AnswerRank — AI Visibility Tracker
A self-serve micro-SaaS that tracks how a brand shows up inside AI answers — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Gemini — starting with a free audit and turning into weekly or daily tracking.
The situation
Search is moving from ten blue links to a single AI answer. If your brand isn't named in that answer, you're invisible — and unlike SEO, most businesses have no idea whether they show up, let alone how to fix it. There was no simple, self-serve way to measure AI visibility and track it over time.
What I built
AnswerRank is a lead-magnet-to-SaaS funnel: a free audit tells a brand exactly how it appears across the major answer engines, then converts into paid weekly or daily tracking. Under the hood it's Next.js on Vercel with a Supabase data model for accounts, brands, prompts and scan results, Stripe self-serve checkout with webhook provisioning, and a Vercel Cron job that runs the scans against OpenAI and Perplexity. It ships with a demo/stub mode so the whole product works before any API keys are wired in.
Highlights
- Free-audit lead magnet that converts into paid weekly/daily AI-visibility tracking
- Tracks visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Gemini
- Stripe self-serve checkout with webhook-driven provisioning across three tiers
- Scheduled scan engine on Vercel Cron, powered by OpenAI + Perplexity
- Runs in demo/stub mode with no keys, so the funnel is testable from day one
Build log
Jul 2026
Shipped the first version — landing, free audit, dashboard, Stripe checkout and the scheduled scan engine — live on Vercel.