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This guide walks you through everything you need to get started with CogNerd, from creating your account to viewing your first AI visibility report. The whole process takes about five minutes. Your first brand analysis deducts 30 credits from your account balance and streams results live as CogNerd queries each AI platform.
1

Create your account

Go to app.cognerd.in/signup and create your account with your email and a password. After you verify your email, you’ll land on the CogNerd dashboard.
New accounts receive a starting credit balance so you can run your first analysis right away. No credit card is required to sign up.
2

Add your brand

From the dashboard, navigate to Brands (/dashboard/brands) and click Add brand. You’ll need:
  • Brand name — the name as it should appear in AI answers (e.g., “Acme Corp”)
  • Website URL — your primary domain (e.g., https://acme.com)
  • Competitors (optional) — add up to 5 competitor names to benchmark against
Click Save brand when you’re done. CogNerd uses this information to build your analysis queries.
3

Run your first brand analysis

Go to Brand Monitor (/dashboard/analyze) and select your brand from the dropdown. Click Run analysis.CogNerd submits queries to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, You.com, and other platforms simultaneously. Results stream in using Server-Sent Events (SSE), so you see each platform’s response as it arrives — no page refresh needed.
Each brand analysis costs 30 credits. Make sure you have enough credits before you start. You can check your balance in Settings (/dashboard/settings).
A typical analysis takes 2–3 minutes to complete, depending on API response times from each AI platform.
4

Review your results

When the analysis finishes, you’ll see your results in the Brand Monitor dashboard (/dashboard/visibility):
  • AI Visibility Score — your 0–100 score across all platforms
  • Platform breakdown — which platforms mentioned your brand, how prominently, and in what context
  • Sentiment summary — whether mentions were positive, neutral, or negative
  • Source attribution — which URLs the AI platforms cited when mentioning your brand
  • Competitor comparison — where competitors appeared in answers alongside or instead of you
Run analyses at regular intervals — weekly or bi-weekly — to track how your score changes as you optimize your AI presence.
5

Generate your GEO Assets (recommended)

To start improving your AI visibility, generate your GEO Assets from /dashboard/geo-assets. Click Generate assets and CogNerd creates seven structured files:
  • llms.txt — a machine-readable brand summary for AI crawlers
  • robots.txt — AI-aware crawl rules
  • sitemap.xml — your site structure
  • site.jsonld, organization.jsonld, website.jsonld — schema.org markup
  • entities.json — a structured entity graph for your brand
This action costs 20 credits and runs as a background job. You’ll receive a job ID to check progress.
Deploy these files to your website’s root directory so AI crawlers can discover and parse them. Hosting instructions are in the GEO Assets guide.

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Use the API instead

If you prefer to integrate CogNerd programmatically, you can trigger analyses and generate assets via the REST API. Here’s how to authenticate and run your first analysis:
1

Get your session token

Authenticate with your CogNerd credentials. The login endpoint returns a session token you’ll use in subsequent requests.
curl -X POST https://api.cognerd.in/api/auth/login \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"email": "you@example.com", "password": "your-password"}'
Copy the token value from the response. You’ll pass it as a Bearer token in the Authorization header on all subsequent requests.
2

Run a brand analysis via API

Call the analyze endpoint with your brand details. This endpoint uses Server-Sent Events (SSE) to stream results as each AI platform responds.
curl -X POST https://api.cognerd.in/api/brand-monitor/analyze \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Accept: text/event-stream" \
  -d '{"brandName": "Acme Corp", "website": "https://acme.com"}'
The analyze endpoint deducts 30 credits per call. Each SSE event in the stream contains the result from one AI platform.

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What to do next

Understand your score

Learn what the AI Visibility Score measures and how to interpret platform-level results.

Generate GEO assets

Create the structured files AI crawlers need to represent your brand accurately.

Run an AEO report

Get a full technical audit of your brand’s AI-search readiness.

Create optimized content

Use Content Studio to generate blog posts built for AI citation.