01 The shift

Your customers are asking AI which brand to trust. Make sure it can answer with yours.

ProminAI builds the public evidence that ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI read when someone asks who to hire, where to go or whom to believe. Managed end to end. Every deliverable proven with a live link.

Or start with one published article for ₹3,499 + GSTcredited in full if you upgrade within 30 days.

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Best [your category] in [your city]

ANSWER:

Based on available information, three options are commonly referenced:

  • Competitor A — [description]
  • Competitor B — [description]
  • Competitor C — [description]

Your name should be here.

The scale of AI-assisted search in India, with sources

  • ~800Mweekly ChatGPT users worldwideSOURCE: OPENAI / TECHCRUNCH · FEBRUARY 2026
  • ~100Mweekly ChatGPT users in IndiaSOURCE: OPENAI / TECHCRUNCH · FEBRUARY 2026
  • 60%of Indian online searchers begin at least one search a day with an AI assistantSOURCE: YOUGOV · APRIL–MAY 2026
  • 73%of Indians use AI to help with shopping and buying decisionsSOURCE: ADOBE

Every figure on this site is sourced and dated →

02 Do this now

Don't take our word for it. Take sixty seconds.

You can check this yourself, right now, for free. Open any AI assistant — ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity or Claude. The free version is fine. Use a fresh chat.

  1. 01

    Open any AI assistant

    ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity or Claude. The free version is fine. Start a fresh chat.

  2. 02

    Ask the buying question

    Type what a new customer would actually type — the plain words, the real city.

  3. 03

    Ask the identity question

    Then: "Tell me about [your company]" and "Who is [your name]?" Read every small detail.

Your three test questions

Best [your category] in [your city]
Which [your category] in [your city] should I trust?
Tell me about [your company name]

Gemini opens blank — paste the questions you copied.

Whatever answer you just saw — you did not write it. You did not approve it. Nobody asked you.

Rather have us run it properly? Get a free AI Presence Check

03 What it means

What does it mean if AI doesn't mention your business?

There are only four things an AI answer can show about your brand, and three of them are costing you money right now. ProminAI's diagnostic separates absence from misinformation from being out-documented — because each one has a different fix.

The four possible outcomes of asking an AI assistant about your category, what each means, and its urgency
What came back What it actually means Urgency
Your brand was not mentioned at all You are absent at the moment a buyer builds a shortlist. Not ranked low — absent. There is no page two of an AI answer. Critical
Competitors named, you were not A competitor is being actively recommended to your buyer, in your category, in your city — at zero cost to them. Critical
You were named, details wrong or old An AI is telling your customers things you never approved and cannot see. High
Named, correctly and positively You have a real advantage. It is fragile and unprotected. Widen the lead. Protect it

The uncomfortable part. Someone else's information — a directory entry, an old article, a competitor's well-written page, a five-year-old listing — decided what a potential customer was told about your business today. And it will decide it again tomorrow.

04 What changed

The shortlist moved. There is no page two of an AI answer.

The buying journey did not shrink — it collapsed. Where a buyer once compared ten links across five websites, an AI assistant now hands over a finished shortlist of two to four names in a single sentence. ProminAI exists because being inside that sentence is the new first page.

How the buying journey changed: the old search journey compared with the AI-answer journey
The old journey The journey now
Buyer searches on Google Buyer asks an AI one plain question
Sees ten links plus ads Receives one answer naming two to four options
Opens four or five websites Perhaps verifies one of them
Compares, reads, forms a view Contacts one of them
Builds a shortlist of two or three — the comparison happened without you —
Contacts one of them — and the shortlist arrived pre-built —

Read that difference carefully. In the old journey you could win a buyer in the middle — with a better website, a smarter ad, a stronger case study. In the new journey the shortlist is handed over already made. You are either inside that one sentence, or you are outside it.

The good news

  • ≈4.4×better conversion from AI-referred visitors than ordinary organic searchSOURCE: SEMRUSH
  • +68%more time on site from AI-referred visitorsSOURCE: SE RANKING
  • 94%of business buyers used a gen-AI tool in their most recent purchase processSOURCE: 6SENSE

So the prize is not traffic. The prize is being named. A single mention inside an AI answer reaches someone who has already decided they need what you sell, has already been told you are a credible option, and is one step from contacting somebody. Today, almost nobody in your category is deliberately competing for it.

