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AI Brand Monitoring Mentions in ChatGPT: Brand Monitoring Tools

ChatGPT mention monitoring is a prompt ledger, not Meltwater. We start on Promptwatch Explore (free) and move to Essential when 10 prompts is a toy.

AI brand monitoring mentions in ChatGPT is the narrow brand-monitoring tools brief: one engine, still not a listening suite. Comms can keep Meltwater. It will not replay a ChatGPT answer. The ChatGPT log we start on is Promptwatch Explore: free, 10 prompts. Essential is $95/mo when 10 is a toy or we need citations, crawler logs, and a second engine. Kick-off is $199/mo for more than one brand.

ChatGPT has 820M+ weekly active users. That is why the brief dropped Gemini. It is also why a ChatGPT-only SKU can look finished when it is only a taste.

Two people pasting into ChatGPT Plus is not a program. They will argue about wording. There will be no history. We will not do that as the report.

Mention vs citation

Named versus linked. ChatGPT often names you and cites a listicle. We ticket the URL. Aliases on day one: legal name, product name, the misspelling sales already hears. Allow OAI-SearchBot if ChatGPT Search matters. GPTBot is training. Those are different robots.txt lines. We write both down so the next CDN change does not reverse them.

Otterly includes ChatGPT from $29 with lag (up to seven days, 15 prompts on Lite). Peec from $95 with screenshots (three models). Profound Starter is $99 annual, ChatGPT only, 50 prompts. Closest paid shape to Explore, except it bills yearly. Ahrefs Brand Radar is modeled. Semrush Toolkit is modeled (25 prompts, $99 per domain). We keep the suites for Google. We do not read them as the ChatGPT mention ledger.

How to get cited by ChatGPT after a miss. That is the page work. The mention log only tells us we missed.

Explore can prove the category to a skeptical founder. Most accounts add Perplexity within a month. Essential already includes it, plus daily UI on the paid engine set, citation analytics, Agent Analytics, and visitor analytics via script or GTM. We will not demo Explore as a multi-engine program.

What we refuse to merge

Listening counts and assistant mentions. Different object. If comms already pays for Meltwater or Brandwatch, that stays on public posts. The weekly GEO table is Promptwatch rows: frozen prompt, date, named or not, cited URL.

We do not promise instant alerts. Daily UI. Slack exists as an integration on paid plans. That is not a pager in the SOW.

FAQ

Is ChatGPT-only enough?

If the SOW says so, Explore or Starter can start. Most accounts add Perplexity within a month. Essential already includes it.

Can two people just paste into ChatGPT?

They will argue about wording. There will be no history. We will not do that as the report.

Is Explore enough forever?

Only if 10 ChatGPT prompts is the whole SOW. We upgrade when the list grows or when we need the citation field.

What to do this week

  1. Keep Meltwater if comms already pays for it. Do not merge counts.
  2. Write 10 ChatGPT prompts from real questions.
  3. Load Explore. Mark named versus linked.
  4. Upgrade to Essential when you need more prompts or Perplexity.
  5. Email hello@1001seomedia.com with the prompt list if you want us to run it.

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