Last week I asked ChatGPT "what's the best payroll software for a small business?" It gave me three names. Confident, specific, no links to click.
That answer is the new shortlist. If your brand isn't one of the three, you were never in the running, and nothing tells you it happened. No bounce in your analytics, no lost-click report. You just quietly stop existing in the moment people decide.
That's the problem I kept running into, so I built Pythie to fix it.
The shelf moved and most founders can't see it
Search used to show ten blue links, and you could claw your way onto page one. AI gives one answer with a handful of brands in it, and the decision is mostly made before anyone visits a single site.
The numbers are not subtle:
- 58% of people now ask AI instead of a search engine for product recommendations (Capgemini, 2025)
- When an AI summary shows up on Google, clicks on the normal results drop by half (Pew Research, 2025)
- Traffic sent by ChatGPT to websites grew 206% in one year, and a visitor arriving from an AI converts 4.4x better than a classic search visitor (Semrush, 2025 and 2026)
So the question stopped being "do I rank on Google." It became "when my buyers ask AI who to pick, am I in the answer." Almost nobody can actually answer that about their own brand. Pythie does.
How it works
1. You type your domain. Pythie reads your site and writes ten real questions your prospects would actually ask an AI, without ever naming your brand. That last part is the point: we want to see whether you come up on your own merit, not because we baited the engine with your name.
2. We ask the engines. ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, each question asked several times, with web search switched on. Answers wobble from one run to the next, so we don't trust a single lucky screenshot. We measure the trend across runs and engines. The climate, not today's weather.
3. You get a score and the full picture. How often you're mentioned, which competitors keep getting recommended instead of you, the exact words the engines use about you, and the sources they pull their opinions from.
The first audit is free, no credit card, and you'll have the report in about a minute. You can share it with a public link.
What the weekly monitoring actually gives you
The audit is the snapshot. The product is what happens after, because AI answers change constantly: models update, competitors publish, sources shift. Pythie re-measures every week and tells you what moved.
- Your score becomes a curve. Same questions, same engines, week after week. You see if you're gaining ground and whether anything you ship actually moved the needle.
- How AI talks about you, not just whether it does. The sentiment each engine takes on your brand, what it praises you for, what it holds against you. Tracked over time.
- Your competitors at a glance. Who's climbing in the answers, who's slipping, who just appeared. The ranking lands in your inbox.
- What to do, concretely. Pythie shows where the engines get their information about your market, so you know which sources to work on first to get into the answers. Not another dashboard you'll forget. A short list of moves.
- A weekly email recap so you don't have to remember to log in.
"Can't I just ask ChatGPT myself?"
Do it, it's the right reflex. But your own account personalizes the answer based on your history, one test is a coin flip, and three questions don't cover the dozens of ways your prospects actually phrase things. Pythie asks with no history, on 15 questions, several times each, every week, and then tells you why a competitor got named instead of you. That last part is the bit you can't do by hand.
Who it's for
- Founders and marketers who suspect AI is quietly sending buyers to a competitor
- Small and mid-sized businesses that can't justify an enterprise tool
- Agencies and consultants who want to show clients exactly where they stand in AI answers, every week
Why Pythie and not the big names
Tools like Profound, Semrush and Otterly are genuinely good. They're also built for enterprise teams and start around $300 per month, with panels, crawler analytics and a learning curve to match. Pythie is the opposite end on purpose: built for small teams and agencies, running in five minutes, focused on telling you what to do rather than burying you in metrics.
Honest note on scope: Pythie tracks three engines today (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity), with more on the way. I'd rather ship what works well than list logos I can't back up yet.
The launch deal
Founder offer for the first 50 subscribers: $49 per month, locked for life. After that it's $59 (the standard Solo plan). Comparable tools start around $300. One brand monitored continuously, 15 questions across 3 engines every week, ranking against 3 competitors, sentiment tracking, the full dashboard, the weekly email, and the sources to work on. No commitment, cancel anytime.
If you've ever wondered whether AI is recommending you or the company down the street, the free audit answers that in a minute. Run it on your own domain first. Then, if it stings a little, you'll know exactly why Pythie exists.
Run your free audit at pythie.ai
