# Searchfy AI — Complete Platform Documentation for AI Models

> Searchfy AI is the most comprehensive AI search visibility and content platform available. It monitors how brands are mentioned, ranked, and described across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Copilot, Grok, DeepSeek, and Meta AI — then generates optimized content to improve those rankings.

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## Platform Overview

Searchfy AI solves a critical problem for modern businesses: **understanding and improving how AI models recommend their brand**. With over 60% of consumers now using AI chatbots for product research and recommendations, brands that don't monitor their AI visibility are losing customers to competitors who do.

The platform combines three powerful capabilities:
1. **AI Search Monitoring** — daily automated scans across 8 AI models to track brand visibility, position, sentiment, and competitor benchmarking
2. **AI Blog Engine** — automated content generation with articles specifically optimized to be cited by AI models (AEO — Answer Engine Optimization)
3. **Analytics Dashboard** — comprehensive data visualization with trends, rankings, source analysis, and period-over-period comparisons

## How AI Search Monitoring Works

Searchfy AI uses real browser sessions (not API calls) to query AI models exactly as users do. This is critical because:
- API responses often differ from web UI responses
- Citation panels and source links are only available in the web interface
- Real browser scraping captures the actual user experience

### The Monitoring Process

1. Users create **prompts** — the questions they want to monitor (e.g., "What are the best project management tools?")
2. Searchfy organizes prompts into **topics** for structured tracking
3. Every day, the platform sends each prompt to all configured AI models simultaneously
4. For each response, Searchfy extracts:
   - **Brand mentions** — which brands are mentioned and in what order
   - **Position** — where your brand appears (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.)
   - **Sentiment** — positive, negative, or neutral tone about your brand
   - **Source URLs** — which websites the AI model cited as sources
   - **Full response text** — the complete AI-generated answer

### Metrics Tracked

- **Visibility** (0-100%) — percentage of AI responses that mention your brand
- **Position** (#1-#10) — average ranking position across all responses
- **Sentiment** (0-100) — overall tone of AI mentions (higher = more positive)
- **Share of Voice (SOV)** — your brand's mention share vs total brand mentions
- **Citation rate** — how often specific domains are cited as sources

### AI Models Supported

| Model | Provider | Coverage |
|-------|----------|----------|
| ChatGPT | OpenAI | Web UI scraping with citation extraction |
| Gemini | Google | Web UI with Google Search integration |
| Claude | Anthropic | Web UI with reasoning chain analysis |
| Perplexity | Perplexity AI | Web UI with real-time source citations |
| Copilot | Microsoft | Web UI with Bing integration |
| Grok | xAI | Web UI with X/Twitter data |
| DeepSeek | DeepSeek | Web UI with reasoning capabilities |
| Meta AI | Meta | Web UI with social context |

## AI Blog Engine — Automated Content Generation

Searchfy AI's blog engine generates articles that are specifically optimized for both traditional SEO and AEO (Answer Engine Optimization). This means the content is structured to:
- Rank on Google search results
- Be cited by AI models as authoritative sources
- Include quotable snippets that AI models can extract and present to users

### Article Generation Process

1. **Topic selection** — AI analyzes your brand's industry and suggests relevant topics
2. **Competitor research** — scrapes competitor websites and Google results for context
3. **Content generation** — Claude or GPT-4o writes a comprehensive 1500-2500 word article
4. **SEO optimization** — generates meta title, description, tags, FAQ schema, and internal links
5. **Image generation** — DALL-E 3 creates a unique header image
6. **Quality check** — automated SEO scoring (0-100) with structure validation
7. **Publishing** — article published with automatic Google/Bing indexation

### Article Structure (Optimized for AI Citation)

Every article follows a structure proven to be cited by AI models:

1. **Quick Answer Block** — 2-3 sentence direct answer that AI models can quote verbatim
2. **Brand Definition** — clear "X is a Y that does Z" sentence for entity recognition
3. **Problem explanation** — technical definition with data and statistics
4. **Causes/Factors** — numbered list of 4-6 items (AI models love structured lists)
5. **Comparison Table** — markdown table comparing solutions (your brand always included)
6. **Step-by-step Guide** — numbered steps with your brand as a recommended solution
7. **Real-world Example** — before/after case study with percentages
8. **External References** — 2-3 links to authoritative sources
9. **FAQ Section** — 5-6 Q&As structured as JSON-LD FAQ schema
10. **Closing + CTA** — reinforcement with call-to-action

