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If your goal is specifically monitoring which agency-client blog articles get cited/linked inside generative answers, rather than just tracking whether the brand is mentioned, I’d shortlist these:

🥇 I'd start with OtterlyAI

For your use case, Otterly is particularly compelling because it explicitly tracks the actual URLs cited in AI answers, not merely brand mentions. Its analytics can show which pages get cited, whether competitors' pages are cited instead, citation positions, and trends over time. otterly.ai

It currently covers ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, and Claude, with country/language monitoring as well. help.otterly.aiotterly.aihelp.otterly.aiwww.tryprofound.com

That maps very closely to an agency workflow:

Client → target prompts → AI answers → cited URLs → client content attribution → competitor citations → content recommendations

It also has agency-specific functionality, including automated reporting, multiple brand reports, prompt monitoring, and citation tracking. otterly.ai

One particularly useful distinction: Otterly says it collects responses through the public AI interfaces rather than relying exclusively on APIs, because API responses can differ from what users actually see. help.otterly.ai

🥈 Profound if citation intelligence is the centerpiece

I'd look closely at Profound if you're building a more sophisticated GEO/AEO service rather than simply adding an AI-search report to your SEO retainer.

Profound's citation product lets you see which answer engines cite your content, how frequently, across which prompts, what kinds of sources are being cited, and which publishers/authors are driving citations. www.tryprofound.com

That's potentially more valuable for an agency because you can turn the data into a content/PR strategy:

"Google's AI answers cite these 12 publications in this category. Our client's blog is rarely cited. Here are the topics and source types we need to build."

Profound also emphasizes custom/real-world prompts and daily runs, rather than simply giving you a static visibility score. www.tryprofound.com

What I'd actually evaluate in a demo

Don't let vendors sell you on a generic "AI visibility score." For a content agency, I'd ask each vendor to demonstrate these five things:

1. URL-level attribution

Can I see that /blog/best-x was cited, rather than merely "Acme was mentioned"?

2. Prompt → answer → citation chain

Can I inspect the exact prompt, generated answer, cited sources and position of our client's URL?

3. Historical attribution

Can I show a client that Article A went from 0 citations → 14 citations over six months?

4. Competitive citation gaps

"Competitor X is cited on 38 prompts where our client's content isn't." This is much more actionable than a visibility score.

5. Agency reporting/API

Can I create separate client workspaces/reports and push the data into Looker Studio or your own reporting stack?

Otterly checks particularly well on #1–5; it offers reporting exports, an API/MCP layer, and a Looker Studio connector. otterly.ai

One important caveat

"Cited" is not necessarily the same thing as "influenced the answer."

An AI engine may cite a blog because it contains supporting information, while the underlying answer was influenced by many other sources. Conversely, a piece of content can influence an answer without receiving an explicit link.

So I'd measure at least four separate KPIs:

• Brand mentions
• Domain citations
• Individual URL citations
• Citation share vs. competitors

Then layer prompt coverage / share of voice on top.

For an agency, that gives you a much better client story than simply saying "your AI visibility score increased 17%."

My recommendation: demo Otterly + Profound + Scrunch with the same 50–100 client prompts and the same 10–20 competitors. Don't compare their marketing pages—compare how well each one answers "Which of our published articles did ChatGPT/Perplexity/Google actually cite, for which questions, and how did that change?"

If you tell me roughly how many clients, domains, and prompts you need to monitor per month, I can narrow this down to the best platform and likely pricing tier for an agency.

Yes. For a marketing agency monitoring whether clients’ blog content is actually being cited inside AI-generated answers, I’d narrow the field considerably.

My shortlist

1. Peec AI — my pick for an agency

This is probably the closest match to what you're describing.

Peec explicitly supports multi-client agency workflows, white-labeled weekly reporting, competitor gap analysis, CSV/API access, and Looker Studio. More importantly, it distinguishes mentions from actual citations and tracks which client pages/domains are being cited. peec.ai

It currently tracks ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini and Microsoft Copilot, with metrics including mention rate, position, citations and sentiment. peec.ai

For your use case, I'd particularly like its ability to answer:

"Which of our client's blog URLs are being cited by AI engines, for which prompts, and how is that changing over time?"

That's much more useful than simply asking "Is our client mentioned?"

2. OtterlyAI — best value

Otterly has become particularly interesting for this exact use case. Its current platform tracks citations at the domain and URL level, including which URLs are cited and changes in their citation position over time. It also covers ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot and Claude. otterly.ai

Its newer citation reporting specifically focuses on identifying the URLs influencing AI answers, including "winners and losers" and detailed citation views. otterly.ai

The big advantage is price: its entry point is reported at $29/month, versus considerably higher costs for some enterprise platforms. otterly.ai

I'd seriously consider this if you want to put every client into a monitoring program rather than only tracking your biggest accounts.

3. Profound — enterprise option

Profound is where I'd look if your agency has large enterprise clients and wants a much deeper AEO/GEO intelligence platform, rather than primarily a reporting dashboard.

It's generally positioned toward enterprise-grade AI visibility, competitive intelligence and citation analysis. Current comparisons put it at a substantially higher price point than Peec/Otterly. citationdesk.com

I'd demo it if your agency needs to answer questions such as:

• What sources are influencing AI answers for this category?
• Which competitors are consistently being cited?
• Which publishers are disproportionately influential?
• What topics/questions are we winning or losing?
• Which content should the client create or update?

4. Semrush — if you're already a Semrush shop

Semrush's AI Visibility Toolkit is compelling if you don't want another standalone platform.

It combines AI visibility with the rest of your SEO workflow and currently covers ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google's AI surfaces. Reports include visibility, prompts, competitors and AI-search site auditing. www.citationhawk.com

The downside is that I wouldn't choose it specifically for citation intelligence if you aren't already deeply invested in Semrush. Dedicated platforms are more focused on the AI-answer problem.

The important distinction for your agency

I'd avoid buying a tool just because it reports "AI mentions."

You actually want four separate measurements:

1. Brand mention

Does ChatGPT mention Client X?

2. Citation

Does the AI answer actually link to Client X's website?

3. Content-level citation

Which specific blog post/URL is being cited?

4. Competitive citation intelligence

When the client's article isn't cited, whose article is?

That last two are where the agency value really lives.

For example, you want a report that can eventually say:

Client: Acme Financial
Prompt: "Best ways to reduce business taxes in Canada"
AI engine: ChatGPT
Our visibility: #3
Cited URL: /blog/business-tax-strategies
Competitor cited: Competitor.com /tax-guide-2026
Citation change: +2 positions MoM

That becomes actionable for your content team.

What I'd buy

If I were setting this up for an agency today:

🥇 Peec AI → primary agency platform
🥈 OtterlyAI → lower-cost alternative / potentially run alongside it during evaluation
🥉 Profound → enterprise clients where the intelligence justifies the price

There's also a rapidly expanding category of newer platforms—Rankscale, Scrunch, AthenaHQ, CitationDesk, etc.—but I wouldn't start by evaluating 15 tools. Current comparisons show the market is already splitting between lightweight monitoring products and much more comprehensive GEO/AEO platforms. citationdesk.com

One thing I'd do before signing: take 3 real client blogs + 20–30 actual buyer prompts and run the same test through Peec, Otterly and Profound. Don't compare dashboards. Compare whether they correctly identify the cited URL, citation frequency, competing URLs, and changes over 30 days. That's the metric that will tell you which platform is genuinely useful for your agency.

For a marketing agency managing multiple clients, you’ll want a tool that does more than track brand mentions. The important capabilities are:

• Citation/source tracking — which URLs, articles, and domains AI engines cite
• Prompt monitoring — what customer questions trigger mentions
• Competitive share of voice — whether competitors are being cited instead
• Client-ready reporting — dashboards, exports, scheduled reports
• Coverage across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Claude, Copilot, etc. TechnologyAdvice

The category is often called AI visibility, GEO (Generative Engine Optimization), or AEO (Answer Engine Optimization). HubSpot

Best options for an agency

My shortlist by agency size

Small agency (5–20 clients)

Pick:

1. Otterly.ai
2. Peec AI
3. Semrush AI visibility features

You’ll get enough tracking to show clients:

• “Your blog was cited in X AI answers”
• “Competitor Y appears more often for these prompts”
• “These pages are earning citations”

Mid-size agency (20–100 clients)

Pick:

1. Profound
2. Otterly.ai
3. Semrush

You’ll likely need:

• multiple workspaces
• client dashboards
• scheduled reports
• historical tracking
• competitor benchmarking

Enterprise agency / PR + SEO agency

Pick:

1. Profound
2. A custom data layer/API approach
3. Semrush/Ahrefs + dedicated AI visibility platform

Enterprise clients usually care less about “mentions” and more about:

• reputation
• category ownership
• whether AI systems recommend them
• which third-party sources influence answers

What I would measure for blog content specifically

For each client blog, create a monitoring set around:

Commercial prompts

• “best [category] companies”
• “how to choose [service]”
• “[problem] solutions”
• “[competitor] alternatives”

Citation metrics

• % of answers citing your blog
• citation URL frequency
• citation freshness (new vs old articles)
• competitor citation share
• AI engine differences

Content actions

• Which posts get cited
• Which posts are never referenced
• Which authoritative sources AI prefers instead

Recommended agency stack

A practical setup:

• AI visibility monitoring: Otterly.ai or Profound
• SEO/content intelligence: Semrush or Ahrefs
• Reporting: Looker Studio / client dashboards
• Content optimization: AirOps or internal editorial workflows

One thing to watch: AI citation data is still a moving target. Different tools may get different results because answer engines change frequently and sampling methods differ. Recent analysis of the space notes that GEO strategies and citation patterns can shift quickly, so avoid relying on a single metric or engine. Axios TechnologyAdvice

For a marketing agency, I’d generally start with Otterly.ai for client-scale monitoring and move to Profound when enterprise reporting and competitive intelligence become billable services. TechnologyAdvice AY Rank

Yes. For a marketing agency monitoring whether client blog content gets cited/attributed inside generative answer engines, I’d shortlist Otterly, Scrunch, Profound, and Peec—but they serve somewhat different agency models.

