The next chapter of search

Great brands
deserve to be
the answer.

Find the questions AI answers without you. Publish what’s missing. See the evidence when your brand gets cited.

Start with your website. Build from what the scan finds.

The evidence trailHow it works

From a missing answer
to a page worth citing.

  1. 01

    A question worth answering

    Find the answers that leave your brand out.

  2. 02

    A page in your voice

    Review the draft before approving publication.

  3. 03

    The crawler arrives

    Recorded visits retain their source and time.

  4. 04

    A citation you can open

    Check whether a later scan cites your page.

Track how your brand
appears in AI answers.

ChatGPTClaudePerplexityGeminiGrok

Your first signal

See where your brand stands.

Check your site against ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Grok. No account needed.

A real scan, plus a page-level readability and citability check.

5
AI engines healthy enough to scan right now
28
active AI crawler identities in the live registry
14
named content checks run before publication

What is answer-engine optimization?

Answer-engine optimization is the practice of getting a brand named and cited inside AI-generated answers, rather than ranked in a list of blue links. It differs from classic SEO in what it optimizes for: an assistant extracts a passage and attributes it, so the unit of value is a quotable, self-contained passage rather than a keyword-targeted page.

That changes the work in three concrete ways. Pages must be readable without JavaScript, because most AI crawlers do not run it. Answers must open the section rather than close it, because an engine lifts the first passage that resolves the question. And the claim has to carry a specific, checkable figure, because a vague sentence is never the one quoted.

  • Classic SEO
    Rank a page for a keyword
  • Answer-engine optimization
    Get a passage quoted and attributed
  • What the engine reads
    Server-rendered HTML, not your client-side app
  • What earns the citation
    A self-contained, fact-carrying answer block

How does the loop actually close?

The loop closes in four instrumented steps. Monitoring tools stop after the first one, which is why they can tell you that you are invisible but not whether anything you did about it worked.

  1. 01
    Scan

    We ask ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Grok the questions your buyers ask, and score every answer for your brand.

  2. 02
    Track

    An edge tracker logs every GPTBot, ClaudeBot and Perplexity visit: the traffic JavaScript analytics is blind to.

  3. 03
    Publish

    The content engine turns your visibility gaps into humanized articles, published to WordPress, Shopify, Ghost, dev.to, Hashnode or Blogger, and only after your approval.

  4. 04
    Prove

    Watch the loop close: published Tuesday, crawled Thursday, cited in AI answers, score moves.

How is this different from a monitoring tool?

A monitoring tool reports the symptom. Tailwin reports the cause, fixes it, and re-measures. Here is the same job, drawn against both.

Capability comparison between AI-visibility monitoring tools and Tailwin
JobMonitoring toolTailwin
Tells you if AI names your brandYesYes, across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Grok
Explains why you are absentNoPage-level readability and citability scores
Shows which pages AI crawlers readNoEdge tracker, logged before any script runs
Separates answer-loss from training-only blocksNoScored separately, by crawler tier
Writes the pages that fix itNoIn your measured voice, slop-stripped
Publishes themNoSix CMS targets, hosted pages, or a signed webhook
Waits for sign-off firstNoApprove or reject from a link you can forward to the client
Proves the answer changedNoRe-scan tied to the published URL
Proves what was publishedNoSigned provenance credential per piece, publicly verifiable

One evidence layer for the whole client account

AI visibility is the starting point. Tailwin keeps search, crawler, content, visitor, local, press and marketing facts in the same client workspace, then turns them into work and client-ready proof.

Rankings + research

Search Console, Bing and cost-controlled Google SERP checks share one query history, with keyword, domain and backlink research when connected.

Reports + HQ

Build drag-and-resize dashboards from native Tailwin facts and connected marketing sources, then share, schedule, duplicate and brand them per client.

Visitor intelligence

First-party journeys become company-level intent dossiers and signed CRM or Zapier webhooks, without form-field capture or fingerprinting.

Local

Audit business profiles and directory consistency, run retained Maps rank grids and send permissioned review-request emails.

Press

Draft, approve and submit through an available provider, then connect verified placement URLs to later crawler and citation evidence.

White-label agent access

Partner-branded portals, reports, widgets and MCP tools expose the same organization-scoped facts without inventing unavailable numbers.

The evidence stays attached to the work

A rank, crawler visit, content draft, placement or AI citation keeps its source and time. Tailwin can therefore show what changed before and after publication without turning a vendor estimate into a measurement or a missing result into zero.

