From a domain to an audit in minutes.
Here's exactly what happens between you typing your URL into the form and getting a finished report. No black box.
You give us your domain, brand and category
Three fields. The brand name has to be exactly how you brand it (e.g. "JB Hi-Fi" not "jbhifi") because that's what AI engines write — we match on the literal string. Category sharpens the buyer questions we'll test.
- Domain becomes the audit subject (also the site we screenshot).
- Brand name + aliases are how we detect "you appear in this answer."
- Category drives the auto-generated query set (e.g. "best family hotels in Bali" or "alternatives to Airbnb").
We generate the buyer-query set
Five intent buckets: brand (people who already know you), category (discovery), problem (the pain that drives buying), comparison (head-to-head decisions), and vertical (industry-specific intent). The free preview uses 8 of these. Both paid tiers — Two Engine Audit ($29) and Full Audit ($79) — use all 40.
We query the AI engines in parallel
Each engine sees the same questions and gets to use its native web search. We capture the full answer text plus the source citations. Which engines run depends on your tier:
- Free preview (1 engine): Google AI Overviews
- Two Engine Audit, $29 (2 engines): Google AI Overviews + ChatGPT — the two engines most buyers actually use today
- Full Audit, $79 (5 engines): Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini
Full list of engines and the models behind them:
- Google AI Overviews via the Apify google-search-scraper actor
- ChatGPT (gpt-5-mini with built-in web search)
- Claude (Haiku 4.5 with built-in web search)
- Perplexity (Sonar — search-native model)
- Gemini (2.5 Flash with grounding)
In parallel: we run a GEO audit on your site
While the AI engines are answering, we directly inspect your site with 15 technical checks — GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation). Crawlability (robots.txt allows GPTBot, sitemap.xml, llms.txt), structured data (Organization, FAQPage, Product schema), metadata (description, OG, canonical), content shape (single H1, server-rendered HTML), and performance (HTTPS, mobile viewport, response time).
Each check returns a status (pass/warn/fail), what we'd expect, why it matters, and how to fix it. This catches the silent killers — like a robots.txt that accidentally blocks ChatGPT, or a JS-only site invisible to AI crawlers. Learn more about GEO →
We score every AI answer two ways
First: deterministic. Regex on the brand name. URL parse on every cited domain. Substring match for competitors. Fast, repeatable, no LLM needed for these signals.
Second: LLM scoring (paid tiers only). A second-pass call to Claude Haiku checks each answer against your business's ground-truth facts and tags sentiment, accuracy, and any specific false claims.
We generate the prioritised action plan
Every paid audit — Two Engine ($29), Full ($79), Two Engine Monitoring ($35/mo) and Full Monitoring ($95/mo) — runs Claude Sonnet 4.6 over the full result set and produces a prioritised checklist of what to fix first. Each item explains why it matters, the expected impact and a concrete next step. The plan is split into content fixes (claims to add or correct), schema fixes (JSON-LD to publish) and entity fixes (disambiguation signals like sameAs and ContactPoint).
We assemble the report
Headline metrics, engine heatmap, top-cited domains, competitor share-of-voice, hallucination flags, per-query drill-down and the action plan — assembled into a single hosted dashboard view, ready to share with your team.
- Re-run any time from the dashboard (quota-limited: 1/month free, 2/month on paid tiers)
- Raw responses archived so we can re-score offline if you need to pivot the analysis
You get the report in your dashboard
The finished report lands in your dashboard the moment it's ready, and we email you a sign-in link. Delivered within minutes of payment — usually under 10.
What we don't do
- We don't scrape the AI engines without permission. We use OpenRouter's official tool-use API for the LLMs and Apify's compliant SERP scraper for Google.
- We don't store your audit data forever. Raw responses live on our servers for 90 days then are deleted. The hosted report stays accessible for 12 months.
- We don't do an SEO audit. If you want backlink analysis, on-page recommendations or keyword research, use Ahrefs or Semrush. We measure something different.
- We don't claim guaranteed AI rankings. No one can. AI engines change weekly. What we give you is measurement and direction.
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Frequently asked
How long does a monitoraeo audit take?
The free 8-question preview returns in about 30 seconds. A full paid audit takes 5–10 minutes from payment to delivery because it queries 40 buyer questions across multiple engines in parallel, runs a 15-check GEO audit on the site at the same time, then runs a second-pass LLM scoring step for sentiment, accuracy and hallucination flags.
Which LLMs and tools does monitoraeo use under the hood?
Google AI Overviews via an Apify-compliant SERP scraper, ChatGPT (gpt-5-mini), Claude (Haiku 4.5), Perplexity (Sonar) and Gemini (2.5 Flash) via OpenRouter's official tool-use API. The second-pass LLM scoring for sentiment, accuracy and hallucination flags uses Claude Haiku 4.5; the prioritised action plan is generated by Claude Sonnet 4.6.
Why 40 questions instead of more or fewer?
Fewer is too noisy — single answers drift between runs. More is overkill and wastes engine quota. 40 questions is enough to see real patterns in visibility, citation rate and competitor share-of-voice. Multiplied across engines that's 80 AI answers on the Two Engine Audit ($29, Google AI + ChatGPT) and 200 on the Full Audit ($79, all 5 engines). The 40 questions are split across five intent buckets: brand, category, problem, comparison and vertical.
Do I need to install anything on my site?
No. Monitoraeo audits are entirely external — we ask the AI engines about your brand exactly the way a buyer would, then inspect your public pages for the 15 GEO foundations (robots.txt, sitemap.xml, llms.txt, JSON-LD schema, server-rendered HTML, mobile viewport, canonical, etc.). No tag, plugin, DNS change or code change required.
How long do you keep my audit data?
Raw AI engine responses live on our servers for 90 days then are deleted. The hosted report itself stays accessible in your dashboard for 12 months. Monitoring subscribers have running access to historical trends for as long as the subscription is active.
Can monitoraeo guarantee my brand will rank in AI answers?
No, and any tool that claims it can is misleading you. AI engines update their models and retrieval pipelines weekly and we have no insider access. What monitoraeo gives you is honest measurement (how often you appear today, on which engines, for which questions) and a prioritised action plan of changes that historically move the needle — schema, content, entity signals — so you can compound improvements over time.