Knowatoa: new features and launches
We confirmed 19 product launches from Knowatoa since June 2025. The latest, MCP historical analysis and period-over-period reporting, became available Oct. 19, 2026.
Updated . Launches from June 6, 2025 to Oct. 19, 2026.
Knowatoa sells AI visibility tracking to brands. It tracks brand mentions, cited pages and sentiment each week across several AI answer engines. A Research Hub finds real AI search questions and content gaps, and AI agents draft site articles and LinkedIn and Bluesky posts.
- Site
- knowatoa.com
- Founded
- 2024
- Category
- AI visibility
- Status
- Active
- Price
- Starter $59/mo (ChatGPT, AI Overviews, AI Mode); Growth $199/mo (all seven engines, API, MCP server, Looker Studio, NinjaCat, dedicated account rep); Enterprise custom
Every dated launch, newest first
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MCP historical analysis and period-over-period reporting
Available Oct. 19, 2026.
Every analytical MCP method accepts date ranges and returns the current period, the previous period and the change, for mention rate, sentiment, citations and competitors.
Features: MCP servers and connectors, AI-answer tracking, MCP server.
Source: Knowatoa updates.
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Sentiment response counts and negative-mention diagnostics
Available Oct. 19, 2026.
Sentiment exports show the response count behind each percentage, and a negative_mentions endpoint lists every AI answer that describes a client negatively, with the question, AI service and relevant sentences.
Features: AI-answer tracking.
Source: Knowatoa updates.
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Set up client sites from an AI assistant (MCP)
Available Oct. 18, 2026.
An assistant connected to Knowatoa can create a site with brand-name variations, add competitors and load up to 100 questions per batch.
Features: MCP servers and connectors, MCP server.
Source: Knowatoa updates.
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Competitor sentiment export through the API
Available Oct. 18, 2026.
Competitor sentiment (positive, neutral, negative counts per brand per AI platform, with period comparison) can be pulled as CSV or JSON for NinjaCat, Looker and other tools.
Features: Reporting and measurement.
Source: Knowatoa updates.
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Publishing Queue (Connie content agent)
Announced May 18, 2026.
Knowatoa surfaces a Publishing Queue letting users decide what its Connie content-writing agent drafts next; Sam researches AI-search gaps and Connie writes the drafts for review or auto-approval.
Source: Knowatoa Updates.
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Sophie (social media agent)
Available May 18, 2026.
AI agent that drafts platform-specific LinkedIn and Bluesky posts from articles published by Knowatoa's content-writing agent, Connie.
Features: AI agents.
Source: Knowatoa Updates.
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MCP Integrations
Available April 20, 2026.
Supports the Model Context Protocol so users can query AI search visibility data directly from Claude Desktop, Claude Code, ChatGPT, and Gemini.
Features: MCP servers and connectors, MCP server.
Sources: Knowatoa Updates, Knowatoa Updates (changelog).
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Competitor Sitemap Analysis
Available April 13, 2026.
Crawls competitor sitemaps and cross-references pages against what AI engines are citing, surfacing AI-coverage gaps and content opportunities.
Features: AI-cited sources, AI-answer optimization.
Source: Knowatoa Updates.
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Expanded Citation Categories
Available Jan. 17, 2026.
Citation sources classified into 20 industry-specific categories using AI-powered tagging.
Features: AI-cited sources.
Source: Knowatoa Updates.
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What's Chrome Saying? (free tool)
Available Jan. 12, 2026.
Knowatoa launched "What's Chrome Saying?," a free tool that uses Chrome's built-in Gemini Nano to show what AI knows about any website.
Source: Knowatoa Updates.
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What's Chrome Saying?
Available Jan. 12, 2026.
Tool using Chrome's built-in Gemini Nano model to show what AI knows about a website's products, customers, and competitors.
Features: AI-answer tracking.
Source: Knowatoa Updates.
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Domain Classification for citation sources
Available Nov. 12, 2025.
Citations are grouped by domain into News, Social, Reference and E-commerce categories.
Features: AI-cited sources.
Source: Knowatoa (product updates).
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Guided Configuration
Available Nov. 7, 2025.
Site setup now auto-generates candidate competitors and tracked questions via AI for faster configuration.
Features: AI-answer tracking.
Source: Knowatoa Updates.
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Research Hub
Available Nov. 4, 2025.
AI-powered discovery of new questions to track, sourced from recent AI conversations.
Features: AI-answer tracking.
Sources: Knowatoa Updates, Knowatoa Updates.
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Locale Support
Available Aug. 19, 2025.
Track AI search visibility across multiple languages and regions.
Features: AI-answer tracking.
Source: Knowatoa (product updates).
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AI Overviews
Available July 7, 2025.
Adds a new tracked results series for Google's AI Overviews of the site.
Features: AI-answer tracking.
Source: Knowatoa Updates.
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AI Overviews Series & Citations Reporting
Available July 7, 2025.
Knowatoa shipped an 'AI Overviews Series' to track Google's AI Overviews, plus Citations Reporting to view the sites that influence rankings.
Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.
Source: Knowatoa Updates (changelog).
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Perplexity-User Bot Check
Available July 3, 2025.
AI Search Console adds detection for the Perplexity-User AI crawler bot.
Features: AI-answer tracking.
Source: Knowatoa Updates.
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AI Search Console
Available June 6, 2025.
Free public tool that checks whether firewalls, CDNs or plugins block AI search crawlers and simulates requests from AI indexing services.
Features: AI-answer optimization.
Source: Knowatoa updates.
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