What changed in BrandReco
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- A new look. White cards on a warm grey background, black buttons and one orange, in light and dark, with a floating side menu. The dashboard puts today's actions beside your path to being recommended, and drops the AI Readiness score. New logo, website and emails to match.
- No more readiness score. Whether AI agents can read your site and tell what you do is now said in a plain sentence, on your report, in your monthly email and on the plans, instead of a number out of 100. Plans list only what you actually get.
- A new logo. The original compass, redrawn as one clean line: open corners, with an orange pointer on the target. "Reco" is now orange in the name.
- Customers, not buyers. Everywhere BrandReco talks about the people who use your business, it now says customers — not every business sells to buyers.
- No more bounce back to setup. If you filled in your brand, website, competitors and markets but never picked a plan, opening the app now lets you in on Free instead of sending you back to the setup screens. You can change plan any time from Billing.
- Fewer repeated actions. When two of our specialists suggest the same job in different words, you now get one action instead of two.
- New colours. BrandReco moves from lime and olive to periwinkle and indigo, in the app and on the website, light and dark. The homepage opens on an indigo band.
- Setup starts with your brand. The first question is what your brand is called, then its website.
- Change your markets any time. The brand profile now shows the countries or regions you want to be found in, and you can change them there.
- A dashboard that starts with today. Today's actions now lead: the step that's up next, with one button into it, and the rest of today's set underneath. Your progress sits beside it, and four small cards below link to AI readiness, how you compare with competitors, the questions you track and what AI knows about you.
- Glossary, changelog and our own story. A plain-words glossary of AI search optimisation — GEO, AEO, cited sources, llms.txt, structured data and more — at /glossary; everything that has changed in BrandReco at /changelog, with an RSS feed; and, once our scorecard is public, how BrandReco uses BrandReco at /customers, with every number from stored AI answers.
- Get listed where AI answers look. Every page AI assistants cite when answering your buyers' questions — a "best tools" list, a directory — now becomes its own action: how many answers used it, the way in that page shows (a submit link, an editorial email, a contact page, or the directory's sign-up), and a short pitch written from your own facts. Pages run by a competitor are left out. When you mark one done, BrandReco re-reads the page and tells you when you're on it.
- Hand any action to your AI agent. Every action now comes with a prompt that says the goal, the exact page or file, and how BrandReco will check it — no passwords needed — plus how to run it in Claude Code, Cursor or a chat assistant. When the agent marks it done, the action page shows the re-check result. New setup docs for Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code and Cursor at /docs/mcp.
- Questions you can win. Every question you track is now labelled Winnable or Hard, with the reason — whether one brand dominates every AI assistant, and whether the answers rely on lists and forums you can get onto or on competitors' own pages. Actions on winnable questions come first, the free check labels its questions too, and the Prompts page suggests three more you could win.
- Do your actions from your inbox. The morning email now has three actions, each with a Done button and — where we can check it — Verify now; both work without signing in. It arrives at the hour you pick, in your timezone (Settings), and skips days with nothing new. On Mondays, a weekly summary: how your AI answers moved, what was verified live, and one thing for next week.
- Public scorecard. Turn it on in Settings and get a live page showing how AI assistants answered your buyer questions when you started and now, and which answers changed after each action you completed — with a share card and an embeddable badge. Off unless you turn it on.
- Free AI visibility checker. Enter any website at brandreco.com/tools and see what ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Grok answer when buyers ask about its category: whether it is named, who is named instead, the pages the answers cite, and the first three fixes. No signup. Every check gets a public page you can share, a share card and an embeddable badge; leave your email to get the three actions sent to you.
- What AI recommends, by category. Pages that gather the free checks for one category — the brands AI assistants name most often — published once enough sites have been checked.
- Clearer about what BrandReco is. The homepage, page titles,
/aboutand/llms.txtnow say it plainly: an AI search optimisation tool for founders without a marketing team, built for solo and small-team SaaS founders, that checks what ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Grok say about your product and verifies every action it gives you. - Verified actions, not dashboards. A new homepage section shows one technical, one content and one visibility action, each with exactly how BrandReco checks it went live.
