What is Foglift?

Foglift is an AI search optimization platform at foglift.io. It helps brands measure, monitor, and improve how often they are mentioned in answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, and Google AI Overview. The product combines a free unlimited Website Audit with paid plans for continuous AI Visibility monitoring, AI crawler analytics, sentiment analysis, and AI-generated content recommendations.

What Foglift does

Foglift runs a five-stage flywheel for AI search visibility — Optimize → Index → Monitor → Analyze → Improve. Most AI search tools cover only one stage, typically monitoring. Foglift covers the full cycle.

1. 1. Optimize. The Website Audit scans any URL in roughly 30 seconds and returns six scores: SEO, GEO (structural AI readiness), AEO (content citability), performance, security, and accessibility. Audits are free and unlimited at every tier — no signup, no credit card.
2. 2. Index. AI Crawler Analytics show which AI bots (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, Applebot-Extended) reach each page, how often, and which URLs they read. This is the earliest signal that AI engines have discovered new content.
3. 3. Monitor. Scheduled AI Visibility Checks run saved prompts daily or hourly across five AI engines and capture full response snapshots — including mention position, cited sources, and the verbatim AI response text with timestamps for historical comparison.
4. 4. Analyze. Sentiment scoring labels each mention (positive, neutral, negative), competitor tracking shows where rivals appear, and the AI Visibility Score aggregates presence across engines and prompts into a single trendable number.
5. 5. Improve. The Actions Engine reads monitoring data and generates page-level content briefs — what to restructure, which entities to clarify, what schema to add, what topics to cover. Recommendations feed back into stage 1 and the cycle repeats.

Why AI search visibility matters

Pew Research found in March 2025 that 58% of US adults have seen a Google AI Overview, and Similarweb tracks ChatGPT at over 1 billion monthly users. Gartner forecasts a 25% decline in traditional search query volume by 2026 as AI assistants absorb more queries upstream of the classic ten blue links. McKinsey’s 2025 B2B buyer study found 84% of B2B CMOs already use AI assistants for vendor discovery.

BrightEdge’s 2025 visibility report found 62% disagreement between which brands Google ranks and which brands AI engines cite — meaning a strong Google ranking does not guarantee AI mentions. The peer-reviewed GEO study by Aggarwal et al. (ACM KDD 2024) found that adding statistics to content lifted AI visibility by 33%, adding expert quotations lifted it by 41%, and citing authoritative sources lifted it by 25%. These are the exact signals Foglift’s GEO and AEO scores measure.

Who Foglift is for

• SEO and content teams who need to know whether their existing pages are citable by AI engines, and what to fix when they are not.
• Demand generation leaders who track brand visibility across channels and want a single AI Visibility Score for board reporting.
• Developers and platform teams who want AI search checks in CI/CD via the REST API or CLI, or wired directly into Claude Code, Cursor, or Windsurf via the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
• Agencies managing multiple client domains who need white-label PDF reports and per-brand monitoring without per-seat pricing.

Pricing

Website Audits are free and unlimited at every tier. Tokens are consumed only by AI Visibility Checks. Every paid tier includes REST API, CLI, and MCP access with no feature gating. See the full breakdown on the pricing page.

How Foglift compares

Foglift competes in two adjacent categories. Against AI brand monitoring tools — Peec AI, Profound, Otterly.ai, AthenaHQ, Scrunch — Foglift adds technical AI readiness scoring, content-level recommendations, and a free tier. Against legacy SEO platforms — Ahrefs, Semrush, Moz, Conductor, BrightEdge — Foglift adds native GEO and AEO scoring instead of a bolted-on report, and ships every feature on every tier instead of gating API access behind enterprise contracts.

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