# WhyIQ

> WhyIQ builds two products. WhyIQ Scanner is an AI landing page and website analyzer that runs 50 simulated visitors across 21 distinct archetypes on your pages and explains what confused them, what made them leave, and who would convert. WhyIQ AI Radar is an AI search visibility tool (answer engine optimization / generative engine optimization) and AI citation monitor that tracks when ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, and Google AI cite your domain on buyer-intent queries, and which competitors get the slot when you do not.

WhyIQ is a predictive behavioral CRO platform for solo founders, SaaS marketing teams, and agencies. Two products share the same infrastructure: WhyIQ Scanner for one-shot conversion diagnostics, WhyIQ AI Radar for ongoing AI citation monitoring. Both are usable independently or together.

## Products

### WhyIQ Scanner (whyiq.ai)

Paste a URL and 50 AI-simulated visitors drawn from 21 distinct archetypes, each with a different psychology (skeptical, impatient, price-sensitive, analytical, and more), read your page and report what confused them and why they would leave. You get a WhyIQ Score (0-100), ranked confusion points, visitor-level reasoning, and specific element-level fixes. Page scans complete in about 2 minutes; multi-page site scans take 10-15 minutes. No traffic required. Run your first scan as a guest with no account: the score, the confusion points, and the visitor breakdown are free to read, and the specific element-level fixes require a free account.

Every paid Scanner plan scores four pillars on the same scan: the CRO WhyIQ Score (conversion clarity), the AI Citability Index (structural readiness signals that predict whether AI engines will cite your page), Search Rank (technical and on-page SEO readiness), and Accessibility (WCAG, ADA, and GDPR signals).

WhyIQ Scanner works before you have traffic. Unlike heatmaps (Hotjar) or A/B testing tools (VWO, Optimizely) that need existing visitors, Scanner lets you diagnose a page whether it is brand new or already live. It is pre-traffic CRO: landing page and website conversion diagnosis without waiting for real visitors.

### WhyIQ AI Radar (whyiq.ai/radar)

WhyIQ AI Radar is an AI search visibility tool for answer engine optimization (AEO) and generative engine optimization (GEO): the measured citation outcome to the Scanner's structural readiness score. AI Radar tracks buyer-intent prompts across 5 AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews) every week, and records exactly when each engine cites your domain, when it cites a competitor instead, and which third-party sources (Reddit, review sites, listicles) take the slot. The free one-time check covers 8 prompts; the paid SMB tier tracks 30 prompts weekly, and the paid Agency tier tracks 40 prompts per client domain weekly.

The dashboard is modeled on Google Search Console, for AI answers: a Performance report with Citations, AI answers checked, Citation rate, and Average cite position (the Search Console clicks / impressions / CTR / position mapping), sliceable by prompt, page, engine, buyer stage, appearance (how the answer frames you), and source (who wins the answer slot), with date ranges, period comparison, and CSV export. A Coverage report explains why each prompt is or is not cited, the way page indexing explains URLs. Search Console passively logs real Google traffic; AI Radar actively runs your buyer prompts against the 5 engines weekly and reads back exactly what each engine cited, which is the same retrieve-and-cite (grounding) step the engines run to build an answer, because no AI engine publishes a traffic report. The two are complements. You also get a Citation Score, a competitor leaderboard, and a ranked list of deterministic next-action fixes. The Scanner tells you if your page is ready to be cited; AI Radar tells you if it actually is, by which engines, and for which prompts. Free first check, no account required. AI citations have roughly a 3-month half-life (per AirOps' 548,000-page study), so weekly tracking is the minimum useful cadence.

