> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.videntic.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# What is Videntic?

> The platform for measuring and improving how AI search sees your brand.

Videntic is a **Generative Engine Optimization (GEO)** platform. It answers a question traditional SEO tools can't: *when someone asks an LLM about your category, does your brand come up — and if not, why?*

## The problem GEO solves

AI search is fundamentally different from keyword search:

* A user asks a conversational question, not a three-word query.
* The LLM synthesizes a single answer instead of showing ten blue links.
* Sources are chosen by the model, not ranked by a public algorithm.
* The answer is different on every model — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Claude all reason from different training data and tools.

Ranking on Google isn't enough anymore. Your content has to be *citable* by models that summarize the web for users.

## What Videntic does

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  <Card title="Measures" icon="chart-line" href="/metrics/overview">
    Runs representative customer queries against the major LLMs and tracks whether your brand is cited, where you appear, and who's cited instead.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Audits" icon="list-check" href="/features/geo-audit">
    Scores every tracked page against the GEO‑16 framework and tells you which pillars are blocking citations.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Recommends" icon="lightbulb" href="/features/content-gaps">
    Surfaces the highest-impact content gaps — prompts you *should* be winning but aren't — ranked by effort and opportunity.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Acts" icon="wand-magic-sparkles" href="/features/sira-ai">
    Sira, your AI agent, can draft blog posts, suggest fixes, and publish straight to your CMS.
  </Card>
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## Who Videntic is for

* **In-house marketing teams** who want a continuous read on AI visibility, not a one-off audit.
* **SEO and content leads** whose traditional ranking reports no longer reflect where traffic is going.
* **Agencies** managing GEO for multiple clients and needing a consistent, shareable measurement.
* **Founders and product marketers** who want AI search to be a channel, not a blind spot.

If "my competitors keep showing up in Perplexity and I don't" sounds familiar, you're in the right place.

## How Videntic measures visibility

Every analysis run in Videntic follows the same pipeline:

<Steps>
  <Step title="Understand your site">
    Your website is crawled and indexed so that Videntic — and Sira — can reason about what you actually publish.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Generate representative queries">
    Prompts are derived from your keywords, your positioning, and common customer questions in your category.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Simulate across the major LLMs">
    Each prompt is run through ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews, and (on higher plans) Gemini, under realistic web-grounded conditions.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Score the response">
    Videntic records who was cited, in what position, with what sentiment, and which sources the model referenced.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Roll it up">
    Responses are aggregated into your AI Visibility Score, Share of Voice, Citation Position, and GEO‑16 audit.
  </Step>
</Steps>

The same pipeline runs automatically on your chosen cadence — daily, weekly, or biweekly — so the trend is what moves, not the methodology.

## What happens on your very first run

In your first session you'll:

1. **Add a website** and confirm ownership. Verification takes a minute.
2. Wait roughly **2–5 minutes** for the initial crawl.
3. **Pick a plan** (Basic, Pro, or Max — every new account starts with a 7-day free trial).
4. **Run your first analysis.** You'll see your AI Visibility Score, your top content gaps, and your GEO‑16 breakdown within a few minutes.

From there, Videntic runs on the cadence your plan allows. You don't have to remember to "refresh the report".

## Where to go next

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  <Card title="Quickstart" icon="rocket" href="/getting-started/quickstart">
    The full 15-minute path from signup to your first results.
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  <Card title="Add your first website" icon="globe" href="/getting-started/add-a-website">
    Ownership verification and what the initial crawl does.
  </Card>

  <Card title="The four metrics" icon="ruler" href="/metrics/overview">
    Everything Videntic measures, in one page.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Glossary" icon="book" href="/concepts/glossary">
    Every term we use in the app, defined plainly.
  </Card>
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