The $99 audit tells you where you stand once. This tells you again every month — same twelve questions, same four engines, screenshotted the same way, scored against the same baseline. It exists because most owners who measure once want to keep watching, and until now the only way to keep watching was to buy a full implementation package. This is the measurement on its own, at $250 a month.
One caveat up front, because it shapes the entire product: AI answers vary from run to run, and no engine sells placement. A monitor cannot promise your number goes up. It can only tell you, on a schedule and with screenshots, what the engines actually said this month.
It is the audit instrument, re-run. Nothing about the method changes month to month, which is the point — a measurement that changes shape can't be compared to the one before it.
The exact buyer questions from your baseline audit, unchanged, in the same order. Written for your trade and your market, asked the way a customer would actually ask them.
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Every question in every engine, every month — not a sample, and not one engine standing in for the rest.
All forty-eight answers captured the moment they appear, dated. Screenshots exist because these answers are not reproducible later; if it wasn't captured, it didn't happen.
Which businesses were named for each question, and where you were absent. Identical layout to your audit grid, so months stack side by side instead of needing translation.
The report reads in one line: named in how many of twelve buyer answers, up or down from last month. If it went sideways, the line says sideways.
Which pages, profiles, directories, and best-of lists the engines cited this month, and which are new since last month. This is where a competitor's gain usually becomes explainable.
This is the whole reason a monthly report can cost $250 instead of thousands, and it deserves to be said in plain words rather than buried in a scope document.
So here is the honest expectation. If nobody is changing the inputs the engines read — not you, not us, not whoever already handles your marketing — the number in your report will probably sit still. A flat line is real information and plenty of owners want it, whether to check the marketing they already pay for, to watch a competitor who suddenly gets named, or to know the ground has shifted before a customer tells them. But wanting the number to move is a different purchase. That takes execution against the inputs, which is what the Capability Deck teaches and what Found First does.
We would rather sell $250 of honest measurement than $5,000 of implementation an owner isn't ready to buy — and we would much rather you read that here than work it out in month four.
$250per month
Twelve buyer questions across four engines, screenshotted, with a results grid and a prioritized fix list. Delivered in five business days. This is the baseline everything else is measured against.
The same measurement, repeated. For owners who want to keep watching, or to hold their existing marketing to a number, without committing to an implementation package.
The implementation. $5,000 setup plus $250 per month for trade services, or $10,000–$15,000 setup plus $750 per month for compliance-heavy industries, month to month after setup. Monitoring is already inside it.
The monthly figure is deliberately the same $250 in two places. Inside Found First it covers the monitor plus the ongoing execution work; on its own it covers the monitor and nothing else. Nobody pays for monitoring twice, and moving up does not mean re-buying the instrument. The $99 audit fee is credited toward any SummitCited package within 30 days, exactly as published elsewhere on this site — and if you would rather skip straight to implementation, or do the work yourself from the $2,000 Capability Deck, both are better answers than subscribing to a report you won't act on.
Every month, the same twelve buyer questions from your baseline audit are re-run live across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Every answer is screenshotted the moment it appears, scored against the month before, and delivered as one report with a single headline number: named in how many of twelve buyer answers, up or down from last month. It is $250 a month and it is sold on its own, with no implementation package attached.
Yes. Monitoring measures movement, and movement needs something to move from. The $99 AI Visibility Audit is that first measurement: twelve buyer questions written for your trade and market, run across four engines, screenshotted and delivered in five business days. Monitoring picks up the month after and re-runs the same twelve.
No, and we will not imply otherwise. Monitoring is an instrument, not a treatment. If nobody is changing the inputs the engines read, the honest expectation is a flat line. A flat line is still worth knowing, but if you want the number to move, someone has to do implementation work — you from the Capability Deck, us inside Found First, or whoever already handles your marketing.
No edits to your Google Business Profile, no review requests sent on your behalf, no directory or citation submissions, no changes to your website, content, or structured data, and no fresh strategy each month. The prioritized fix list from your audit stays your roadmap. Monitoring reports what the engines said and which sources they quoted. That narrow scope is the reason it costs $250 a month rather than thousands.
Yes, any month, by email, with no notice period and no cancellation fee. There is no setup fee and no annual commitment. Billing is monthly in advance, and every report and screenshot already delivered stays yours after you stop.
No. It runs entirely from the outside, the same way your customers see you. No logins, no website access, no Google Business Profile access. All we need is your business name, trade, and service area.
It is the same instrument and the same report. What differs is everything around it. Found First is $5,000 setup plus $250 per month for trade services, or $10,000 to $15,000 setup plus $750 per month for compliance-heavy industries, and that monthly covers the monitor plus the ongoing execution work. On its own, $250 a month covers the monitor and nothing else. Nobody in a package is billed for monitoring twice.
Because most owners who buy a $99 audit are not ready to spend $5,000 yet, and pretending otherwise is how firms lose people who would have been good clients in a year. Measuring honestly at $250 a month is a real answer to a real budget. If implementation ever becomes worth it, the case for it will be sitting in your own reports, taken with our own instrument, and the decision stays yours.