ANSWER ENGINE OPTIMIZATION · AI VISIBILITY

Prove your answer engine optimization is working.

Track how ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google answer questions about every client you manage. One dashboard, one report you can send.

Works with the Search Console you already have · Built for the SEO community AdSchoolMaster has served for 9 years

Dorqa Trend Engine showing 276 tracked topics for India, split by lifecycle stage, each scored on velocity, acceleration, search volume and year-on-year change
Dorqa Audience Intelligence for optometrists, showing the phrases this audience uses and the questions they ask, from Google Autocomplete and Reddit discussions
Dorqa AI Visibility on adschoolmaster.com, showing AI-style query share, growth against the previous period, intent split and the opportunities found, all from Google Search Console
Dorqa Site Audit on adschoolmaster.com, showing 52 pages crawled and a site health breakdown across indexing, SEO basics, content, media and performance
Dorqa YouTube Video Rankings, showing videos ranked for a keyword with channel, views, views per hour, SEO score, publish date and duration
Coverage at a glance350+Topics scored dailysnapshot history since March 2026190+Countries coveredworldwide search data · audience in 3 markets4AI platforms trackedanswers read, not estimatedChatGPTGeminiPerplexityClaudeCoverage at a glance350+Topics scored dailysnapshot history since March 2026190+Countries coveredworldwide search data · audience in 3 markets4AI platforms trackedChatGPT · Gemini · Perplexity · Claude

Answer engine optimization

Your client asks about ChatGPT.
Now you have an answer.

Dorqa tracks your brand across four AI platforms using prompts you write, not fixed generic queries. Separately, the Search Console layer maps real AI-style questions to the pages that triggered them — first-party data, no API cost, available on the free plan.

ChatGPT Gemini Perplexity Claude
  • Custom prompt tracking, so you monitor how your client’s customers actually ask
  • Citation gap: which prompts cite a competitor instead of you
  • AI Overview CTR impact detector, built on your own Search Console data
  • Every panel labelled with its source and its cost
Citation gap for the query “best aeo tool”CITATION GAPAI OVERVIEW · INDIA · 27 JUL 2026“best aeo tool”53,630combined search volume · est.WHO GOOGLE CITES · 10 DISTINCT DOMAINSacademy.hubspot.com5coursecoursera.org5coursesemrush.com/academy4courseudemy.com4coursewix.com3coursecxl.com2guidedorqa.ionot citedFive of the six citations are course pages.Nobody owns the definitional answer for this query yet.

The maths

Five subscriptions.
One of them was enough.

Most freelance consultants end up paying five vendors for five slices of the same job. Dorqa covers all five, and adds the answer engine optimization tracking the stack barely includes.

Stack cost compared with DorqaWHAT THE STACK COSTS$334/mo$129$50$99$41$15Ahrefs LiteSparkToro PersonalExploding Topics InvestorBrightLocal TrackTubeBuddy LegendWHAT DORQA COSTS$79/mo$79Dorqa Pro$255/mo you stop payingAND THE ONE THE STACK BARELY INCLUDESAnswer engine optimizationAhrefs Lite covers 5 tracked prompts and 150 checks a monthIncludedStack cost compared with DorqaWHAT THE STACK COSTS$334/mo$129Ahrefs Lite$50SparkToro Personal$99Exploding Topics Investor$41BrightLocal Track$15TubeBuddy LegendWHAT DORQA COSTS$79/mo$79Dorqa Pro$255/mo you stop payingAND THE ONE THE STACK BARELY INCLUDESAnswer engine optimizationIncludedAhrefs Lite covers 5 tracked promptsand 150 checks a month

Monthly list price of the plan that matches Dorqa Pro's capability, checked August 2026. Some vendors sell cheaper tiers with lower limits. Annual billing is lower across the board.

Why one platform

Buying five tools was never the problem.
Nothing joined them up.

One sequence, six layersSTEP 1TrendTopic startsrisingSTEP 2AudienceWho is asking,and howSTEP 3ContentSERP-backeddraftSTEP 4OptimiseSERP compliancepassSTEP 5AI VisibilityCitationstrackedONGOINGReportingOne exportper clientOne sequence, six layersSTEP 1TrendTopic starts risingSTEP 2AudienceWho is asking, and howSTEP 3ContentSERP-backed draftSTEP 4OptimiseSERP compliance passSTEP 5AI VisibilityCitations trackedONGOINGReportingOne export per client

Nobody sells this as one product. That is the whole argument for Dorqa, and it is the reason a consultant can drop four subscriptions instead of one.

The full platform

Six layers.
One subscription.

