Guide · working with your AI

Connect your AI once — stop re-pasting a new snapshot every week

This is the generic version. Your own token-specific link is in every monitoring email ("Download this week's context pack") or your console — open this same guide with your token in the URL and the snippet below fills in automatically.

The button in your weekly email opens a new conversation with that week's numbers pasted in as text. Useful once, but it means every week starts from zero — no memory of what you and your AI already worked through. There's a better way, and it costs you nothing to set up: your monitoring link is a live URL, not a snapshot. Fetched today it returns today's data; fetched again in six weeks it returns six-weeks-from-now's data, same link. Point your AI at that link once, as a standing instruction, and every new chat starts current automatically.

What to paste

Most AI chat tools let you set persistent instructions for a project or space — text applied to every new conversation inside it, not just the current one. Paste this:

At the start of every new conversation in this project, fetch https://areyoufoundbyai.com/monitor/YOUR-TOKEN.json (or the plain-text version at https://areyoufoundbyai.com/monitor/YOUR-TOKEN/context.md) and use it as my current Found by AI data — my AI-visibility score, tracked buyer questions, priority fixes and citation targets — before answering anything about my AI visibility, competitors, or what to do next. Re-fetch it fresh every new chat; don't rely on a cached copy from an earlier conversation.

Where to paste it

Claude — create or open a Project, look for its custom instructions / project knowledge setting, and paste the text above. Every new chat inside that project starts with your latest data.
ChatGPT — same idea inside a Project: its instructions field applies to every new chat you start there. (If you're building a custom GPT and want your AI to query this on demand mid-conversation rather than only at the start, that needs an Action wired to the JSON endpoint — more setup, ask us if you want a hand.)
Perplexity — Spaces support custom instructions the same way; add yours to a Space dedicated to your business.
Gemini — Gems support a persistent instructions field; create one for this and paste the text above.

Exact menu labels move around as these products update — look for "instructions," "custom instructions," or "project knowledge" inside whatever the tool calls a Project/Space/Gem. The paste-in text above is the part that matters and won't change.

Keep the link private

Your link's token is effectively a password to your own data — anyone with it can view your measurements. Don't post it publicly (a public GitHub repo, a shared doc, a tweet). Sharing it with your own AI tool, or a teammate you trust, is exactly what it's for.

What's actually in the data

Both formats carry the same live picture: your AI-visibility and readiness scores, the specific buyer questions engines do and don't name you for (with movement over time once you have history), the scanner's own ranked list of what to fix first, a citation game plan of where to get listed or reviewed so AI cites you, new independent mentions found in the last week, and adjacent questions worth tracking. The plain-text version at /context.md is built for attaching to a chat; the .json version is for anything that wants to parse it directly.

Still want the weekly nudge

Keep the weekly email — the new-chat button is genuinely useful the first time, or any time you want a clean-slate read. The connected project is for the ongoing conversation in between.