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. Beyond the foundation, our AI visibility snapshot runs buyer-intent questions on demand and reports mention rate, share-of-voice vs competitors, and average position in one shot, so you can read the AI surface today without standing up continuous monitoring. We keep the foundation solid as the site changes and, on Premium, track that read weekly with alerts. Cross-engine benchmarking over time is a separate category.
| feature | nyman media | athenahq |
|---|---|---|
| What it measures | Whether AI crawlers can index and represent your site (94 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 answer visibility | On-demand snapshot: mention rate, share-of-voice, average position (point-in-time, not continuous) | Continuous AI-surface tracking with alerting over time |
| 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
Start here. Run a free audit to fix the input side, then track the outcome: Premium re-checks your buyer questions weekly against the typical AI-assistant answer, alerts you when an answer changes, and ties the movement back to the fixes you shipped. There's no point tracking citation share for a site AI crawlers can't reach, so the order is foundation first, outcome next.