Nyman Media vs Brandlight.
Brandlight is an AI visibility platform that tracks how generative search engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews) describe your brand and lets you optimize prompts and content for higher mention rates.
Brandlight is downstream of Nyman Media. They tell you what AI answers currently say about you and let you compare against competitors prompt by prompt. We tell you whether the site behind those answers is actually structured so the model can find correct information about you in the first place.
Many teams discover the order the hard way: they buy a brand-mention tracker, see they're invisible, and then realize their site is blocking GPTBot or shipping malformed schema. Run the audit first. If the foundation is solid and you still aren't appearing, a tool like Brandlight is the right next purchase.
| feature | nyman media | brandlight |
|---|---|---|
| What it measures | Whether AI crawlers can find, parse, and represent your site (91 checks across 9 sections + a vision-grounded UX audit) | Brand visibility, sentiment, and competitive share across LLM-generated answers |
| Output | Score 0-100, section breakdown, prioritized fixes, public certificate | Brand-mention dashboards, prompt explorer, competitor benchmarks |
| Free tier | Yes: 1 audit/day, no signup needed | Demo / sales contact |
| Pricing | $19/mo self-serve, founder rate locked for life | Enterprise tiers, contact sales |
| Multi-LLM mention tracking | No (not our category) | Yes: core product |
| Developer surface | REST API, CLI (nmav), MCP server for Claude / Cursor / ChatGPT | Web app and integrations |
| Public, indexable audit page | Yes: /site/[domain] auto-generated for every audit | Private dashboards |
- ›You already know your site is AI-readable and want to track mention share over time
- ›Your team has a budget for ongoing AI-search monitoring as a discipline
- ›You're building a brand strategy around named prompts and competitor comparisons
- ›You want to know whether AI search engines can read your site at all before paying for outcome tracking
- ›You need a free first audit with zero friction or sales touch
- ›You ship in CI/CD and want to gate deploys on AI-readiness score
- ›You want a public, embeddable certificate per audited domain
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 Brandlight. 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.