The sources behind AI answers

Get your brand into AI answers.

CueScout asks the questions your buyers actually type, then shows you whether you get named and which pages to publish so you do.

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The workspace

What the scan turns into.

The scan is one reading. This is the same thing tracked over weeks, with the pages behind every answer.

AI visibility · sample workspace
The AI Insights Visibility surface: a headline reading of 58.3% visibility — named in 7 of 12 answers — with rank, GEO score, share of voice and cited share beside it, over a share of voice trend, a standings table against Mixpanel, Amplitude, Heap and PostHog, the domains the engines read, and the page types they cite. Sample workspace data.
One score, checked not guessed
Perplexity and ChatGPT get asked your buyer questions for real. No estimate model.
One sentence, not five tiles
GEO score, visibility, share of voice, average position, and cited share — one sentence with the number that leads, not five tiles you have to add up.
Ranked against competitors
Where you sit against the brands the engines name in the same answers, with the ones nobody mentioned collapsed out of the way.
How it works

Your first 90 days, honestly.

The solid part of the line is work that ships. After that we can only measure it with you.

  1. work ships

    Day 0

    Baseline

    • First scan: the threads where your buyers already ask, scored
    • Baseline check: which products assistants name today
  2. citations window

    Day 30

    Everything shipped

    8–12 pieces planned · first 3 live
    • Every repeating buyer question dated into a writing plan
    • First comparison and answer pages live on your site
    • No Reddit account touched, because none is needed
  3. compounding

    Day 90

    First movement

    first citations typically land here
    • Rank badges show which of your pages and threads rank on Google
    • First AI citations typically show up here, if they show up at all
    • Visits arriving from real buyer questions
  4. Month 6

    Compounding

    cited on category questions
    • Assistants start naming you when buyers ask for your category, if the pages earn it
    • Every page keeps answering, nothing expires and nothing gets banned
The problem

Most AI-visibility tools stop at the scoreboard.

There are suddenly a lot of these dashboards. They track a set of prompts and report how often your brand shows up. The number moves or it doesn’t, and moving it is left to you.

A prompt tracker gives you

  • A share-of-voice percentage
  • Which competitors outrank you in answers
  • A chart that updates weekly

CueScout adds

  • The exact URLs those answers were built from
  • The buyer questions repeating inside them, counted
  • A dated 30-day plan of pages to publish
  • A re-check on every question after you publish
Step by step

From “are we in the answer?” to a dated plan you can actually work.

  1. 1

    Check. The engines get asked the questions your buyers ask. Every mention and citation is recorded. If the baseline is zero, it says zero.

  2. 2

    Trace. The URLs those answers cite get collected and clustered, so you can see which threads and pages carry your category.

  3. 3

    Read. Reddit, Hacker News, and Quora get scanned for the buyer questions behind those sources, each scored with a one-sentence reason.

  4. 4

    Plan. The questions that keep coming back become a dated 30-day plan: what to write, and which thread it came from.

  5. 5

    Measure. Re-checks show whether the engines start naming you, and which of the pages you published they now cite.

Your keywords

Keywords from Sources, and how the leads they matched turned out.

73% good rate
  • monitor subreddit mentions

    6 good · 1 not relevant · 2 unrated

    86% good
  • social listening

    1 good · 8 not relevant · 2 unrated

    11% good
  • find early users

    4 good · 1 not relevant · 1 unrated

    80% good
Stop matching

social listening

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8 of 11 leads from this keyword were marked not relevant, mostly agencies comparing enterprise suites. One click drops it from your keyword list.

Scan details

Queries, source counts, and scoring totals from the latest run.

Scanned 4m ago

38

Found

12

Scored

2

Saved

10

Rejected

9

Skipped

17

Deduped

Reddit

26 fetched
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12 scored. 2 worth your time. 10 rejected.

When nothing is worth answering, the scan says so: “Scan completed but no results.” You see every query that ran and what each source returned, never a padded inbox.

Honest scans

Some weeks your buyers ask nothing new. We’ll say so.

Every scan shows its work: the exact queries it ran, how many posts each source returned, and how many were scored, saved, rejected, skipped, or deduplicated.

“Nothing strong this week” is a first-class outcome in CueScout, not a failure state we hide. A tool that pads your inbox to look busy is wasting the exact time it promised to save.

FAQ

Fair questions.

Does this get me recommended by ChatGPT?+

Nobody can promise that, and anyone who does is selling you an algorithm hack. What CueScout does is find the questions buyers actually ask, put them in a plan so you can publish real answers, and then check the engines to see whether your name comes back. You get the raw material and the measurement. The writing is still yours.

Is this against Reddit's rules?+

CueScout never touches your Reddit account, because it doesn't need one. It reads public conversations the way any reader does, explains why each one matched, and shows you which questions keep coming back. Nothing is posted, drafted for posting, or automated. The answer you write goes on your own site.

What if my buyers aren't asking anything?+

Then the scan says so. It shows exactly what ran (every query, every source count, every rejection) and reports no results instead of padding the inbox with weak matches. If that keeps happening, the Lead Quality report shows which keywords are underperforming so you can tune them.

Which sources do you support?+

Reddit, Hacker News, and Quora today. We'd rather do a few sources with honest scoring than ten sources with noise.

