Buyer questions
Use category questions that do not name your company, then see which products the engine actually recommends.
directree GEO Monitor
The answer engine optimization (AEO) tool for evidence, not guesses.
GEO Monitor is an answer engine optimization tool for software companies and local businesses that need to see what ChatGPT, Perplexity and other answer engines actually say when buyers ask category questions.
GEO Monitor tracks AI engines. It has zero effect on your directree listing or ranking.
In one sentence
An answer engine optimization (AEO) tool measures whether, and how, AI answer engines such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews mention a product when buyers ask category questions, and which sources those answers cite.
Stored receipts
Open the underlying response, inspect the mention and review the citations rather than trusting an unexplained score.
Evidence gaps
Use missing sources and inconsistent facts as a concrete research list, not a promise that any one change will make you rank.
What this category means
Answer engine optimization tools, defined plainly.
Answer engine optimization tools measure whether your company appears in responses from AI systems when someone asks for a product recommendation. They do not control the answer. They make the response inspectable, show which sources were cited, and point at missing facts or third-party evidence you can fix.
Use GEO Monitor when a buyer can ask a natural-language question such as “what is a good alternative to X?” and you need a repeatable record of the answer. Start with brand-free questions so the measurement does not manufacture a mention by naming your company in the prompt.
How it works
From buyer question to stored evidence, step by step.
- 1
Write the questions buyers ask answer engines
An answer engine optimization tool starts from real category questions, kept free of your brand name. Naming yourself in the prompt forces a mention and hides the honest baseline.
- 2
Run them across the answer engines
The same questions go to ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews, because each answer engine can recommend different products for the same buyer intent.
- 3
Keep the answer, the mention and the citations
Every response is stored with whether your product appeared and which sources were cited, so an AEO change is traceable to a specific answer instead of an unexplained score.
- 4
Work the evidence gaps
Missing mentions and weak citations become a concrete list: facts to correct, pages to earn, third-party coverage to pursue. The tool measures; it cannot programme the answer.
What answer engine optimization actually involves
Answer engine optimization is the work of improving the evidence an AI answer engine can retrieve about your product: accurate facts, crawlable pages, consistent information and credible third-party sources. An AEO tool sits at the measurement end of that work. It cannot edit the model, and any tool promising a guaranteed answer placement is overstating what is possible. What it can do is show you, with receipts, whether the work is moving the answers.
How an AEO tool differs from a rank tracker
A rank tracker reports where a page sits in ranked search results. An answer engine optimization tool answers a different question: when a buyer asks an AI assistant for a recommendation, is your product in the answer, and which sources put it there? The two surfaces overlap but do not mirror each other. A strong Google ranking does not guarantee an AI mention, and some products appear in answers while ranking poorly. Most teams need evidence from both.
Choosing between AEO tools
The useful comparison points are which engines are included in the base price, whether the raw answers and citation URLs are stored where you can reopen them, and whether the tool separates a genuine recommendation from a passing reference. Score-only dashboards are hard to act on because a number cannot tell you which question produced a mention or why a competitor was cited instead.
How the tools compare
GEO Monitor vs Profound, Peec AI and OtterlyAI.
Entry plans, side by side. Every competitor here is a good product; the difference is scope and price for a small team.
