Track what AI recommends, then improve it
friction AI shows how your brand appears across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. Use these docs to set up tracking, interpret your scores, find blindspots, and turn AI responses into concrete actions.Start with the product map
The app is organized around five workflows.Set up measurement
Add your brand, website, industry, competitors, and first tracking prompts during onboarding.
Monitor the dashboard
Review AI Score, prompt performance, shopping prompts, cited sources, and experiment status from one view.
Track prompts
Add custom LLM prompts and search queries that represent the moments where customers discover or compare you.
Track shopping intent
See whether AI recommends your products, where it sends buyers, and which competitors capture purchase intent.
Audit brand health
Diagnose visibility, sentiment, purchase intent, model performance, source citations, and prompt-level evidence.
Act on blindspots
Find underperforming prompts and content pages, then prioritize the fixes most likely to move scores.
What friction AI measures
AI Score
AI Score
A composite score for how strongly AI assistants recommend your brand. It is driven by visibility, sentiment, and purchase intent. Start with AI Score.
Visibility
Visibility
Whether your brand appears in AI answers for the prompts and search queries that matter to your market.
Sentiment
Sentiment
Whether AI describes your brand positively, neutrally, or negatively when it mentions you.
Purchase intent
Purchase intent
Whether AI recommends your brand or product in high-intent buying and comparison contexts.
Entity understanding
Entity understanding
Whether models recognize your brand as a real-world entity from structured signals, training data, and live web search.
Content readiness
Content readiness
Whether your website gives AI systems enough clear, recent, entity-rich content to understand and cite you.
Recommended path
Complete onboarding
Create the first brand profile and let friction AI run the initial analysis. See Getting started.
Read the dashboard
Use Dashboard overview to understand what changed and where to investigate.
Add your own prompts
Use Prompts for specific discovery, comparison, and recommendation questions.
Inspect brand health
Use Analysis, Entity, and Competitor to diagnose why scores move.
Prioritize fixes
Use Actions: Prompts and Actions: Content to convert evidence into work.
Plans and access
Feature access depends on your subscription tier.Starter
Prompt tracking and basic AI visibility monitoring for one brand.
Growth
Brand health, shopping prompts, entity understanding, and competitor deep-dive access.
Professional+
A/B testing, expanded provider access, and larger limits for active teams.
For current plan details, open Pricing or review Subscription in the app.