AI visibility: new launches

Brandlight: AI Ads: ad campaigns on ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews, early customers only

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Brandlight's AI Ads helps brands create, launch and optimize ad campaigns across AI engines, including ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews, using its AI-visibility data. It is with a select group of early customers, and other teams can join a waitlist.

Brandlight (brandlight.ai). Announced Oct. 29, 2026. On a waitlist.

Features: AI-answer tracking, Reporting and measurement.

Source: GlobeNewswire (read via GlobeNewswire RSS item; release body blocked).

Evertune: Agentic GEO: GEO Manager, Content Studio and an Evertune MCP

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Evertune's Agentic GEO lets users ask agents why AI visibility changed and get findings with evidence and next steps, then turn a gap into a strategy, brief or draft in Content Studio. Evertune MCP brings the same data into Claude and ChatGPT.

Evertune (evertune.ai). Available Oct. 28, 2026.

Features: AI agents, Chat assistant, MCP servers and connectors, AI-answer optimization, AI-cited sources.

Source: Evertune blog.

Brandi AI: Content Compass 2.0 revision workflow and Brand Voice checks

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Brandi AI's Content Compass 2.0 adds a redesigned Optimization Hub that takes teams from AI-visibility recommendations through revisions to publication, with accept or reject control over each suggested change. Brand Voice checks optimized content against a brand's voice and tone guidelines before publication.

Brandi AI (mybrandi.ai). Available Oct. 27, 2026.

Features: AI-answer optimization.

Source: Brandi AI press release.

Scrunch AI: Zapier integration triggered by AI visibility signals

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Scrunch launched a Zapier integration that triggers workflows from its AI visibility signals.

Scrunch AI (scrunch.com). Available Oct. 27, 2026.

Source: Scrunch blog (Oct 27, 2026).

Peec AI: Links report in the API (v0.39.0)

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Peec's Customer API v0.39.0 adds a Links report showing which domains AI answers link to in their own text.

Peec AI (peec.ai). Available Oct. 27, 2026. In beta.

Source: Peec AI API changelog v0.39.0 (Oct 27, 2026).

AirOps: Muse Spark answer tracking, dashboard notes, CSV imports in Campaigns

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

AirOps Insights now tracks how brands appear in Muse Spark answers, and custom dashboards take text blocks beside charts that carry into PDF exports. Campaigns accept CSV imports of page lists and briefs for review before work moves into Action.

AirOps (airops.com). Available Oct. 26, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking, Reporting and measurement.

Source: AirOps changelog.

Searchable: Optional write-access switch for API keys and MCP tokens

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Searchable added an optional Allow write access switch, off by default, when creating API keys and MCP tokens.

Searchable (searchable.com). Available Oct. 24, 2026.

Source: Searchable changelog (Oct 24, 2026).

Profound: Teams with credit wallets, Context Manager overview, Bazaarvoice, Workfront

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Profound added Teams, which give brands, regions or business units their own categories, shared resources and credit wallet, and an Overview tab in Context Manager to find and fill context gaps. It also added Bazaarvoice Conversations nodes for Workflows and export of Project tasks to Adobe Workfront.

Profound (tryprofound.com). Available Oct. 23, 2026.

Features: AI agents, Chat assistant, MCP servers and connectors.

Source: Profound changelog.

Surfacd: Reports break down what moved visibility; queries split scope from filters

2026-11-05T00:00:00Z

Surfacd's visibility reports can now show how much each row's mention rate moved a brand's visibility against a comparison period. Report queries now take a scope list that decides what is counted and a separate filters list that only picks which rows come back.

Surfacd (surfacd.com). Available Oct. 23, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking, Reporting and measurement.

Source: Surfacd changelog.

In PR software this week: Oct. 20 to 25, 2026.

Otterly.ai: Brand Profiling: attributes and objections AI search attaches to a brand

2026-10-28T00:00:00Z

A new Brand Profiling tab in each OtterlyAI brand report shows the attributes and objections AI search engines attach to a brand, scores them, compares them with competitors, and links each insight to the pages AI cited. It covers ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity and Copilot.

