Can I vibecode BrandGEO?
KINDA · weekend projectRunning 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.
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
prompt copied. want to know what dies next week?
new verdicts + top votes, weekly. free. one-click out.
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.
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
Don't feel like building it? These folks already made it free.
no votes, no pay-to-list · just what's real
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 ↗
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.