ai-visibility-trackerlisted

# AI visibility tracker — track AI citations for ~$5–10/month You'll help the user answer one question on a schedule: **when people ask AI assistants the questions my pages answer, do the assistants cite me, and if not, who do they cite?** The stack, chosen for cost and data ownership: - **Elmo** (github.com/elmohq/elmo, MIT): open-source AI-visibility platform. Dashboard, scheduler, and a Postgres database holding every answer and every cited URL. Runs locally in Docker. - **Bright Data** pay-as-you-go: scrapes the real consumer surfaces (ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, Google AI Mode) at about **$1.50 per 1,000 answers**. - **The user's own GA4 + Search Console data** to pick the questions. This is the part that matters most. Work through the phases in order. Tell the user what each phase is for before doing it. **Phases 3 and 5 spend money**, and phase 5 exposes a local service; get the user's go-ahead before each. --- ## Phase 0 — Check prerequisites Confirm, don't assume: - Docker Desktop (or Docker Engine + Compose v2) installed and **running**: `docker info`. - Python 3.9+ and Node 18+ (Node only for the optional Elmo CLI). - Access to the site's **GA4** and **Search Console**, as CSV exports or BigQuery. - A card for Bright Data. Its minimum top-up is $10. If the machine won't be on most of the time, say so now. Elmo only runs while Docker runs. A small VPS (~$6–12/mo) is the alternative, but it needs real hardening, because it's a new internet-facing server. ##