Get a daily alert when ChatGPT stops recommending your brand (no code, about $0.25 a day)

Disclosure: I built the Apify Actor in this post. Written with AI assistance.

Ask ChatGPT or Perplexity "what is the best CRM for a small business?" and it names three or four products and cites a handful of pages. If your brand was in that answer last week and is gone today, you lose buyers before they ever reach Google. Most teams find out weeks later, if at all.

AI answers also move from day to day, so a single check is only a snapshot. What you want is a daily check that tells you only what changed.

The setup (5 minutes, no code)

1. Open AI Brand Monitor on Apify. The form is prefilled: put in your domain, 3 to 5 questions your buyers really ask, and your competitors' domains.
2. Click Start. You get one row per AI answer: is your brand cited, which competitors are cited instead, and the exact source URLs the engine used.
3. Save the input as a task, then Schedules → Create schedule → 0 8 * * * (every day at 08:00).

From the second run on, every run compares itself with the previous run of the same brand, engines and questions, automatically. The run's status line and the final summary record say things like:

Since your last run on 2026-10-24: +2 answers now cite you, -1 no longer cites you, new competitor cited: example.org.

Connect the task to Slack or e-mail in the Integrations tab and that sentence lands in your channel every morning.

What it costs

You pay per AI answer checked: $0.05 on the free Apify plan, less on paid plans. A small daily watch of 5 questions on one engine is 5 records = $0.25 a day. The comparison itself costs nothing extra, and you can set a hard spending ceiling on the task (Max total charge).

What to do with a "lost" alert

Look at the sources the engine cited instead of you. They are usually a review site, a comparison article, a Reddit thread or a competitor's guide. Those pages are your to-do list: get listed, get reviewed, answer the thread, publish the comparison the AI is quoting. The next daily run shows whether it worked.

Start your daily AI visibility check. The first run takes about a minute.