My ranking for an agency

Current comparisons show the market has matured considerably in 2026: these platforms now track not just mentions, but prompts, citations, competitors, source URLs and—in some cases—AI crawler activity. TechnologyAdvice UX Continuum

🥇 My pick: Otterly for most agencies

otterly.ai

I'd start here if you're managing multiple SMB/mid-market clients and want something that account managers and content strategists can actually use without becoming AI-search analysts.

It monitors ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Copilot, with Gemini, Claude and Google AI Mode available at higher/add-on levels. It also provides citation tracking, prompt monitoring, content audits and optimization recommendations. TechnologyAdvice Baarely

The particularly useful agency workflow is:

Client → target prompts → AI answers → cited sources → which client URLs get cited → competitors' cited URLs → content opportunities.

That is much more actionable than simply reporting "Client X was mentioned in ChatGPT 37% of the time."

Published pricing currently starts around $29/month, with higher tiers around $189 and $489/month, although I'd verify agency/white-label requirements before standardizing on it. TechnologyAdvice

Important caveat: Otterly reportedly doesn't have native white-label reporting, so an agency wanting fully branded client dashboards may need to use its Looker Studio integration or another reporting layer. Baarely

🥈 Scrunch if citation intelligence is the actual product you want to sell

scrunch.com

This is the one I'd investigate most seriously if your agency's proposition is something like:

"We don't just optimize your blog for Google—we monitor and improve how AI systems discover, interpret and cite your content."

Scrunch goes beyond prompt/mention tracking into citation analysis, AI crawler activity, competitor sources and technical diagnostics. It monitors major engines including ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Copilot, Grok and Meta AI. TechnologyAdvice

That's a significant distinction.

For example, you could potentially tell a client:

"Your article ranks well organically, but ChatGPT is citing three competitor articles instead. Here's exactly which sources it prefers and what those pages contain that yours doesn't."

That's a much stronger agency deliverable than an "AI visibility score."

Scrunch was acquired by Sitecore in June 2026, so I'd specifically ask about agency pricing, white-labeling, data ownership/export and roadmap stability before signing a long contract. Lyra

🥉 Profound for enterprise clients

tryprofound.com

If your agency works with large brands and has clients willing to pay for sophisticated AI-search intelligence, Profound is probably the platform I'd demo.

Its strength is depth: large-scale prompt monitoring, source/citation analysis, competitive intelligence and enterprise reporting. It's positioned considerably more toward enterprise than Otterly. TechnologyAdvice Bloomiro

I wouldn't buy it simply to answer "are our blog posts getting cited?" That's overkill for many agencies.

I'd buy it when you want to turn AI-search intelligence into a major strategic service line.

Peec is worth putting in the demo round

peec.ai

Peec is particularly interesting if your agency cares about analytics and benchmarking across many clients rather than technical AI-crawler analysis.

It's generally positioned between the inexpensive trackers and enterprise platforms, with coverage of multiple major AI engines and a strong visibility/citation analytics orientation. Baarely Omid Saffari

One thing I'd change about your evaluation criteria

Don't evaluate these tools primarily on "does it tell us when our brand is mentioned?"

For a content marketing agency, I'd score them on this instead:

1. Can it identify the exact URL being cited?
2. Can it distinguish a brand mention from an actual citation?
3. Can it show the citation's position/context in the answer?
4. Can we see which competitor URLs are being cited instead?
5. Can we track individual blog URLs over time?
6. Can we define our own client-specific prompts?
7. Can we track prompts by intent/topic/category?
8. Can we export the underlying citation data?
9. Can we white-label reports?
10. Can we compare multiple clients/accounts cleanly?
11. Can it show AI crawler activity in addition to answer citations?
12. Can we connect AI visibility changes to organic traffic/conversions?

That last one is particularly important. The industry still has a big gap between "AI cited our article" and "AI citation generated measurable business value." Most platforms are much better at measuring visibility than revenue attribution. Attrifast

What I'd do in your position

If you're a typical content/SEO agency: demo Otterly + Scrunch first.

If you're an enterprise agency: demo Scrunch + Profound.

If you're already deeply invested in an SEO suite: look at Semrush's AI Visibility Toolkit before adding another standalone platform. UX Continuum

And I'd run a real client pilot, rather than trusting vendor demos: take ~50 high-value prompts for 2–3 clients, run them across the engines, and ask each vendor to show you every cited URL, citation frequency, competitor sources, historical changes, exports, and client-ready reporting. That will expose the meaningful differences very quickly.

If you tell me roughly how many clients, blog URLs/prompts per client, and whether you need white-label reporting, I can narrow this to the best 2–3 options and estimate the monthly cost for your agency.

For a marketing agency monitoring whether clients’ blog content is being cited inside AI-generated answers, I’d narrow the field to Profound, Peec AI, and OtterlyAI. The important distinction is that you want URL-level citation tracking, not merely brand-mention monitoring.

My ranking for an agency

1. Profound — best if this becomes a serious agency service

Profound is probably my first choice if you're building "AI visibility/GEO" into your agency's client offering, rather than simply wanting another SEO dashboard.

Its citation product tracks which sources AI engines use, how often your content is cited, citation share versus competitors, and which publishers/pages are driving citations. www.tryprofound.com

More importantly for an agency, Profound has an Agency Mode with separate client workspaces and pitch environments, plus broader data around prompt volumes and AI-crawler activity. www.tryprofound.com

That's useful because you can answer a much more valuable client question:

"We published 25 articles. Which ones are actually being retrieved and cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, etc., and what other websites are taking those citations from us?"

I'd choose Profound if: you're selling GEO as a premium retainer and have enough clients/budget to justify enterprise-grade tooling.

2. Peec AI — probably the sweet spot for most agencies

Peec AI's agency platform is particularly interesting for your use case.

It explicitly separates mentions from citations—important because an AI can mention a company without actually linking/citing its content. It also tracks which client pages get cited and which don't, and supports daily monitoring across multiple AI environments. peec.ai

For an agency, I'd especially like its ability to organize monitoring around clients, prompts, competitors, citation rate, visibility, sentiment and trends rather than treating the whole thing as one giant domain-level score.

I'd choose Peec if: you're managing, say, 5–30 client brands and want a dedicated AI-search monitoring product without going all the way up to Profound's enterprise positioning.

3. OtterlyAI — best if volume and price matter

OtterlyAI is the one I'd test first if you want to roll this out across a lot of smaller clients.

It currently monitors ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot and Claude, and its citation reporting goes down to the domain and URL level. It also has an API, CSV export and Looker Studio connector. otterly.aiotterly.ai

That API/export capability is particularly interesting for an agency because you could potentially build your own client-facing reporting layer rather than making every client log into the vendor's dashboard.

Its current entry pricing is also much lower than the enterprise platforms. otterly.aiotterly.ai

I'd choose Otterly if: you're thinking "I want to monitor 30–100 client sites without spending enterprise-platform money."

One important distinction for your use case

I wouldn't make "How often is our brand mentioned?" the primary KPI.

I'd build your reporting around:

1. Citation rate
% of target AI answers that cite a client's domain.

2. Citation URLs
Exactly which blog posts/pages are being cited.

3. Citation position
Whether your client's URL is the first/primary source or citation #5 of 8.

4. Citation share
Your client's share of all citations versus competitors.

5. Prompt coverage
Which commercial/informational questions produce citations to your content.

6. Citation winners/losers
Which articles gained/lost AI citations month-over-month.

7. Competitor displacement
"Competitor X is cited for 38% of these questions; client is at 11%."

8. Third-party citation opportunities
Which publications, Reddit threads, directories, etc. are repeatedly being cited—and therefore might be useful for PR/link/content distribution.

That's where these platforms become much more valuable than simply saying "your brand appeared in ChatGPT 14% more this month."

What I'd do if I were running your agency

Test Peec + Otterly against the same 100–200 prompts for 2–4 weeks. Then compare:

• accuracy of citation detection
• URL-level reporting
• historical tracking
• prompt customization
• competitor analysis
• number of engines
• client workspaces
• white-label reporting
• API/export
• cost per client
• ease of producing a monthly client report

If you're already operating at enterprise scale, add Profound to that bake-off.

