Growl

I built Growl as a marketing tool and it turned into a measurement tool because of what the measurement said. I spent about a year running automated social posting and generating more than a hundred AI-written articles. Then I read the analytics: zero sessions from social, two search visitors in thirty days. So I pointed the tool at my own website and asked Google's AI whether it would recommend a business like mine. My site scores 94 out of 100 for AI-readability. The AI named me in 0 of 10 questions. I published that result instead of hiding it, and it is what Growl now does for anyone else: paste a URL, see the AI's actual answer, and see which businesses it named instead of you. Free, no signup, no card. I have no paying customers yet. I would rather write that than invent one. If you run it on your own site, I would genuinely like to hear what came back - including if it was zero.

yoo. good design and find it useful

nice, i also have a similar product in the making

Showing which businesses the AI named instead of you is more actionable than a score on its own; does the answer stay stable if you rerun the same question a day later?

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I think this makes it very much easier to get especially chatgpt to notice the product!

Publishing the 0/10 on your own site instead of quietly fixing it first and leading with a better number is the part that actually builds trust here — most people would've held that until it looked good. The robots.txt / Google-Extended check is the detail I wouldn't have thought to ask about, but it seems like exactly the kind of thing that silently tanks a site's AI visibility without anyone noticing — is that turning out to be a common culprit when businesses score low, or is it usually more about the site just not answering the question an AI would look for?

Checking whether Google AI already surfaces your business is a useful early signal before you pour more into content. If you want to spend less on AI at work, take a look at pzero.studio.

Good idea and design was good and no Break nothing

The readability-versus-recommendation split is the useful part here. Scoring 94 for AI-readability and 0 for being named at all is the exact gap most "is my site AI-friendly" checkers miss, because they grade the page in isolation instead of putting it inside a real competitive answer. Showing the businesses the AI named instead, plus the sources it cited, turns a vague worry into a concrete list of who to displace and where. One caveat I would want addressed: these answers are non-deterministic, so a single 0 out of 10 can be run variance as much as signal. Do you run each question once, or sample it a few times so the score reflects a trend rather than one draw?

This is such a smart pivot! With AI search changing the landscape so rapidly, local businesses are flying blind right now. The fact that Growl shows you exactly what the AI answers is incredibly valuable.

This is such a smart pivot! With AI search changing the landscape so rapidly, local businesses are flying blind right now. The fact that Growl shows you exactly what the AI answers is incredibly valuable.

This is such a smart pivot! With AI search changing the landscape so rapidly, local businesses are flying blind right now. The fact that Growl shows you exactly what the AI answers is incredibly valuable.

This is such a smart pivot! With AI search changing the landscape so rapidly, local businesses are flying blind right now. The fact that Growl shows you exactly what the AI answers is incredibly valuable.

Growl offers a refreshingly honest tool for local businesses navigating the new frontier of AI search. Its free, no-signup visibility test is a brilliant starting point, showing you exactly what Google's AI says about your business. The platform's transparency is its strongest asset, openly sharing its own study and admitting its paid plans don't guarantee AI recommendations. Instead, it provides actionable marketing steps and clear, simple pricing without the agency fluff. For solo owners who lack a marketing team, Growl is a practical, no-nonsense solution to understand and experiment with your AI presence.

Ran my website through Growl and got some fantastic actionable insights. Showing the actual unedited AI output and cited pages makes optimizing for AI search so much easier!

The Google-Extended robots.txt check is a smart addition. Have you thought about extending the same live-query approach beyond Google's AI? We've found that ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity often name completely different businesses for the same query, since each pulls from different sources and weighs citations differently - a business could score zero on Growl but still get mentioned regularly on Perplexity, or vice versa. Curious whether that cross-model gap shows up in your data too.