Use case4 min read2026-07-29

Embed AI visibility in your SaaS

Your users are already asking what ChatGPT says about them. If you run an SEO platform, a brand-monitoring tool, a review manager or an agency dashboard, "AI visibility" is a feature your roadmap owes them — and the build-out behind it is six scrapers you don't want to own. This is the use case AgentGEO is shaped for: a data layer that stays invisible under your product. Your backend calls one API; your UI renders your charts from the raw records; your customers never see our name. The alternative vendors in this space are dashboards — they want your users' eyeballs. A data layer wants your API calls.

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What you ship: "See what AI says about your brand" as a tab in your product. What you build: one backend integration against a stable JSON contract. What you skip: browser farms, proxy pools, per-engine parsers, and the week each engine's frontend deploy used to cost you.

How the integration works

  1. Your backend holds one ag_live_ key. Customers authenticate with you; you call AgentGEO server-side. No per-end-user accounts on our side, no OAuth dance.
  2. Fetch on your product's schedule. When a customer adds their brand, your job queue POSTs their query set to /v1/fetches and stores the returned records in your database — answers, citations, sources, provider metadata.
  3. Render your feature from your data. Mention rates, citation tables, competitor grids — computed by your code from records you keep. If you later swap vendors or add your own collection, your schema and UI don't move.
Inside your existing job queue
// runs nightly per customer brand — Node 18+, no SDK needed
const resp = await fetch("https://api.agentgeo.org/v1/fetches", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.AGENTGEO_KEY}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    query: customerQuery,               // from your customer's tracked set
    surfaces: ["chatgpt", "perplexity", "gemini"],
  }),
  signal: AbortSignal.timeout(200_000), // API holds up to 180s on slow surfaces
});
if (!resp.ok) throw new Error(`agentgeo ${resp.status}`);
const run = await resp.json();
await db.aiRecords.insertMany(run.answers.map(a => ({
  customerId, query: customerQuery,
  engine: a.surfaceKey, answer: a.answerText,
  sources: a.sources, fetchedAt: new Date(),
})));
ConcernHow the data layer answers it
Unit economicsOne delivered record = one credit; failed fetches cost zero. Your per-customer COGS is queries × engines × runs — a spreadsheet, not a surprise. Metered pricing passes through to your own tiers.
ReliabilityManaged scrapers are maintained behind the contract. An engine's frontend redesign is our incident, not your feature outage.
Data ownershipRecords land in your database on delivery. Churn away any time; your customers' history stays yours.
White-labelingThe API has no end-user surface. Your customers see your product, full stop.

Store providerRecordId and providerFields alongside each record. When a customer disputes a number six months out, you can trace the chart back to the exact provider record — auditability is a feature you inherit for free.

Alternatives

Building on a GEO dashboard's export or reseller program (Profound and peers) means their query model, their refresh cadence and their per-seat economics under your feature. Building the scrapers yourself is the honest comparison — it buys full control and a permanent infrastructure team; the build-vs-buy ledger on that page is written to be argued with.

More use cases

The same integration powers white-label GEO reports for agencies and citation tracking as product features — see all use cases.

FAQ

Direct answers to the questions this page raises.

Only if you tell them. The API is server-to-server JSON with no end-user surface, no branding in the payload, and no rate-limit behavior that forces our name into your error states. The records are yours to present as your feature.

Most teams mirror the metering: count each customer's tracked queries × engines × refresh frequency, mark up the per-record cost into their plan tiers, and cap refresh cadence per tier. Because failed records cost nothing, your COGS tracks delivered value, not attempts.

Fetches can legitimately take up to the API's 180-second hold on slow surfaces, so call it from a job queue, not a request handler. Timeouts that outlast the hold (200s is the convention) plus idempotent inserts on providerRecordId make the nightly job boring — which is the goal.

No — every plan is paid, and a workspace fetches nothing live until it has one. What costs nothing: the human-run audit, and ag_test_ keys, which return labelled demo records at zero credits — useful for wiring up your integration before the first paid run.

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Where this page leads next.

Run these checks on your own brand

Two ways in. Send a URL and a person runs the fetches for you, free — or connect your agent over MCP, on a plan, and run them yourself. Either way you get the raw answers and their citations, never a score.