AI Visibility

Get cited in the answer,
not just ranked

See AI Visibility
AI Overview mentions rising over twelve months, with the domains Google cites most for this topicAI BRAND MENTIONSGOOGLE AI OVERVIEW · LIVE18mentions12-month53,630combined search volume · est.WHO AI CITESwww.youtube.com10www.coursera.org9www.semrush.com7academy.hubspot.com6

Track how ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude answer questions about your client, using prompts you write rather than fixed generic queries. See which domains get cited for a topic and which pages earn those citations.

  • Mentions tracked over 12 months
  • Who AI cites, by domain and by page
  • Custom prompt tracking
  • Citation gap analysis
  • AI Overview CTR impact detector

Audience Intelligence

See who they are,
and where they cluster

See Audience Intelligence
Audience age breakdown with over-index multipliers, and regional interest concentration measured per capitaWHO THEY ARESEARCH DEMAND · PER-CAPITAAge breakdownNx = over-index18-241001.3x25-34981.0x35-44810.9x45-54560.8xInterest concentrationPer-capita, not audience sizeKarnataka100Gujarat84Assam76Odisha75

Demographics measured as over-index against the general online population, not raw counts, and regional interest measured per capita. A small state with intense demand outranks a large one with diffuse demand.

  • Over-index vs the general population
  • Per-capita regional concentration
  • Communities across six platforms
  • The exact phrases they use
  • Confidence score that admits gaps

SEO

Know what to fix,
and how long it takes

See SEO
Site audit health score of 65 broken into five components, with the top issues and an estimated time to fix eachSITE AUDIT52 PAGES CRAWLED65healthSite health breakdownIndexing564 issuesSEO Basics405 issuesContent753 issuesMedia683 issuesPerformance862 issuesFIX FIRST · WITH TIME ESTIMATENot secure (no HTTPS)~30 min1 pageMixed content~15 min5 pagesMissing canonical tag~2 min/pg4 pages

Every issue comes with an estimated time to fix, a severity, and the pages affected. You can scope a client engagement straight off this screen instead of guessing at a quote.

  • Health score broken into components
  • Time-to-fix estimate on every issue
  • Page-by-page health scores
  • Keyword and backlink gaps
  • Domain overview and backlinks

Local SEO

Show a client exactly
where they stand

See Local SEO
Local SEO score of 78 with a head to head comparison against the top three competitors on reviews, rating and referring domainsLOCAL SEO5 COMPETITORS ANALYSED78scoreSTRONGYou vs top 3 competitorsReviews623 ahead1,200577Rating0.3 ahead4.23.9Ref. domains180 behind87267GBP profile completeness100%of verifiable fields · 3 not reported by data source

Head-to-head against the top three in the local pack, on reviews, rating and referring domains. Ahead in green, behind in red, and a PDF you can send without reformatting anything.

  • You vs top 3, on every metric
  • GBP completeness, with unknowns labelled
  • Local keyword gaps
  • Opportunities ranked by confidence
  • PDF report export

YouTube

Audit any video,
not just your own

See YouTube
YouTube video audit scoring 63 out of an achievable 80 across three measured components, with the engagement rate formula shown in fullVIDEO AUDITANY VIDEO, ANY CHANNEL63/80Score breakdownTags30/30Description length25/25Engagement ratio8/25No keyword given · title scoring excludedEngagement rate1.59%66.4K likes ÷ 4.2M views × 100the arithmetic, not just the numberAbove 4% great2-4% averageBelow 2% low

Most YouTube tools only read your own channel. Paste any URL and get an optimisation score broken into its parts, with the engagement arithmetic shown rather than hidden.

  • Video audit for any URL
  • Score broken into three measured components
  • Engagement rate with the formula shown
  • Comment intelligence
  • Rank tracker across keywords

Where we go deepest

Two layers
nobody else builds.

Trend Intelligence scores topics daily and stages them across a lifecycle. Audience Intelligence measures over-index and per-capita concentration, not raw counts. Both live. APIs next.

Trend Intelligence Emerging Early
Trend topics plotted by search volume against velocity7.06.35.64.94.21K10K100KVELOCITYSEARCH VOLUME
Bubble size is how many independent sources confirmed the topic. Hover any bubble.
Audience Intelligence
Where this audience gathers, across six platformsReddit10YouTube8Pinterest8Quora5Hacker News5LinkedIn5r/SoftwareEngineeringReddithighr/learnprogrammingReddithighWhat Do Software Engineers AC…YouTube3.3M viewsr/developersIndiaRedditmediumCareer Advice for Software De…Pinterest8 boardsr/cscareerquestionsRedditlow
Six platforms, ranked by how much this audience actually shows up. Named communities, not estimates.

