Forum Ventures
One recommended page earned 550 citations — appearances in AI answers to buyer questions — across 400 queries. Their AI-referred sessions converted at 12.1% against roughly 0.3% site-wide. Measured in their analytics, not ours.
Your brand growth agent-cy
AI recommends the brands it understands.
We measure whether it understands yours, and fix what it gets wrong.
Help AI understand what makes your business the right choice. Optimly finds what’s missing, improves your messaging and content, and checks whether AI’s recommendations change.
Brand expertise and AI agents do the work. You approve what goes live.
No credit card required. We only read published information on your website, and never sell your data. Read our privacy policy.
How it works
Measure, find the failure, fix it, measure again.
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Does AI understand your business?
You confirm what you sell, who it's for, and why customers choose you. We check AI's answers against that information.
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Where does it get you wrong?
We name the specific failure — a missing fact, a wrong category, a competitor named in your place — and show the answer it came from.
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What needs to change?
We improve the messaging, website pages, and supporting content that caused it. You approve the work before anything goes live.
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Did it work?
We run the same questions again at four to six weeks, scored the same way, so you see movement rather than a single reading.
Results
What changed for customers.
AI House
Their FAQ page became the single most-cited page on their site.
Right Side Capital
Two articles went from zero citations to 8 and 7.
Results are page-level and scoped to the measurement period shown. We don't claim account-level movement as a result, and we report the accounts where nothing moved. Read the methodology.
AI Brand Index
Our work is informed by what AI actually reads.
Optimly's AI Brand Index tracks 39,740+ brands on how AI systems describe them. AI systems visit it to find information about businesses, giving us a live view of which profiles they access.
We combine those observations with tests of AI’s answers and what you tell us about your business to decide what to improve.
39,740+brands scored in the AI Brand Index
across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini
39,740+
brands scored on how AI describes them
4 models
retrieval measured across the frontier models
Crawler-verified
evidence of what AI systems actually fetch
Your brand is probably already in it. Claiming your profile is free.
Why Optimly
Three reasons founders choose us.
We learn what makes you different.
Your team provides the business knowledge AI may be missing. We turn it into clearer messaging and useful content.
We have evidence to guide the work.
Our live Brand Index and AI answer testing help us identify gaps and choose what to address.
We help get it done.
Choose recommendations your team can implement, or have Optimly deliver the work with your approval.
The usual approach
Publish more, hope something lands.
Dozens of thin pages written for volume. Nothing tied to a buyer question, nothing measured afterwards, and no way to tell which page did anything.
Our approach
One asset, built for the question.
For Forum Ventures, one recommended page earned 550 citations across 400 buyer questions, and their AI-referred sessions converted at 12.1% against roughly 0.3% site-wide. Measured in their analytics.
What we won't do.
- We won't publish high-volume content nobody asked for.
- We won't promise a placement in an AI answer — we report whether one moved, including when it didn't.
- We won't ship anything in your name that you haven't approved.
Pricing
Start free. Add measurement. Have us do the work.
See where you stand
$0
Claim your profile, one AI brand snapshot, one recommendation.
Get a plan
$800/month
Weekly measurement run, citation graph, prioritized queue.
Have us do the work
From $4,000/month
Twelve actions a month, worked from the top of your queue.
Find out what AI says about you.
The snapshot is free and takes a few minutes. If what comes back is wrong, we can tell you why, and we can fix it.
No credit card required
Common questions
The simple version.
How does the agent-cy work?+
Brand expertise sets direction, AI agents support the work, and you provide context and approvals. On the managed plan, we work through twelve actions a month from the top of your queue — from thought leadership and entity mapping to earned media and on-page execution — while you approve what goes live.
What's the difference between the free snapshot and the platform?+
The AI Brand Snapshot is one look at how AI describes you today. Optimly Platform is the standing instrument: the same questions run every week, scored the same way, so you can see change rather than a single reading.
What counts as an action?+
A discrete piece of work delivered, onsite or offsite. An offsite action means the asset is built and submitted. Placement decisions belong to third parties, so we commit to the work rather than to the outcome.
Do you guarantee citations?+
No. We measure whether citations moved and tell you when they didn't. Anyone guaranteeing placement in an AI answer is either guessing or gaming, and gaming is what gets demoted.
Which models do you measure?+
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, weekly.
What is a Business Profile?+
Your owner-verified record of products, customers, positioning, and facts. Optimly drafts it from your website; once confirmed, it is the ground truth every AI answer is scored against.