05 The problem, precisely

Why does AI recommend your competitor instead of you?

Businesses do not lose in AI search because they are bad. ProminAI finds that almost every brand audited falls into one of three specific, fixable failure modes: the Invisible Brand, the Misunderstood Brand, or the Outranked Brand. Each has a different cause and a different fix.

01

The Invisible Brand

The AI has almost nothing to work with.

The website explains the service but never states plainly who the company is, where it operates or whom it serves. No independent coverage anywhere. A half-finished founder profile.

What the AI does: it produces a safe, generic answer built entirely from the better-documented players. Your name never enters the sentence.

02

The Misunderstood Brand

The information exists, but it disagrees with itself.

The website says one thing, an old directory says another, a two-year-old listing shows a previous address, and a similarly named company quietly absorbs half your mentions.

What the AI does: it either repeats the wrong detail with complete confidence, or it hedges and stays vague. Vague answers do not generate enquiries.

03

The Outranked Brand

This is the painful one.

You may genuinely be the better firm. But your competitor has forty pieces of public evidence explaining what they do, and you have four.

What the AI does: it names the competitor. Not because they are better, but because they are better explained.

You are not competing on how good you are. You are competing on how much verifiable, consistent public evidence exists about you.

The five-question self-check

Five questions to self-diagnose your brand's AI visibility, and the gap each "no" reveals
Ask yourself If the answer is no
Can a stranger read your website for thirty seconds and repeat back exactly what you do, for whom, and where? You have a Clarity gap — the AI cannot state your one clean sentence either.
Does every listing, profile and directory that mentions you agree on your name, address, services and status? You have a Consistency gap — contradictions make systems hedge, or repeat the wrong detail.
Has anyone other than you published anything about your business in the last year? You have a Corroboration gap — claims only you make about yourself are treated as claims, not facts.
Does public information exist that answers the exact questions your buyers ask an AI? You have a Coverage gap — where no material exists, no mention is possible.
Has anything new about your brand appeared in public in the last ninety days? You have a Currency gap — dormant brands read as risky answers.

06 The mechanism

How does AI decide which brands to name?

Answer

Answer engines cannot visit your office or feel your reputation. They can only read what is publicly written, judge how consistent it is, and decide which names they have enough confidence to say out loud. ProminAI organises its entire programme around the five signals those systems keep rewarding: Clarity, Consistency, Corroboration, Coverage and Currency.

The simplest way to think about it. Imagine a very fast, very literal researcher asked: "Which company should I trust for this?" It has no opinions and no relationships. Your job is not to impress it. Your job is to make sure there is enough clear, consistent, independently confirmed information for it to name you without guessing.

The five signals AI systems read, the question each answers, and what ProminAI builds for it
Signal The question the system is really asking What ProminAI builds for it
1. Clarity Can I state in one clean sentence what this brand does, for whom, and where? The Brand Truth File
2. Consistency Does every source agree with every other source? Website/profile/listing audit + prioritised fix-list
3. Corroboration Does anyone other than the brand confirm this? Independent published articles + verified brand mentions
4. Coverage Does information exist for the specific question I was asked? Buyer-question mapping + content built to answer them
5. Currency Is this recent, or is this brand dormant? A monthly publishing and mention rhythm

A claim is not evidence

A claim · weak signal

  • Your homepage says you are a leading provider
  • Your brochure lists your strengths
  • Your biography describes your expertise
  • Your own post announces your achievement
  • Everyone in your category already has these

Evidence · strong signal

  • An independent publication describes what you do
  • Your expertise is quoted in industry coverage
  • Several credible sources state the same facts
  • Your profiles match each other exactly
  • Very few in your category have these

AI does not judge how good you are. It reflects how well you are explained.

An honest note about how this works. Nobody can pay ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity or Google to insert a brand into an organic answer. That advertising slot does not exist — not for us, not for any agency anywhere. What can be influenced is the raw material those systems read. It is also why a promise of "guaranteed AI ranking" is a warning sign, not a selling point.

