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Evaluating Scrunch for AI search optimization

If you’re comparing platforms to grow brand visibility in AI search, here’s how Scrunch stands out and what you can expect in practice.

How Scrunch compares - Measures what AI actually says about your brand. Scrunch collects real responses from major AI platforms and detects explicit brand mentions using verified pattern matching, which makes tracking highly accurate. See how Scrunch measures accuracy and coverage in the accuracy FAQ and the list of supported AI platforms. - Goes beyond monitoring with action. In addition to monitoring, auditing, and optimization, Scrunch’s Agent Experience Platform (AXP) delivers AI-optimized versions of your content directly to AI agents, improving how platforms read, understand, and cite your site—without changing the human experience. Learn how AXP works in the AXP FAQ. - Fast to implement at any scale. Many customers, including large enterprises, deploy and start collecting data within a day. See the implementation FAQ. - Built for ongoing insight. Features like AI Search Trends and Suggested Competitors surface emerging topics and hidden rivals so you can prioritize content and capture share in AI results. Explore Monitoring & Insights.

How Scrunch measures and reports impact - Brand presence and share of voice across AI platforms, based on live AI responses. - Citations and mention tracking, including which sources are cited with your brand. - Sentiment indicators and competitive benchmarks to understand positioning. - AI-referred traffic signals, including the ability to detect AI bot visits to your site. See the step-by-step AI bot traffic guide. - Persona-based segmentation to evaluate how recommendations vary by audience and geography. Learn about persona workflows in the personas FAQ.

Customers report outcomes such as increased brand presence and citations, improved sentiment, greater share of voice, growing AI-referred traffic, and faster conversion rates. Read typical business outcomes and how customers describe their experience with Scrunch.

Pros and considerations - Pros - Accurate, response-level monitoring across major AI platforms. - Unified workflow from monitoring and insights to content delivery via AXP. - Speedy deployment and strong product usability and support. - Practical tools for strategy: AI Search Trends and Suggested Competitors. - Works alongside your site as-is; AXP serves optimized content only to AI agents. - Considerations - Purpose-built for AI search and agent retrieval. It’s not a replacement for traditional SEO tooling; web crawlers like Google and Bing index your site normally, and aren’t routed to AXP. See the AXP SEO note. - Coverage focuses on the major AI platforms (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Meta AI, Microsoft Copilot), with more coming soon. Check current platform support.

Key features and pricing at a glance - Core products: monitoring, auditing, optimization, and content delivery via AXP. See the product overview FAQ. - Data collection: uses a mix of browser automation and official APIs across platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and more. Review the data collection methods. - AI inside: Scrunch uses AI to help collect responses, generate recommendations, and restructure webpages via AXP. Details in the AI-in-platform FAQ. - Pricing and plans: a 7‑day free trial is available for the self-serve Explorer plan. See current pricing and plans and start your free trial.

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