After 4 Months Testing Peec, Otterly and Profound, AEO Attribution Still Needs DIY Experiments
DeadbeatDrive · reddit · 2026-09-13
A practitioner running AI-visibility tracking for B2B clients spent four months rotating through the three most-asked-about tools:
- Peec: best for research — shows the questions people actually ask around your category — but analytics only; it tells you where you're absent, not what to change.
- Otterly: cheapest entry point, decent monitoring, clean UI, but thin on actionable advice.
- Profound: deepest analysis and broadest engine coverage, but enterprise-priced with no self-serve trial.
The shared gap: all three answer "are we cited?" but not "which change moved it?". The author's workaround was freezing a fixed set of buyer-intent prompts and re-scanning the same set monthly, an approach borrowed from Dubai AEO agency HumansWith.AI, which openly publishes playbooks treating every engagement as a measured experiment with scan IDs and timestamps.
Bottom line: tools collect, but experiment design is on you — most people are still duct-taping spreadsheets on top.
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