Machine Relations
Consulting method for getting brands named and recommended by AI answer engines through structured, retrievable authority signals.
≈ 33visits/mo
Little sign of use · estimate, read 2026-10-12
- For
- Brands and communications teams that want AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini to cite and recommend them.
- Price
- Price not read
- Activity
- Actively maintainedsite updated 2 days ago
- Company
- since 2024per Wikidata
- track which sources AI answer engines cite
- place earned media where AI engines retrieve it
- measure brand citations across observed answer runs
- Founded2024per Wikidata
- MCP serverai.machinerelations/mriverified in the MCP registry
- Stateanswers, 4 toolschecked 2026-10-13
- Address to connectmachinerelations.ai/mcp
- OpenAPI spec5 pathsthe spec ↗
- API docsmachinerelations.ai/developersthe vendor's page ↗
Each line is something a program found when it went looking: the registry entry, the server's own answer, a spec that parses. A missing line means we did not find it, not that it does not exist.
Figure and bar: visits/mo, estimate · year: online since
- #1
Surfer SEO
Analyzes web pages and generates optimization recommendations to improve search rankings and content performance.
99.6kActiveFrom $49/mo2017 - #2
Writesonic
Tracks brand visibility in AI search results and recommends content fixes to improve rankings.
29.4kActiveFrom $79/mo2021 - #3
Addlly AI
Audits and optimizes brand visibility in AI search engines and chatbots through generative engine optimization.
20.3kActiveFrom ≈ $228/mo - #4
LLMrefs
Tracks keyword rankings and citations across generative AI search engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini.
8.5kActiveFrom $79/mo2025 - #5
Clearscope
Analyzes search queries and content performance to guide SEO and AI visibility optimization.
5.3knot readFrom $129/mo - #6
Wellows
Tracks brand citations in AI search results and measures visibility across LLMs like ChatGPT and Perplexity.
4.8kActiveFrom $29/mo
What is Machine Relations?
Consulting method for getting brands named and recommended by AI answer engines through structured, retrievable authority signals. It is listed in the Atlas under Marketing.
Who is Machine Relations for?
Brands and communications teams that want AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini to cite and recommend them.
Do people use Machine Relations?
Little sign of use: ≈ 33 visits/mo · estimate, 2026-10.
Is Machine Relations still maintained?
Actively maintained: site updated 2 days ago.
What are alternatives to Machine Relations?
In Marketing, by use: Surfer SEO, Writesonic, Addlly AI, LLMrefs, Clearscope, Wellows.
Not quite it? Describe the job
betaFive tools from the Atlas that fit it, each judged against what you wrote.
How we read a tool
No votes, no reviews, no vendor claims. Every week a crawler reads each tool's own site and a few public registries, and the words on the card are bands over what it read.
- Use: visits to the site (estimated), installs from npm and PyPI, presence in Chrome's usage report.
- Activity: the newest release on GitHub, npm or PyPI; the newest dated page on the site; open roles on a public jobs board.
- Price: the vendor's own pricing page, read with the date. A figure is printed only when it is on that page.
- The line and the use cases are written by us from the homepage, one tool at a time, and refused when they repeat the vendor's marketing.
How AI assistants read each site — the reading vendors ask us about — is on each tool's own visibility page.