# AI-Advisors

> AI-Advisors is a B2B AI marketing platform for mid-market marketing teams (roughly 50-500 employees, marketing teams of 3-10). It tracks, monitors, audits, and optimizes how your brand appears across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, Gemini, and other AI answer engines, and it helps teams plan, launch, and measure ads on ChatGPT's self-serve Ads Manager. The platform is organized around the 5 A's of AI Marketing, a framework created by founder Kevin O'Connell (a B2B SaaS marketer with 20 years of experience, including three Head of Marketing roles and one company exit).

## The 5 A's of AI Marketing

AI-Advisors is built around five capabilities, each mapped to a stage of marketing in the age of AI answer engines:

- AI Analytics (Track): see which AI crawlers visit your site and how much human traffic AI engines refer.
- Answer Engine Insights (Monitor): track how ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews represent your brand, including share of voice and competitive ranking.
- Answer Engine Optimization (Optimize): audit your site for AI citation and get prioritized technical, content, and authority fixes.
- AI Ads (Amplify): plan, launch, and measure ChatGPT Ads, and convert existing Google Ads campaigns into AI-ready briefs.
- AI Automation (Scale): automate audits, content drafting, and weekly intelligence briefings.

## Platform

- [AI Analytics](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/platform/ai-analytics): Track AI bot activity and AI-referred traffic on your site, alongside Google Search Console and Google Analytics 4 data.
- [Answer Engine Insights](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/platform/answer-engine-insights): Monitor brand visibility, share of voice, and competitive ranking across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews (Claude, Microsoft Copilot, Grok, and Meta AI available as add-ons).
- [Answer Engine Optimization](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/platform/aeo): Audit and optimize your site for AI citation with page-level technical, content, and authority recommendations.
- [AI Ads](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/platform/ai-ads): Plan and launch ChatGPT Ads with a readiness assessment, budget estimator, and ad mockup generator.
- [AI Automation](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/platform/ai-automation): Automate AI marketing with Content Studio, scheduled audits, and weekly intelligence briefings via Slack or email, plus an MCP server to query your data from Claude, Cursor, and other AI assistants.

## Free tools (no signup required)

- [Quick Audit](https://www.ai-advisors.ai): Score any URL for AI search readiness in under 60 seconds.
- [AEO Audit Tool](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/tools/aeo-audit): The dedicated audit page, with all 29 checks (16 technical, 8 content, 5 authority) publicly enumerated.
- [AI Visibility Checker](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/tools/ai-visibility-checker): Check whether ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini mention your brand.
- [AI Bot Access Checker](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/tools/ai-bot-checker): Check whether your robots.txt lets 25 AI crawlers in, and whether your site is served through Cloudflare, whose edge settings can block crawlers before robots.txt is read.
- [llms.txt Generator](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/tools/llms-txt-generator): Generate a properly formatted llms.txt file for your site.
- [ChatGPT Ads Mockup Generator](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/tools/chatgpt-ads-mockup): Preview how your brand could appear in ChatGPT Ads.
- [ChatGPT Ads Pixel Checker](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/tools/chatgpt-ads-pixel-checker): Check whether OpenAI's Measurement Pixel is installed, how it was set up, which events it sends, and which settings drop conversions.
- [Google Ads to ChatGPT Ads Converter](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/tools/google-ads-to-chatgpt-ads-converter): Connect Google Ads and convert your live Search campaigns into launch-ready ChatGPT Ads, created paused in your own account.

## Framework and learning

- [The 5 A's of AI Marketing](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/ai-marketing-framework): The reference page for the 5 A's framework, created by Kevin O'Connell.
- [The 5 A's of AI Marketing Playbook](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/playbook): A step-by-step implementation guide with free-tool walkthroughs and a 90-day action plan.
- [AI Marketing Glossary](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/glossary): A 75-term glossary defining the vocabulary of AI search marketing, each term mapped to the 5 A's framework.

## Key guides

A curated selection of cornerstone guides. The full library is at [the blog](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/blog).