Founder’s note

“I taught SEO for nearly a decade. Freelancers in my classes were paying $129 a month for one tool they barely used, or sharing group buys that broke at the worst moment. Then clients started asking whether AI mentioned them, and nobody had a way to answer. Dorqa is the tool I wanted to hand them.”
Hemant Sharma
Hemant Sharma
Founder, Dorqa · AdSchoolMaster

Pricing

Priced for one person
with several clients.

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Free

Your Google data, properly

Not a trial. Free forever.

$0 /mo
  • Search Console dashboards and the Organic Performance funnel
  • AI Visibility console and CTR impact detector
  • Domain overview and backlinks overview, for your own domain
  • Content audit, entity research, internal linking
  • 1 domain · 100 credits/month · 12-month history

Starter

Full SEO, up to 3 sites

Everything a traditional SEO tool does.

$29 /mo
  • Everything in Free, plus
  • 3 verified domains · 1,500 credits/month
  • Keywords, SERP analysis, backlinks, competitor gaps
  • Site audit up to 100 pages · 100 tracked keywords
  • Audience Intelligence — 5 runs/month
  • Local SEO — 1 location
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Pro

Where the AI layers turn on

The reason most serious users are here.

$79 /mo
  • Everything in Starter, plus
  • 10 verified domains · 5,000 credits/month
  • AI Citations, Prompt Tracker, Citation Gap, AI Keywords
  • Full Trend Intelligence — Action Center and alerts
  • YouTube — rankings, video audit, transcripts
  • 500 tracked keywords · 24-month history

Agency

Pro, at client scale

Same product. More of everything.

$129 /mo
  • Everything in Pro, at scale
  • 30 verified domains · 10,000 credits/month
  • 10 local-SEO locations · 2,000 tracked keywords
  • Audience Intelligence — 30 runs/month
  • Priority support
  • White-label and multi-user — coming soon
Everything is in one place, so I am not checking different websites and reports to see how local SEO is doing. It shows me where to focus next — the business profile, the SEO issues, or the local rankings.
Geetika Chawlaa
Geetika Chawlaa
Freelance SEO consultant

FAQ

Common questions.

Answer engine optimization, or AEO, is the practice of getting your content used in the answers that AI assistants and AI-powered search results give, rather than only ranking in a list of blue links. In practice it covers the same work as good SEO plus a measurement layer: knowing which questions trigger your pages, whether an assistant cites you, and where a competitor is cited instead.
Very little. Answer engine optimization and generative engine optimization are used interchangeably by most practitioners, alongside LLMO and AI SEO. There is no settled academic distinction between them. AEO is the more common term in trade press and client conversations; GEO appears more often in research papers and vendor marketing. If someone tells you they are fundamentally different disciplines, they are usually selling one of them.
Yes. Dorqa tracks brand mentions and citations across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Claude using custom prompts you define rather than fixed generic queries. Separately, the Search Console layer maps real AI-style queries to the pages that triggered them, using first-party Google data at no API cost.
Yes. Free covers one domain, Starter three, Pro ten and Agency thirty, all under a single login. There is no per-client seat charge.
One domain, 100 credits a month and 12 months of history. That covers Search Console and Analytics dashboards, the Organic Performance funnel, the AI Visibility console and CTR impact detector, Domain Overview and backlinks overview for your own domain, plus content audit, entity research and internal linking. It is not a trial and it does not expire.
Ahrefs and Semrush are built around what has already happened in classic search, and are priced per seat for teams. Dorqa is built for one person managing several clients, and covers answer engine optimization tracking, trend intelligence, YouTube analysis for any channel, local SEO and audience intelligence in the same subscription.

About the application

How Dorqa uses your Google data.

Dorqa (by BirdMatrix LLP) is a web application for SEO and answer engine optimization. Consultants and agencies sign in at app.dorqa.io to audit sites, track rankings, monitor how AI assistants cite a brand, and find organic-traffic opportunities. Connecting a Google account is optional and is used only to power the features below.

Google Search Console

With your permission, Dorqa requests read-only access to your Search Console data to display clicks, impressions, average position, declining pages and click-through-rate opportunities inside your dashboard. Dorqa never modifies your property or its settings.

Google Analytics (GA4)

With your permission, Dorqa requests read-only access to your Google Analytics data to report sessions, users, engagement and traffic sources alongside your search performance. Dorqa never changes your Analytics configuration.

Dorqa uses Google user data solely to provide these features to you within the app. It is never sold and never used for advertising. Dorqa’s use and transfer of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. For full details see our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

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