Otterly.ai (otterly.ai). Available Oct. 21, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

Source: OtterlyAI blog.

Evertune: Starter: self-serve no-contract plan with an agent that builds ChatGPT ad campaigns

2026-10-22T00:00:00Z

Evertune launched Starter, a self-serve plan with credit-card signup and no contract. Users run an AI visibility report and an agent writes ChatGPT ad targeting, context hints and copy for the topics where AI leaves the brand out, then launches and optimizes the campaign.

Evertune (evertune.ai). Announced Oct. 20, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking, AI agents.

Source: Evertune blog.

Knowatoa: MCP historical analysis and period-over-period reporting

2026-10-22T00:00:00Z

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.

Knowatoa (knowatoa.com). Available Oct. 19, 2026.

Features: MCP servers and connectors, AI-answer tracking, MCP server.

Source: Knowatoa updates.

Knowatoa: Sentiment response counts and negative-mention diagnostics

2026-10-28T00:00:00Z

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.

Knowatoa (knowatoa.com). Available Oct. 19, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking.

Source: Knowatoa updates.

In PR software this week: Oct. 20 to 25, 2026.

Surfacd: Branded filter for API reports

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Visibility, sources and narratives reports can be filtered to answers to prompts that name a brand, or to generic prompts.

Surfacd (surfacd.com). Available Oct. 19, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking.

Source: Surfacd changelog.

Surfacd: Queries report: counts the web searches AI platforms run for tracked prompts

2026-10-28T00:00:00Z

Surfacd added a queries report that counts the web searches ChatGPT, Perplexity and other platforms run before answering, across every answer in the filters: searches per prompt, the most common searches, search rate by platform, and change against the previous period. It is also available through the run_report MCP tool.

Surfacd (surfacd.com). Available Oct. 19, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking, Reporting and measurement, MCP servers and connectors.

Source: Surfacd changelog.

AirOps: Citation trends in AirOps MCP and platform grouping in Ad Library

2026-10-28T00:00:00Z

AirOps added citation trends and weekly history to its MCP, so a connected assistant can report which pages are losing citations, and grouped its Ad Library by platform to compare ads across ChatGPT and Google AI Mode. The same release adds deeper Query Fanout insights.

AirOps (airops.com). Available Oct. 19, 2026.

Features: AI-cited sources, AI-answer tracking, MCP servers and connectors.

Source: AirOps changelog.

In PR software this week: Oct. 20 to 25, 2026.

Knowatoa: Set up client sites from an AI assistant (MCP)

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

An assistant connected to Knowatoa can create a site with brand-name variations, add competitors and load up to 100 questions per batch.

Knowatoa (knowatoa.com). Available Oct. 18, 2026.

Features: MCP servers and connectors, MCP server.

Source: Knowatoa updates.

Knowatoa: Competitor sentiment export through the API

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

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.

Knowatoa (knowatoa.com). Available Oct. 18, 2026.

Features: Reporting and measurement.

Source: Knowatoa updates.

Profound: New Agents: the AI Marketer builds an Agent from a plain-language request, with triggers

2026-10-28T00:00:00Z

The AI Marketer writes the instructions for an Agent from a description; Agents run on a schedule or on triggers (a competitor blog post, a 5% visibility change, a Slack post). Old node-based Agents become Workflows.

Profound (tryprofound.com). Available Oct. 16, 2026.

Features: AI agents.

Profound: AI Marketer in Microsoft Teams

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Chat with the AI Marketer one-on-one or by @mention in Teams channels, and let it read and post to Teams from Agents.

Profound (tryprofound.com). Available Oct. 16, 2026.

Features: Chat assistant.

Peec AI: Views: saved, shareable custom dashboards

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Users build named dashboards from 80 widgets (or charts the agent made), set one as default, and share it with the team or by public link.

Peec AI (peec.ai). Available Oct. 14, 2026.

Features: Reporting and measurement.

