u/DevelopmentPlastic61

I'm a developer. I've spent months building something that works, and it's been sitting at "technically functional, nobody knows it exists" because I don't have the time or the inclination for sales and marketing. Posting to see if someone who does wants to take that half of it.

What it is

ClearRank tracks whether a brand shows up when people ask AI tools questions instead of googling.

You give it a domain and a set of prompts — "best project management tool for agencies", that kind of thing. It runs those prompts daily against ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, and for each one records: was the brand mentioned, was it actually cited as a source, where in the answer, which competitors showed up instead, and how the brand was described.

The point is the history, not the snapshot. You watch a prompt's visibility move over weeks and can tell whether anything you changed actually did something.

Where it actually is

Live at clearrank.io — you can run a domain through it without signing up or giving me an email, so you don't have to take my word for any of this. Real people have used it. Zero revenue: Stripe has never processed a live card.

What's built and working:

• The scanning pipeline, running daily on a schedule
• Per-prompt history, competitor tracking, citation sources, sentiment on how the brand gets described
• A free public scanner that produces a shareable report, with email capture
• Multi-tenant orgs, billing wired up, prompt-based plans (15 / 100 / 400 prompts), 15-day trial
• 13 country targets with locale-aware querying
• Per-call cost tracking, so unit economics are calculable
• Elixir/Phoenix LiveView, ~36k lines, deployed and monitored

Where it sits against the competition

The honest version, because a sales person needs to know what they can't promise.

Profound is the category leader — nominally $99/mo, realistically ~$499 to get anything. Peec AI holds the mid-market at €85–505. Otterly is the accessible end at $29. Ahrefs and Semrush both ship AI visibility as an add-on. Nobody has won the category, but Profound has set the feature bar.

What they have that I don't:

• Log-file and crawler analytics. Profound reads your CDN and server logs to show which AI bots — GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot — hit which pages, and filters spoofed crawlers. Strongest feature in the category. I have nothing equivalent.
• Attribution. They trace crawler visit → citation → human referral traffic → conversion through

I'm a developer. I've spent months building something that works, and it's been sitting at "technically functional, nobody knows it exists" because I don't have the time or the inclination for sales and marketing. Posting to see if someone who does wants to take that half of it.

What it is

ClearRank tracks whether a brand shows up when people ask AI tools questions instead of googling.

You give it a domain and a set of prompts — "best project management tool for agencies", that kind of thing. It runs those prompts daily against ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews, and for each one records: was the brand mentioned, was it actually cited as a source, where in the answer, which competitors showed up instead, and how the brand was described.

The point is the history, not the snapshot. You watch a prompt's visibility move over weeks and can tell whether anything you changed actually did something.

Where it actually is

Live at clearrank.io — you can run a domain through it without signing up or giving me an email, so you don't have to take my word for any of this. Real people have used it. Zero revenue: Stripe has never processed a live card.

What's built and working:

• The scanning pipeline, running daily on a schedule
• Per-prompt history, competitor tracking, citation sources, sentiment on how the brand gets described
• A free public scanner that produces a shareable report, with email capture
• Multi-tenant orgs, billing wired up, prompt-based plans (15 / 100 / 400 prompts), 15-day trial
• 13 country targets with locale-aware querying
• Per-call cost tracking, so unit economics are calculable
• Elixir/Phoenix LiveView, ~36k lines, deployed and monitored

Where it sits against the competition

The honest version, because a sales person needs to know what they can't promise.

Profound is the category leader — nominally $99/mo, realistically ~$499 to get anything. Peec AI holds the mid-market at €85–505. Otterly is the accessible end at $29. Ahrefs and Semrush both ship AI visibility as an add-on. Nobody has won the category, but Profound has set the feature bar.

What they have that I don't:

• Log-file and crawler analytics. Profound reads your CDN and server logs to show which AI bots — GPTBot, PerplexityBot, ClaudeBot — hit which pages, and filters spoofed crawlers. Strongest feature in the category. I have nothing equivalent.
• Attribution. They trace crawler visit → citation → human referral traffic → conversion through