- [The 5 A's of AI Marketing: A Complete Framework for B2B Marketers](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/blog/5-as-ai-marketing-framework): The complete framework for marketing in AI search.
- [What Is AEO?](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/blog/what-is-aeo): What answer engine optimization is and why it matters.
- [What Is GEO (Generative Engine Optimization)?](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/blog/what-is-generative-engine-optimization): Generative engine optimization, explained.
- [AEO vs SEO vs GEO](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/blog/aeo-vs-seo): How the three search-optimization layers fit together.
- [How to Build an AI Visibility Report](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/blog/how-to-build-an-ai-visibility-report): A methodology and template for measuring AI visibility.
- [How to Track Brand Mentions in AI Search](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/blog/how-to-track-brand-mentions-in-ai-search): A vendor-neutral, statistically sound method for tracking how often AI engines name your brand, across every major engine.
- [How to Increase Your AI Citation Share](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/blog/how-to-improve-ai-citation-share): Tactics to get cited more often in AI answers.
- [Schema Markup for AEO](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/blog/schema-markup-for-aeo-tiered-guide): Copy-paste JSON-LD structured data for AI citation.
- [What Is llms.txt](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/blog/what-is-llms-txt): What an llms.txt file is and how to use it.
- [AI Crawlers in 2026: Which Bots to Allow and Which to Block](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/blog/robots-txt-ai-bots-2026): Original-data scan of 390 B2B SaaS sites; the full AI crawler reference, copy-paste robots.txt templates, and the Cloudflare edge block that silently overrules robots.txt.
- [AI Bot Blocking Index (original data: 390 B2B SaaS sites)](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/research/ai-bot-blocking-index): The standalone study and full dataset behind the AI crawler guide, re-scanned quarterly on the same panel. Two cohorts (153 established brands + 237 Y Combinator B2B SaaS companies); per-site and per-crawler robots.txt results for 17 AI crawlers, downloadable as JSON and CSV (CC BY 4.0). September 2026 edition: only 0.6% block an AI search crawler, sites with explicit AI-crawler rules rose from 55 to 76 since June (mostly rules that let crawlers in), and 48% sit behind Cloudflare's edge. Each edition keeps a permanent URL: https://www.ai-advisors.ai/research/ai-bot-blocking-index/2026-q3 (September 2026) and https://www.ai-advisors.ai/research/ai-bot-blocking-index/2026-q2 (June 2026).
- [Are B2B SaaS Companies Blocking AI Crawlers? September 2026 Data](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/blog/are-b2b-saas-companies-blocking-ai-crawlers): The September 15, 2026 re-scan of the same 390 B2B SaaS sites, compared site by site with June. Sites naming AI crawlers in robots.txt rose from 55 to 76, mostly with rules that let crawlers in; seven sites added blocks and none newly blocked an AI search crawler; 32 of the 62 sites that let GPTBot in are served through Cloudflare. Covers Cloudflare's announced September 15, 2026 defaults and what to check.
- [Do B2B SaaS Companies Publish an llms.txt? October 2026 Data](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/blog/do-b2b-saas-companies-publish-llms-txt): Original-data check of the same 390 B2B SaaS sites for a valid llms.txt on October 1, 2026. 192 of 374 checkable sites (51.3%) serve one at the root and 64.4% count docs subdomains; established brands 59.6%, Y Combinator companies 46.1%. Covers what the files contain (144 of 192 have the spec's full shape), the association with AI-crawler robots.txt rules, a comparison with other published studies, and a CC BY 4.0 dataset.
- [What Are ChatGPT Ads](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/blog/chatgpt-ads-complete-guide): A complete guide to advertising on ChatGPT.
- [How to Use ChatGPT Ads](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/blog/how-to-use-chatgpt-ads-manager): A step-by-step guide to the ChatGPT Ads Manager.

## Integrations

- [Integrations](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/integrations): Connect AI-Advisors to HubSpot, Google Tag Manager, Slack, Google Search Console, Google Sheets, Google Analytics 4, Google Ads, ChatGPT Ads, and WordPress. AI Assistant Access (an MCP server to query your AI-Advisors data from Claude, Cursor, and other AI assistants, Growth+). Each listing includes plan availability and setup details.

## Compare

Side-by-side platform comparisons with third-party figures read from public pricing pages, each carrying its verification date; unverifiable claims are marked as not publicly disclosed rather than guessed.

- [Compare hub](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/compare): All published comparisons.
- [AI-Advisors vs Profound](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/compare/ai-advisors-vs-profound): $49 entry with 3 engines vs $99 entry tracking ChatGPT only; multi-engine at $99 vs $399.
- [AI-Advisors vs Otterly](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/compare/ai-advisors-vs-otterly): breadth (5 modules) vs the category's cheapest entry ($29, 15 prompts).
- [AI-Advisors vs Peec AI](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/compare/ai-advisors-vs-peec): $49/$99 monthly tiers with 5 modules vs Peec's $80/$205/$420 annual-billing tiers built for agencies (unlimited users, multi-project).
- [Profound alternatives](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/compare/profound-alternatives): Five verified alternatives across the price ladder, from Otterly's $29 entry to AthenaHQ's free tier.
- [Otterly alternatives](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/compare/otterly-alternatives): Five verified alternatives for teams outgrowing 15 prompts at entry.
- [Peec AI alternatives](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/compare/peec-ai-alternatives): Five verified alternatives, monthly-billing and in-house-team options included.
- [Ryze AI alternatives](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/compare/ryze-ai-alternatives): Category clarification first (Ryze is an ads/SEO autopilot, not a visibility tracker), then the verified measurement category.

## Pricing

- [Pricing](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/pricing): Plans start at $49/month (Starter) and $99/month (Growth), with custom Enterprise pricing and per-platform add-ons from $9/month. Every plan includes a 14-day free trial, and annual billing saves 17%.

## Company

- [About](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/about): The team and the story behind AI-Advisors, founded by Kevin O'Connell.
- Email: hello@ai-advisors.ai
- Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
- App: https://app.ai-advisors.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ai-advisors-app/
- X (Twitter): https://x.com/aiadvisors_ai
- Crunchbase: https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ai-advisors
- G2: https://www.g2.com/products/ai-advisor/reviews
- Capterra: https://www.capterra.com/p/10050784/AI-Advisors/
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## Optional

- [llms-full.txt](https://www.ai-advisors.ai/llms-full.txt): The expanded version of this file, with full descriptions of every platform page and glossary term, plus a topical overview of the blog.
- Sitemap: https://www.ai-advisors.ai/sitemap.xml