Source: Peec AI blog (Introducing Views).

AirOps: Google AI Mode ads in the Ad Library

2026-10-28T00:00:00Z

Ad Library adds ads seen in Google AI Mode answers beside the ChatGPT ads AirOps already shows.

AirOps (airops.com). Available Oct. 12, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking.

AirOps: Content feedback and Playbook testing through MCP

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Claude or Codex connected through AirOps MCP can read Artifact comments and Playbook instructions, run a draft or published Playbook, and read the output.

AirOps (airops.com). Available Oct. 12, 2026.

Features: MCP servers and connectors, MCP server.

Profound: Search Visibility: SEO data from Moz for every page, read by the AI Marketer

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Profound adds Moz-powered Google ranking data to Pages (keywords, search intent, page and domain authority) and lists sites that link to competitors but not to the user; the AI Marketer reads it beside AI-citation data.

Profound (tryprofound.com). Available Oct. 9, 2026.

Features: AI-answer optimization.

Profound: Chart Annotations in Answer Engine Insights

2026-10-28T00:00:00Z

Users add event markers (a campaign launch, a content refresh) to AI-visibility charts; Profound also marks answer-engine model changes automatically.

Profound (tryprofound.com). Available Oct. 9, 2026.

Features: Reporting and measurement.

AirOps: Citation lifecycle metrics in Insights

2026-10-28T00:00:00Z

Insights shows when a URL first appeared as a citation, its peak week, rise, decline and half-life, with a weekly chart and CSV or Grid export.

AirOps (airops.com). Available Oct. 5, 2026.

Features: AI-cited sources.

AirOps: Agent Analytics data in AirOps MCP and API

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

AI crawl activity (AI agent visits, training crawls, web-search crawls) can be read in a connected assistant through AirOps MCP and built into custom reports through the API.

AirOps (airops.com). Available Oct. 5, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking, MCP servers and connectors, MCP server.

Profound: Getty Images search for AI Marketer

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

AI Marketer searches Getty Images and finds photos for content it drafts, via a Getty connector.

Profound (tryprofound.com). Available Oct. 2, 2026.

Source: Profound changelog.

Surfacd: Deactivate prompts and keep their history

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

A prompt can be deactivated instead of deleted, so its topic, tags and past results stay in reports; inactive prompts move to a new tab and only inactive prompts can be deleted.

Surfacd (surfacd.com). Available Oct. 1, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking.

Source: Surfacd changelog.

Rankscale: Local Results

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Tracks how often AI assistants recommend a brand's map listings.

Rankscale (rankscale.ai). Available Oct. 1, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking.

Source: Rankscale changelog.

Scrunch AI: Scrunch in SitecoreAI

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Scrunch's AI observability and optimization features built into SitecoreAI, with staged content drafts and approval.

Scrunch AI (scrunch.com). Available Oct. 1, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-answer optimization.

Source: Scrunch blog.

Ahrefs Brand Radar: AI adjusted volume (Brand Radar)

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

AI visibility reports use a per-platform volume: parent keyword Google volume times the platform's estimated usage ratio.

Ahrefs Brand Radar (ahrefs.com). Available Sept. 29, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking.

Source: Ahrefs blog.

Ahrefs Brand Radar: AI appearances in Top Pages

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Top Pages report shows how many AI responses each page appears in across AI platforms; needs a Brand Radar subscription.

Ahrefs Brand Radar (ahrefs.com). Available Sept. 29, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

Source: Ahrefs blog.

Peec AI: Content optimization actions

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Peec began generating an optimization score and suggested edits for an existing page the user owns, with endpoints to accept or apply rewrites.

Peec AI (peec.ai). Available Sept. 27, 2026.

Features: AI-answer optimization.

Source: Peec AI docs (API changelog).

Rankscale: Meta Muse Spark engine

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Tracks how Meta's Muse Spark model mentions and cites a brand.

Rankscale (rankscale.ai). Available Sept. 27, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking.

Source: Rankscale changelog.

