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I launched a product in this space to beta customers just last week -- https://ellm.co -- and the response has been way more positive than I could have hoped for. Every SMB owner I talk to is thinking about this and looking for ways to be ahead of the curve on it even though the number of commercial AI search queries is still dwarfed by Google. It feels like a race, and we are figuring out the rules as we run it.

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How is ellm different from the more established tools in the market (Profound and Peec AI)?

So the short answer is that this space is so early still that there’s plenty of space for more competition. But currently both of those market leaders are targeted at enterprise and have little to no penetration of the SMB/self-serve market. Ellm has a self serve onboarding flow, a $20/month monitoring only tier, and a $100/mo self-serve optimization tier — none of which require scheduling a call with a sales team.

Definitely a bit buggy but looks promising! Try the onboarding flow yourself as a real user (also on mobile!) - particularly leaving the site to research a competitor that is mentioned and then coming back (I got kicked out and had to start from the beginning, at which point it just paywalled me)

It also says I have canceled my subscription at the bottom of the paywall when I never had one. Still, these are little things and I think the bones are theee

Thank you so much for giving it a spin and reporting those issues :)

Also if you're interested, here is what your dashboard looks like (the onboarding flow is sadly the buggiest part of the app right now): https://imgur.com/a/eysQzjT

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