Playbook · Startup founders
Incumbents own the training data. You can own the retrieval.
Engines re-read the live web constantly. A startup that structures its story for machines today can be in tomorrow's answers — the one channel where small and fast wins.
Founder
$49/mo
1
brands
1
seats
5
engines
The situation
Where startup founders stand.
A founder's first hundred customers now ask an assistant before they ask a search engine — "best X for a two-person team", "X vs Y", "is there a cheaper Z". The engines answer with whoever they already know, and they know the incumbents. Your launch post won't change that on its own.
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robots.txt
Allow the AI agents — all sixteen checked against your live file.
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llms.txt
Generated from your pages; drop it at the site root.
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JSON-LD
Organization and Product schema for <head>, from your own content.
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First audit
Founder persona, your category keywords, all five engines.
The playbook
Four plays, in order.
Claim machine readability
Ship llms.txt and JSON-LD before your launch post. Synthic generates both from your real pages, so the first time an engine reads you, it reads you right.
Audit your category prompts
"Best X for startups", "X vs Y", "how do I do Z" — run the questions your first hundred customers actually ask, through the founder persona, across every engine.
Target the gap, not the giant
Share of voice shows which incumbent owns each prompt and where the engines hedge. Hedged answers are open answers — write the page that closes them.
Guard the story as you grow
Every pivot and price change is a fresh chance to be misquoted. Hallucination scans catch stale claims so the engines describe the company you are now.
The first thirty days
What week one actually looks like.
Day 0
Create the brand, drop in llms.txt and JSON-LD generated from your pages, allow the AI agents in robots.txt.
Schema & llms.txt · Crawler Access
Day 1
Run the first audit through the founder persona on your category keywords, all five engines. This is your baseline.
AI Search Audits
Week 1
Read the share-of-voice table. Write the page that closes the prompt where the engines hedge.
Share of Voice · Content Optimizer
Month 1
Re-audit after the page ships. Scan for hallucinations after every pricing change.
AI Search Audits · Hallucination Defense
Why Synthic
What startup founders actually get.
01
Founder pricing
A real plan at seed-stage money — not an enterprise quote with a startup sticker.
02
No sales call
Sign up, connect your brand, audit. The product is the demo.
03
Evidence, not vibes
Every metric links to a verbatim engine answer you can screenshot into your investor update.
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Minutes a week
Run an audit, fix what it flags, get back to building.
The plan
Founder, $49 a month.
All five engines, 50 audits a month, the generators and share of voice — one brand, one seat.
- 1 brand workspace
- All 5 answer engines
- 50 AI audits / mo
- 2× multi-run confidence
- Schema & llms.txt generator
- Share-of-voice tracking
- 1 seat
- AI Search Audits
- Share of Voice
- Hallucination Defense
- Schema & llms.txt
Find out what the engines say about you.
Run a live audit — the product is the demo.
- Free first audit
- No credit card
- Live engine data
- Your data stays yours
- Cancel anytime