The API for AI visibility

Build search, content extraction, and AI visibility workflows with one structured API.

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Core endpoint

aiVisibility.check()

Check if a brand appears in AI answers, compare competitors, inspect cited sources, and return opportunities as JSON.

const result = await kiodo.aiVisibility.check({
  brand: "Acme",
  domain: "acme.com",
  category: "payroll API",
  competitors: ["Gusto", "Check", "Finch"],
  market: "us",
  limit: 25
});

// result.visibilityScore
// result.shareOfAnswer
// result.topCitedSources
// result.opportunities
// result.usage.credits

Use cases

Build on top

Dashboards

Build your own AI visibility UI with brand presence, share of answer, cited sources, and opportunities.

Agents

Let internal HTTP agents call Search, Contents, Answer, and AI Visibility beta from your own workflows.

Workflows

Run custom jobs for markets, competitors, categories, prompt sets, alerts, reports, and customer-facing features.

API surface

Production endpoints

search.query()

Search the web and return clean results.

contents.extract()

Extract readable content from URLs.

context.build()

Turn web pages and saved inputs into structured context.

answer.create()

Generate answers with source-aware context.

aiVisibility.check()

Check brand presence, competitors, citations, and gaps in AI answers.

usage.list()

Track credits and API usage.

logs.query()

Inspect requests, outputs, cache hits, and failures.

mcp.connect()

Expose Kiodo to agents and local dev tools.

Cost model

Use only what you need

Marketing teams still get AI visibility, competitor tracking, citations, and reports. The difference is that you build the workflow you actually need instead of paying for a fixed dashboard.

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CapabilityProfound / Peec / OtterlyKiodo
AI visibility checksIncludedIncluded
Competitor comparisonIncludedIncluded
Citation/source trackingIncludedIncluded
Marketing team use caseIncludedIncluded
Custom dashboardsLimited to the platform UIBuild exactly the dashboard your team needs
Custom workflowsLimited to platform automationsRun jobs from agents, scripts, queues, cron, or internal tools
Developer integrationSecondaryFirst-class HTTP API. MCP currently covers Search, Contents, Answer, and Usage.
Cost modelPay for a full static platformPay for API usage and productivity
Output ownershipReports inside the productStructured JSON you can store, inspect, score, and re-rank

Integrations

Works with your stack

HTTP agents

Run checks from local dev loops, scripts, and agentic tasks.

Internal tools

Feed web and AI visibility signals into company research workflows.

MCP

Expose Search, Contents, Answer, and Usage tools to compatible clients.

Internal tools

Trigger custom jobs from dashboards, scripts, cron, queues, and backends.

FAQ

Common questions

What is Kiodo?

Kiodo is an API for web search, content extraction, source-aware answers, and AI visibility checks. Kiodo is available at kiodo.dev.

What is an AI visibility API?

An AI visibility API checks whether a brand appears in AI-generated answers, how it compares with competitors, and which sources are cited in those answers.

How do I track brand mentions in AI answers?

Call aiVisibility.check() with a brand, category, market, and competitors. Kiodo returns brand presence, share of answer, cited sources, confidence, freshness, and usage data as JSON.

How do I track citations in AI-generated answers?

Kiodo returns topCitedSources for each visibility check, including source URLs, titles, whether the source mentions your brand, and which competitors appear.

What is share of answer?

Share of answer is the relative presence of your brand versus competitors in AI answer data for a category, market, or prompt set.

What does aiVisibility.check() return?

Structured JSON with visibility score, share of answer, AI answer mentions, cited sources, competitor gaps, confidence, freshness, and usage credits.

How is this different from Profound, Peec, or Otterly?

Those are ready-made marketing platforms. Kiodo is for builders who want the underlying API to create their own dashboards, agents, reports, and internal workflows.

Why can this be cheaper?

You do not pay for a full platform, seats, fixed projects, or unused dashboard features. You call the API when your product, agent, or job needs data and spend credits on usage.

Can marketing teams use Kiodo?

Yes. Marketing teams can get AI visibility checks, competitor comparison, citation tracking, and reports through dashboards or workflows built on top of the API.

Can I build my own AI visibility dashboard?

Yes. Kiodo returns structured API output that can power custom dashboards, customer-facing products, internal reporting, scheduled jobs, and AI agents.

Why can this be more precise for builders?

You control the market, category, competitors, prompt logic, caching, scoring, and downstream ranking. Kiodo returns the evidence instead of hiding it behind one dashboard metric.

Can I use it with agents?

Yes. Use the HTTP API directly from custom agents, scripts, cron jobs, internal tools, and product backends. MCP currently covers Search, Contents, Answer, and Usage; AI Visibility is REST-only beta.

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