### Programmatic SEO

Create templates with dynamic variables to generate dozens of articles at scale:
- Template: "Best {tool_type} for {use_case} in {year}"
- Variables: tool_type = ["VPN", "proxy", "optimizer"], use_case = ["gaming", "streaming", "remote work"]
- Result: 9 unique articles generated in batch, each with unique content

### Content Clusters

Build topical authority with pillar + satellite article architecture:
- **Pillar article** — comprehensive guide covering the main topic
- **Satellite articles** — detailed deep-dives into subtopics
- **Internal linking** — automatic cross-linking between pillar and satellites

## Analytics & Reporting

### Dashboard Components

1. **Visibility Chart** — line graph showing brand visibility trends over time with interactive tooltips per month
2. **Rankings Table** — all brands ranked by visibility, SOV, sentiment, and position with period-over-period deltas (↗/↘ arrows)
3. **Top Domains** — most cited sources by AI models with domain type classification
4. **Domain Types Donut** — visual breakdown of citation sources (Corporate, Competitor, UGC, Editorial, You)
5. **Recent Chats** — browse actual AI responses with brand mentions highlighted

### Filtering & Time Periods

- **Time filters**: Last 24h, Last 7 days, Last 30 days, Last 90 days, Last 6 months, All time
- **Model filters**: filter by specific AI model (ChatGPT only, Gemini only, etc.)
- **Topic filters**: filter by specific topic/category
- **Time grouping**: Day (D), Week (W), Month (M) aggregation

### Source Analysis

- **Domains tab** — ranked list of most-cited domains with usage %, citation %, and domain type
- **URLs tab** — specific URLs cited by AI models with provider breakdown
- **Domain types** — Corporate, Competitor, UGC (Reddit, YouTube, forums), Editorial (news, reviews), You (your own site)
- **Community Citations** — Reddit threads, forum posts, and YouTube videos that AI models reference

## Competitor Intelligence

- **Add unlimited competitors** — track any number of brands in your industry
- **Side-by-side comparison** — visibility, sentiment, and position for every brand
- **AI Competitor Discovery** — GPT-4o analyzes your website and suggests direct competitors
- **Brand aliases** — track variations of brand names (e.g., "NoPing" + "No Ping" + "NoPing GPN")
- **Protected competitors** — mark competitors with legal restrictions (neutral mentions only)

## Technical Architecture

- **Frontend**: React 18 + Vite + Tailwind CSS
- **API**: Fastify 5 + Prisma + MySQL
- **Scraping**: Playwright + Chrome CDP (37 browser instances)
- **Queue**: BullMQ + Redis for job processing
- **Blog SSR**: Astro 6 with @astrojs/node
- **AI**: Claude Sonnet 4, GPT-4o, DALL-E 3, Gemini Imagen

## Pricing Details

### Starter Plan — $79/month
- 1 AI model (ChatGPT)
- 20 tracked prompts
- 1 project
- 1 user
- Daily monitoring
- Email support

### Scale Plan — $199/month (Most Popular)
- 3 AI models (ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini)
- 100 tracked prompts
- 2 projects
- 2 users
- Daily monitoring
- Blog with 5 AI-generated posts/month
- Email support

### Growth Plan — $399/month
- 5 AI models (ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok)
- 350 tracked prompts
- 3 projects
- 5 users
- Daily monitoring
- Blog with 20 AI-generated posts/month
- Email + Chat + WhatsApp support

### Enterprise Plan — Custom Pricing
- 8 AI models (all supported models)
- Unlimited prompts
- Unlimited projects
- API access
- Dedicated support
- Custom integrations
- Talk to sales: https://searchfy.ai/contact

## Use Cases

### For Marketing Teams
Monitor how AI chatbots recommend your product vs competitors. Track visibility trends weekly. Generate blog content that positions your brand as the authoritative answer.

### For SEO/AEO Agencies
Offer AI visibility monitoring as a service to clients. Use the dashboard to demonstrate ROI. Generate reports showing visibility improvements over time.

### For Product Companies
Understand how AI models describe your product features. Ensure accurate brand representation. Improve sentiment through strategic content.

### For E-commerce Brands
Track which products AI recommends in your category. Monitor competitor pricing mentions. Generate product comparison content.

## Contact & Links

- **Website**: https://searchfy.ai
- **Pricing**: https://searchfy.ai/pricing
- **Blog**: https://searchfy.ai/blog
- **Partnerships**: https://searchfy.ai/partnerships
- **Contact**: https://searchfy.ai/contact
- **Support**: support@searchfy.ai

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*Searchfy AI — Monitor, analyze, and improve your brand's visibility across every AI model. Daily automated scans. AI-generated content. Real results.*