From the founder
Why we built Frontmost AI for agents
By Ian, founder of Frontmost AI. November 13, 2026.
Your buyers ask AI now
Your buyers ask ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity what to buy and who to hire. Each answer names a few businesses. If AI leaves you out, the buyer never reaches you.
AEO tools were built for a person at a dashboard
The first AI visibility tools followed SEO tools. A marketer opens a dashboard, reads the charts, and decides what to do next. Dashboard tools do that job well, and teams with marketers use them every day.
More companies run on agents
We think more companies will be one person and a few AI agents. Nobody in those companies opens a dashboard each morning. Someone still must own the AI search strategy. In those companies, that job goes to the agent.
A raw answer is text. Your agent needs counts.
Any agent can ask ChatGPT a question. It gets one answer, from one AI app, on one day. That answer is text. It names some businesses, links some pages, and says good and bad things. Your agent cannot plan from one answer, and it cannot compare text with text from last week.
What we do between the answer and the decision
Frontmost AI asks your buyer questions in up to six AI apps, up to every day, and saves every answer. Then it counts every answer the same way:
- A mention counts when the answer refers to your business or one of your products. A link to your site without your name does not count. Another company with your name does not count.
- Each rival counts once, even under a product name or a short name.
- Questions that already name you count apart from questions that do not, so your agent sees whether buyers find you without your name.
- Each statement about you is marked positive or negative.
- An unclear result stays unclear. It never counts as a miss.
The analysis is ready when your agent arrives
Your agent does not start from raw answers. It reads:
- Visibility, win rate, position, and sentiment, split by AI app, by rival, and by kind of buyer.
- Each rival head to head: how often AI names it instead of you, and what AI says when a buyer compares you.
- Every question, with its result in each AI app and the business AI named first.
- The pages AI cites most, and the ones that list your rivals but not you.
- The web searches ChatGPT ran, what changed since the last check, and a Daily Brief on the latest results.
Every number opens the saved answers behind it, so your agent can show you the proof.
What we built
Frontmost AI is a headless AI visibility platform. Your agent owns your AI search strategy, and we give it the data. It connects through MCP, the API, or the command line, on every plan. In Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor, your agent can set up the account. You sign in once, choose a plan, and enter a card. The web app is there when you want to look. What headless AI visibility is
What we do not promise
We do not promise a mention, a ranking, or sales. We measure what AI apps say about your business. Your agent decides what to do with it, and you decide what goes live.
Start with one prompt
Give this to Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor:
Follow https://frontmost.ai/auth.md and set up Frontmost AI for my business. Then tell me where ChatGPT leaves us out.