1. The site: domain, name, country, language
After you sign up and confirm your email, Teddit asks Which site do you want to track? Four fields, and two of them deserve a moment.
- Website. The domain you monitor. It decides which links count as links to you, and it cannot be changed later. Enter the domain your pages actually live on.
- Brand name. Filled in from the domain. Change it to the name buyers and assistants use.
- Your customers are in and They ask in. The country and the language the assistants answer for. Pick the market you sell to, not the one your office is in. You can change both later in the site’s Settings, under Who is asking, but answers before and after the change answer different questions.
One thing to add straight after: other names. If your brand is written in more than one way, or a product is better known than the company, open the site’s Settings and add those names under Your brand. An answer that uses any of them counts as naming you. You can do this at any time: every stored answer is read again, and no assistant is asked again, so it costs nothing.
2. Competitors: the ones buyers compare you with
The next screen asks Who do you compete with? Enter each brand’s name and website. You can press Skip for now, but competitors do more than fill a table:
- Share of voice is counted against the competitors you track. With none, it is 100% as soon as one answer names you.
- An answer that names rivals and not you is shown as “Competitors only” only if those rivals are tracked. Otherwise it reads “Not named”.
- The website lets Teddit tell when an answer links to a competitor’s pages.
List the brands buyers actually put next to you, not every company in your industry. Five to eight is a reasonable start. You will not get it perfect, and you do not need to: the Competitors page lists brands that keep turning up in recent answers without being tracked, and Track adds one. A competitor added later is counted in all the answers you already have, at no cost.
3. Prompts: start small, write them like a buyer
Then What do your customers ask AI? One question per line. They become active prompts straight away.
Which email marketing platform is best for a small online shop? How do I keep my weekly newsletter out of the spam folder? Which email platform can I move 5,000 subscribers to without losing my automations?
The screen suggests 5 to 10 to begin with. That is a sensible first scan: enough to see how each assistant treats your category, cheap enough to try again. Three rules make them worth tracking for months.
- Full questions with context, the way a buyer writes to an assistant, not keywords.
- Mostly without your brand name. A prompt that names you shows how you are described, not whether you are found. Teddit marks such prompts “Names your brand”.
- Wording you will keep. An edited prompt is a new question, so fix typos early.
After the first scan, grow the list on the Prompts page: Add prompts with categories and an intent, Import for a CSV file, or the tab From the assistants’ searches, which lists the web searches the assistants ran while answering. Teddit does not write prompts for you. How to build the list is covered in How to choose the prompts worth tracking.
4. The first scan: assistants, models, schedule
The last screen, Run your first scan, is where cost is decided. Every prompt is asked of every assistant you select, once:
answers per scan = prompts × assistants 10 prompts × 6 assistants = 60 answers weekly ≈ 4.33 scans a month ≈ 260 answers a month
- Assistants. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Google AI Overviews and AI Mode. Start with all of them if your buyers could be using any. You can narrow it down once you have seen where your audience’s questions get useful answers.
- Models. Each assistant answers with the model you choose. Defaults picks the model most people get in the assistant’s own app; Cheapest picks the least expensive one. The price per answer changes with the model, and so can the answer. Choose one and keep it, so your history stays comparable.
- Schedule. Manual only, Daily, Weekly or Monthly. Scheduled scans run at night (UTC). Weekly suits most brands.
The screen shows the answers per scan, the price per scan and per month, and the workspace balance. Scans are paid from a prepaid balance. If it does not cover the scan, the Owner can top up from $25 with Top up to scan. Finish without scanning saves everything and lets you scan later. A failed answer costs nothing.
5. Limits, before the schedule runs on its own
A schedule spends money without anyone pressing a button. Two settings keep that in bounds, and both are worth setting on day one.
| Setting | Where | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly limit | Site Settings → Scans and spending | The most this site’s scans may cost in a calendar month. A scan does not start once the cap is reached, and a running one stops at it. |
| Max per scan | Scans → Scan settings → Spending | The most one scan may cost. Left at 0, a scan stops at twice its estimate. |
In Scan settings you will also find Batch pricing: ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini answer for a lower price within a few hours, a day at most. For a weekly schedule nobody watches live, it is usually the sensible choice. Admins and Owners can also decide in the site’s Settings, under Assistants and models, which assistants and models scans of this site may use at all.
6. After the first scan: three checks
The scan shows its progress at the top of Scan history, answers arrive one by one, and everyone in the workspace gets a notification under the bell when it is done. Before you read any number, spend ten minutes on three checks.
- Is your brand recognised? Open a few answers on the Prompts page. If an answer clearly mentions you and is not counted, the assistant most likely used a name you have not added. Add it under Your brand.
- Are the right competitors tracked? Look at the brands suggested on the Competitors page. Track the ones buyers would compare you with.
- Can the assistants read your site? At the bottom of Pages, AI crawler access shows, per crawler, whether your robots.txt lets it in.
Then leave it alone for a few weeks. Changes, trends and the history squares need at least two scans in different periods, and a trend needs more than that. Why is explained in One scan is a sample. Each Monday after a week with a scan, Teddit emails a short summary of the week, so you do not have to remember to look.