# AI Answer Monitor — Is Your Brand in AI Answers? (`gangary/ai-answer-monitor`) Actor

GEO / AI-SEO tracking: give a brand and a list of questions, and see whether AI answer engines (Perplexity, Gemini) mention your brand, how prominently, and whether they cite your site. The new search-visibility metric for the AI era. No login.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/gangary/ai-answer-monitor.md
- **Developed by:** [Gangary](https://apify.com/gangary) (community)
- **Categories:** SEO tools, AI
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $100.00 / 1,000 per question checkeds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## AI Answer Monitor — Is Your Brand in AI Answers?

When your customers ask an AI ("best digital bank in Brazil", "top marketing agency for clinics"), **does your brand come up?** This Actor asks a real AI answer engine your questions and tells you, for each one, whether your brand is **mentioned**, how **prominently**, and whether your site is **cited as a source**. It's the search-visibility metric for the AI era — GEO / AI-SEO. No login.

![Cover](https://empresas-por-cnae.vercel.app/covers/ai-answer-monitor.png)

Em português: *monitor de GEO / AI-SEO, minha marca aparece no ChatGPT/Perplexity/Gemini, visibilidade de marca em respostas de IA*.

### Input example

```json
{
  "brand": "Nubank",
  "domain": "nubank.com.br",
  "questions": [
    "melhor banco digital do Brasil",
    "qual conta digital sem tarifa vale a pena"
  ],
  "engine": "gemini"
}
```

- `brand` — the brand to look for in the answers.
- `domain` (optional) — your site, used to detect if the AI **cites you as a source**.
- `questions` — the questions your buyers would ask an AI (up to 100).
- `engine` — `perplexity` (cites sources) or `gemini` (Google Search grounding).

### Output example

One row per question:

```json
{
  "brand": "Nubank",
  "engine": "perplexity",
  "question": "melhor banco digital do Brasil",
  "checked": true,
  "mentioned": true,
  "mention_count": 4,
  "prominence": "top",
  "cited": false,
  "answer_excerpt": "Os mais citados no Brasil costumam ser Nubank, Inter e ...",
  "citations": []
}
```

- `mentioned` / `mention_count` — is the brand in the answer, and how many times.
- `prominence` — `top` / `mid` / `low`: where the first mention falls in the answer (top = named first = most visible).
- `cited` — the brand's `domain` appears among the answer's sources.
- `answer_excerpt` + `citations` — the raw evidence, so you can read exactly why.

### What you learn

- **Which questions you already win** (brand named, `top` prominence) — protect and amplify these.
- **Which questions you're invisible on** (`mentioned: false`) — your GEO gap, where competitors are getting the AI's recommendation instead of you.
- **Whether the AI trusts your site** as a source (`cited`).

Run it weekly to watch your AI visibility move as you publish content.

### Pricing (Pay per event)

| Event | When | Price |
|---|---|---|
| `actor-start` | once per run | $0.01 |
| `question-checked` | per question successfully asked to the AI | $0.10 |

Monitoring 20 questions = $0.01 + 20 × $0.10 = **$2.01**. A question whose engine is temporarily unavailable is returned with a note and **not charged**.

### Engines

- **Perplexity (`sonar`)** — fast, web-grounded answers. Strong for the mention/prominence signal.
- **Gemini (Google Search grounding)** — answers grounded in Google Search, and returns the **source links**, so the `cited` signal is richest here. Also the closest proxy to what Google's AI surfaces to users.

`mentioned` and `prominence` work on both engines. `cited` depends on the engine returning source links (always on Gemini; Perplexity's base model may omit them).

### Is this compliant?

Yes — the Actor sends your questions to a public AI API and analyzes the text of the answer. No scraping, no login, no private data.

### Limitations

- AI answers are **non-deterministic** — the same question can vary run to run. For a trend, run the same set weekly and watch the direction, not a single snapshot.
- `mentioned` is a text match on the brand name — a very generic brand name can over- or under-count (use a distinctive name or brand form).
- Coverage and citation richness depend on the chosen engine (see above).

### From the same maker

- **[B2B Leads Brazil](https://apify.com/gangary/b2b-leads-brazil)** · **[CNPJ Discovery](https://apify.com/gangary/cnpj-discovery)** — build and score the company lists behind your outreach.

# Actor input Schema

## `brand` (type: `string`):

Nome da marca a monitorar nas respostas (ex: 'Runrun.it', 'Nubank').

## `domain` (type: `string`):

Dominio da marca (ex: nubank.com.br). Usado pra detectar se a IA CITA seu site como fonte.

## `questions` (type: `array`):

Perguntas que seus clientes fariam a uma IA (ex: 'melhor banco digital do Brasil'). Ate 100 por execucao.

## `engine` (type: `string`):

Qual motor de IA consultar. Gemini (busca do Google, gratis) ou Perplexity.

## `maxQuestions` (type: `integer`):

Teto de perguntas processadas (teto duro 100).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "brand": "Nubank",
  "questions": [
    "melhor banco digital do Brasil",
    "qual conta digital sem tarifa vale a pena"
  ],
  "engine": "gemini",
  "maxQuestions": 100
}
```

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "brand": "Nubank",
    "questions": [
        "melhor banco digital do Brasil",
        "qual conta digital sem tarifa vale a pena"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("gangary/ai-answer-monitor").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "brand": "Nubank",
    "questions": [
        "melhor banco digital do Brasil",
        "qual conta digital sem tarifa vale a pena",
    ],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("gangary/ai-answer-monitor").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "brand": "Nubank",
  "questions": [
    "melhor banco digital do Brasil",
    "qual conta digital sem tarifa vale a pena"
  ]
}' |
apify call gangary/ai-answer-monitor --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=gangary/ai-answer-monitor",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/K48ihAIpYnWlWcp3H/builds/BPMZdwCc7yvj182Gc/openapi.json