AI-visibility measurement · Cloudflare edge stack
Brandvane
A tool that measures whether AI answer engines mention a brand, reconciled against the traffic those engines actually send.
- Status
- Live at brandvane.ai · engine shipping in tiers
- Period
- August 2026 → present
- Role
- Architect and product owner; heavy implementation delegated to AI coding agents under review
01 — Problem
The problem
Brands want to know whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and similar engines recommend them. Most tools sample a handful of prompts and report a score with no connection to real traffic.
02 — Build
What I built
- A sampling engine that runs prompt sets against selected AI engines per brand, tracks competitor mentions, and produces a report.
- A reconciliation step that joins the sampled answers with GA4 sessions referred by AI engines, so the report says what the engines send, not just what they say.
- A paid concierge audit with payment and intake baked into checkout, email capture into D1, and ten content pages targeting the category's real search demand.
03 — Decisions
The decisions that mattered
Anyone can list a stack. These are the calls that changed the outcome.
The first report contradicted the method
For one brand the model appeared in 0 of 15 sampled answers, yet analytics showed roughly a quarter of sessions were AI-referred. The prompts were wrong, not the brand. The product now starts from the pages AI engines already send traffic to.
Deterministic fulfillment for paid SKUs
Anything sold has to be producible on demand without judgement calls. The concierge audit was scoped to what the engine can generate reliably.
Architect and review, delegate the typing
Most implementation was written by an AI coding agent from written specs, with every change reviewed before merge. It is the same working pattern I bring to a team.
04 — Result
Result
content pages shipped in the first two waves
engine tiers shipped, with per-brand engine selection
concierge audit live with Stripe as merchant of record
05 — Next
What I'd do next
- Ship the free checker behind Turnstile.
- Classify citation gaps by acquirability so the report tells a brand what it can actually change.