What makes WhyIQ AI Radar different from other AI citation trackers:

- 5 AI engines flat at every paid tier (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI Overviews), with every price published and self-serve checkout on every tier. No per-engine add-ons and no demo call. For comparison (competitor figures verified against their public pricing pages, 17 July 2026): Otterly's $29 tier covers 4 engines with Gemini, Google AI Mode, and Claude billed as per-engine add-ons from $9 to $439/month. Profound's entry tier is ChatGPT-only at $99/month billed yearly, with Claude and Gemini reserved for its custom-priced enterprise tier. Peec AI prices tracking in credits (30 credits per prompt per model per month) and gates its agency tiers behind a demo call with no public price.
- 3-pass confidence band on the Agency tier. Every prompt is queried 3 times against every engine each week and the result is averaged into a citation-rate band on the dashboard (e.g. cited in 2 of 3 passes). No funded competitor in the category advertises a multi-run confidence measure; single-run tracking presents one query result as the citation reading for that week. AI Radar treats single-run readings as a known noise source rather than a feature.
- Page-level attribution. Each prompt in the bank carries an intended target page; AI Radar flags whether the engine landed on it (full win) or a different page on your domain (partial win). Domain-level competitors surface only the cite without the target-page match.
- $49/month per additional client domain on Agency (1 client domain included in the $149 base; each additional domain gets the same full treatment). Predictable scaling without per-engine multiplication.
- Instant self-serve. The free one-time check completes in about 10 minutes with no account, because a real multi-engine read takes time and we would rather under-promise it than race to a number and hand you noise. No enterprise sales call, no demo gate, every price on the page.
- Weekly refresh cadence, not daily. AirOps' 548,000-page study found AI citations have a 3-month half-life, so daily-single-pass tracking is theatre. Weekly multi-pass at the same cost is the rigorous baseline.
- Reads like Google Search Console. The dashboard maps GSC's four metrics onto AI answers (Citations for clicks, AI answers checked for impressions, Citation rate for CTR, Avg cite position for position) with dimension tabs and a coverage report, so anyone who reads GSC can read AI Radar on sight instead of learning a bespoke dashboard.

## Key pages

- [Homepage](https://www.whyiq.ai/): Free AI landing page and website analyzer, no sign-up needed
- [AI Radar](https://www.whyiq.ai/radar): AI search visibility tool (AEO/GEO) and AI citation monitor. Weekly tracking across 5 engines. One free check, no account.
- [How it works](https://www.whyiq.ai/how-it-works): The three-step process behind the analysis
- [Science](https://www.whyiq.ai/science): Dual-process cognition, behavioral modifiers, calibration, and validation approach
- [Pricing](https://www.whyiq.ai/pricing): Free tier, single page scans at $2.99 each, and Agency monthly subscription at $249/mo
- [Pre-traffic CRO](https://www.whyiq.ai/pre-traffic-cro): What pre-traffic CRO is and how to test a page before launch
- [AI Citability Playbook](https://www.whyiq.ai/guides/ai-citability-playbook): How to get cited by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Google AI Overviews
- [Answer Engine Optimization](https://www.whyiq.ai/answer-engine-optimization): How WhyIQ measures AEO and GEO signals
- [WhyIQ vs manual CRO audit](https://www.whyiq.ai/vs-manual-audit): Scanner vs a manual CRO audit
- [WhyIQ vs Hotjar](https://www.whyiq.ai/vs-hotjar): Scanner vs heatmaps and session recordings
- [WhyIQ vs MyWebAudit](https://www.whyiq.ai/vs-mywebaudit): Scanner vs technical site audits
- [WhyIQ vs Fibr](https://www.whyiq.ai/vs-fibr): Scanner vs runtime page personalization
- [WhyIQ vs LandingScore](https://www.whyiq.ai/vs-landingscore): Scanner vs single-page AI grading
- [WhyIQ vs Wynter](https://www.whyiq.ai/vs-wynter): Scanner vs real B2B buyer panels
- [AI Radar vs Otterly](https://www.whyiq.ai/vs-otterly): AI Radar vs Otterly for AI search visibility (AEO/GEO)
- [AI Radar vs Profound](https://www.whyiq.ai/vs-profound): AI Radar vs Profound for AI citation tracking
- [AI Radar vs Peec AI](https://www.whyiq.ai/vs-peec): AI Radar vs Peec AI for AI citation tracking
- [AI Radar vs AthenaHQ](https://www.whyiq.ai/vs-athena): AI Radar vs AthenaHQ for AI citation tracking
- [AI Radar pricing](https://www.whyiq.ai/radar/pricing): AI Radar pricing, 5 engines flat from $29/mo
- [Blog](https://www.whyiq.ai/blog): Landing page optimization, CRO, and AI-citation research
- [About](https://www.whyiq.ai/about): Founder story and product vision