Profound: AI Marketer chart investigation

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Click a point on a Visibility, Sentiment, FactCheck or Citations chart and the AI Marketer explains the movement.

Profound (tryprofound.com). Available Sept. 25, 2026.

Features: Chat assistant.

Source: Profound changelog.

AirOps: AI Ads in AirOps

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

AirOps introduced AI Ads: monitoring, an ads library, and ad creation/actions for ChatGPT Ads as a third pillar of AI search visibility.

AirOps (airops.com). Available Sept. 24, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-answer optimization.

Source: AirOps blog.

Profound: Image generation (AI Marketer)

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Lets Profound's AI Marketer generate campaign visuals from a text prompt and reference images.

Profound (tryprofound.com). Available Sept. 24, 2026.

Source: Profound (blog).

Scrunch AI: Agent Pages (GA)

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Renamed, generally available content-delivery layer serving AI-optimized pages to AI agents at the edge while humans see the unchanged site.

Scrunch AI (scrunch.com). Available Sept. 22, 2026.

Features: AI-answer optimization.

Source: Scrunch blog.

AirOps: Copilot workflow-building update

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Copilot, running on Claude Sonnet 5 by default, explains Workflows, suggests Steps and connections, and helps diagnose problems.

AirOps (airops.com). Available Sept. 21, 2026.

Features: Chat assistant.

Source: AirOps changelog.

Profound: Dynamic Bot Rendering

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Automatically serves a fully rendered version of a page to AI answer-engine bots/agents without touching the CMS.

Profound (tryprofound.com). Available Sept. 18, 2026.

Features: AI-answer optimization.

Source: Profound (changelog).

Profound: AEO Keywords

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Shows which keywords a given page is winning AI citations for, alongside prompt volume, share, rank and difficulty.

Profound (tryprofound.com). Available Sept. 18, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking.

Source: Profound (changelog).

Profound: $180M Series D Funding

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Profound raised a $180M Series D at a $1.8B valuation to build 'the AI platform for marketing teams'.

Profound (tryprofound.com). Announced Sept. 15, 2026.

Source: Profound newsroom.

AirOps: Social and Community insights

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Shows which YouTube creators, videos, Reddit threads and subreddits appear in tracked AI answers.

AirOps (airops.com). Available Sept. 14, 2026.

Features: AI-cited sources.

Source: AirOps changelog.

Profound: Command Center

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Leader view of how a team uses marketing Agents: runs, hours saved, projects tracked, and peer benchmarks.

Profound (tryprofound.com). Available Sept. 14, 2026.

Features: Reporting and measurement.

Source: Profound blog.

Peec AI: Brand Perception: Objections and Fact-checking

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Peec groups the arguments AI makes against a brand and tests AI claims against facts the user supplies.

Peec AI (peec.ai). Available Sept. 11, 2026.

Features: AI-answer optimization.

Source: Peec AI changelog.

Peec AI: AI referrals

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Tracks sessions, engagement, conversions and revenue that AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot) send to a website via GA4.

Peec AI (peec.ai). Available Sept. 11, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking.

Source: Peec AI (blog).

Peec AI: My website

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Page-level view combining server-log crawl data, Peec prompt/citation tracking and GA4 traffic to show how AI search interacts with each page.

Peec AI (peec.ai). Available Sept. 11, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking, AI-cited sources.

Source: Peec AI (blog).

Profound: Microsoft 365 integration for Agents

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Profound Agents can access and edit Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint and Word after a user connects a Microsoft account.

Profound (tryprofound.com). Available Sept. 11, 2026.

Features: AI agents.

Source: Profound changelog.

Profound: Personal Context import

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Import context from ChatGPT or Claude conversations so the AI Marketer tunes output to the user's style.

Profound (tryprofound.com). Available Sept. 11, 2026.

Features: Chat assistant.

Source: Profound changelog.

Surfacd: Reputation (Reputation Intelligence)

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Groups recurring narratives AI platforms tell about a brand into themes, scored for sentiment and tracked over time; beta.

Surfacd (surfacd.com). Available Sept. 10, 2026. In beta.