07 The programme

What ProminAI actually does, in six stages

ProminAI runs the same engine for every client, every month: Map, Measure, Position, Publish, Propagate, Prove. Six stages, always in that order — each one strengthening a signal AI systems read, each one ending in a deliverable you can click.

  1. 01 MAP Every fact, collected and verified.

    Legal and trading name, services, leadership, credentials, locations, markets, achievements, differentiators, real competitors. Nothing enters unverified.

  2. 02 MEASURE Your baseline, recorded.

    We run the real buying questions across selected major AI platforms and record exactly what comes back today: do you appear, what is said, what is wrong, who appears instead, what is missing.

  3. 03 POSITION One approved source of truth.

    The Brand Truth File states precisely who you are, what you do, whom you serve, where you operate and why you're different. Every future asset uses it word-for-word.

  4. 04 PUBLISH Editorial evidence, in public.

    Fact-based editorial published on StartupFeed with a custom visual, structured to be easy for people and machines to read.

  5. 05 PROPAGATE The same facts, in more places.

    Additional verified brand mentions built across selected digital platforms, so accurate information exists in more than one place.

  6. 06 PROVE Everything logged, everything clickable.

    We re-run the questions, log every deliverable with a live link in the portal, record what changed, note competitor movement, and send a plain-English report. Nothing claimed that cannot be clicked.

What this is

  • A managed programme, run for you end to end
  • Verified, factual public evidence — articles, mentions, corrected profiles
  • Measured against a recorded baseline, on named dates
  • Documented in a portal where every deliverable has a live link
  • A permanent asset — the evidence keeps working after the plan ends

What this is not

  • Not paid placement inside AI platforms — that slot does not exist, for anyone
  • Not keyword stuffing, link buying or any other SEO trickery
  • Not fake reviews, fake followers or fabricated coverage
  • Not a ranking guarantee — nobody can sell one honestly
  • Not a one-time hack — it is evidence, built in a monthly rhythm

Ninety minutes of your time in month one. Then thirty to forty-five minutes a month. A thirty-minute brand call, about twenty minutes approving your Brand Truth File, and short factual approvals on drafts. Everything else — research, writing, design, publishing, distribution, monitoring, logging and reporting — is done for you.

08 Deliverables

What do you actually receive every month?

Answer

You are not buying a number of articles. Every month of a ProminAI membership delivers the same eight items: one published authority article, verified brand mentions, AI monitoring of your priority buyer questions, a competitor watch, a fix-list update, a written progress report, live portal access and a named contact.

  • 1 Authority Article

    A fact-based editorial about your brand, published on StartupFeed with a custom visual.

  • 10+ Brand Mentions

    Verified, accurate descriptions of your brand built across public platforms — cumulative, every one clickable.

  • AI Monitoring

    Your priority buyer questions re-run on selected major AI platforms, answers recorded with dates.

  • Competitor Watch

    Which names AI currently returns for your questions, and how their public evidence is moving.

  • Fix-List Update

    The prioritised corrections list for your website, profiles and listings, kept current.

  • Monthly Report

    A plain-English written report: what was delivered, what changed, what happens next.

  • Live Portal Access

    Every deliverable logged with its live link and date, visible whenever you want to check.

  • A Named Contact

    One person who knows your brand, on WhatsApp and email, who replies within one working day.

In month one you also receive: your Baseline AI Visibility Report (the "before" picture) · your approved Brand Truth File · the Website & Profile Fix-List · a Competitor Baseline · portal login within one working day.

What you hold at the end of your plan

Each ProminAI membership, the articles and mentions it builds, its total evidence points and its price
Plan Authority articles Brand mentions Total evidence points Investment
Foundation — 1 month 1 10+ 11+ ₹14,999 + GST
Momentum — 3 months 3 30+ 33+ ₹39,999 + GST
Authority — 6 months 6 60+ 66+ ₹69,999 + GST
Leadership — 12 months 12 120+ 132+ ₹1,19,999 + GST

If it cannot be clicked from your portal, it does not count toward your plan. See how the portal works

What is a brand mention, precisely?

