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title: 'Introduction'
description: 'Track how AI search engines mention your brand and turn AI visibility into a measurable channel.'
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## What is Ansvisor?

Ansvisor is an open-source **Answer Engine Optimization** (AEO) platform. It tells you exactly how often ChatGPT, Google AI Overview, Google AI Mode, Google Gemini, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, and Claude name your brand when users ask buying-intent questions — and what to publish to get cited more often than your competitors.

Classical SEO measures rankings on a results page. AEO measures something different: whether an AI assistant chooses your brand to answer a question. That's the new frontier of organic discovery, and Ansvisor is the instrumentation layer for it.

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    Get from zero to your first tracked brand in under 10 minutes.
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  <Card title="What is AEO?" icon="lightbulb" href="/concepts/what-is-aeo">
    The shift from SEO to AEO, and why it matters for your brand.
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  <Card title="Self-host" icon="server" href="/self-host/docker-compose">
    Run Ansvisor on your own infrastructure with Docker Compose.
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  <Card title="Try the Cloud" icon="cloud" href="https://ansvisor.com">
    Skip the setup with our managed cloud at ansvisor.com.
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## What you get

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    Real-time visibility scores across every major AI engine, with weekly trend
    analysis.
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  <Card title="Topics & Prompts" icon="tag" href="/guides/topics">
    Cluster the queries that drive AI traffic, get prompt suggestions based on
    competitor citations.
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  <Card title="Citations" icon="quote-left" href="/guides/citations">
    Every URL AI engines cite alongside your brand, classified by source type.
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  <Card
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    Real visit data from AI answer engines — platforms, pages, countries.
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  <Card title="Competitors" icon="users" href="/guides/competitors">
    Side-by-side AI visibility against named competitors and gap analysis.
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  <Card
    title="Content Optimization"
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    AI-generated content briefs delivered to your CMS via webhook.
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## Open-source and self-hostable

Ansvisor is MIT-licensed. Every feature available on the cloud is unlocked when you self-host — no feature gating, no telemetry. The repo lives at [github.com/aeohub/ansvisor](https://github.com/aeohub/ansvisor).
