Most AI-visibility tools do one of three jobs. They report how AI answers mention you, they push SEO changes to your site automatically, or they help you write inside the editor. AnswerShape does a narrower job: it writes the answers your pages are missing, from your own content, and publishes them only when you approve.
Profound, Peec AI, Otterly.AI, AthenaHQ, Yoast SEO AI+ and Surfer’s AI tracking run prompts through AI tools and report where your brand shows up, how often, and which sources get cited.
With AnswerShape: they work well together. Monitoring shows where you’re missing. AnswerShape puts the answer on the page.
Search Atlas OTTO and Alli AI connect through a script added to your site. They deploy titles, schema and on-page changes across many pages. Search Atlas describes OTTO as running “your SEO on its own.”
AnswerShape differs: a person approves every change, and the result is saved as normal WordPress content, not served by a script.
Yoast SEO Premium, AIOSEO and Rank Math Content AI generate titles, descriptions, FAQs and articles from inside WordPress. They also handle sitemaps, base schema and llms.txt.
With AnswerShape: keep your SEO plugin. AnswerShape reads its schema, adds only what’s missing, and writes titles into its fields.
Based on each group’s typical approach. Individual products vary, so check the vendor’s details below.
| What you need | AnswerShape | Monitoring tools | Auto-deploy platforms | SEO plugins with AI |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| See whether AI tools mention or cite you | No. Pair it with a monitoring tool | Yes, their core job | Some plans include it | Yoast SEO AI+ only |
| Write the missing answers onto the page | Yes: answers, FAQ, schema, title and description | Mostly recommendations; some offer content agents | Yes, on-page changes and content | You generate and place it yourself |
| Questions taken from each page’s Search Console data | Yes, plus DataForSEO and predicted follow-ups | Prompts you choose to track | Keyword and audit data | Keywords you enter |
| Each claim checked against your own site | Yes. Unsupported answers are dropped | Not their job | Not described publicly | Not described publicly |
| A person approves before anything goes live | Always, enforced in the plugin | Not applicable | Varies; designed for automation | You publish manually |
| How changes reach your site | Saved as WordPress page content | Not applicable | Script or pixel on your site | WordPress fields and content |
| Live check after publishing, with one-click rollback | Yes, every publish | Not applicable | Varies | WordPress revisions |
| How you pay | Per page, in credit bundles (free during the beta) | Monthly, by tracked prompts | Monthly, by sites and pages | Yearly license, with AI limits |
Published prices and descriptions from each vendor’s own site on October 28, 2026.
| Product | What it does | Published price |
|---|---|---|
| Monitoring | ||
| Profound | Runs prompts across AI tools and tracks citations, sentiment and competitors. | Free trial; Enterprise is custom |
| Peec AI | Tracks visibility, position and share of voice in AI answers against competitors. | From $95/month |
| Otterly.AI | Brand and citation tracking across AI tools, plus GEO audits. | From $29/month |
| AthenaHQ | AI visibility tracking with content recommendations and optimization agents. | Free tier; Starter $295/month |
| Yoast SEO AI+ | Weekly brand analysis across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. | $358.80/year |
| Surfer | Content editor and audits, with AI visibility tracking on most plans. | From $49/month, billed yearly |
| Auto-deploy | ||
| Search Atlas OTTO | A pixel connects your site; OTTO deploys technical, on-page and content changes. | From $99/month |
| Alli AI | A code snippet deploys SEO and AEO changes sitewide and serves pre-rendered pages to AI crawlers. | From $249/month, billed yearly |
| SEO plugins with AI | ||
| Yoast SEO Premium | AI-generated titles and descriptions; the free plugin includes llms.txt. | $118.80/year |
| AIOSEO | AI credits for FAQs, titles, descriptions and posts; schema; llms.txt generator. | From $49.50/year (introductory) |
| Rank Math Content AI | AI writing and metadata tools inside WordPress, with monthly usage limits. | From €5.99/month, billed yearly |
Products change often. If something here is out of date, email hello@answershape.ai and we’ll fix it.
A quick way to decide.
You run WordPress sites for yourself or clients, you want the missing answers written for you, and nothing should go live without a person checking it. That matters most when a wrong claim about a price, a spec or a regulation would cause real trouble.
Your first question is “do AI tools mention us, and who do they mention instead?” That’s reporting, and those tools do it well. Once you know where you’re missing, AnswerShape can help fill the gaps.
You manage many sites across different systems, want changes at scale, and are comfortable with them being served by a script rather than reviewed one page at a time.
AnswerShape doesn’t replace Yoast or AIOSEO. It relies on them for sitemaps, base schema and llms.txt, and works alongside them.
Beta sites aren’t charged. We’ll set it up with you and review the first proposals together.