A verified, accurate description of your brand published on a public digital platform, consistent with your Brand Truth File, and reachable by a live link. A mention counts toward your plan only when it is live and clickable from your portal. If it cannot be clicked from your portal, it does not count toward your plan.

Mention counts are cumulative across your plan period — a Momentum membership builds 30+ across three months in total, not 30 every month.

What counts

  • A live, clickable URL on a public platform
  • Accurate, word-for-word against your Brand Truth File
  • Reachable by any stranger, no login tricks
  • Logged in your portal with its date

What we never count

  • Link farms, PBNs or paid link schemes
  • Fake reviews or invented testimonials
  • Comment spam or forum drops
  • Anything you have not approved

09 Membership

Five ways to start. Prices are on the page, where they belong.

All prices exclude 18% GST. Brand mentions are cumulative within your plan period, not per month.

START HERE

Starter

One time

₹3,499 + GST

Try it first The full ₹3,499 is adjusted against your membership if you upgrade within 30 days.

  • Authority articles 1 article
  • Verified mentions Not included
  • Brand Truth File Not included
  • AI monitoring Not included
  • Progress reports Not included
  • Portal access Order status only

Try it first — ₹3,499

Full details

BUILD FOUNDATION

Foundation

1 month

₹17,999 ₹14,999 + GST

≈ ₹14,999 / month

  • Authority articles 1 article
  • Verified mentions 10+
  • Brand Truth File Included
  • AI monitoring Start + end review
  • Progress reports 1
  • Portal access 1 month

Choose Foundation

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RECOMMENDED

Authority

6 months

₹84,999 ₹69,999 + GST

≈ ₹11,667 / month

  • Authority articles 6 articles
  • Verified mentions 60+
  • Brand Truth File Included
  • AI monitoring Monthly
  • Progress reports 6
  • Portal access 6 months

Choose Authority

Full details

BEST VALUE

Leadership

12 months

₹1,44,999 ₹1,19,999 + GST

≈ ₹10,000 / month

  • Authority articles 12 articles
  • Verified mentions 120+
  • Brand Truth File Included
  • AI monitoring Monthly
  • Progress reports 12
  • Portal access 12 months

Choose Leadership

Full details

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10 The arithmetic

Is this worth the money?

This does not need to work spectacularly. It needs to work once.

Against which plan?

Your break-even

You need 0.4 new customers over 3 months for Momentum to have paid for itself.

That is ₹13,333 a month — or about ₹1,212 per permanent evidence point.

Less than one new client covers the entire programme.

Break-even by business type

Typical customer values by Indian business type, and how many customers cover a Momentum membership
Business type Typical value of one customer Customers to cover Momentum (₹39,999 + GST)
Dental or aesthetic clinic ₹25,000–₹2,00,000 (one treatment plan) 0.2–1.6
B2B services firm ₹1,00,000–₹25,00,000 (one client engagement) 0.02–0.4
School or college ₹50,000–₹1,50,000 (one admission, annual fee) 0.27–0.8
Coach or trainer ₹30,000–₹3,00,000 (one engagement) 0.13–1.3
Manufacturer or supplier ₹2,00,000–₹50,00,000 (one order) 0.01–0.2
Legal or financial practice ₹50,000–₹5,00,000 (one client) 0.08–0.8
D2C brand ₹5,000–₹50,000 (one customer lifetime) 0.8–8
Hospital or multi-speciality centre ₹50,000–₹5,00,000 (one patient episode) 0.08–0.8

Ranges are typical Indian market figures given for illustration. Substitute your own numbers.

The honest alternatives

Common alternatives to ProminAI, their typical monthly cost, what they deliver and what is missing
Alternative Typical monthly cost What you get What is missing
In-house content writer ₹40,000–₹80,000 / month One person writing your content Distribution, verified mentions, AI monitoring, proof
PR agency retainer ₹75,000–₹3,00,000 / month Press outreach and media relationships AI-shaped structure, per-link proof, entity consistency work
Traditional SEO retainer ₹25,000–₹1,00,000 / month Keywords, links and rankings work The public evidence layer AI answers actually read
Doing it yourself ₹0, plus your evenings Full control Time, rhythm — and independent corroboration, which you cannot give yourself
Doing nothing ₹0 Nothing changes on your side Every month, better-documented competitors compound their lead
A ProminAI membership ≈ ₹10,000–₹14,999 effective All five signals built, managed end to end — every deliverable clickable from your portal A ranking guarantee. Nobody honest sells one.

