Aventos is an experiment we're doing after spending ~6 weeks working on various projects in the AI search / GEO / AEO space.
One thing that surprised us is how most tools in this category work. Traditionally, they simulate ChatGPT or Perplexity queries by attempting to reverse engineer the search process. Over the past year, many have shifted to scraping live ChatGPT results instead, since those are signficantly cheaper and reflect more real outputs.
Building and maintaining scrapers is tedious and fragile, so recently a number of SaaS products have emerged that effectively wrap a small number of third-party ChatGPT/Perplexity/Google AIO/etc scraping APIs. What felt odd to us is that many of these still tools charge $70–$200+ per month, despite largely being wrappers around the same underlying data providers.
So we wanted to test a simple idea: if the core cost is just API usage and commodity infrastructure and software costs are lower because of AI, can we be a successful startup if we price near our costs?
What we have so far:
1. Analytics similar to other tools (tracking AI citations, AI search results, and competitor mentions)
2. Content creation features (early and still being improved)
We’d love feedback- especially from a non-marketing perspective on:
* bugs
* confusing terminology or tabs
* anything that feels hand-wavy or misleading
There’s a demo account available if you want to poke around:
username: divit.endal4@gmail.com password: password
Happy to answer questions about what other things we've built in the space, how these tools work, etc.
That is business. You should be charging a premium for features that companies would like to use, that's one of the first rules of B2B.
Will we charge a premium in the future? Yeah, but only where we’re confident there’s real ROI and have a great product to back that. For instance, AI attribution in this space is incredibly difficult right now. And in my opinion, without hard numbers (revenue, sign-ups, conversions, etc.), I can’t justify asking for premium pricing.
Maybe I'm thinking about it wrong tho and making excuses for myself, I think you have a good point
This is all just my 2 cents, so take it with a grain of salt, but I see trust and authenticity as a huge issue (made worse by LLMs), and it's doubly so with AI-based companies because it attracts flies.
One question I have is it's not clear to me that this all just doesn't boil down to plain old SEO. Does your platform generate recommended actions on how to improve your ChatGPT ranking? (and how is that different from just improving your PageRank?)
There's SEO experts that believe that trad seo and ai seo is the same-that's fair. We're of the group that believe it's pretty much the same, although we're starting to come at an inflection point and it'll change in the future.
To answer your second question: we don't have an icon to give recommended actions. I think that's a mistake we made during planning, where we saw "ai recommended actions" and questioned the validity of them. For instance, it doesn't make sense to edit and change wikipedia becuase that's incredibly hard although a few platforms do recommend that. The idea was that users would improve their keyword research and blog content strategy and we just assist in figuring out what to write for, which we still think is the best approach- however it seems that wasn't very clear. It's different from improving page rank because the strategy has been shifted. Instead of opimizing for the 1st and 2nd result, you're optimizing for topics as a whole and can even appear on the second page of google. If you're saying improving your pagerank via making good content that's unique and high quality-then I fully agree that you need to improve your pagerank