AHOD is the world's most comprehensive AI brand visibility platform — monitoring your brand across 9 major LLMs, delivering your AI Visibility Score, identifying competitive gaps, and providing the editorial placement tools (PR Boost) to close them. This guide walks you through everything.
Step 1: Add Your Brand and Run Your First Scan
Adding your brand:
Navigate to your AHOD dashboard and add your brand. You'll be prompted for:
- Brand name (exactly as you want AI to reference it)
- Website URL
- Industry category
- Top 3-5 competitors
This takes under 5 minutes and immediately initiates your first comprehensive scan.
Your first scan:
AHOD runs 100+ targeted prompts across all 9 LLMs:
- 1ChatGPT (GPT-4o)
- 2Claude (Anthropic)
- 3Gemini (Google)
- 4Perplexity
- 5Microsoft Copilot
- 6DeepSeek
- 7Meta AI
- 8Grok (xAI)
- 9Google AI Overviews
The scan typically completes within 24 hours and produces your AI Visibility Score (0-100) with full breakdown.
Step 2: Understand Your AI Visibility Score
Your score dashboard shows:
Overall Score (0-100):
Your composite AI Visibility Score across all 9 LLMs.
Score Breakdown:
- Mention Rate: What % of relevant prompts mentioned your brand?
- Position Quality: When mentioned, are you first, second, or later?
- Sentiment: Are mentions positive, neutral, or negative?
- Cross-Platform Coverage: How many of the 9 LLMs mention you?
- Share of Voice: Your AI mentions vs. competitors'
First Scan Benchmarks:
- 0-20: Invisible (73% of brands on first scan)
- 21-40: Emerging AI presence
- 41-60: Competitive AI presence
- 61-80: Strong category authority
- 81-100: Dominant category leader
Step 3: Review the Competitive Intelligence Dashboard
The Competitive Intel section shows:
- Your competitors' AI Visibility Scores
- Their share of voice vs. yours
- Which LLMs they dominate that you don't
- Which category queries they win that you lose
This is the intelligence you need to prioritize your GEO investment.
Step 4: Identify Your Priority Prompt Gaps
AHOD's Prompt Tester shows you the specific queries where competitors outrank you. These become your target prompts for PR Boost content focus:
- If competitors dominate 'best [category] for [use case]' queries → Create editorial content addressing that specific use case
- If you're missing from 'most reliable [category] company' queries → Build client outcome and credibility content
- If sentiment is negative in specific LLMs → Launch fresh editorial coverage addressing the specific concern
Step 5: Launch Your First PR Boost Campaign
From the AHOD dashboard, navigate to PR Boost to launch your first editorial placement campaign:
- 1Complete your brand brief: Value proposition, key differentiators, target audience, news angles
- 2Select publication tier: Choose from Tier 1 (DA80+, authoritative industry sources/Business Insider), Tier 2 (DA70-79), or category-specific trade publications
- 3Review and approve content: AHOD's editorial team creates publication-standard content for your review
- 4Publication: Your editorial content is placed and live within 2-4 weeks
- 5Track impact: AHOD monitors your AI Visibility Score impact from each placement
Step 6: Set Up Ongoing Monitoring and Alerts
AHOD's monitoring alerts notify you when:
- Your AI Visibility Score changes significantly (improvement or decline)
- Competitor scores increase in your category
- New negative sentiment appears in AI responses about your brand
- A new LLM begins mentioning you or drops your brand
Step 7: Run Monthly Score Reviews
Monthly score reviews compare:
- Current month vs. previous month vs. 3 months ago
- Your score vs. all tracked competitors
- Impact correlation with PR Boost placements
- LLM-specific trends (some LLMs update training data more frequently)
The target trajectory: Starting from an average first-scan score of 22, a brand with 3-4 monthly PR Boost placements typically reaches:
- 45-55 at month 3
- 55-65 at month 6
- 65-75+ at month 12
Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get started with AHOD?
Visit ahod.co and add your brand. The free scan runs 100+ prompts across all 9 major LLMs and returns your AI Visibility Score within 24 hours. No credit card required for the free scan. PR Boost and ongoing monitoring are available through paid plans starting at accessible monthly rates.
How many brands can I monitor on AHOD?
Plan-dependent: AHOD's free tier includes 1 brand scan. Paid plans support multiple brands with continuous monitoring. Agency plans support unlimited client brands with white-label reporting options. See ahod.co/services for current plan details.
References & Sources
Mia Thornton
Head of GEO Research, AHOD
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