Can I vibecode BrandGEO?

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price $79/moyou'd save $948/yrbuild time a weekendcategory 📈 seo & marketingreplaced by 0 people

Running a fixed battery of brand questions through five model APIs and scoring the answers with a second LLM pass is a genuine weekend build, and for one brand it answers the headline question: what does AI say about us. The gaps are the ones every tracker in this category shares. API answers approximate but do not equal the consumer apps, a score with no trend history behind it is a screenshot rather than a signal, and a rubric only becomes comparable after it has scored many brands.

the prompt
Build me a local AI brand visibility auditor for one brand. Requirements:

- Node 22, TypeScript, better-sqlite3, a CLI. Local only, no accounts, no telemetry.
- brand.json holds my brand name, aliases, domain, one competitor, and up to 25
  audit questions (who is X, best tools for Y, X vs competitor, is X legit).
- `audit run` sends every question through OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, xAI, and
  DeepSeek APIs. Keys from .env; skip engines whose key is missing and say so in
  the report instead of failing.
- Store one immutable row per run, question, and engine: raw answer, model id,
  latency, error text. Never overwrite a previous run.
- Cap concurrency at 2 per engine and retry twice on 429 and 5xx with backoff.
- A separate scoring pass grades each stored answer 0-10 on six dimensions:
  recognition, knowledge depth, competitive context, sentiment, contextual
  recall, discoverability. Rubric text lives in rubric.md, scores must cite the
  answer sentence that justifies them.
- `audit report` renders a Markdown report: overall score per engine, the
  six-dimension table, competitor mentions, and every flat-out wrong claim the
  models made about the brand, quoted.
- `audit history` prints score per engine across runs from SQLite, so week two
  starts meaning something.
- Out of scope: white-label PDFs, multi-brand management, scheduled monitoring,
  and scraping the consumer web UIs. One brand, run by hand.
- README: setup, per-run cost estimate by engine, and a plain note that API
  answers only approximate what the apps actually show users.

$ open in your agent (prompt prefilled, you press enter) or copy it raw

why people still pay

Agencies are the tell: they pay for a report with someone else's methodology behind it that they can white-label and bill for, plus monitoring and trend history someone else keeps alive. A founder auditing one brand once is exactly who the free audit and a DIY script are for.

what you lose

xwhite-label PDF reports an agency can hand to a client

xweekly monitoring that keeps running when nobody is thinking about it

xa rubric calibrated across many brands, so scores are comparable

xcompetitor benchmarks per brand

xthe consumer app surfaces, which no API exactly reproduces

share on X ↗"I just replaced BrandGEO ($79/mo) with one prompt"
the escape hatch

Don't feel like building it? These folks already made it free.

ElmoA self-hosted AI visibility dashboard that runs your prompts across the major engines and records mentions and citations; the white-label reporting is the part you keep paying for.230aug 2026open source

no votes, no pay-to-list · just what's real

the numbers

BrandGEO pricing

starter$79/mo · monthly · $948/yr

free tierA free audit across all five engines without a credit card, plus a 7-day trial on paid plans.

verified 2026-08-10 · source ↗

questions
Is BrandGEO free?

A free audit across all five engines without a credit card, plus a 7-day trial on paid plans. Paid is Starter at $79/mo (checked 2026-08-10).

Can I vibecode BrandGEO?

Kinda. The core of BrandGEO is buildable in a weekend with the prompt on this page, but there are real gaps: white-label PDF reports an agency can hand to a client, weekly monitoring that keeps running when nobody is thinking about it. Read the honest list above before committing.

How much does BrandGEO cost?

BrandGEO costs about $79/month (Starter, checked 2026-08-10), which is $948 per year.

What do I lose by replacing BrandGEO?

Honestly: white-label PDF reports an agency can hand to a client; weekly monitoring that keeps running when nobody is thinking about it; a rubric calibrated across many brands, so scores are comparable; competitor benchmarks per brand; the consumer app surfaces, which no API exactly reproduces. If any of those are load-bearing for you, keep paying.

Is there an open-source alternative to BrandGEO?

Yes: Elmo (A self-hosted AI visibility dashboard that runs your prompts across the major engines and records mentions and citations; the white-label reporting is the part you keep paying for.) The prompt is for when you want it exactly your way.

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