Answer engine optimization (AEO)
When buyers ask AI, be the name it says.
Bungad is a monthly AI-visibility tracker for small businesses and growing brands. Free to try; paid plans are $99 to $799 a month. It asks AI engines (Perplexity today) the questions your buyers ask, then shows whether you were named, who was named instead, and what to fix.
Free, no account. 3 questions on Perplexity, plus a read of your homepage. Paid plans track 25 to 500.
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Example of an answer, as Bungad reads it in the app. Sample brand, sample answer, sample sources. The free check shows named or not and cited or not, not the position.
The engines we askOnly what runs today is marked Live.
How it works
Six steps, run every month. The last one feeds the first.
A one-off audit tells you where you stood on one day. Bungad asks the same questions again on every check, so you can see whether the change you made moved the answer.
- 01Ask
The questions buyers put to AI about your category. We draft the first ones from one sentence about what you sell.
- 02Run
Each question goes to Perplexity. The answer is stored as it came back, with the sources it cited.
- 03Measure
Were you named? Where among the brands you track? Was your site a source?
- 04Diagnose
Who was named instead, which sites the answers cited, and whether AI crawlers can read your homepage.
- 05Fix
A list of fixes, each with the answers that prompted it.
- 06Prove
The next check shows what moved, in the app. Email alerts are Planned.
All six steps run today, on Perplexity. Mark a fix done, then watch the next check for the effect.
Proof, per answer
Every number traces back to an answer, word for word.
We keep each answer as it came back and every source it cited, for every question and every check. When a number looks wrong, read what the engine said and check our reading against it.
Example of the answers from one check. Sample brand, sample questions and results. The position is the rank among you and the competitors you track.
0 of 8
We ran ourselves first. AI named us in none of eight answers.
Our September and October 2026 audits on Perplexity, both published in full. We would rather show you a real zero than a made-up case study.
Pricing
Monthly. Cancel any time.
Plans differ by how many questions and brands you track, how many checks you run, and how much a person does for you. Prices are in US dollars.
What is answer engine optimization (AEO)?
Answer engine optimization (AEO) is making sure that when someone asks an AI assistant about your category, the answer names your brand and, ideally, cites your own pages. The reader gets one written answer instead of ten links, so being named in it matters more than ranking.
Which AI engines do you check today?
Perplexity, and only Perplexity. ChatGPT and Claude are built and need API keys. Google AI Overviews and Gemini are planned. We never show a score for an engine we did not ask.
Can you guarantee AI will name my brand?
No, and nobody honestly can. The engines decide. We show you what they said, which sites they cited, and what is most likely to change the answer. The next check shows whether it did.
What happens after the free check?
Nothing, unless you want it to. We don’t ask for an email. A domain checked in the last seven days shows its stored result instead of being asked again, and free checks are capped each day. To keep tracking, make a free account.
Ask AI about your brand before your buyers do.
3 questions on Perplexity. Were you named, was your site cited, and can AI crawlers read your homepage? Free, no account.
Or start free and track 5 questions.