Nyman Media vs AthenaHQ.
AthenaHQ is an AI brand monitoring platform that tracks how your company appears across generative search engines and surfaces gaps in your prompt-level visibility.
AthenaHQ and Nyman Media work at different ends of the same pipeline. AthenaHQ watches what AI search engines emit (what they say, when they say it, against which competitors). We watch what those same engines consume (whether your site is reachable, parseable, and trustworthy as a source).
Pre-launch teams almost always need us first. Established brands with established AI visibility often need both: us to keep the foundation solid as the site changes, AthenaHQ to track whether the AI surface is moving with it. The two categories don't overlap; they compose.
| feature | nyman media | athenahq |
|---|---|---|
| What it measures | Whether AI crawlers can index and represent your site (91 deterministic checks) | Brand presence, sentiment, and citation rates across AI search outputs |
| Output | Audit score, section breakdown, fix recommendations | Brand visibility dashboards, competitor benchmarks, alerting |
| Free tier | Yes: 1 audit/day | Demo or trial |
| Pricing | $19/mo self-serve | Enterprise tiers |
| AI surface tracking | No (deliberately not in this category) | Yes: core product |
| Developer / automation surface | REST + CLI + MCP | Web app |
| Per-domain public certificate | Yes: auto-generated, indexable | Private |
- ›You need ongoing visibility tracking against named competitors in AI search
- ›Your team is set up for prompt-level monitoring as a discipline
- ›You're at the budget tier where dedicated account management matters
- ›You haven't audited the technical foundation of your site for AI search yet
- ›You want a free, frictionless first audit with no sales touch
- ›You want the audit results as a sharable, indexable public URL
- ›You ship code and want AI-readiness as a deploy gate or an MCP tool
If your team has the budget for both, that's the right answer. Fix the input side with us, then measure the output side with AthenaHQ. If you can only do one right now, run a free audit here first. There's no point tracking citation share for a site AI crawlers can't reach.