| Entry plan | directree GEO Monitor | Profound | Peec AI | OtterlyAI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Starter $29/mo · Pro $79/mo · Managed $149/mo · Agency $299/mo | Starter $99/mo (billed yearly) | Starter ≈ $95/mo ($80/mo yearly) | Standard €189/mo (≈ $206) |
| Buyer questions / prompts | 15 (Starter) · 50 (Pro) · 75 (Managed) · 30 per client product (Agency) | 50 | 50 | 100 |
| Add-ons | +25 questions or +1 product, $19/mo each, on any paid plan | Not listed | Not listed | Gemini and Claude engines, priced separately |
| Engines on the entry plan | ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews (Pro and Managed add Gemini + Claude) | ChatGPT | 3 models of your choice | ChatGPT, AI Overviews, Perplexity, Copilot (Gemini, Claude paid add-ons) |
| Tracking cadence | Weekly | Daily | Daily | Daily |
| Stored answers + citations | Full response and cited sources kept 12 months (24 on Pro and Managed) | Answer insights | Reporting and citations | Citation monitoring |
| Search vs memory split | ✓ Pro and Managed | No | No | No |
| Accuracy Watch (wrong facts about you) | ✓ Pro and Managed | No | No | No |
| Done for you: questions, competitors, monthly written summary | ✓ Managed | Not listed | Not listed | Not listed |
| Agency roster with white-label reports | ✓ Agency: 10 client products, 30 questions each | Enterprise, priced on request | Advanced and Enterprise | Not listed |
| Free check, no signup | ✓ 3 questions | Demo | Trial | Trial |
| Best for | Software companies and local businesses that want evidence, not a score | Marketing teams with a large prompt library | Marketing teams that need daily multi-country tracking | Teams that want daily tracking across four engines |
Profound from profound.com/pricing, OtterlyAI from otterly.ai/pricing, Peec AI from its public plan reviews (September 2026; Peec lists Starter, Pro, Advanced and Enterprise). Prices and limits change; check each provider before buying.
Straightforward plans
Pay for ongoing monitoring only when it is useful.
Annual is 10 months paid, 12 months used (two months free)
Which plan?
- Starter: are we visible in AI answers?
- Pro: why not, and where to fix it.
- Managed: we do it for you.
GEO Starter
Answers one question: are we visible in AI answers?
$29/mo
or $290/yr · save $58
- 15 buyer questions, scanned weekly
- One manual re-scan a month
- ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews
- Cited source domains and 12 months of history
- 3 named competitors, email alerts and reports
Cancel anytime. Prices exclude VAT.
GEO Pro
Shows why you are missing from an answer and which page to fix.
$79/mo
or $790/yr · save $158
Everything in Starter, plus:
- 50 buyer questions across 5 engines, adding Gemini and Claude
- Full citation URLs and the gap list of pages you are missing from
- Search vs model-memory split: are you known, or only found?
- 10 competitors, Accuracy Watch, Slack and white-label reports
- 24 months of history
Cancel anytime. Prices exclude VAT.
GEO Managed
We run the monitoring and tell you what to do next each month.
$149/mo
or $1,490/yr · save $298
Everything in Pro, plus:
- 75 buyer questions, written and maintained by us
- We build your question set and competitor list within 2 business days
- A written monthly summary by email with three recommended actions
- Priority email support with a same-business-day reply
- City or region targeting when you are a local business
Cancel anytime. Prices exclude VAT.
Need more? +25 questions or +1 product, $19 a month each, from your dashboard.
GEO Agency
$299/mo
or $2,990/yr, two months free
Agency, $299/mo: 10 client products, 30 questions each, all five engines, white-label reports. Everything in Pro for each client, under your own name.
Choose Agency
Cancel anytime. Prices exclude VAT.
GEO Custom
For setups the plans above do not fit: more than 75 questions on one product, several brands or regions, scans more often than weekly, or a roster larger than Agency covers. Priced on request, and we will say so if a standard plan already covers it.
Tell us what you need
We reply within 24 hours.
Not ready to subscribe? Run the free check first. Prices exclude VAT/sales tax, added at checkout.
Questions, answered honestly
Common questions before you choose a monitoring tool.
- What is an answer engine optimization tool?
- An AEO tool helps measure how often a brand appears in AI-generated answers and which sources those answers cite. It does not guarantee placement in an answer.
- What does AEO stand for?
- Answer engine optimization: the work of making a product easier for AI answer engines such as ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews to retrieve, mention and cite when buyers ask questions.
- Does AEO replace SEO?
- No. Clear pages, consistent product facts and credible third-party sources still matter. An AEO tool adds a way to measure AI-answer surfaces.
- Can I check AI visibility before paying?
- Yes. Run the free AI visibility check first, then decide whether ongoing monitoring is useful.