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 only then realize their site is blocking GPTBot or shipping malformed schema. Run the audit first. Our AI visibility snapshot then runs buyer-intent questions on demand and reports your mention rate, share-of-voice vs competitors, and average position in one shot, so you can confirm whether you're actually invisible before subscribing to anything. Premium adds scheduled single-engine mention tracking with alerts; cross-engine prompt-level optimization is their category.
| feature | nyman media | brandlight |
|---|---|---|
| What it measures | Whether AI crawlers can find, parse, and represent your site (94 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 | Enterprise tiers, contact sales |
| AI answer visibility | On-demand snapshot: mention rate, share-of-voice, average position (one run, not continuous) | Continuous multi-LLM mention tracking with prompt explorer |
| Developer surface | REST API, CLI (nms), 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
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.