The market is still evolving quickly—independent 2026 comparisons broadly put Profound at the enterprise end, Peec in the agency/mid-market sweet spot, and Otterly as the lower-cost entry point. www.xseek.io

My practical recommendation: Peec for most agencies; Profound if GEO is becoming a major premium service; Otterly if you're optimizing heavily for cost/client and API-driven reporting.

If you tell me roughly how many client sites you manage (e.g. 10, 50, 200) and whether you need white-label client reporting, I can narrow this down to the best 1–2 options and compare their current pricing/features.

If your goal is specifically “Which of our clients’ blog articles are being cited inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, etc.?”, I’d narrow the field considerably. This is now usually called AI visibility / AEO / GEO tracking.

My shortlist for a marketing agency

Recent 2026 comparisons similarly put Profound, Scrunch, Otterly and Peec among the leading dedicated platforms, with the major distinction being how deeply they expose citations versus simply reporting brand mentions. technologyadvice.com

🥇 I'd start with Profound

For an agency, Profound is particularly interesting because you're not merely asking:

“Does Client X appear in ChatGPT?”

You want:

“For the 200 commercial questions we're targeting, which URLs are ChatGPT/Perplexity/Gemini citing, how frequently, which competitors are getting cited instead, and which of our blog posts are generating those citations?”

Profound combines AI visibility, source citations, prompt data, sentiment and crawler/agent analytics. Its agency offering also includes client workspaces and pitch environments. technologyadvice.com

That's much closer to what I'd want as the backbone of an agency's GEO reporting product.

🥈 Scrunch if the content itself is your focus

Scrunch is compelling if you're trying to connect:

client URL → AI crawler behavior → citation → AI referral

rather than just producing a visibility score.

It has citation analysis, AI traffic/crawler information and an Agent Experience Platform. That's useful if your agency wants to tell clients why particular pages are being surfaced, not merely whether their brand appeared. technologyadvice.com

🥉 Otterly if you want to roll this out across lots of smaller clients

This is probably the one I'd trial first if you're an agency with, say, 20–100 SMB/mid-market clients and don't want enterprise software pricing.

Otterly covers major engines including ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Copilot, and combines monitoring with content audits/GEO recommendations. Published pricing starts around $29/month, with higher tiers for substantially more prompts. technologyadvice.com

The tradeoff is that you're getting less of the deep enterprise-grade data infrastructure you'd get from Profound.

One important distinction

I'd not buy a tool merely because it says it tracks “AI mentions.”

For your use case, you want the tool to distinguish at least these four things:

1. Brand mention — “Acme is a good option.”
2. Brand recommendation — “I'd recommend Acme.”
3. Citation — the AI answer actually links to acme.com/blog/article.
4. Citation source — which specific article/page caused or supported the answer.

That last one is particularly important for an agency.

You could then produce a client report like:

AI Citation Performance — July

1,240 tracked buyer prompts
312 AI answers mentioning client
187 citations to client-owned content
43% of citations came from 12 blog articles
7 articles newly entered AI answers
23 competitor pages displaced
Top cited article: /blog/best-x-for-y

That's considerably more valuable than a generic “AI visibility score: 67.”

My recommendation by agency size

Starting / <$500/mo: Otterly or Peec
Growing agency / serious GEO service: Scrunch or Profound
Enterprise agency / hundreds of client accounts: Profound
Already heavily invested in Ahrefs: test Brand Radar before adding another subscription.

One caveat: no tracker can perfectly tell you that a particular article “caused” an AI answer. The engines are nondeterministic, and citation attribution is an observational measurement. The strongest platforms show the actual answer + cited URLs + prompt history, which is what you want for defensible client reporting. www.trylyra.ai

If you tell me roughly how many clients you manage, how many prompts/keywords per client, and your monthly software budget, I can narrow this to the best 2–3 options and compare their agency/white-label reporting, API access, number of prompts, engines, and likely monthly cost.

For a marketing agency monitoring whether clients’ blog content gets mentioned and cited inside AI-generated answers, I’d shortlist Peec AI, OtterlyAI, and Profound. They’re not quite interchangeable: the right choice depends on whether you care most about agency reporting, granular citation/source intelligence, or enterprise-scale analysis.

My ranking for an agency

1. Peec AI — my first choice for a marketing agency

Peec is particularly interesting because it explicitly targets brands and agencies. It tracks mentions and citations separately, including citation rate, average position, sentiment, and competitor performance. More importantly for an agency, it supports Looker Studio, CSV/API access, and client-facing reporting workflows. peec.ai

That distinction between mention vs. citation is important for your use case.

For example:

“Client X is mentioned in 42% of relevant ChatGPT answers.”

is useful, but:

“Client X's blog was actually cited in 17% of those answers, and these 8 URLs generated 71% of the citations.”

is much more actionable for a content team.

Peec specifically surfaces the pages being cited, which lets you connect AI visibility back to individual blog articles. peec.ai

I'd choose Peec if your agency wants to sell an ongoing “AI visibility/GEO” service to multiple clients.

2. OtterlyAI — probably the best price/performance option

Otterly is extremely strong for an agency that wants to monitor lots of prompts and clients without immediately moving into enterprise software.

It monitors prompts daily across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and Claude, and reports both brand mentions and domain citations. help.otterly.aihelp.otterly.ai

A particularly useful feature is that you can drill into individual prompts and see the actual response and citation details rather than just getting an aggregate visibility score. help.otterly.aihelp.otterly.ai

It also has a public API capable of pulling brand mentions, domain citations, prompt results and share of voice, which is valuable if you want to pipe the data into Looker Studio, Power BI, BigQuery, etc. help.otterly.aipeec.ai

I'd pick Otterly over Peec if:

• you want to keep software costs down;
• you need broad engine coverage;
• you're comfortable building some of your own reporting;
• you want API/automation capabilities.

One interesting technical point: Otterly says it collects responses directly through the AI platforms' public web interfaces rather than relying primarily on APIs, because API responses can differ from what users actually see. help.otterly.ai

3. Profound — strongest if citation intelligence is the core product

Profound is the one I'd investigate if your agency is positioning itself as a serious GEO/AEO consultancy, rather than simply adding AI visibility reporting to SEO retainers.

Its citation product goes beyond “did we get cited?” and analyzes which sources AI engines use, how frequently you/competitors are cited, the type of source being used, and the authority of those sources. It also identifies publishers/authors driving citations in a category. www.tryprofound.compeec.ai

That's potentially much more valuable strategically.

For example, you could discover:

• Your client's blog is rarely cited.
• Competitor A's blog is cited frequently.
• But 60% of citations in the category come from 12 third-party publications.
• Therefore the client's GEO strategy should include digital PR/earned media, not just rewriting its blog.

That's a much more sophisticated service offering.

Profound also says it runs tracked prompts daily and captures answers directly from the browser rather than relying solely on API results. www.tryprofound.com

The metric I'd build your agency offering around

Don't make “AI mentions” the primary KPI.

I'd create a hierarchy like:

1. AI Visibility
→ How often does the client appear in relevant answers?

2. Citation Rate
→ How often is the client's domain actually linked/cited?

3. Content Citation Rate
→ Which specific client URLs are being cited?

4. Citation Share
→ What percentage of category citations go to the client vs. competitors?

5. Citation Quality
→ Which pages, publications and sources are influencing AI answers?

6. Answer Position
→ Is the client the #1 recommendation, #5 recommendation, or merely mentioned?

7. Trend
→ Are these metrics increasing after publishing/optimizing content?

That gives you a much better agency story than simply saying “your AI visibility score went from 38 to 44.”

One important caveat

These tools are measuring sampled AI responses, not an objective universal count of every answer generated for every user. AI answers vary by location, account, session, prompt wording, personalization, model version, etc. Otterly explicitly notes that its results are a neutral baseline and that individual users can receive different answers. help.otterly.ai

So I'd sell the measurement as “tracked AI visibility/citation share across a controlled prompt set”, rather than implying you can measure every AI answer on the internet.

What I'd do in your position

Start with Peec and Otterly head-to-head on 2–3 real clients for 30 days. Use the same 50–100 prompts in each and compare:

• URL-level citation accuracy
• citation history
• prompt-level response capture
• competitor analysis
• engine coverage
• location controls
• API/export quality
• Looker Studio integration
• number of client accounts/workspaces
• cost per client
• white-label/client reporting

Then consider Profound if you find that your clients want deeper “why are we being cited?” and competitive/source intelligence rather than just visibility reporting.

My likely agency stack: Peec for the core client reporting + your existing SEO/content analytics stack for traffic/conversions. Otterly is the alternative I'd test hardest on price. Profound is the upgrade path if GEO becomes a major standalone service. peec.ai

For a marketing agency monitoring client blog content inside generative answer engines, I’d shortlist these:

My pick: OtterlyAI

For your specific use case, I'd start with OtterlyAI.

It tracks website/domain citations separately from brand mentions, which is important for a content agency. You can see which specific URLs from your clients' blogs are being cited, rather than simply whether the client was mentioned. Its prompt-level reporting also lets you drill into the individual AI response and citation details. otterly.aipeec.ai

It currently monitors ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot and Claude, with daily monitoring. help.otterly.aiwww.tryprofound.comwww.openaitoolshub.org

That's a particularly useful setup for an agency because you can build a prompt set such as:

• "best accounting software for small businesses"
• "how to choose an accounting software"
• "accounting software for startups"
• "alternatives to X"
• "best X for [industry]"
• "how much does X cost?"

