Competitive intelligence · Autessa Visibility
AI competitor discovery
Autessa Visibility discovers competitors with AI: it reads the answers the engines actually gave for your prompts and lists the brands they recommend that you do not track yet, with how many answers named each. Tick the ones that matter and they join your leaderboard.
The problem
Your competitor list is not the engines’ competitor list
The rivals you watch in sales may not be the ones AI assistants recommend. A newer tool, a marketplace or an adjacent category can be winning answers without you noticing. Discovery starts from what engines say, so your benchmark matches what buyers really see.
What you get
- Reads up to 30 of your recent answers.
- Lists brands found in answers that are not yet tracked.
- Pick any of them to add as competitors in one step.
- “Every brand the engines recommend is already tracked” when there is nothing new.
- Available from the brand row and from the Competitors page.
How it works
How does AI competitor discovery work?
Run some checks
Discovery needs answers to read; it starts from real engine output.
Discover
Choose Discover competitors with AI on the brand.
Pick and add
Select the brands to track; the toast confirms “Added N competitors”.
Every option
Discovery options
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| Source | Your recent completed answers for the brand. |
| Result | Brands named in answers that you do not already track. |
| Selection | Track any subset; they are added to the brand’s competitors. |
Permissions
Who can do what?
| Role | Can |
|---|---|
| Your team (people the app is shared with) | Run discovery and add competitors to any brand. |
Visibility is shared with your team through Autessa’s sharing. Everyone it is shared with works from the same brands, prompts and results. Security and data handling →
✦ AI assist
Where AI helps, and where it doesn’t
The Visibility Strategist reads the answers and names the brands in them; you decide which to track.
Scores, positions, citations and ranks are always computed by the app from the answer text, never by an AI.
Connected
How it connects to the rest of Visibility
FAQ
Questions about AI competitor discovery
How do I find out which competitors AI recommends instead of me?
Run your prompts, then choose Discover competitors with AI. It reads the answers and lists every brand they name that you do not track yet.
Does discovery need checks first?
Yes. It reads real answers, so run some checks first; with no answers it says there is nothing to read yet.
Are discovered competitors added automatically?
No. You pick which to add.
100% customizable, code and all
Make Autessa Visibility fully your own.
Use it out of the box, then change anything. Ask Autobot, Autessa’s AI builder, for a new field, screen, report, workflow or agent and it builds it into your copy of the app. Or open the code and edit it yourself. Nothing is locked: the app, its data and its code are yours.
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