Quickstart: your first project

A project in aeotime is one brand on one domain. Setting it up takes three steps, and aeotime does most of the work: it reads your site, drafts a brand profile, and suggests competitors and prompts for you to confirm.

Step 1: Scan your site

Open the app and click New project, then enter your domain (for example yourbrand.com). aeotime:

1. Fetches your homepage and a few key pages (pricing, product, about).
2. Checks whether AI crawlers are allowed in your robots.txt.
3. Builds a brand profile: name, aliases, category, products, audience and main market.
4. Suggests competitors and the prompts your buyers are likely to ask AI assistants.

The scan takes about 30 seconds.

Step 2: Review what we found

You'll see the brand profile, suggested competitors and suggested prompts. Before you continue:

• Brand name and aliases. Add short names, old names or product names people use. Mentions are matched against these, so missing aliases mean missed mentions.
• Market. The two-letter country code answers are collected for (for example US, GB, DE). You can add more markets later — see Markets & personas.
• Competitors. Keep the brands buyers really compare you with. Three to eight is a good range.
• Prompts. Keep the questions that match what you sell. Remove anything too broad. You can add your own at the bottom.

Click Create project.

Step 3: Connect your Google data

The last step asks you to connect Google Search Console and GA4. It's optional, but recommended — see Connect Search Console & GA4. While you're on this screen, aeotime runs a full site audit in the background.

What happens next

• Tracking. Every active prompt is asked on every engine in your plan, once a week. You can also start a run any time with Run now on the project overview.
• Overview. Visibility, share of voice, position, citation rate and sentiment appear after the first run. See Metrics explained.
• Action plan. A prioritised list of what to fix and create, updated after every run and audit. See Action plan.

Tracking runs during your trial and on paid plans. If you haven't started a trial yet, open Billing in the app.