Direct SERP checks retain the top of the result page. Content receipts retain publish, crawl and citation milestones. Dashboard widgets keep the connected source and aggregation rule. If the source is missing, the product says why.

Measured
the named source produced the fact
Derived
Tailwin calculated it from stored facts
Unavailable
the product names the missing input

Why does most AI content never get cited?

Most AI content is never cited because it says nothing an assistant could not generate itself. Anyone can produce a thousand words; the reason they fail is that they read like machine text and carry no fact worth attributing, so neither a reader nor an engine has a reason to point at them.

It sounds like you

We measure your existing writing: sentence length, formality, active voice, reading level, the phrases you actually reuse. Every draft is written to that fingerprint and scored against it before anyone sees it.

The tells are stripped

No em dashes, no delve, no leverage, no not-just-X-but-Y. A dedicated editing pass plus 14 named checks run on every draft, and each check's pass or fail is shown before anything publishes.

It answers a real question

Every piece starts from a question buyers actually asked an assistant, which we watched go unanswered. That is what earns a citation, and it is why the score moves.

Who is it built for?

The same engine, priced and packaged for who is holding it.

Businesses
One business, one domain, every location.

You want to be the name an assistant says when someone asks who to hire. Track the questions your buyers actually ask, see who is being recommended instead, and publish the pages that change it.

Agencies
Client sub-accounts under one login.

Every client gets their own account, their own voice, their own reporting. You get one dashboard across the whole book, and content that sounds like each client rather than like an AI.

Partners
Your brand, your domain, your pricing.

White-label the whole platform. Your logo, your colors, your portal domain, your margins. Your clients never see our name, and the scan widget on your site feeds leads straight to you.

What does it cost?

Three plans, from $49 a month. One business and domain per account; extra locations start at $10 a month each.

Starter
For one brand getting on the AI map
$49/mo
  • 1 business + domain
  • 1 location
  • 25 tracked queries
  • Weekly scans · 3 AI engines
  • Google + Bing rank tracking
  • AI-crawler analytics
  • Content engine (2 articles/mo)
Start freePlans start here
Most popular
Growth
Daily scans + the content engine
$149/mo
  • 1 business + domain
  • 3 locations included
  • 100 tracked queries
  • Daily scans · all 5 AI engines
  • Google + Bing rank tracking
  • Content engine (8 articles/mo)
  • 14-day free trial
Start free
Agency
White-label it for your clients
$399/mo
  • 10 locations included
  • Client sub-accounts
  • Your brand, your domain
  • Embeddable scan widget
  • Content engine (25 posts/mo)
  • 5 seats
Start free

Agencies white-label everything, and your clients never see our name. Full pricing, including the $99 detailed report →

Questions people actually ask

What is answer-engine optimization?

Answer-engine optimization is the practice of getting a brand named and cited inside AI-generated answers, rather than ranked in a list of blue links. It differs from classic SEO in what it optimizes for: an assistant extracts a passage and attributes it, so the unit of value is a quotable, self-contained passage rather than a keyword-targeted page.

How is this different from an AI-visibility monitoring tool?

Monitoring tools report that a brand is absent from AI answers. Tailwin reports the same thing, then explains the cause at page level, writes the pages that fix it, publishes them, and re-scans to show whether the answer changed. The loop closing is the product; the score is the instrument.

Do AI crawlers show up in Google Analytics?

No. AI crawlers generally do not execute browser JavaScript, so browser analytics can miss the visit. Tailwin identifies supported crawlers at the edge or origin before the response is sent, then keeps the bot name, requested path and verification evidence in a server-side record.

Does blocking AI crawlers hurt my visibility?

It depends on which crawler. Tailwin separates crawlers that can retrieve pages for live answer surfaces from crawlers used for training or indexing. Blocking live-answer access can reduce retrieval, while blocking training can be a legitimate content-rights decision. The robots audit reports those effects separately instead of treating every block as the same problem.

Will AI-written content get penalized?

Content is judged on whether it is useful and accurate, not on how it was produced. The practical risk is different: generic AI text earns no citation because it says nothing an assistant cannot already generate. We measure your existing writing across 9 dimensions, write every draft to that fingerprint, strip the patterns that read as machine-written, and score the result before anyone sees it.

How long before the score moves?

The loop runs on crawler time, not on a guarantee. A published page has to be discovered, crawled and then reflected in an answer, and Tailwin instruments each of those steps so the delay is visible rather than assumed. We report what the crawlers and engines actually did; we do not promise a ranking or a date.