The value that has nothing to do with AI. Even if AI search stopped growing tomorrow, you would still hold independent published articles about your business, a corrected and consistent digital footprint, verifiable public references and a documented brand story — usable in tenders, investor conversations, hiring and sales calls. That value exists on day one and does not expire.

11 Straight answers

What we will never promise you

Never promised

  • A ranking or position inside ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude or Google
  • Inclusion in every answer
  • A permanent citation
  • A guaranteed number of leads or sales

Guaranteed

  • Every deliverable in your plan, delivered and documented with a live link — or we make it good at no cost

Nobody can guarantee the behaviour of a platform they do not own. Anyone who offers to is selling something that does not exist.

Six questions everyone asks

Is this just SEO with a new name?

SEO competes for a ranked link on a results page. ProminAI works on a different unit: being named, accurately, inside an AI answer. AI systems reward clear, consistent, corroborated public evidence about a brand — not backlink counts or keyword density — so the work is different: one approved source of truth, independent published articles, verified mentions, and consistency across everything that describes you.

The two are complementary. If you already run SEO or ads, ProminAI adds the layer they do not touch, and your team gets our website fix-list to implement alongside their work.

Do you place my brand inside ChatGPT or Gemini?

No — and neither does anyone else. There is no advertising slot inside an organic AI answer, no partnership that inserts a name, no fee that buys a mention. Anyone selling "placement" is selling something that does not exist.

What ProminAI does is work on the raw material. We build and maintain the public evidence that selected major AI platforms — ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Google's AI experiences — actually read: published articles, verified brand mentions, corrected and consistent profiles. Your baseline audit records exactly what each selected platform returns for your questions, on which date, so progress is measured against reality rather than memory.

How long before I see something change?

Published assets exist in month one: your Brand Truth File, your first article, your first mentions. Observable change in AI answers typically appears from month three, because AI systems refresh what they know on their own cycles, and corroboration takes time to accumulate.

This is why your baseline audit matters. We record what every selected platform said before the work began, then re-run the same questions on schedule — so change is measured, not felt. Anyone promising instant results is describing a platform they do not control.

Will my content be written by AI?

Your articles are researched, written and edited by people — the ProminAI editorial team — and every fact is checked against your approved Brand Truth File. We use AI tools the way a modern newsroom does: for research assistance and cross-checking, never as an unedited author and never as a source of facts about you.

Each authority article is fact-based editorial published on StartupFeed with a custom visual, structured so both people and machines can read it. No superlatives we cannot verify, no claims you have not confirmed in writing — and you see every article before it is published. That restraint is exactly what makes it usable as evidence.

What exactly counts as a brand mention?

A verified, accurate description of your brand published on a public digital platform, consistent with your Brand Truth File, and reachable by a live link. A mention counts toward your plan only when it is live and clickable from your portal. If it cannot be clicked from your portal, it does not count toward your plan.

Mention counts are cumulative across your plan period — a Momentum membership builds 30+ across three months in total, not 30 every month.

Is the ₹3,499 Starter refundable?

Once work commences it is not refunded — and work commences fast: research on your article begins within 24 working hours of your brand details. What it is instead is fully creditable: the full ₹3,499 is adjusted against your membership if you upgrade within 30 days. Judge the work; if it convinces you, the trial effectively cost nothing. One Starter credit per brand.

If you change your mind before work has begun, write to us and we will resolve it fairly. The full policy is on the refund policy page.

All 58 questions, answered honestly

12 Find your fit

Which of these are you?

ProminAI runs the same engine for eight kinds of Indian brand: doctors and clinics, B2B services and consultancies, startups and founders, coaches and consultants, schools and institutions, professional firms, manufacturers and suppliers, and personal brands. Each page below speaks your language, your buyers' questions, and your numbers.

Next step

Find out what AI is telling your customers about you

A free AI Presence Check across your real buying questions. We will show you what came back, who appeared instead, and what is missing. No obligation.

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