The $99 audit tells you where you stand once. This tells you again every month — same twelve questions, same three engines, every answer kept on file 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 every raw answer on file, 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, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. Every question in every engine, every month — not a sample, and not one engine standing in for the rest. Perplexity can be added on request.
All thirty-six answers captured the moment they appear, dated. The record exists 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 Answer-Ready Website does on-site and what Found First does everywhere.
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 three engines, every answer kept on file, 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 one-time for trade services, or $10,000–$15,000 one-time for compliance-heavy industries, with no retainer. Monitoring is not inside it — it is this, added on.
Since 2026-09-06 monitoring is not bundled into Found First — Found First is a one-time build and this is the add-on that keeps measuring it. $250 a month buys the measurement whether or not you ever buy the build. What it does not buy is the execution that moves the number the report shows. 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 paid for within 30 days, exactly as published elsewhere on this site. And if measuring is all you want, that is a real answer — subscribing to a report you won't act on is not.
Every month, the same twelve buyer questions from your baseline audit are re-run live across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, with Perplexity available on request. Every answer is saved 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 three engines, every answer kept on file, 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 — 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 answer record 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. Since 2026-09-06 it is also the same purchase — there is no separate in-package version. Found First is a one-time build — $5,000 for trade services, $10,000 to $15,000 for compliance-heavy — and monitoring is not inside it. This $250 a month is how you keep measuring, whether or not you ever buy the build. Found First clients add it at the same price as everyone else, and nobody is billed for it 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.