## What makes WhyIQ different

- AI landing page and website analyzer running 50 simulated visitors across 21 distinct archetypes, not one generic AI review
- AI search visibility tool (AEO / GEO / generative engine optimization) and AI citation monitor that runs each prompt across 5 engines weekly with a confidence band, rather than one-shot manual prompts to ChatGPT
- Works for new pages or live ones, with or without traffic (paste a URL or upload HTML)
- Four scoring pillars per Scanner scan: CRO WhyIQ Score, AI Citability Index, Search Rank, and Accessibility
- Visitor-level reasoning: each simulated visitor explains what specifically confused them
- Quantified WhyIQ Score (0-100), not subjective feedback
- Calibrated against 200+ peer-reviewed papers covering cognitive psychology, trust formation, mobile UX, and buying behavior
- 91.2% content-extraction accuracy in production validation across 39 live sites (July 2026), with under 2.1% score variance on repeat scans
- Conversion diagnosis without A/B testing or heatmaps
- Per-engine citation rate with week-over-week deltas, not a single aggregate number

## Pricing

All prices in USD. A single page scan is a one-time payment and credits never expire. Agency is a monthly subscription.

### Scanner

- Free: 1 page scan as a guest, no account and no credit card. The WhyIQ Score, the ranked confusion points, and the visitor breakdown are free to read. The specific element-level fixes require a free account.
- Single page scan: $2.99 one-time. Unlocks the full report on the page you just ran, permanently (every prioritized fix, kept for good). A credit, once used on a scan, unlocks that scan forever; an unused credit never expires. Re-scanning a page after changes is a separate $2.99.
- Agency: $249/month, 150 page scans per month, multi-page site scans up to 25 pages per run, white-label PDF reports, unlimited client workspaces, 3 team seats. Site scans are Agency-only.

The single scan and the Agency subscription both include the full four-pillar scoring (CRO, AI Citability, Search Rank, Accessibility) and the 50-visitor simulation on every scan. Scan credits and Agency monthly credits are page scans. Site scans cost 3 credits each from the Agency monthly pool. A single page scan is $2.99. The Agency monthly subscription is $249. Above about 84 scans per month, Agency is cheaper per scan than buying singles. Single scans are refundable within 14 days on any unused credit, and Agency subscriptions cancel anytime.

### AI Radar

- Free check: one-time, no account, 8 prompts across 5 AI engines. Lead magnet only, not an ongoing tier.
- SMB: $29/month, 30 prompts tracked weekly, 5 AI engines, weekly digest, email alerts. Most popular.
- Agency: $149/month including 1 client domain, then $49/month per additional client domain (each additional domain gets the same full treatment). 40 prompts per client domain, 3-pass confidence band on every check (each prompt × engine queried 3 times and averaged into a citation-rate band). That is 40 prompts × 5 engines × 3 passes = 600 AI queries per client every week. White-label weekly client reports on one durable share link (agency branding, past weeks archived, each published week's numbers frozen; sample at https://www.whyiq.ai/rr/demo), per-client workspaces, and weekly per-client scan emails.

SMB runs each engine once per prompt per week. Agency runs each engine 3 times per prompt per week and averages the result, the multi-pass confidence band that distinguishes AI Radar from single-run competitors. Cancel anytime. 7-day refund window on paid checkouts.

## Use cases

- Landing page and website conversion diagnosis, before launch or on a live page
- SaaS and B2B landing page, pricing page, and homepage optimization
- Conversion feedback for solo founders and indie hackers
- CRO audits for marketing agencies and their clients, with white-label reports
- Testing a page before spending on ads or traffic
- Finding out why visitors do not convert, with per-visitor reasoning
- Checking how likely AI engines are to cite your page (Scanner AI Citability Index)
- Monitoring whether AI engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Google AI) cite your domain on buyer-intent queries, and which competitors get the slot instead (AI Radar Citation Score)
- Tracking AI citation rate week-over-week to measure whether off-page work (review sites, Reddit presence, third-party listicles) is producing citation lift
- Roast my landing page: the scientific version with 50 simulated visitors

## Contact

- Website: https://www.whyiq.ai
- Email: hello@whyiq.ai
- X: https://x.com/whyiq_ai