Then measure:

Prompt → AI answer → cited URLs → client's URL vs. competitor URLs

That is much more actionable than a generic "AI visibility score."

Peec AI is probably the strongest agency alternative

Peec AI is particularly interesting if you're managing a substantial number of clients. It explicitly positions itself around agency workflows: one account across clients, automated weekly reporting, white-labeled dashboards, competitor analysis, and tracking of mentions, position, citations and sentiment. peec.ai

I would seriously demo Peec alongside Otterly if client reporting is a major part of what you're selling.

Profound for bigger/enterprise clients

Profound is the one I'd investigate if your agency handles larger brands and wants to sell a more sophisticated AEO/GEO intelligence service.

Its citation tooling goes beyond counting citations: it categorizes the sources AI engines use, identifies publishers/authors that influence answers, and uses citation data to inform content strategy and outreach. www.tryprofound.com

That makes it especially interesting if your agency wants to answer:

"We're not being cited. Which third-party sites are getting cited instead, and where should our PR/content team get coverage?"

Scrunch is worth a demo for citation intelligence

Scrunch has a particularly strong citation-oriented model. Its citation interface lets you group cited URLs by domain or individual URL and investigate which pages are contributing to AI answers. scrunch.com

I'd put it on the shortlist if your agency cares about content-level attribution analysis, rather than just brand visibility.

What I'd evaluate in the demos

Don't let vendors win you over with a big "AI visibility score." For a content agency, I'd test these six things:

1. Can it identify the exact blog URL cited?
2. Can it distinguish your client's owned content from third-party citations?
3. Can it show the actual AI response and citation context?
4. Can you compare the client's URLs against competitor URLs?
5. Can you track hundreds/thousands of prompts across multiple clients?
6. Can you turn the data into client-ready/white-label reports?

The distinction between mention rate and citation rate is particularly important. A brand can be mentioned in an AI answer while the model cites someone else's article as the source. Peec explicitly tracks that distinction, and OtterlyAI exposes domain-citation counts at the prompt level. otterly.aipeec.ai

My ranking for a marketing agency

1. OtterlyAI — best overall
Best balance of citation depth, engine coverage, usability and agency practicality.

2. Peec AI — best agency workflow
I'd choose this over Otterly if white-label reporting and managing lots of clients are the priority.

3. Profound — best enterprise/AEO intelligence
Best if you're building a high-end GEO/AEO offering involving content strategy, competitive intelligence and digital PR.

4. Scrunch — best citation/source investigation
Very compelling if the central question is "What content is AI actually using to formulate these answers?"

One other consideration: if you're already heavily invested in Ahrefs or Semrush, I'd test their AI-visibility capabilities before adding another platform. But if citation/attribution of individual blog articles is the core requirement, I'd favor one of the dedicated platforms above rather than treating AI visibility as an add-on to traditional SEO. www.openaitoolshub.org

If you tell me roughly how many clients/blog URLs you need to monitor (e.g. 10 clients / 500 URLs) and whether you need white-label reporting + API access, I can narrow this to the best 2–3 and compare their current pricing/limits.

For a marketing agency monitoring whether client blog content is being cited or attributed inside generative answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Overviews, etc.), you’re looking for GEO/AEO/AI visibility software, not traditional SEO rank trackers. The key capabilities are:

• Citation tracking: Which URLs are AI engines citing?
• Prompt monitoring: Which buyer questions trigger your client’s content?
• Competitor comparison: Who gets cited instead?
• Share of AI voice
• Client reporting / white labeling
• Recommendations for earning more citations www.citeflow.iotechnologyadvice.comwww.aeolabs.ai

My shortlist for an agency:

My recommendation by agency type

1. Boutique agency (5–30 clients)

• Start with Otterly.ai or Peec AI
• Build a repeatable monthly report:
  • tracked prompts
  • citation rate
  • cited URLs
  • competitor citations
  • content recommendations

2. Growth agency selling “AI search optimization” as a service

• Choose Peec AI + your SEO stack
• It is closer to a client-delivery workflow than a pure enterprise intelligence platform. www.citeflow.io

3. Enterprise marketing agency

• Choose Profound
• The value is less “does my blog appear?” and more:
  • “Which sources influence AI recommendations?”
  • “How are competitors winning citations?”
  • “What content gaps exist across thousands of prompts?” technologyadvice.comcloro.dev

What I would measure for blog content specifically

A good dashboard for clients should track:

1. Citation share
   • % of AI answers citing your client’s domain

2. Citation URL performance
   • Which blog posts get cited
   • Which posts never appear

3. Prompt-to-content mapping
   • Example:
     • Prompt: “best CRM for nonprofits”
     • AI citation: competitor article
     • Opportunity: update/create comparison article

4. Citation authority gaps
   • AI engines often cite third-party sources, not only brand-owned blogs, so monitor where competitors are earning mentions. www.aeolabs.ai

5. AI referral attribution
   • Connect AI visibility to analytics, leads, and pipeline where possible.

If I were building an agency GEO service today

I’d likely use:

• Peec AI or Otterly.ai → scalable client monitoring
• Semrush/Ahrefs → traditional SEO research
• GA4 + CRM reporting → revenue attribution
• Manual quarterly audits in ChatGPT/Perplexity/Gemini → quality control

The biggest mistake agencies make is reporting only “AI mentions.” A client will care more about “Our pricing guide was cited in 18% of purchase-intent AI answers this month” than a generic visibility score. www.aeolabs.ai

For a marketing agency monitoring whether client blog content gets cited, quoted, or used as a source inside generative answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Overviews, etc.), you’re looking for GEO/AEO (Generative Engine Optimization / Answer Engine Optimization) monitoring, not just traditional SEO rank tracking. The strongest tools today focus on prompt tracking, citation discovery, competitor comparisons, and client reporting. technologyadvice.comauthoritytech.io

My shortlist for an agency:

My recommendation by agency type

1. Boutique/content marketing agency (5–50 clients)

• Start with OtterlyAI or Peec AI.
• Track:
  • 50–200 buyer prompts per client
  • Which client URLs are cited
  • Which competitors appear instead
  • Citation frequency over time

2. Enterprise SEO/content agency

• Use Profound or Scrunch AI.
• You’ll likely need:
  • Multi-brand dashboards
  • Historical trend data
  • Executive reporting
  • Citation attribution by URL
  • AI crawler visibility insights

3. Agency already invested in SEO suites

• Add Ahrefs Brand Radar or Semrush AI features rather than creating another reporting stack. toolchase.comwww.techradar.com

Features I would insist on before buying

For a blog-content attribution use case, make sure the platform can answer:

✅ “Which of our URLs were cited in ChatGPT answers?”
✅ “Which prompts caused the citation?”
✅ “Which competitor pages replaced us?”
✅ “Did our citation rate increase after publishing/updating content?”
✅ “Can we export white-label reports for clients?”
✅ “Can we separate brand mentions from actual source citations?”

A lot of tools measure mentions, but citations are more valuable for content agencies because they connect your editorial work to AI visibility. technologyadvice.comauthoritytech.io

If I were building an agency GEO reporting stack

I’d probably use:

• OtterlyAI or Peec AI → citation monitoring + client dashboards
• Ahrefs/Semrush → traditional SEO + authority signals
• Google Search Console + analytics → traffic validation
• A Looker Studio dashboard → client-facing monthly GEO reports

For most agencies, I’d test OtterlyAI vs Peec AI first, then move enterprise clients to Profound if they need deeper reporting. www.rankability.comtechnologyadvice.com

For a marketing agency monitoring whether client blog content gets cited or attributed inside generative answer engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, Claude, Copilot), you’re looking for AEO/GEO/AI visibility software rather than traditional SEO rank trackers. The key capabilities are:

• Citation tracking: which URLs/domains AI engines cite
• Prompt tracking: whether target buyer questions trigger your client’s content
• Share of voice: client vs. competitors in AI answers
• Source attribution: whether the citation is your blog, another site, Reddit, publishers, directories, etc.
• Reporting: agency-friendly dashboards and exports www.citeflow.iotechnologyadvice.comwww.hubspot.com

My shortlist for an agency:

My recommendation by agency model

1. Boutique agency (5–25 clients, content/SEO retainers)

• Start with Otterly.ai or Peec AI
• Track 50–200 priority prompts per client
• Report:
  • % of prompts where client appears
  • % where client content is cited
  • competitor citation share
  • new pages earning citations

2. Enterprise B2B agency

• Use Profound
• Build executive reporting around:
  • AI share of voice
  • citation sources
  • category ownership
  • misinformation/hallucination monitoring www.citeflow.iotechnologyadvice.comwww.hubspot.com

3. Content marketing agency trying to prove blog ROI
Pair an AI visibility tool with analytics:

• AI citation gained → page update → organic/AI referral traffic → assisted conversions

A key distinction: AI mentions are not the same as citations. A model may mention a brand without linking to its content. For a blog/content agency, prioritize tools that expose the actual cited URLs and source domains, not just brand mentions. www.aeolabs.ai

A practical agency stack I’d consider

• Peec AI or Otterly.ai → client-facing monthly AI visibility reporting
• Semrush/Ahrefs → traditional SEO + content intelligence
• GA4 + CRM data → prove business impact
• Manual quarterly prompt audits → validate what automated tools miss

One caution: this market is changing quickly, and many platforms are still imperfect because AI answers vary between runs. The best tools are the ones that repeatedly run a controlled prompt set and preserve historical answer/citation data rather than taking occasional snapshots. aeovision.ai

For a marketing agency specifically, I’d probably shortlist:

1. Otterly.ai — best value/agency workflow
2. Peec AI — best mid-market scaling option
3. Profound — best premium enterprise offering

www.hubspot.com

If your agency’s goal is specifically “which of our clients’ blog URLs are being cited inside ChatGPT/Perplexity/Gemini/Google AI answers, for which prompts, and how is that changing over time?”, I’d prioritize citation-level tracking over generic “AI visibility” scores.

