What does Algotally measure?
Which local businesses AI assistants recommend, and which websites they read before answering. Every week we ask Perplexity, ChatGPT and Claude, with web search on, the questions real customers ask, many times over ("Which plumbers in Houston should I call?"), and record who each answer names and which pages it cites.
Who is it for?
Freelancers and agencies who do local marketing for home service and other local businesses. It shows where a client stands in AI answers, what to fix, and whether the fixes worked.
What is share of voice?
A business’s slice of every recommendation AI made in its market. If answers named businesses 200 times and 20 of those were one business, its share of voice is 10%. We report it next to the mention rate: the share of answers that named the business at all.
How accurate are the numbers?
AI answers vary from one run to the next, so every rate comes with how many answers it rests on and a 95% range, and a change over recent weeks is only called up or down when it clears a noise test. The methodology page explains each step, and our noise study shows how much answers move in our own data. Methodology · Noise study
How much does it cost?
Starter is $49 a month, Growth $99 and Agency $299. Starter can add one market for $25 a month; Growth can add markets for $35 a month each and white-label for $49. Sign-ups open soon; at launch every account starts with a 14-day free trial with 3 reports, the plan’s markets (up to 3) and no card. No credits and no per-question pricing: every AI engine on every plan, and opening a saved report or using the kits doesn’t use a report.
Why not Google AI Overviews, Gemini or Copilot?
Google’s terms don’t allow storing or analysing its AI answers, and we don’t scrape Google, so we measure ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity through their official APIs. Copilot isn’t covered yet. Listing, review and fact fixes help on Google too, and Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools show your own site’s numbers in their AI features for free. Algotally adds what those don’t: competitors, the whole market, and what AI says about you.
What do I get beyond the numbers?
Tools that write the fixes: the directories AI reads that a business isn’t confirmed on and how to claim them, a review request kit for the review sites AI reads, pitch drafts for the outlets and lists AI cites, website files (schema markup, a pricing section, an FAQ section and a booking link built from the business’s own details), outreach drafts with a call guide, and an action plan whose steps are measured before and after.
Does Algotally contact the businesses I look up?
No. Algotally never contacts a business. Outreach, pitches and corrections are drafts you send yourself, and it never publishes anything to a business’s website.
Can an AI assistant or my own software use Algotally?
Yes. The free check is an open API (GET /api/v1/check), and every account can create API keys for the REST API and an MCP server with over 70 tools, so an AI assistant can run reports and tools directly.
Which markets are covered?
Any type of business in any US city. Each plan holds a set number of markets (Starter 1, Growth 3, Agency 10), and you choose them yourself in the app: one we already measure is ready at once, a new one starts being measured the same day. Agency can also ask us to measure markets beyond its own 10. Published markets are listed on the markets page, each with the sites AI cites most there.
Do you guarantee AI will recommend my client?
No, and be wary of anyone who does: AI answers change from run to run and no tool controls them. Algotally shows what AI actually says, which sites it relied on, what to fix, and whether the numbers moved after the work, tested against noise.
Is there a contract?
No. Plans are monthly. Billing isn’t live yet; once it is, you cancel from your account and the plan runs to the end of the month already paid for. Until then, write to support@algotally.com. A canceled account stays readable, so past reports and history are still there.
Is there a free way to try it?
Yes. The free check at algotally.com/check tells you whether AI names a business in its market, and which sites AI reads there, with no account. The sample report shows what a full report adds. For developers, the website audit API (GET /api/v1/audit?url=) scores how readable a site is to AI, also free.