How is this different from Profound, Peec, or Otterly?+

Those are prompt trackers: you give them a set of questions, they tell you how often your brand appears in the answers. CueScout runs those checks too, but it spends most of its effort on the source side: the specific threads and pages the answers cite, and the buyer questions inside them. A share-of-voice number tells you where you stand; CueScout also hands you the list of pages to publish to change it. It is also priced for small teams: plans start at $49/mo against a category average around $337/mo.

How is this different from keyword-alert tools?+

Keyword alerts match strings and stop there. CueScout scores intent, tells you in plain language why something matched, counts how often the same question comes back, turns the repeats into a writing plan, and then checks whether AI engines cite the pages you published. When you mark results good or not relevant, future scans score sharper. Alert tools send you the same noise on week 50 that they sent on week 1.

Free check

Do AI engines already recommend you? Run one free check (no signup) and see whether Perplexity names your product when buyers ask for recommendations.

Run the free AI Visibility Checker
Pricing

Three plans. No “Contact sales.”

Pick a plan, run your first check, get your roadmap, cancel anytime. CueScout never posts anything on your behalf. Prices current as of July 30, 2026.

Perplexity and Google AI Overviews start shifting 30 to 60 days after you publish. Telling a real gain apart from week-to-week noise takes 60 to 90. A one-month plan makes you decide before the data shows up.

Basic

For testing whether buyer-question research and AI visibility work for your product.

$129/3 mo$147

$18 off, works out to $43/mo

  • 1 product tracked
  • 450 AI Visibility checks/month (15/day, Perplexity)
  • GEO score, with mentions and citations tracked separately
  • Citation sources: the URLs the engines cite in your category
  • Auto-scan every 24 hours across Reddit & Hacker News
  • Repeating buyer questions, clustered and counted
  • Dated 30-day writing plan, 3 regenerations/week
  • 20 AI page drafts/month (5/week)
  • Google rank badges on matched threads
  • Site readiness checks (schema, freshness, machine-readable pricing)
  • Lead Quality report + keyword tuning
  • Per-page citation tracking after you publish
  • Shareable Opportunity Report — one link per product, no login needed

Growth

Most useful

For consultants and founders publishing against AI search every week.

$259/3 mo$297

$38 off, works out to $87/mo

  • Everything in Basic, plus:
  • 3 products tracked
  • 1,200 AI Visibility checks/month (40/day)
  • ChatGPT checked alongside Perplexity
  • Auto-scan every 12 hours, per product
  • Plan regenerates 10x/week as new questions land
  • 80 AI page drafts/month (20/week)
  • Priority scoring on Google-ranked threads
  • A shareable Opportunity Report for each of your 3 products

Agency

For agencies running AI-visibility retainers across a roster of clients.

$649/3 mo$747

$98 off, works out to $217/mo

  • Everything in Growth, plus:
  • 10 products tracked, each with its own corpus and plan
  • 3,600 AI Visibility checks/month (120/day)
  • Auto-scan every 6 hours, per product
  • Plan regenerates 30x/week across the roster
  • 240 AI page drafts/month (60/week)
  • An Opportunity Report per client, shareable without a login

For reference, the average dedicated AI-visibility tool runs about $337/mo (Rankability survey, January 2026). Entry pricing elsewhere: Profound $99, Peec AI $96, Scrunch $250, Otterly $29. Most of them tell you which answers you are missing from. This one also gives you the questions to answer.

Where the plans differ

Every plan includes Reddit and Hacker News as mined sources, the GEO score and cited-thread opportunities, clustered buyer questions, Google rank badges on matched threads, site readiness checks, and per-page citation tracking.

FeatureBasic$129/3 moGrowth$259/3 moAgency$649/3 mo
Coverage
Products tracked1310
AI Visibility checks450/mo (15/day)1,200/mo (40/day)3,600/mo (120/day)
Answer enginesPerplexityPerplexity + ChatGPTPerplexity + ChatGPT
Auto-scan cadenceEvery 24hEvery 12hEvery 6h
Output
Writing plan regenerations3/week10/week30/week
AI page drafts5/week20/week60/week
Shareable Opportunity Reports1 (one per product)3 (one per product)10 (one per client)

Founder Pack

One-time

Just want a taste first? Run the full loop on one product for 30 days, pay once, no recurring charge. Upgrade to a plan anytime to keep your threads live.

Buying the Founder Pack? Read the clock first.

Thirty days buys the work, not the results. AI citations run on a slower clock: 60 to 90 days before anything typically moves, three to six months before it holds steady, and some pages never get cited at all. Anyone selling you AI visibility inside a month is lying about the timeline.

By day 30

The work is shipped

  • Every repeating buyer question found, scored, and dated into a writing plan
  • First comparison and answer pages live on your site
  • A baseline reading of which products assistants name today, so day 90 has something to compare against
  • Your accounts intact — CueScout never posts anything itself

By day 90

The citations start moving

  • This is the earliest window where AI assistants begin citing pages published around day 30
  • Google rank badges show which of those pages and threads are ranking
  • Some pages get cited, some never do. You will see which ones from the tracking, not from a promise

So the pack ends five to eight weeks before the citations it set up are due. On day 25 CueScout shows you what your 30 days actually produced and what the next 60 are for, and you decide then. A plan is what keeps the scans, the monthly roadmap refresh, and the citation tracking running across that gap.

Cancel anytime. No auto-posting, ever.

Full pricing page with the plan-by-plan breakdown and billing FAQ.

Get started

Run one check and see which conversations are answering for your category.

Setup takes about two minutes: describe your product, run the first visibility check, read the sources. The writing plan comes out of the same run.