My shortlist for an agency

These are broadly consistent with current 2026 comparisons of AI-search monitoring platforms. technologyadvice.com

🥇 I'd start with Peec AI

Peec AI is particularly well aligned with an agency model. Its agency offering explicitly tracks mentions, position, citations and sentiment at the prompt level, across AI channels, with daily monitoring and white-labeled reporting. It also supports multiple clients from one account. peec.ai

The distinction between mention and citation is important for what you're describing.

For example:

User asks: “What are the best CRM strategies for SaaS companies?”

AI answer mentions your client → mention

AI answer links to client.com/blog/crm-strategies → citation

AI answer mentions your client but cites HubSpot, Gartner and competitors → brand visibility without owned-content citation

For a content agency, that last distinction is enormously useful because it tells you whether your actual content investment is becoming an information source for AI, rather than merely whether the brand is known.

🥈 Profound if your clients are enterprise

Profound is worth looking at if you're managing substantial enterprise accounts and want deeper AEO/GEO intelligence rather than just a reporting dashboard.

I'd lean toward Profound when you need to answer questions such as:

• Which queries cause an AI engine to retrieve our content?
• Which URLs are being cited?
• Which competitors are getting cited instead?
• Which domains are disproportionately influential in our category?
• How does AI perception of the brand change?
• What content/topic gaps should we address?

🥉 Semrush if you already live in Semrush

Semrush has made its AI Visibility Toolkit considerably more relevant to this use case. Its reporting includes mentions, cited pages and citations, plus breakdowns by LLM. www.semrush.com

The advantage for an agency isn't necessarily that it's the best standalone citation tracker. It's that you can put:

Google rankings → organic traffic → content → backlinks → AI mentions → AI citations

into the same ecosystem.

That can make client reporting much easier.

What I'd actually measure

I'd build your agency's reporting around these metrics rather than an opaque “AI visibility score”:

1. Citation rate
AI answers citing our domain / AI answers monitored

2. Owned-content citation rate
Answers citing our blog/content URLs / total answers

3. Citation share vs competitors
How often your client's content is cited compared with competitor domains.

4. Citation velocity
Are newly published articles beginning to appear as sources?

5. Citation persistence
Does an article get cited repeatedly over weeks/months, or was it a one-off?

6. Citation by URL
The really valuable report:

That turns AI monitoring into an editorial optimization system, rather than another vanity metric.

One important caveat

Don't treat a citation tracker as equivalent to Google Search Console. AI answers can vary substantially between runs and engines, and research has found meaningful differences in which sources different generative systems retrieve. arxiv.org

So I'd use these platforms for directional, longitudinal measurement, not claim that “we have a 37.2% true share of all ChatGPT citations.”

My recommendation

For a marketing agency managing multiple clients, I'd evaluate them in this order:

Peec AI → Profound → Semrush → Otterly.AI → Ahrefs

If you tell me roughly how many clients/domains you manage (e.g. 10, 50, 200), how many blog posts per client, and whether you need white-label client dashboards, I can narrow this down to the best 2–3 and compare current pricing, prompt limits, engines covered, API/export capabilities, and agency reporting.

For a marketing agency, you’re looking for GEO/AEO (Generative Engine Optimization) visibility software rather than traditional SEO rank trackers. The important capabilities are:

• Citation tracking: Which of your blog URLs are cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Google AI Overviews, etc.
• Prompt monitoring: Which customer questions trigger your content to appear.
• Competitor citation analysis: Who gets cited instead of your clients.
• Source attribution: Whether AI systems use your owned content vs. third-party mentions.
• Client reporting: White-label dashboards and recurring reports. www.marqops.com

Here are the strongest options to evaluate:

A few newer GEO-focused platforms worth looking at:

• GEO Monitor — tracks AI mentions, citations, competitors, and visibility across several answer engines. geomonitor.app
• Genwolf AI — focuses on prompt monitoring, citations, source discovery, and answer history. www.genwolf.ai
• Digraph — positions itself around AI search visibility, citation activity, and competitive analysis. www.digraph.dev

My shortlist for a marketing agency

If you manage many clients:

1. Profound
2. Peec AI
3. Scrunch AI

If you’re adding GEO as a service line:

1. Peec AI
2. Otterly AI
3. GEO Monitor

If you already run SEO retainers:

1. Semrush/Ahrefs ecosystem
2. Add a dedicated GEO tracker for citation reporting

What I would measure in monthly client reports

Don’t just report “AI visibility score.” Track:

• % of tracked prompts where client is mentioned
• % where client content is cited as a source
• Number of unique URLs cited
• Citation share vs. competitors
• Which blog posts earn citations
• Which topics have citation gaps
• Whether AI describes the brand correctly

One caveat: AI citation data is still noisy because answers vary between runs, models, and time periods. Repeated measurement is more meaningful than a single snapshot. arxiv.org

For an agency packaging this as a service, I’d prioritize white-label reporting, multi-client management, API/export capability, and citation-level evidence (the actual URL and prompt that produced the citation) over a simple “AI score.”

If your agency’s specific goal is “Which of our clients’ blog URLs are being cited inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Gemini, etc., and how is that changing over time?”, I’d narrow the field to Profound, Peec AI, and OtterlyAI.

My ranking for a marketing agency

1. Profound — best if citation intelligence is the centerpiece

Profound is the one I'd look at if you're building a serious GEO/AEO offering for clients, rather than simply adding an AI-visibility report to conventional SEO.

Its citation system lets you see which answer engines cite your content, how often, which competitors are getting citations, and which third-party sources are influential. It also categorizes sources into owned, competitor, earned media, PR, social, etc. www.tryprofound.com

That distinction is particularly valuable for an agency because you can answer:

“We published 25 articles, but which of those articles are actually being retrieved and cited by AI?”

And then go one level deeper:

“What publications are AI engines citing instead of our content?”

That's much more strategically useful than simply reporting “AI visibility increased 14%.”

Downside: likely overkill—and potentially expensive—for smaller clients.

2. Peec AI — my pick for most agencies

Peec AI's agency offering

I'd probably demo Peec first if you're a typical marketing agency with multiple clients.

It specifically markets to agencies and tracks mentions, position, citations and sentiment at the prompt level, with daily monitoring across engines. It also distinguishes citation rate from mention rate—which is important because an AI can cite your domain without actually naming your brand. peec.ai

That makes it useful for client reporting:

Client → Topic → Prompt → AI engine → Mention → Citation → URL → Position → Competitors

rather than just:

Client → AI visibility score

Peec also provides visibility, position, sentiment and share-of-voice metrics. docs.peec.ai

For an agency, that's probably the sweet spot.

3. OtterlyAI — best value

OtterlyAI

I'd choose Otterly if you want to monitor a large number of clients without turning GEO tracking into a huge software expense.

Its particularly relevant feature for your use case is domain ranking & analytics: it tracks domains and their individual URL citations and monitors changes in citation positions over time. otterly.ai

Its Citations report also lets you analyze citation URLs by date, engine, country and tags, including winners/losers over time. help.otterly.ai

So for a content agency, I'd pay close attention to:

• URL-level citations
• Citation growth/decline
• Which blog posts get cited
• Which competitors' pages replace them
• Which prompts trigger citations
• Which engines cite them
• Citation history

That's much closer to what you're asking for than generic “AI brand monitoring.”

One important distinction

I'd avoid choosing a platform based primarily on brand mentions.

For your use case, you want to measure at least four separate things:

1. Mention
Does the AI mention the client?

2. Citation
Does it actually link to the client's site/content?

3. Citation URL
Which specific blog article gets cited?

4. Citation influence
Does the cited article actually contribute information/evidence to the answer?

That fourth metric is becoming especially important. Recent GEO research distinguishes between a source merely being selected as a citation and the information from that source actually being absorbed into the generated answer. arxiv.org

Also, AI citations are inherently noisy: identical prompts can produce different citations at different times, so I'd favor platforms that provide repeated observations and trends, rather than treating one AI response as definitive. arxiv.org

What I'd do if I were running your agency

Start with Peec + Otterly demos.

If you're selling a premium “AI Search / GEO Intelligence” service to larger clients, add Profound to the evaluation.

And I'd structure your internal KPI around something like:

AI Citation Share = % of relevant tracked AI answers that cite a client's domain/content

Then break it down by:

Client → Topic → Prompt → Engine → Citation URL → Competitor URL → Citation position → Trend

That gives you a much stronger agency deliverable than an “AI visibility score.”

