Getting Started

Quickstart

Set up AIclicks in under 10 minutes by adding prompts, competitors, and reviewing core AI visibility metrics and sources.

Most teams complete this setup in under 10 minutes. Expect first meaningful insights once prompts have run for one or two cycles, typically within 24–48 hours.

AIclicks offers a standard email signup, Google sign-in, and Microsoft sign-in.

Create your account

Go to https://app.aiclicks.io/welcome and then enter your work email and a password.

Verify and log in

Confirm your email if prompted, then sign in to reach the AIclicks onboarding or dashboard.

Step 1: Set up prompts

Prompts are real buyer questions that AI engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini answer and that AIclicks tracks over time.

Open the prompts area

From the dashboard, go to your prompts section and create your first batch of prompts. Use questions a buyer would actually type when they are ready to compare options or make a decision.

Add 10–20 high-intent prompts

Start with a focused set of prompts that map to your core offerings. For example:

"best B2B payment platform for SaaS companies"
"top AI content tools for in-house marketing teams"
"alternatives to legacy HR software for remote teams"
"how to track brand visibility across AI search"
"AI tools to monitor competitors in chatbots"

Aim for 10–20 prompts that reflect strong buying intent across your main geos or segments. You do not need to cover every phrasing variation; focus on the underlying intent.

Organize with topics

Optionally group prompts into topics such as "Core product", "Use cases", or "Competitor comparisons". Topics make it easier to slice performance later and expand coverage as you learn from the data.

Good prompts combine intent and context. Include elements like industry, use case, audience, or budget when they matter for how buyers search. For a deeper walkthrough and patterns, see Prompts Overview and Create prompts.

Step 2: Add competitors

Competitors give you a reference point for how visible your brand is in AI answers.

Use Competitor Discovery suggestions

Go to your competitors section and open Competitor Discovery. AIclicks suggests brands based on how often they appear across your prompts and how semantically similar they are to your brand.

Add 3–5 direct competitors

Select the closest alternatives to your product or service and click Add. Start with 3–5 brands you actively compete with in your main markets so comparisons stay meaningful.

Add missing brands manually

If an important competitor does not appear in suggestions, add it manually from the competitors page. This ensures AIclicks tracks their visibility alongside yours from the next tracking cycles.

For more details on how competitor suggestions work and how to maintain your list over time, see Add competitors and Track competitors.

Step 3: Review main metrics once data arrives

Once AIclicks has run your prompts across supported AI engines for a cycle or two, you start seeing how visible you are and how you compare.

Open the main metrics dashboard

After 24–48 hours, return to your main metrics or analytics view. Metrics aggregate how often you and your competitors appear in answers and how those appearances break down by prompts and models.

Check brand Visibility

Visibility shows how present your brand is across AI answers for your tracked prompts. Use it to confirm that AI engines consistently mention you when buyers ask about your category.

Compare Share of Voice and Position

Share of Voice summarizes your share of mentions relative to competitors. Position captures where you appear within answers, not just whether you are mentioned. Together they reveal when you are present but buried below other brands.

Look at Citations frequency

Citations (frequency) highlight how often AI engines rely on specific sources when answering your prompts. This connects top-level visibility back to the underlying URLs and domains that drive it.

For metric definitions and deeper analysis options, start with Metrics Overview and then explore:

Step 4: Use Sources to see what drives answers

Sources show which URLs and domains AI engines cite when they answer your tracked prompts, and whether those sources belong to you or third parties.

Open Sources and Citations views

From your metrics or navigation, go to the Sources or Citations area. Use the URL view to see specific pages and the Domain view to see which sites AI engines rely on most often across your prompts.

Identify high-leverage URLs and domains

Sort by frequency to find pages that drive a large share of answers. Pay attention to third-party sources such as review sites, directories, and comparisons; these often shape how brands are framed in AI responses.

Prioritize gaps using filters

Use a simple workflow to decide where to act next:

Start with highest Frequency sources
Drill into Prompts to see which buyer questions they influence
Filter for Mentioned = no to surface prompts where your brand is weak or absent

This combination highlights the most impactful prompts and sources to target with content, partnerships, or outreach.

To go deeper on how to work from URLs and domains back to actions, see:

What’s next

Use these next steps to turn insights into improvements.

Understand competitors

Learn how competitor tracking works and how to interpret comparative visibility and Share of Voice.

Expand and refine prompts

Grow from your initial set of prompts and use data to discover new high-intent questions to track.

Turn insights into actions

Explore recommendations for creating content, earning mentions, and engaging on key sources.

Let your prompts run for at least a couple of tracking cycles before making big decisions. Early results are useful for spotting obvious gaps, but trends across 24–48 hours and beyond give a more reliable picture of how AI engines talk about your brand and competitors.

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