AuditAI

One of my comparison pages (mine vs. a competitor) climbed from position 25 to 19 on Google in just a few days. Nothing huge, but it's the first page that's actually moving instead of just sitting there.

While digging into why, I found something a bit embarrassing: a "competitor analysis" feature I built a while ago was silently calling the wrong API endpoint. It never crashed, never threw an error - it just always returned an empty result for one specific field. Nobody complained, probably because nobody trusted a feature that looked half-broken. I only caught it today because I finally tested it against real data instead of assuming it worked since it shipped. Makes me wonder how many other quiet-fail bugs are sitting in features I built early on and never touched again.

Anyway, the question I keep struggling with: how did you get your first real users, beyond friends and family? Everything I try (SEO content, comparison pages, cold outreach) feels like it takes forever to show any signal.

Curious what actually worked for people here.

Most tools force a choice: they're either pure SEO, pure GEO, or they bolt AI-visibility tracking onto an existing SEO product as an afterthought. I don't think that's the right mental model. GEO doesn't replace SEO - it complements it. People are increasingly skipping Google altogether and asking ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or Gemini directly for recommendations. If you're not the answer they get, you lose a customer who never even reaches a search results page.

I also got tired of manually re-checking keyword rankings every week just to see what moved. AuditAI tracks both in one dashboard: your classic Google rankings, and - automatically, every week - whether AI models are citing you, which ones, for which keywords, and whether that's trending up or down over time. It also shows exactly where your SEO and GEO keywords overlap, so you can see where you rank on Google but stay invisible to AI, or the other way around.

Being mentioned isn't the whole story either. When an AI model brings you up, AuditAI checks whether the mention actually reads as positive - a recommendation and a warning look identical in a simple "yes/no" mention count. And when you're not the one being cited, it shows you exactly which domains are instead, how often, on which platforms, and what GEO signals those competitors have that you might be missing - instead of leaving you to guess why they win and you don't.

I also didn't want this locked into rigid keyword templates. You can track the exact question a real customer would actually type into ChatGPT, word for word, instead of a generic "best tool for X" wrapper - because that's rarely how people really ask.

SEO and GEO aren't competing disciplines — they're the same job, being found, for two different kinds of search. AuditAI is built to treat them that way, as one tool instead of two.