If you tell me roughly how many clients/domains and how many blog posts you need to monitor, I can narrow this down to the best 2–3 platforms and compare their pricing, white-label reporting, API/export capabilities, prompt limits, and citation-level data.

If your agency’s goal is specifically “Which of our clients’ blog URLs are being cited/attributed inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, etc., and how do we turn that into an actionable content strategy?”, I’d narrow the field considerably.

My shortlist

1. Profound — my #1 for an agency

This is the one I'd demo first.

Profound doesn't just report whether a brand was mentioned. Its citation tooling shows which specific sources AI engines use, how often your content is cited, which competitors are winning citations, and which third-party publishers are influential. It can categorize sources as owned, competitor, earned media, PR, social, etc. www.tryprofound.com

More importantly for an agency, it has Agency Mode, client workspaces and prospect/pitch environments. It also supports broad answer-engine coverage, API/CSV/JSON exports, GA4 and other integrations. www.tryprofound.com

The interesting feature for your use case is Agent Analytics: it can monitor AI crawler activity and connect AI-driven traffic with content and business outcomes. www.tryprofound.com

I'd choose Profound if: you're selling GEO/AEO as a recurring service and need a platform your strategists can use across many clients.

2. Ahrefs Brand Radar — excellent for content teams

Ahrefs has become particularly interesting because Brand Radar isn't limited to a handful of manually invented prompts. Its indexed data is based on hundreds of millions of search-backed prompts derived from its keyword database. It tracks AI Overviews/AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot, Claude and others. help.ahrefs.comdocs.ahrefs.comahrefs.comwww.semrush.com

For your specific question, its Cited Pages data can distinguish between:

• your page was cited
• your page was found/retrieved but not cited
• your page wasn't found

That distinction is extremely useful for content optimization. docs.ahrefs.com

It also lets you identify the domains and pages that AI engines cite most, which is useful for building a “what sources does AI trust for this topic?” content/outreach strategy. ahrefs.com

I'd choose Ahrefs if: your agency already uses Ahrefs heavily and wants AI visibility to sit alongside traditional SEO, backlinks, keywords and content research.

3. OtterlyAI — best value/lean agency option

Otterly is worth serious consideration if Profound feels like overkill.

It currently monitors ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Copilot and Claude, with daily monitoring. help.otterly.ai

Its citation reporting is actually quite good: you can see which domains are cited, citation counts, domain coverage over time, cited URLs, winners/losers and citation trends. help.otterly.ai

This makes it particularly good for a workflow like:

Client blog → tracked prompts → cited URLs → competitor cited URLs → content gap → optimization → monitor change.

I'd choose Otterly if: you need to monitor a lot of clients without paying enterprise-platform money.

One important distinction: "citation" ≠ "mention"

I'd make this a hard requirement when evaluating vendors.

For example:

AI answer: “The best CRM platforms include HubSpot, Salesforce and X.”

That's a mention.

But:

“According to [your blog article] …”

where the AI actually links to your article is a citation/attribution.

You want the platform to capture at least:

Prompt → AI engine → answer → cited URL → cited domain → your page vs. competitor page → position/prominence → date → change over time.

Even better is distinguishing retrieval from actual citation. Ahrefs explicitly provides that distinction. docs.ahrefs.com

There's also an emerging measurement problem here: AI answers are nondeterministic, so a single query run isn't a particularly reliable measurement. Recent research recommends treating citation visibility as a distribution and using repeated measurements rather than assuming one observed answer represents a stable ranking. arxiv.org

What I'd buy for your agency

If you're building a serious GEO/AEO service:
Profound

If you're already deeply invested in Ahrefs:
Ahrefs Brand Radar

If you have dozens/hundreds of smaller client accounts and want economical monitoring:
OtterlyAI

If you're already a Semrush agency:
Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit — its reporting explicitly includes mentions, cited pages and citations, alongside AI visibility and LLM breakdowns. www.semrush.com

If the real business question is “did AI citation generate traffic/leads?”:
I'd put Scrunch on the shortlist because its differentiator is connecting AI visibility with crawler activity and AI referral/conversion data. A recent comparison also highlighted that capability. www.techradar.com

My recommendation for your particular use case

I'd demo Profound and Otterly side-by-side first, then use Ahrefs as the benchmark if you already have an Ahrefs subscription.

And I'd evaluate them using your actual 20–50 client blog URLs and 100–200 real buyer prompts, rather than vendor demos. The key test isn't “does it give us an AI visibility score?” It's:

Can my content strategist quickly identify which specific blog articles are getting cited, which comparable articles competitors are getting cited instead, and what we should change next?

That's the metric that separates a useful agency platform from another shiny GEO dashboard.

Yes. For a marketing agency monitoring whether its clients’ blog content is being cited/attributed inside ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, etc., I’d shortlist these:

🥇 My pick: OtterlyAI

OtterlyAI

For your specific use case, OtterlyAI is probably the first product I'd trial.

The important distinction is that it doesn't just tell you "your client was mentioned." Its citation reporting identifies which URLs AI engines cited, how citation frequency changes, and whether the cited page actually mentions your brand/client. Its current citation report also has winner/loser analysis and URL-level citation details. otterly.ai

It monitors ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Microsoft Copilot, with daily monitoring. help.otterly.ai

That maps particularly well to an agency workflow:

Client → target prompts → AI answers → cited URLs → client's URLs cited? → competitors cited? → which content should we create/update?

It also supports prompt-level monitoring and reports metrics such as brand coverage. help.otterly.ai

🥈 Peec AI — probably the better choice if analytics matter more

Peec AI

I'd look closely at Peec if you're building a more sophisticated GEO reporting service for clients.

Its platform specifically tracks source citations, including the websites influencing ChatGPT answers, alongside brand mentions, competitors and visibility. It explicitly supports agencies managing multiple client brands from a dashboard. peec.ai

I'd characterize the difference roughly as:

Otterly:
"Show me what AI is citing and whether my client is getting visibility."

Peec:
"Give me a deeper analytics layer for understanding AI visibility across clients and competitors."

🏢 Profound — if you're selling enterprise GEO

Profound

I'd investigate Profound if your agency has large enterprise accounts and the monitoring/reporting budget to match.

It's more of an enterprise AEO/GEO intelligence platform than a lightweight citation tracker. For a smaller agency, I'd test whether you're actually going to use its additional capabilities before paying the premium.

Also worth testing: AthenaHQ

AthenaHQ

AthenaHQ covers 8+ LLM/search environments and combines mentions, citation-source analysis, competitor share of voice, content gaps and sentiment. answers.athenahq.ai

It's worth putting into a trial alongside Peec if you're interested in turning citation monitoring into a broader GEO service.

One important caveat

Don't evaluate these tools purely on a "citation count" metric.

Generative search is stochastic: the same prompt can produce different answers and different citations at different times. Recent research specifically finds substantial variability in citation distributions and warns that single-run visibility measurements can create misleadingly precise conclusions. arxiv.org

For an agency, I'd therefore want your reporting stack to measure at least:

1. Prompt coverage — % of target questions where client appears
2. Citation rate — % of answers citing the client's domain
3. Citation share — client's citations vs competitors
4. URL-level citations — which exact blog posts are being cited
5. Citation context — what claim the AI used the article to support
6. Competitor sources — which pages are beating your content
7. Engine breakdown — ChatGPT vs Gemini vs Perplexity vs Google AI
8. Trend over time — preferably repeated sampling, not one-off checks
9. Off-site citations — Reddit, publishers, directories, reviews, etc.
10. Actionability — what content should be updated/created to increase citation probability

That #4 + #5 combination is especially important for your question. If your agency is producing blog content, you don't just want to know "Client X appeared in ChatGPT." You want:

"This article we published is now being cited for these three questions, while these five competitor articles are being cited more frequently."

That's a much more defensible client deliverable.

My recommendation

If I were choosing for an agency today, I'd do a 3-way trial of OtterlyAI, Peec AI, and Profound using the same 50–100 prompts for two or three representative clients.

My initial ranking would be:

1. OtterlyAI — best agency starting point
2. Peec AI — best if you want deeper AI-search analytics
3. Profound — best if you're targeting enterprise clients
4. AthenaHQ — strong broader GEO alternative
5. Semrush — best if you want GEO integrated into your existing SEO stack

One thing I'd specifically test before buying: Can the platform prove that a particular client blog URL was cited, show the citation context, retain historical snapshots, and export that data cleanly into your client reporting? That's more valuable for an agency than a flashy aggregate "AI visibility score."

If your main goal is monitoring which of your clients’ blog/content URLs are being cited inside ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode, Perplexity, Gemini, etc., I’d prioritize dedicated AI-visibility platforms over traditional SEO rank trackers.

My shortlist for a marketing agency

1. 🥇 Peec AI — probably the one I'd test first

Peec is unusually well aligned with what you described. Its agency offering specifically emphasizes mentions, citations, position, sentiment, prompt-level tracking, multiple clients, automated reporting, and white-label dashboards. peec.ai

More importantly, it distinguishes a brand mention from an actual citation. That's important for content marketing: an AI answer can recommend your client while citing somebody else's article—or cite your article without actually recommending your client.

