AI visibility
What is AI visibility? A plain guide for founders
AI visibility is whether AI assistants name your product when people ask. What it means, how AEO and GEO fit, and what we measured across 152 companies.
Practical guides to AI search visibility, SEO and getting your product found.
Start here: how to get your SaaS cited in AI search results.
AI visibility is whether AI assistants name your product when people ask. What it means, how AEO and GEO fit, and what we measured across 152 companies.
Answer engine optimisation is being the answer an engine returns directly, not a link it ranks. Here is what AEO means and how it differs from SEO and GEO.
Generative engine optimisation (GEO) is getting your product named accurately inside AI answers from tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity. Here is how it works.
GEO optimises for a citable claim inside an AI answer. SEO optimises for a ranked URL. How they differ, where they overlap, and how to sequence them.
AI visibility is measurable. The metrics that matter, mention rate, citation rate, share of voice and sentiment, how to read them, and the benchmarks to hit.
A tour of the shapes an AI answer takes, the cited list, the AI Overview, the generative paragraph and the direct answer, and where your product shows up.
AI visibility for solo founders explained: why it matters when you build alone, what is realistic to do yourself, and a short prioritised starting path.
An agentic AI marketer does the work of getting a SaaS product found. Here is what that means and how it differs from monitoring tools.
Most lists name tools built for marketing teams. An honest guide to the AI marketing automation a solo SaaS founder actually needs, by the job each tool does.
A complete G2 profile is one of the strongest third-party signals that your product exists and does what it claims. Here is how to claim and complete it.
A complete, accurately categorised Capterra listing ranks for commercial queries your site cannot reach early, and helps AI assistants place you in a category.
Launch-day traffic fades in days. The durable, well-ranked Product Hunt page that keeps naming your product for months is the part that compounds. Here is how.
People arrive at AlternativeTo already searching for an alternative to a tool they know. A credible listing puts you in front of customers open to switching.
Crunchbase is a widely crawled company profile that AI answers reference for facts. Keeping its details in line with your site keeps your mentions coherent.
Wikidata is the structured knowledge base many machines read from. An accurate item with your name and category signals that you are a real entity. Here is how.
A LinkedIn company page is often the first external page about a company, heavily crawled. It anchors your name and category where customers and machines look.
A Google Business Profile feeds the knowledge panel that can appear for a brand search. It suits some business types more than others. Here is how to weigh it.
TrustRadius reviews skew longer and more specific, which makes them easy to quote for customers and AI answers. A few thorough reviews beat many one-liners.
SaaSHub is a software catalogue built around alternatives and comparisons. Low effort to claim, and one more page that describes you in your own category terms.
AI search optimization tools for SaaS founders, split into the ones that measure and the ones that also do the work, with prices read on 23 October 2026.
The GEO tools a SaaS startup meets first, grounded in what ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and Perplexity named when AfterLaunch asked.
Profound alternatives for teams that want the read without an enterprise contract: prices from each vendor's own page on 22 October 2026, and who each suits.
Peec AI alternatives compared on price, what each one tracks and who it suits, with prices read off each vendor's own page on 22 October 2026.
Otterly tracks AI mentions well. If you want the work after the tracking, these alternatives suggest fixes, write content or look past AI answers.
How to get a SaaS named in AI recommendations without hiring an agency: an honest ladder of what one founder can do alone, and what needs money.
How does a solo founder do marketing without hiring anyone? Five options compared honestly: a framework, a freelancer, an agency, a tool, an engine.
Choose a question your customers need answered, publish something that helps them answer it, make the page accessible, and check what the assistants return.
Two kinds of tool help a SaaS show up in ChatGPT answers: ones that watch the answers and ones that do the work. What each does, and how to choose.
A direct how-to: let ChatGPT's crawler in, publish pages that answer the questions people ask, earn third-party mentions, and check the answers yourself.
AfterLaunch is the agentic growth engine. Of 8,090 AI search citations in our scans, 9.5% pointed at a homepage. The rest cited a page deeper in the site.
AfterLaunch is the agentic growth engine. We asked ChatGPT and Perplexity about five developer jobs: the winner changed on all 10 job pairs.
AfterLaunch is the agentic growth engine. Of 211 comparison pages our AI search scans cited, about 70% showed a date and 55% an FAQ. Few named a pick.
AI search optimization services that publish a price, from $499 to $15,000 a month, as each provider's own page showed them on 23 October 2026.
The best AEO tool depends on who acts on what it finds. Ten compared on price, models and prompts, read off each vendor's own page on 23 October 2026.
Free AI SEO tools from Google, Bing, HubSpot, AthenaHQ, Semrush, Ahrefs and AfterLaunch: what each checks and where free stops, read on 23 October 2026.
What is llms.txt? A Markdown file at your site's root that maps your best pages for AI tools. The format, the steps, what Google says, and a free check.