complete picture of your brand's discoverability across all the channels your customers use to find and evaluate products.
Think of it as the AI layer of your visibility stack. You continue to invest in SEO, content marketing, and paid media. You add Answered to monitor and optimize the AI dimension of your visibility. The two are complementary, and many of the actions that improve your AI visibility, such as producing high-quality content, earning authoritative press coverage, and maintaining accurate structured data, also benefit your SEO performance.
Getting started
Answered is available now. The Starter plan begins at $89 per month and includes multi-platform monitoring, competitive intelligence, visibility scoring, and actionable recommendations. For teams that need more advanced capabilities, including custom query sets, deeper competitive analysis, and API access, we offer Pro, Agency, and Enterprise tiers.
Setting up your account takes minutes. You tell us your brand, your competitors, and the queries that matter to your business. Answered starts monitoring immediately and delivers your first insights within hours.
What comes next
This launch is the beginning, not the destination. We have an ambitious roadmap that includes deeper platform integrations, more granular sentiment analysis, historical trend data, automated alerting, and an expanded recommendation engine that becomes more precise as we gather more data.
The AI search landscape is evolving rapidly, and Answered will evolve with it. New platforms will emerge, existing platforms will change their behavior, and the signals that drive AI recommendations will shift. Our commitment is to stay ahead of these changes and ensure that our customers always have the intelligence they need to remain visible.
We are building Answered for the long term because the shift from search engines to answer engines is not a passing trend. It is a structural transformation in how people discover, evaluate, and choose brands. The companies that understand this shift and act on it will have a significant advantage over those that wait.
Join us
If you care about how your brand appears when people ask AI for recommendations, Answered was built for you. We invite you to explore the platform, start monitoring your AI visibility, and take the first step toward a visibility strategy that is designed for the way people actually search in 2026.
The brands that win in the AI era will be the ones that are visible when it matters most. Answered gives you the intelligence to make sure your brand is one of them.