The Story Behind Reaudit

The way people search is fundamentally changing. Instead of typing keywords into Google, millions now ask AI assistants for recommendations. "What's the best CRM for startups?" "Which hotel in Athens has the best reviews?" "What software should I use for project management?" When an AI answers these questions, it doesn't show 10 blue links - it gives a direct recommendation. And if your business isn't that recommendation, you've lost the customer before they even knew you existed. This shift represents the biggest change in digital marketing since the rise of Google. Companies that adapt early will dominate their markets. Those that don't will wonder where their customers went.

In 2024, I needed samarasfoods.gr and mygreekcousin.com to show up in AI answers. AI search was clearly becoming the next discovery layer — but no tool on the market could tell me whether my own brands were being cited, recommended, or invisible inside ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity. I tried everything. SEMrush, Ahrefs, Moz — all built for Google's blue-link world. None of them could answer the questions I actually had: • Does ChatGPT recommend my business when someone asks for "best Greek olive oil supplier"? • What does Perplexity cite when someone searches for "authentic baklava online"? • What does Claude say about my competitors? • What content makes AI engines cite my pages? No tool existed. So I built one. The first version of Reaudit was a private Python script that queried Perplexity for my target prompts, parsed the citations, and flagged the content gaps. It worked — both brands started appearing in AI answers within a few weeks. When other business owners saw what it could do, they wanted access. That's when I knew this needed to be a product. Because in the agentic era, if AI agents don't recommend you, you're invisible — and every business deserves to know how AI sees them.