Features: AI-answer tracking.

Source: Surfacd changelog.

Surfacd: Download Rankings and Answers as a PDF or Markdown report

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Rankings and Answers export as a formatted, branded PDF or a Markdown report with the active filters and a link back to the live view.

Surfacd (surfacd.com). Available Sept. 3, 2026.

Features: Reporting and measurement.

Source: Surfacd (changelog).

Rankscale: Query Fanout Insights

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Dedicated Brand Details section ranking the internal searches AI engines run for tracked prompts, with activity-over-time and CSV/Sheets export.

Rankscale (rankscale.ai). Available Sept. 3, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking.

Source: Rankscale Changelog.

AirOps: AirOps Services: platform plus channel-expert team

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

AirOps paired its platform and data with a team of channel experts who set a customer's AI search strategy and execute it end to end, including earning placements in third-party sources.

AirOps (airops.com). Announced Sept. 2, 2026.

Source: AirOps blog.

Profound: Context Manager

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Operating memory for Profound's AI Marketer, synthesizing brand and personal context from a customer's knowledge base and interactions.

Profound (tryprofound.com). Available Sept. 1, 2026.

Features: Chat assistant.

Source: Profound (blog).

AirOps: AirOps in Codex

2026-10-21T00:00:00Z

Interactive AirOps Insights analysis with charts, tables and Brand Kit review interfaces inside Codex tasks.

AirOps (airops.com). Available Aug. 31, 2026.

Features: MCP servers and connectors, Plugin.

Source: AirOps changelog.

Surfacd: Search Queries

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Shows every web search an AI platform ran while building an answer, beside the cited sources.

Surfacd (surfacd.com). Available Aug. 27, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking.

Source: Surfacd changelog.

Surfacd: Claude and Grok monitored through provider APIs

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Claude is added as an early-access platform queried with web search on; Grok moves to API collection.

Surfacd (surfacd.com). Available Aug. 25, 2026. In beta.

Features: AI-answer tracking.

Source: Surfacd (changelog).

Rankscale: AI assistant write access via MCP

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Connected AI assistants (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor) can now create/update search terms, topics and dashboard views, and activate tracking, not just read data.

Rankscale (rankscale.ai). Available Aug. 22, 2026.

Features: MCP servers and connectors, MCP server.

Source: Rankscale Changelog.

Profound: Run Agents from Aim with @ mention

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Call any Agent from a chat with the AI Marketer; Aim runs it and returns Docs or Sheets in the conversation.

Profound (tryprofound.com). Available Aug. 21, 2026.

Features: AI agents.

Source: Profound changelog.

AthenaHQ: What's new in Athena: August 2026

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Athena shipped shopping pages with Shopify sync, ChatGPT Ads reporting, enhanced AI features, and coverage of 185 markets, targeting down to city level.

AthenaHQ (athenahq.ai). Announced Aug. 19, 2026.

AthenaHQ: Shopping Pages

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Auto-generated, catalog-synced product and category pages built for the pages LLMs use to answer shopping queries.

AthenaHQ (athenahq.ai). Announced Aug. 19, 2026.

Features: AI-answer optimization.

AthenaHQ: Shopify Catalog Sync

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Syncs prices, variants and swatches from Shopify so AI-generated shopping copy stays grounded in live product data.

AthenaHQ (athenahq.ai). Announced Aug. 19, 2026.

Features: AI-answer optimization.

AthenaHQ: ChatGPT Ads Reporting

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Adds a reporting layer for paid placements inside ChatGPT, tracking ad appearances and searchable creatives.

AthenaHQ (athenahq.ai). Announced Aug. 19, 2026.

Features: AI-answer tracking.

AthenaHQ: Athena AI agentic follow-up actions

2026-10-20T00:00:00Z

Athena's AI assistant gains the ability to act on conversations directly, e.g. saving views and updating the Knowledge Base.

AthenaHQ (athenahq.ai). Announced Aug. 19, 2026.

Features: Chat assistant, AI agents.