These are the questions teams send us before a first call about the platform, answered here so you do not have to ask them. Where the honest answer is that a rank tracker is all you need for now, that is the answer we have given.
What Is an AI Visibility Platform?+
An AI visibility platform measures whether a brand appears in AI-generated answers and which competitors appear instead. It also scores whether the brand’s pages are built to be quoted.
It differs from a rank tracker, which records positions on a results page, because generative engines do not produce a results page.
Colytics is one, in beta, and it runs behind every engagement on this site.
Is Colytics AI Available to Buy?+
Not as a standalone licence yet. It is in beta, runs inside every Attrock engagement at no separate cost, and direct access is available by application.
The free AI Visibility Checker is a one-off Colytics baseline with no login.
We say beta everywhere the platform appears, because it means what it says.
How Does the Page Score Work?+
Six weighted dimensions: evidence, answerability, page type, structure, trust and freshness. Twenty-one sub-checks underneath, one score out of a hundred.
Each sub-check carries a grade saying how it was proven: proven, mechanical, correlated or hypothesised.
Only one check is graded by a model, worth four points. The rest are mechanical, which is why the score is repeatable.
Where Does the Data Come From?+
Citation counts come from Ahrefs’ AI index. The prompt sets, per-engine runs, retrieval-set maps and page scoring are Colytics.
Every report says which number came from which, because the two have different limits.
The index has a known coverage boundary. The prompt runs have sampling limits on some engines. We disclose both.
Which AI Engines Does It Cover?+
ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews, each in its own column.
Editor-embedded assistants are sampled by prompt rather than indexed, and reports label that as sampling.
We do not claim full coverage of every AI surface, because nobody can. The report says which engines carried measurable volume for your category.
Can I Run It on My Own Site First?+
Yes. The free AI Visibility Checker runs one Colytics baseline on your domain and emails the result after verification.
It shows which prompts name you, which name a competitor, and which name nobody.
It is the same measurement clients get monthly, run once. If the result says you do not need an engagement, it says so.
How Is Colytics Different From Other AI Visibility Tools?+
We will not name other tools. We will say what Colytics discloses that we have not seen disclosed elsewhere.
Every score check carries an evidence grade. The scoring version is stated on every report. The index confound is disclosed where it applies.
Judge any platform, including this one, on whether it will tell you those three things.
What Does Colytics Not Do?+
It does not write content, earn citations, or guarantee anything. It measures and scores, and the work is done by people.
It cannot see inside editor-embedded assistants. It does not cover every AI surface and does not claim to.
A platform that claims all of that is the one to be careful of.
Can Agencies Use Colytics Under Their Own Brand?+
Reports, yes. Every output exports into a partner’s template with their name on it.
The platform itself stays Colytics-branded while it is in beta.
A branded platform view is on the roadmap without a promised date. Partners who need it now export the data into their own dashboards, which most already do.