AI Visibility — Third-Party Layer

AI engines don't cite your website. They cite Reddit.

The only AI visibility service that operates where AI engines actually learn: third-party communities, not just your website.

Live source feed — where answers come from

reddit.com~40% share wikipedia.org[002] tracked youtube.com[003] tracked linkedin.com[004] tracked yourbrand.comslotted in r/[your-category][006] tracked niche-forum.net[007] tracked review-hub.io[008] tracked q-and-a.site[009] tracked developer-forum.dev[010] tracked
reddit.com~40% share wikipedia.org[002] tracked youtube.com[003] tracked linkedin.com[004] tracked yourbrand.comslotted in r/[your-category][006] tracked niche-forum.net[007] tracked review-hub.io[008] tracked q-and-a.site[009] tracked developer-forum.dev[010] tracked
reddit.com~40% share wikipedia.org[002] tracked youtube.com[003] tracked linkedin.com[004] tracked yourbrand.comslotted in r/[your-category][006] tracked niche-forum.net[007] tracked review-hub.io[008] tracked q-and-a.site[009] tracked developer-forum.dev[010] tracked
reddit.com~40% share wikipedia.org[002] tracked youtube.com[003] tracked linkedin.com[004] tracked yourbrand.comslotted in r/[your-category][006] tracked niche-forum.net[007] tracked review-hub.io[008] tracked q-and-a.site[009] tracked developer-forum.dev[010] tracked
reddit.com~40% share wikipedia.org[002] tracked youtube.com[003] tracked linkedin.com[004] tracked yourbrand.comslotted in r/[your-category][006] tracked niche-forum.net[007] tracked review-hub.io[008] tracked q-and-a.site[009] tracked developer-forum.dev[010] tracked
reddit.com~40% share wikipedia.org[002] tracked youtube.com[003] tracked linkedin.com[004] tracked yourbrand.comslotted in r/[your-category][006] tracked niche-forum.net[007] tracked review-hub.io[008] tracked q-and-a.site[009] tracked developer-forum.dev[010] tracked
reddit.com~40% share wikipedia.org[002] tracked youtube.com[003] tracked linkedin.com[004] tracked yourbrand.comslotted in r/[your-category][006] tracked niche-forum.net[007] tracked review-hub.io[008] tracked q-and-a.site[009] tracked developer-forum.dev[010] tracked
ENGINES MONITORED:ChatGPTPerplexityGeminiClaude

[ Why now ]

The answer layer is already built. Your brand is either in the sources or it isn't.

~40%

Share of AI-engine citations that trace back to Reddit — more than any other single domain.

45–50%

CAGR

Growth rate of the AI-visibility / GEO services market through the early 2030s.

Enforcement

Rising FTC and platform enforcement against undisclosed brand seeding.

The shortcuts are getting shut down; disclosed, authentic participation is the only durable approach.

Citation share moves fast — one tracked swing went from 60% → 10% in two weeks. That's the case for ongoing monitoring, not a one-time audit.

Industry tracking data, 2026. Figures are directional and change frequently.

[ The wedge ]

Owned content is a different layer than the one being cited.

This is a category difference, not a feature difference. Most tools improve the page you control. AI engines are reading the pages you don't.

Layer 01

What everyone else does

  • Owned-content optimization on your own domain
  • On-site structured data and schema markup
  • Brand-page SEO and GEO rewrites
  • Dashboards that report the gap without closing it
Layer 02

What CrowdReply does

  • Operates inside the communities AI engines actually cite
  • Places real, disclosed practitioners into live threads
  • Targets the exact subreddits and forums tied to your queries
  • Re-measures citation movement against named competitors

[ How it works ]

Five steps, in order, every cycle.

No scripts. No fabricated identities. The process is designed so the output would hold up if anyone traced it back.

[01]

Audit

Every query where competitors appear and you don't — mapped by engine.

[02]

Identify

The exact communities AI engines cite for your category, ranked by pull-through.

[03]

Source & brief

2–5 genuine experts already trusted in those spaces, briefed on your product — not on what to say.

[04]

Participate

Authentically, in relevant threads. No scripts, no fake identity, relationship disclosed.

[05]

Re-measure

After six weeks, we re-run the audit and show the movement — including where it didn't move.

[ What's included ]

In every tier.

Scope changes between tiers. The method doesn't.

[ 01 ]

AI visibility audit

Baseline and re-run. Before and after, same query set.

[ 02 ]

Community & thread ID

The specific spaces and live threads worth participating in.

[ 03 ]

Expert sourcing & vetting

Real practitioners with existing standing, briefed and disclosed.

[ 04 ]

Movement report

Monthly before/after with competitor displacement data.

[ Compliance ]

Built for the enforcement environment, not around it.

Reddit's own AI moderation and FTC enforcement are catching undisclosed seeding in 2026. CrowdReply was built for that reality — real practitioners, honest opinions, disclosed relationships. Same visibility signal. No exposure.

DISCLOSED RELATIONSHIP REAL EXPERT PLATFORM RULES RESPECTED
r/[category-community]thread · 214 comments
JD

u/practitioner_jd

9 yrs in the field · 1.2k karma here

"We ran three of these in production. Two held up under load, one didn't. Happy to break down what actually differed — disclosure: I consult for one of the vendors mentioned below."

DISCLOSED
later cited as a source in an AI answer

[ Pricing ]

Three scopes. One method.

Starter

For a first foothold.

€1,500/mo

Start with Starter
  • 2 subreddits
  • 20 replies / month
  • Monthly lift report
  • Month to month
RECOMMENDED

Growth

For displacing a named competitor.

€3,500/mo

Choose Growth
  • 5 communities
  • 60 replies / month
  • Bi-weekly reporting + competitor tracking
  • Month to month

Dominance

For owning a category's source layer.

€6,500/mo

Talk about Dominance
  • 10+ communities
  • 150 replies / month
  • Weekly reporting + dedicated strategist

3-MONTH MINIMUM COMMITMENT

[ Founding cohort ]

Early bird pricing closes before public launch.

A limited founding cohort gets discounted rates held for the length of the engagement, priority onboarding, and a co-marketing case study — if the results are worth publishing.

Early bird rate, locked in
Priority onboarding
Co-marketing case study
Apply as a founding client

[ FAQ ]

The questions worth asking first.

No. Reddit's rules prohibit undisclosed promotion, vote manipulation, and spam — not participation by people with a stated interest. Our contributors post under their own long-standing accounts, disclose the relationship, and only join threads where they have something useful to add. If a moderator sets stricter rules for a community, we follow them or we skip that community.

Always, and in the post itself — not in a bio. That's a hard requirement of the engagement, and it's also why the approach lasts: disclosed contributions don't get retroactively removed, and removed contributions don't get cited.

You'll see the re-audit either way, including flat or negative results. Six weeks is a read, not a guarantee — indexing and re-crawl cycles vary by engine. If the data shows no movement, we reset the community and query targeting at no extra cost, and Starter and Growth are month to month so you can stop.

Impact varies by engine, and we won't pretend otherwise. Community sources carry the most weight in ChatGPT and Perplexity, where Reddit is consistently among the most-cited domains. Gemini weights it noticeably lower and leans harder on other sources. Claude sits in between and depends more on the query type. Your audit reports each engine separately rather than blending them into one score.

[ Get your audit ]

The only AI visibility service that operates where AI engines actually learn — third-party communities, not just your website.

Tell us who you keep losing to. We'll run the query set and send back where they're cited and you aren't.

No sales sequence. One audit, one reply.