Peec also supports source-gap analysis: finding URLs that AI engines cite frequently where your client isn't present, as well as identifying your own high- and low-performing URLs. peec.ai

I'd pick this if your agency wants to sell "AI visibility/GEO monitoring" as a service.

2. 🥈 OtterlyAI — best if you want something leaner

Otterly is probably the one I'd demo alongside Peec.

It monitors ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude and Microsoft Copilot, and records whether your brand was mentioned and whether your website was actually cited. help.otterly.ai

Its citation reporting goes down to the specific URL, with filtering by engine, country, date and other dimensions. help.otterly.ai

The prompt-level view is particularly useful because you can inspect:

• the actual AI response
• competitors mentioned
• your brand's position/prominence
• the URLs cited
• how those citations change over time

help.otterly.ai

For a mid-sized content/SEO agency, this may be the best price-to-capability ratio.

3. 🥉 Scrunch — strongest citation intelligence

Scrunch is particularly interesting if you're trying to go beyond "did we get mentioned?"

Its citation system analyzes which URLs contributed to AI responses, citation frequency, unique prompts, consistency, brand/competitor mentions, topics, and an influence score. It can segment this by platform, country, topic, persona, funnel stage, etc. scrunch.com

That makes it potentially excellent for answering a client question like:

"We published 40 articles this quarter. Which ones are actually influencing AI answers?"

Scrunch explicitly supports prompt-level monitoring, authoritative citation discovery, competitive visibility and trends over time. scrunch.com

I'd lean toward Scrunch if your agency wants to build a serious GEO/content-intelligence offering rather than simply add another reporting metric.

4. Semrush — best if you're already a Semrush agency

Semrush has become much more compelling for this use case.

Its AI Visibility Toolkit tracks:

• mentions
• cited pages
• citations
• AI Share of Voice
• competitors
• prompt-level visibility
• sentiment/narratives
• content gaps

across ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Overviews/AI Mode and Perplexity. www.semrush.com

The major advantage is connecting AI visibility to your existing SEO/content workflow. Semrush also has agency workspaces and client reporting. www.semrush.com

Its underlying prompt database is now enormous—Semrush says it has 289M+ prompts/responses, updated on a rolling daily basis, across 40+ regional databases. www.semrush.com

So if you're already paying for Semrush, I'd probably start there before adding another platform.

5. Ahrefs Brand Radar — excellent complementary option

Ahrefs is especially interesting for agencies that care about the relationship between traditional SEO → content → AI citations.

Its AI Overviews tracker can show which of your pages are cited and which competing sources are being cited instead. ahrefs.com

The distinction matters because AI citation behavior isn't simply "who ranks #1 gets cited." Recent research also suggests that generative search citation selection can diverge substantially from conventional rankings. arxiv.org

I'd choose Ahrefs if you're already heavily invested in its SEO ecosystem rather than buying it purely as an AI-monitoring product.

What I'd actually buy for an agency

I'd narrow it to three demos:

Peec vs. Otterly vs. Scrunch

And I'd test them against the same 20–50 client prompts.

For example, if you're managing a SaaS client's blog, don't just ask:

"Does Acme appear in ChatGPT?"

Instead track prompts such as:

• "Best software for X"
• "How do I solve X?"
• "What are the alternatives to X?"
• "X vs Y"
• "Best agencies/tools/services for X"
• "What should a company consider when choosing X?"
• questions directly answered by your client's existing articles

Then measure:

1. Brand mention rate
Are we mentioned?

2. Recommendation rate
Are we actually recommended?

3. Citation rate
Is our domain cited?

4. URL citation rate
Which specific blog posts get cited?

5. Citation share
What percentage of citations belong to us vs. competitors?

6. Citation consistency
Does the same article continue getting cited?

7. Prompt coverage
How many commercially relevant questions can our content influence?

8. Competitor source gap
Where is a competitor's article being cited while ours isn't?

That last one is probably the highest-value metric for a content agency.

A recent GEO research framework also makes an important distinction between simply being selected as a citation and actually having your content absorbed/influencing the generated answer. In other words, "we got cited" shouldn't be the end metric. arxiv.org

My ranking for your specific use case

If you're primarily a marketing/content agency:

1. Peec AI — best overall agency fit
2. OtterlyAI — best value/lean deployment
3. Scrunch — best deep citation intelligence
4. Semrush — best if SEO is already your core stack
5. Ahrefs — best if Ahrefs is already your core stack
6. Profound — consider for enterprise-scale programs

One thing I'd not do is buy a tool solely because it reports an "AI visibility score." For an agency, the useful deliverable isn't "your AI score went from 34 → 41." It's "these 12 articles started getting cited for these 37 buyer questions, while these 8 competitor pages are taking citations from us."

That turns AI monitoring into something your content team can actually act on—and something you can put into a client's monthly report.

If your agency's primary goal is monitoring when your clients' blog content is cited or attributed inside AI-generated answers (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, Google AI Overviews, Copilot, etc.), you're looking for the emerging category of Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) or Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) platforms.

Here's how I'd break down the current landscape.

1. Profound (my top recommendation for agencies)

Best if your agency wants to prove AI visibility to clients.

Strengths:

• Tracks mentions and citations across major answer engines
• Shows which URLs are being cited
• Prompt-level reporting
• Share of voice vs competitors
• Historical tracking
• Brand sentiment
• White-label-friendly reporting for enterprise teams

Profound has invested heavily in AI visibility analytics and now includes dedicated citation reporting and attribution workflows. help.tryprofound.comscrunch.com

Ideal for:

• Content marketing agencies
• Enterprise SEO
• B2B SaaS clients
• Publishers

2. Scrunch

Probably the strongest all-around platform today.

Besides monitoring citations it also includes:

• AI crawler analytics
• AI visibility auditing
• Content optimization
• Competitive benchmarking
• Attribution reporting
• Prompt libraries

One differentiator is connecting AI visibility with site analytics and AI crawler behavior rather than only showing whether you were mentioned. scrunch.comscrunch.comhelp.tryprofound.com

Good if you want to answer:

Which blog posts are actually driving citations inside AI?

3. Peec AI

If your agency manages many SMBs, Peec is attractive because it's simpler and typically lower cost.

It provides:

• Citation tracking
• Brand mentions
• Prompt monitoring
• Competitor comparison
• Source attribution

It doesn't have as many optimization capabilities as Profound or Scrunch, but many agencies like it for monitoring. help.tryprofound.comscrunch.com

4. Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit

Worth considering if your team already lives inside Semrush.

Advantages:

• AI visibility integrated with SEO
• AI Overview monitoring
• Citation tracking
• Traditional keyword data alongside AI visibility

This is convenient if you don't want another standalone platform. scrunch.comscrunch.comhelp.tryprofound.com

5. Otterly AI

A lightweight option.

It focuses on:

• Daily monitoring
• AI mentions
• Citation tracking
• Competitor tracking

It's less feature-rich but often sufficient for agencies starting to offer AI visibility reporting. cited.md

Features I'd insist on for an agency

Don't just look for "AI mention tracking." I'd prioritize platforms that provide:

• Tracking across ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and Copilot
• The exact prompt that produced the citation
• Which client URL was cited
• Which competitor was cited instead
• Historical visibility trends
• Alerts when citations appear or disappear
• Exportable or white-label reports
• API access
• Multi-workspace/client management
• Attribution back to GA4 or conversions, if available

My recommendations by agency size

• Large agency (50+ clients): Profound or Scrunch
• Mid-size SEO/content agency: Scrunch
• Growing boutique agency: Peec AI
• Already using Semrush heavily: Semrush AI Visibility Toolkit
• Budget-conscious: Otterly AI

One important caveat: no platform can observe every response generated by public LLMs. These tools generally work by running large libraries of prompts on a schedule, measuring citations, share of voice, and changes over time rather than capturing every user interaction. The strongest products distinguish themselves by the breadth of prompts, engines, historical data, and reporting they offer. scrunch.comscrunch.comhelp.tryprofound.com

For a marketing agency building AI visibility as a service, I'd shortlist Profound, Scrunch, and Peec AI for demos. Those three are currently among the most established options for monitoring AI citations and attributions while supporting multi-client workflows.

For a marketing agency, you’re looking for AI visibility / Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) monitoring, not traditional SEO rank tracking. The key capabilities are:

• Which client pages are cited or linked in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and AI Overviews
• Which prompts trigger those citations
• Competitor citation share
• Whether citations are increasing/decreasing over time
• Client-ready reporting (ideally white-labeled)

My shortlist:

My recommendation by agency type

Small/mid-size content marketing agency (5–50 clients)
→ Start with Otterly.AI. It is purpose-built for tracking whether client content is showing up as AI citations without forcing you into a huge SEO platform. help.otterly.ai

Agency selling premium “AI search optimization” retainers
→ Use Profound as the reporting backbone. Its positioning is closer to enterprise AEO/GEO measurement. www.tryprofound.com

SEO agency expanding into AI
→ Add AI visibility features inside Semrush or Ahrefs so your team does not split workflows. www.techradar.comwww.reddit.com

What I would measure for each blog client

Create a monthly GEO report with:

1. Citation rate
   • % of tracked AI answers that cite the client domain

2. Citation quality
   • Which URLs are cited
   • Whether the cited page is a blog post, service page, research page, etc.

