AI Sightline launches all-in-one AI search analytics platform

By AI, Created 4:58 PM UTC, May 18, 2026, /AGP/ – AI Sightline has launched a complete AI search analytics platform that combines mention tracking, bot crawl logging, referral attribution, sentiment analysis and recommendations in one dashboard. The platform is live now, includes a free tier, and aims to close a major gap in how brands measure AI-driven traffic and visibility.

Why it matters: - AI search teams have been forced to piece together visibility reports from multiple tools, analytics systems and spreadsheets. - AI Sightline’s new platform puts mention tracking, traffic attribution, crawl data and recommendations into one workflow. - The launch targets a measurement gap that can hide AI-driven traffic in legacy analytics.

What happened: - AI Sightline announced the launch of its complete AI search analytics platform on May 11, 2026. - The platform is available immediately on every pricing tier, including a Free tier at $0 per month. - The product is live in production and open to new and existing customers at aisightline.com. - No credit card is required to start on the Free tier.

The details: - The platform combines mention tracking, bot crawl logging, AI referral click attribution, citation sentiment analysis and an automated recommendations engine in one dashboard. - Mention scanning covers ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and Google AI Overviews. - Competitor benchmarking includes share-of-voice scoring. - Citation tracking includes sentiment analysis. - AI bot crawl logging captures GPTBot, ClaudeBot, PerplexityBot and other AI crawlers server-side. - The discovery layer monitors what AI engines pull from llms.txt files, sitemaps and structured data markup. - AI referral click attribution is captured server-side from real human visitors across devices and AI engines. - The recommendations engine ranks fixes by predicted impact on the visibility score. - Installation of the AI traffic layer takes about 30 seconds through a Vercel marketplace integration, a Cloudflare Worker template or a middleware snippet. - The middleware option works with Next.js, Express, Fastify, Hono, Astro, Remix and other frameworks. - AI bot crawl traffic bypasses pageview caps on every tier, so Free users still see complete bot crawl data. - Pricing across the five tiers is Free at $0 per month, Starter at $29.95, Pro at $149.95, Business at $289.95 and Agency at $549.95. - AI Sightline says the closest comparable platform on the market costs $399 per month for a narrower feature set.

Between the lines: - The main differentiator is server-side attribution, which is designed to capture AI referrals that Google Analytics 4 often misclassifies as direct traffic. - A February 2026 analysis of 20,428 AI-driven visits found that 70.6 percent of clicks from AI assistants landed in Google Analytics 4 as “(direct) / (none)” with no source attribution. - The report said mobile in-app browsers inside AI assistants often strip the HTTP Referer header before the destination site sees the request. - AI Sightline’s approach is built to preserve that signal whether the visitor comes from a desktop browser or a mobile in-app browser. - Founder Mac MacDonald said the company collapsed a workflow that previously required multiple SaaS logins and a spreadsheet. - MacDonald also said the category has been promising a unified workflow for two years and that AI Sightline shipped it.

What’s next: - AI Sightline plans to publish its first State of AI Search Traffic report in Q3 2026. - The report will use aggregated platform data across customer brands. - The company says the platform is already available to new and existing customers today.

The bottom line: - AI Sightline is betting that brands want one system to see, attribute and improve AI search visibility without stitching together separate tools.