HOW IT WORKS

From shippedto seen.

Six problems every founder hits after launch, and the loop that works through them.

1.0 · THE PROBLEMS

The wall every launch hits.

P1
You shipped all week. Nobody saw it.
Shipping is great, but not if nobody knows you exist. That pain is why AfterLaunch exists.
P2
You ask an AI search engine. It names a rival.
Your competitors spent the time and effort to be visible across the surfaces AI engines pull from while you vibe coded another feature.
P3
You cannot see where people choose.
Finding where your customers are searching for your specific product or solution is like playing 1000 Whac-a-Moles blindfolded.
P4
You ask AI for growth advice and get a detailed plan.
A jargon-dense report feels good, until you realise you need to translate that into shipped growth moves that are not AI slop.
P5
Your AI cannot remember what growth moves you shipped.
Now you waste precious time copying and pasting so it remembers context, history, rules, your brand voice.
P6
You cannot tell if any of it worked.
You wrote the post, left the comment, published the blog piece, earned the backlink. You have no idea if any of it moved the needle.

2.0 · THE TURN

The loop replaces the pain.Here is a founder's first fortnight.

3.0 · THE JOURNEY

Fourteen days, in order.

Nothing below is a demo path. It is the same loop the product runs, told in the order a founder meets it.

STEP 1

You give it your URL.

The deep scan reads your site, then asks the leading AI search engines the questions people ask in your category.

afterlaunch · deep scan · runningsample data

crawling /pricing✓

crawling /features✓

checking llms.txt✓

asking ChatGPT "best crm for a two-person agency"✓

asking Perplexity "best crm for small agencies"✓

checking Wikidata entity✓

reading r/smallbusiness for your category⋯

SCORECARD

38of 100
scored so far

AI Visibility41

Crawlability78

Entity25

Comparisons12

Reach33

Competitorsscanning

Site healthscanning

STEP 2

The score is a diagnosis.

Seven areas scored out of a hundred, and every failed check names the page it failed on.

where you are missing is recorded too

deep scan · your reportsample data

your score

54of 100
across seven areas

No comparison page for your categoryfix
llms.txt missingfix
Your price is an image on /pricingfix
robots.txt lets assistants crawlpass
Sitemap fresh, 46 pagespass

STEP 3

Every morning, one screen.

What shipped, what earned a receipt, what is briefed and waiting, ranked so the top of it is today's work.

founder@laptop ~ anycrmsample data

> standup

AFTERLAUNCH · Tue 20 Oct

✓ Comparison page shipped (Fri) → verified live

2 clicks logged

Ready to ship:

1 Answer the r/agencies thread comparing CRMs

2 Share the agency CRM switching guide on LinkedIn

3 Update llms.txt with AnyCRM pricing

ship? 1 yes 2 revise 3 skip

→ 1-3 open · board · visibility · reach · site · timeline ·

scoreboard · rivals · why

capped at what one founder can ship

See the whole ritual in your terminal →

STEP 4

It arrives drafted.

Open a move and the brief arrives with it: three sources, your voice, and the bar the draft has to clear.

your agent already knew the context

founder@laptop ~ anycrmsample data

AFTERLAUNCH · Fri 16 Oct

> 2

brief loaded: 3 sources · your voice · acceptance bar

OtherCRM's comparison page is what people get when

they ask which CRM to use. Here is ours, with both

products' real limits and a pricing table engines

can read.

ship? 1 yes 2 revise 3 skip

> 1

✓ Shipped. Logged (move 2, Fri). Watching the page.

nothing ships without your word

STEP 5

A receipt arrives.

Days after you ship, an engine cites the page you published, and the record says which move earned it.

proven means something outside your account moved

the record · new since yesterdaysample data

Perplexity cited your /vs page for "best crm for small agencies"

observed 19 Oct · earned by move 2, shipped Fri 16 Oct

the receipts feed the next morning's board

The receipt names the move.

It is joined to the work that earned it, not floated as a number on a chart.

outcomes · last 14 dayssample data

DAY 1DAY 14

after, citations earnedbefore, fourteen days of nothing

Watched for weeks after.

Citations, ranks and answer changes are tracked per move long after you have moved on.

STEP 6

Day 14, side by side.

One letter at the end of the trial, with your before and your after, and shipped counted separately from proven.

day 14 · your before and aftersample data

DAY 14

Day 14. Here is what changed.

Rank for "best crm for small agencies"9→4

Engines citing you0→2

Questions where you are named2→6

Directories you are listed on12→15

Five moves shipped. Two of them moved something you can point at.

What happens after day 14 →

4.0 · UNDER THE BONNET

Three things before you trust it.

Checked against the live web.

Every finding names the page, the engine and the day it was observed, so a claim can be opened and read back.

One record, shared by everything.

Scans, briefs, drafts and receipts sit in one timeline, and every surface reads the same one. Your agent reads it too.

Your account. Your word.

Your agent works on your account, and nothing leaves it until you say ship. Skips are recorded too.

Read the whole loop at working depth →

Start where every founder starts.The scan is free.

Run the deep scan

claude mcp add afterlaunch --transport http https://afterlaunch.io/api/mcp --header "Authorization: Bearer $AFTERLAUNCH_API_KEY"

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