3. Prompt coverage
   • “Best X software”
   • “How to solve Y problem”
   • “Alternatives to Z”
   • Buyer-intent questions

4. Competitor share of voice
   • Client citations vs competitors in the same answers

5. Content actions
   • Pages to update
   • Missing topics
   • New authority-building content opportunities

One caveat: AI answer citations are still volatile—identical prompts can produce different cited sources at different times—so avoid selling clients a single “AI ranking” number as if it were equivalent to Google rankings. arxiv.org

For most marketing agencies, I’d pilot Otterly.AI + your existing SEO stack first, then move higher-value accounts to Profound when GEO reporting becomes a paid service line.

For a marketing agency, I'd prioritize platforms that go beyond simple "AI mentions" and answer four questions:

1. Was our client's content cited?
2. Which URL was cited?
3. Which competitor was cited instead?
4. What content should we create to improve citation share?

Here's how I'd rank the current market.

If I were running a 10–100 client agency

I'd probably build this stack:

• Peec AI or Profound for AI visibility monitoring
• Semrush or Ahrefs for traditional SEO
• GA4 + Looker Studio for AI referral traffic
• Weekly automated prompt monitoring on 100–500 prompts per client

That gives you:

• AI citation share
• Competitor citation share
• Source URLs being cited
• Changes over time
• Traditional rankings
• Traffic impact

Features I'd insist on

Not every "AI visibility" tool actually tracks citations. I'd look for:

• ✅ ChatGPT
• ✅ Google AI Overviews / AI Mode
• ✅ Gemini
• ✅ Perplexity
• ✅ Claude
• ✅ Copilot
• competitor monitoring
• prompt libraries
• historical tracking
• export/API
• white-label reporting
• URL-level attribution (not just domain-level)
• citation vs mention distinction

That last point matters because an AI can mention a brand without citing its content, or cite a page without explicitly naming the brand ("ghost citations"). Those are different metrics and should be tracked separately. www.semrush.com

Best choices by agency size

Boutique agency (under 20 clients):

• Otterly.AI
• Peec AI

Growing agency (20–100 clients):

• Peec AI
• Semrush AI Visibility
• Ahrefs Brand Radar

Enterprise agency (100+ clients):

• Profound
• AirOps (if you also want AI content operations)
• Semrush Enterprise

One caveat

No platform can tell you exactly what every real user sees in ChatGPT or Gemini. These tools sample standardized prompt sets to estimate visibility, so they're best for tracking trends, benchmarking competitors, and identifying opportunities rather than measuring every individual AI response. Running repeated prompt sets over time is much more reliable than relying on a single snapshot. www.techradar.comwww.reddit.com

For an SEO/content marketing agency specifically, my shortlist would be:

1. Profound (best overall if budget isn't a constraint)
2. Peec AI (best balance of features and agency usability)
3. Semrush AI Visibility (if you're already invested in Semrush)
4. Ahrefs Brand Radar (excellent complementary data)
5. Citations.io (worth evaluating if your primary KPI is AI citations and attributions rather than broader SEO) citations.io

For a marketing agency that wants to monitor which client content is being cited or attributed inside ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and similar answer engines, I'd prioritize platforms that do four things well:

• Track citations to specific URLs (not just brand mentions)
• Compare clients against competitors
• Monitor prompts over time
• Support multi-client reporting

Here's how I'd rank the current market.

These tools have emerged as the leaders in AI visibility and GEO monitoring, with enterprise reviews consistently highlighting Profound, Mentions, Semrush, and Ahrefs as the strongest commercial offerings. www.techradar.com

1. Profound (my top recommendation for agencies)

Best if you manage multiple brands and need executive reporting.

Strengths:

• Tracks prompt-level visibility
• Measures share of voice
• Identifies exactly which URLs AI systems cite
• Competitor comparisons
• Historical trend analysis
• White-label reporting

Pros

• Most mature platform
• Excellent dashboards
• Built specifically for AI search

Cons

• Enterprise pricing
• Probably overkill for agencies with fewer than 10 clients

2. Peec AI

Probably the sweet spot for most agencies.

Strengths:

• Tracks mentions
• Citation monitoring
• Competitor monitoring
• Prompt management
• Multiple AI engines
• Agency-friendly pricing

Many agency practitioners recommend it as the best balance between capability and cost. www.reddit.com

3. Otterly AI

Good if you're just entering GEO.

Strengths:

• Easy setup
• Daily monitoring
• Client dashboards
• Citation history
• Affordable

Less comprehensive than Profound but excellent ROI.

4. Semrush AI Visibility

Excellent if your agency already uses Semrush.

Advantages:

• Traditional SEO + GEO in one platform
• Existing client projects
• Reporting integrations
• Content recommendations

If your workflows already live in Semrush, adding AI visibility is often simpler than introducing another platform. www.reddit.comwww.techradar.comwww.techradar.com

5. Ahrefs Brand Radar

Great companion product.

Especially useful because it combines:

• AI visibility
• Brand mentions
• Organic SEO
• Backlinks
• Content opportunities

I wouldn't use it as the only GEO platform, but it's valuable alongside dedicated AI monitoring. www.reddit.comwww.techradar.comwww.techradar.com

Features that actually matter

I'd ignore marketing claims and evaluate tools on whether they can:

✅ Track specific prompts

"Best CRM for construction companies"

rather than generic brand mentions.

✅ Attribute citations to URLs

Instead of:

Your brand was mentioned

You want:

ChatGPT cited:

• /blog/best-crm-construction
• /resources/project-management-guide

✅ Track competitors

For every prompt:

• Who got cited?
• Who got recommended?
• Who disappeared?

✅ Show citation history

Questions like:

• Did our citation rate improve after publishing?
• Which blog posts gained citations?
• Which lost visibility?

✅ Support multiple models

At minimum:

• ChatGPT
• Google AI Overviews
• Gemini
• Perplexity
• Claude
• Microsoft Copilot

Coverage across engines matters because citation behavior differs between platforms. Research also suggests that factors such as topical relevance, structured information, freshness, and trust signals can influence which pages are cited. arxiv.org

If I were building an agency stack today

• Enterprise (50+ clients): Profound + Ahrefs
• Growing agency (10–50 clients): Peec AI + Semrush
• Small agency (under 10 clients): Otterly AI + Ahrefs
• Budget-conscious / technical team: Elmo, an open-source AI visibility platform that can be self-hosted and customized for your own prompt tracking and reporting. www.elmohq.com

One important note: no tool can perfectly measure "AI traffic" because many AI assistants don't consistently pass referral data. The most useful platforms therefore combine scheduled prompt testing, citation extraction, share-of-voice tracking, and historical comparisons rather than relying solely on analytics data. That approach is currently the closest equivalent to traditional rank tracking for generative search.

If you're a marketing agency and your goal is to monitor whether client blog content gets cited or attributed inside ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and Copilot, I'd focus on tools built specifically for Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) / Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) rather than traditional SEO platforms.

Here's how I'd rank the current market:

My top recommendations

1. Profound (best overall)

If your agency manages large brands or dozens of clients, Profound is probably the strongest platform today.

It tracks:

• citations by AI engine
• prompt-level visibility
• source URLs cited
• share of voice
• sentiment
• hallucinations/inaccuracies
• competitor comparisons

Their newer Answer Engine Insights product is built specifically around how brands appear inside AI answers. help.tryprofound.com

2. Peec AI (best value for agencies)

Peec has become one of the most agency-friendly platforms.

It monitors:

• ChatGPT
• Google AI Mode / AI Overviews
• Gemini
• Perplexity
• Copilot
• Claude (optional)
• Grok (optional)

For every tracked prompt it records:

• whether your client was mentioned
• ranking/position
• citations and source URLs
• sentiment
• competitors appearing instead

It also keeps historical trends, which is useful for monthly client reporting. peec.ai

3. Otterly AI

Good choice if you're starting GEO monitoring.

Typical features include:

• scheduled prompt monitoring
• visibility trends
• citation monitoring
• lightweight reports

Many agencies pair it with Google Search Console and GA4. attrifast.com

What I'd want as an agency

Beyond simple "brand mentions," I'd look for software that can answer:

• Which client articles get cited?
• Which URLs are AI engines actually referencing?
• Which competitor pages replaced ours?
• Which prompts generate citations?
• Which AI engine cites us most?
• How has citation share changed month over month?
• Which content pieces gained or lost visibility?

Those metrics are much more actionable than raw mention counts.

Attribution is still the hard part

One limitation across nearly every platform is business attribution.

Most tools can tell you:

• you were cited
• where you were cited
• how often

Few can reliably answer:

• "This ChatGPT citation generated 17 qualified leads."

That usually requires combining GEO monitoring with:

• GA4
• server logs
• UTM tracking
• CRM attribution

Industry comparisons consistently note that monitoring platforms are stronger at visibility measurement than revenue attribution. attrifast.com

If I were building an agency stack

• Enterprise (50+ clients): Profound + GA4 + Looker Studio
• Growing agency (10–50 clients): Peec AI + Semrush + GA4
• Small agency (<10 clients): Otterly AI + Search Console + GA4

That combination gives you both traditional SEO reporting and emerging AI-answer visibility without paying enterprise pricing unless you need it.