- Pricing you can read at a glance. "Built for founder budgets" under every price, two new answers (is there a free option, how long until results) on the homepage and the pricing page, and the plans marked up as a product with offers for AI assistants to read.
- Free and Pro. The plans split in two. Free gets you AI-ready: fix your site, publish the right facts, watch your AI Readiness score climb. Pro gets you recommended: your buyer questions measured in real AI answers, alerts when they change, and content written for you.
- Where each question stands. Every tracked question is now marked open (nobody is named consistently), contested, owned by a competitor, or yours.
- Niche Radar. Proposes narrow parts of your market — an audience, a use case, a place — where you could become the answer, each built from facts you gave us, with buyer questions to check it. A landscape view shows who else sells in your category.
- A new look for the app and the website.
- Grok joins the engines. Your tracked questions are now also put to Grok.
- Updated legal pages.
- Prices in euros. Plans are priced and charged in EUR.
- Your markets. Tell us which countries you sell in when you set up your brand.
- Fresh question suggestions for what to track next.
- Close your own account from Settings, and plainer policies about what happens to your data.
- A contact page at /contact.
- Put aside means off the list. An action you set aside no longer comes back in today's list.
- No more pitching competitors. Outreach actions never send you to a competitor's own site.
- A finished action stays finished. A finding you closed no longer returns as a new action.
- Plain errors. You no longer see an AI provider's raw error message.
- New pages get verified. Mark "publish a pricing page" (or a comparison, case study, glossary page…) done and BrandReco finds the new page and confirms it is live.
- BrandReco vs the alternatives at /compare.
- An honest dashboard. The headline is built only from measured AI answers, and "this week" shows the real change in your score.
- The free check reads your homepage the way an AI assistant does and tells you what it understood.
- What you get at /features.
- History on the Actions screen: what you completed and what changed after.
- New signup: a short wizard with Google sign-in and billing.
- A redesigned blog.
- A new design for the dashboard, the Actions screen, each action and the public site.
- See whether your mentions landed. BrandReco now watches the web for independent sites that name you.
- More specialists: where you lost ground in AI answers, video, local presence, integration pages and new markets.
- A steady rhythm. Each specialist looks at your brand on its own fixed schedule, so new actions arrive a few at a time.
- MCP server. Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor to BrandReco and let your assistant read your actions, do them, and mark them done.
- Better-made actions. Structured data built from your own material and validated before you see it, no markup suggested for pages you don't have, and "get listed" only where you can be.
- Weekly measurement. Each tracked question is asked every week, spread across the week.
- Ten more specialists, including ones that read the sources AI answers cite, find community threads worth answering, and check what changed after the actions you completed.
- New pages: /pricing, /about, /use-cases, /help (getting started and FAQ) and the blog.
- A prompt for your AI agent on every action, ready to paste.
- Plain pricing and value on the site, written for people and AI assistants alike.
- Branded account emails.
- Every answer records which engine answered, so a change can be traced.
- Actions from your brand footprint. BrandReco keeps one picture of what your site says, what you say is true and what AI assistants say — and turns every gap or contradiction into an action ranked by impact.
- Perplexity measured, alongside ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini.
- Today's actions. A short daily focus list instead of the whole backlog.
- Answers grounded in the web, the way the assistants answer your buyers.
- Actions arrive gradually rather than all on the first day.
- Fix later and deadlines. Push an action to the bottom of the list, or give it a date.
- Actions you can trust: the evidence behind each one, a clear to do → in progress → done lifecycle, and an activity log.
- Every engine for every account. No picking which AI assistants to measure.
- Workspaces. Several products, each in its own workspace.
- Validate. Check an action is live straight from its page.
- A blog, plus robots.txt, sitemap and llms.txt for BrandReco itself.
- Free report. Check any website by its domain alone, leave an email afterwards if you want the results, and share the report by link.
- A two-step setup. Add your brand, competitors and questions freely; pick a plan later.