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CrowdReply

AI search visibility tool

The new benchmark of ranking in AI Answers
brb, just ranking in llms4.3K followers
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CrowdReply is an AI search visibility platform built for marketing and growth teams who want to understand and influence how their brand shows up in answers from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews, and similar systems. The 2.0 launch pushes the product past the dashboard layer that defines most AEO tools, moving from measurement into direct intervention on the sources large language models cite. Users add their domain, competitors, and the prompts buyers actually type, then watch how each major model responds and which citations sit behind those answers. The differentiator is what the company calls the Engagement Engine. Social listening monitors conversations across Reddit, Quora, and Facebook, and the Engagement Engine helps brands show up in the citations AI models actually pull from , using persona-based accounts that read as native to each platform. The loop the launch video describes runs from prompt tracking to citation discovery to placement, with each engagement feeding back into a visibility score against named competitors. The pitch is concrete because the source surface is concrete, namely the threads and posts that ChatGPT and Perplexity quote when a buyer asks for recommendations. The launch matters now because AI answer engines are reshaping how software, ecommerce, and services get discovered, and most brands have no instrumentation for it. CrowdReply was co-founded by Dawood Khan , who has been publicly active in the Reddit SEO and AI search community, which lines up with the product's heavy focus on community platforms as the substrate for model citations. Founders, growth leads, and operators evaluating AEO tooling will find this one notable for trying to close the loop between visibility analytics and the actual content AI systems learn from.
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Tomi Adekunle5/1/2026

Halberd Ventures putting $23M behind AEO feels like the moment SEO felt in 2009. Whoever owns the dashboard for this category prints.

Min-seo Oh5/1/2026

Tried the onboarding. Five screens before I see a single AI answer about my brand is four screens too many.

Priya Raghavan5/1/2026

The launch tweet is doing the most with that 'RT and comment RANK' move. Bold to gate the freebie behind engagement farming on your Series A post.

Hina Farooq5/1/2026

Pacing on the launch video is solid until the 0:42 transition where the voiceover trips over the music swell. Otherwise the b-roll of the dashboard is the cleanest I've seen this month.

Łukasz K.5/1/2026

The thumbnail kerning on 'CrowdReply 2.0' is fighting itself. The 2 is hugging the period like it owes it money.

Yusuf Habibi5/1/2026

Are the tracking signals open or is this a black box? Would love to see how you attribute a mention in a ChatGPT answer to a specific source page.

Carla Pessoa5/1/2026

Genuinely curious about the API. Webhooks for new mentions or do I have to poll like it's 2014?

Annika Halvorsen5/1/2026

Counsel hat on: where does the answer-scraping data live, and how are you handling EU users whose prompts get logged through your pipeline?

Rohan Bhalla5/1/2026

Quick one for the team, any chance you can share which brands were in the design partner cohort before the raise? Happy to keep it on background.

evren5/1/2026

This might be the last serious launch in this category that isn't an agent swarm rewriting your site at 3am. Respect the restraint.

Ngozi E.5/1/2026

How big is the team? If this shipped with under 8 people I'm going to scream into a pillow.

Fey Tanaka5/1/2026

What's the impression-to-citation ratio look like across LLMs? Suspect Perplexity behaves wildly differently than Gemini and that gap is the actual product.

Dmitri Volkov5/1/2026

SSO, SOC 2 Type II, DPA, and a sandbox tenant or my legal team turns this into a six month adventure. What's the enterprise tier look like?

Amaru Quispe5/1/2026

Reminds me of what Clearbit did for B2B enrichment, except the answer surface is way messier. Two of my portfolio brands have been begging for this.