u/Academic_Way_293

I’ve been wondering if realtime AI crawler monitoring is actually worth caring about yet. Because I mean we all know that most LLMs still don’t even rely heavily on realtime data anyway. ChatGPT, Claude, and a lot of these systems seem way more dependent on training data or selective retrieval than constantly crawling the web like Google does.

But I do keep seeing platforms pushing realtime visibility tracking, crawler monitoring, and analytics tied to AI mentions, but I genuinely can’t tell if this is actually useful right now or if the market is just getting ahead of itself because of the whole AEO trend.

Is it worth allocating funds for this alongside SEO?

Heyo so I've been digging into AEO tools lately and most of what I’m seeing feels pretty surface-level, mostly dashboards, delayed insights, basic tracking. I’m looking for something more enterprise-ready. Ideally with a solid API, MCP integrations, and something that can actually plug into a bigger workflow instead of just sitting there as another reporting tool. (PS, I already tried Profound and found it really lackluster.)

Currently looking into Promptwatch, but if anyone here has any suggestions, that'd be a huge help