What your client receives
Each report covers one client business, for one category and one city — for example "roofing contractor" in "Austin, TX". Around ten buyer-intent questions (the kind a customer types, such as "who is the most trusted roofing contractor near Austin, TX?") are put to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. The answers are then checked, and the results are laid out in a report your client can read in a few minutes:
- Headline results: how many answers named the business, out of how many, and the average position when it was listed.
- Mention rate per assistant: the four assistants often disagree, so each one gets its own bar.
- Question × assistant matrix: every question and every assistant, named or not, with the position in the list.
- Competitors named instead: the businesses the assistants recommended, with their share of all mentions.
- Cited sources: the websites, directories and review platforms the assistants pointed to.
- Recommendations: practical next steps derived from the results, such as which questions to answer on the client's site and which listings to complete.
- Methodology and limitations, stated plainly, so nobody over-reads a single snapshot.
Your brand, not ours
You set your agency name, logo and brand color once. Every PDF and HTML report carries your branding and nothing else: no AnswerRoster logo, no "powered by" line, no link back to us. You can forward the PDF as-is, attach it to your monthly report, or host the HTML version on your own portal.
Why agencies add it
Business owners now hear that customers ask AI assistants for recommendations, and they want to know whether they show up. A rank tracker can't answer that: an assistant's answer is a short list of names, not a page of links. A visibility report turns the question into evidence your client can look at — and gives you a concrete reason to talk about reviews, directory listings, service pages and other work that improves the information assistants can find.
- Monthly reporting: one report per client brand per month, next to the SEO and ads numbers you already send.
- Prospecting: run a report on a business you'd like to win and start the conversation with something specific.
- Scoping work: the competitor and cited-source sections show where the gaps are.
Fully self-serve
There is nothing to schedule. You add your branding and your client brands, and download the reports yourself. Questions about reports, billing or your account go to hello@answerroster.com, and a real person replies within two business days.
Pricing
Plans are priced by the number of client brands, with one report per brand per month across all four assistants:
- Free trial: 1 brand, 1 report, no card required.
- Studio: $49/month (or $490/year) for 5 brands.
- Agency: $99/month (or $990/year) for 15 brands.
- Agency Pro: $199/month (or $1,990/year) for 40 brands.
Prices are in USD, excluding sales tax/VAT. Annual billing gives two months free, you can cancel anytime, and the first payment of any paid plan is covered by a 30-day money-back guarantee. See Pricing for details.
What a report can't do
A report measures; it doesn't change what assistants say, and nobody can guarantee a recommendation from them. Answers collected through the providers' APIs can differ from what a person sees in the consumer apps, and answers vary from run to run. That's why every report includes its methodology and limitations — so your client sees a fair snapshot, not a promise.