Ask up to 25 questions of AI answer engines now and measure the brand's and each competitor's share: URL cited among the sources, and brand named. Saved as a citation audit.
Billing: 5–12¢ per engine check, per answered prompt × engine — Perplexity 5¢, ChatGPT 7¢, AI Overviews 9¢, Gemini 12¢ (33¢ a prompt on the four defaults), AI Mode 10¢ if asked. Then the fix-it playbook get_fix_plan plans from (playbook: false skips it): at most 12¢ per answered check that didn't cite the brand, plus about 45¢ for a rollup when 2+ questions were lost. E.g. 10 prompts, default engines: 330¢ + about 525¢ playbook if nothing cites the brand. dry_run: true quotes it free. Engines get ~4 min; unfinished checks are skipped unbilled (partial, timed_out): split runs past ~15 prompts.
When to call: share of voice across many buyer questions, fresh. One question: check_brand_citation; an audit that already ran: get_audit (free).
Returns { audit_id, report_url (public), tracked: [{domain, is_brand, cite_count, share_pct, mention_count, mention_share_pct}], total_cites, total_mentions, sample: {answered_checks, prompts, confidence, note}, suggested_competitor_domains, suggested_sources, completed, total, partial, timed_out, out_of_credits, charged_cents, charged_breakdown_cents }. Relay sample.note (confidence low = few answers). suggested_competitor_domains: untracked hosts winning lost answers (confirm before add_site); suggested_sources: places to earn mentions. Past ~45 s: { audit_id, status: "running" }; read it with get_audit.