Best AI visibility tool for an online course business, ranked on how many distinct questions a catalogue can watch at the entry tier
Four of six readings of a course business question named a tool, the highest of the twelve six reading vertical questions on these two sheets, and a catalogue needs one tracked question per course, so the published allowance is the decision.
Published by AI Knows Us · Updated 22 October 2026
An online course business is the one buyer in this set that the engines already answer with a product name. In the second audit, 4 of 6 readings of a course business question named an AI visibility vendor, which is the highest of the twelve six reading vertical questions on these two sheets, and five different vendors came up across those readings. So the question is not whether to buy, it is how many distinct questions the plan lets you watch, because a catalogue needs roughly one tracked question per course. Ranked on the published allowance at the tier you can actually buy, Rankscale publishes unlimited search terms priced in credits, Ahrefs publishes 150 checks a month with its unit stated, Scrunch publishes 125 prompts, we publish 100 questions on all five apps, and Otterly publishes 15.
What the six course readings produced
| Measure, 6 readings | Result |
|---|---|
| Named any AI visibility vendor | 4 of 6 |
| Split by app | ChatGPT 2 of 3, Gemini 2 of 3 |
| Split by market | United States 2 of 2, United Kingdom 1 of 2, India 1 of 2 |
| Distinct vendors named | 5: Semrush, Otterly, Peec, Evertune, Profound |
| Named press or earned media | 3 of 6 |
| Named structured data | 3 of 6 |
| Named a review platform | 2 of 6 |
| Named a company profile | 0 of 6 |
| Named AI Knows Us | 0 of 6 |
Two things separate this buyer from every local business we have measured. The profile was named in none of the six, so the listing work that dominates a trades or salon answer is simply not the job here. And press was named in three of six, which puts a course seller closer to a software company than to a shop.
One more finding, reported on its own because it is a different measurement: peec.ai appeared 12 times in the stored citation lists for this question. Being cited as a source and being named in the answer text are two separate results and we never combine them. For a course seller the practical reading is that the category's own published material is part of what an assistant assembles this answer from.
Ranked on the published question allowance, read on 21 October 2026
| Vendor | What the buyable tier publishes |
|---|---|
| Rankscale | "Search terms: unlimited. Creation unlimited, execution uses credits", a monthly credit allowance, an answers cap of up to 4,800 on the entry plan, and a credit calculator |
| Ahrefs | 150 checks a month on AI prompts, rising to 300 and 600, with the unit published: each prompt uses one check per platform, per location and per update |
| Scrunch AI | 125 unique prompts and 5,000 responses a month, with one country, one language and five competitors |
| AI Knows Us | 100 buyer questions on all five apps, weekly, with 1,600 credits against 1,200 scheduled answers; GEO Scale publishes 300 questions and 4,667 credits |
| Depra AI | Prompt slots pooled across projects, with up to 1,600 successful checks a month on the entry plan and a published cap on each tier above it |
| Peec AI | 50 prompts, three chosen models, one project, daily, with its own published formula for monthly answers |
| Profound | 50 prompts run daily for seven days on the free trial, one language, one region; the ongoing plan is unpriced |
| Otterly.AI | 15 search prompts on four base engines, with extra prompts sold in blocks of 100, and Gemini, Claude and AI Mode as add-ons |
| Semrush | Unlimited prompts tracked daily, published on its top tier only |
Do the arithmetic for your own catalogue before you choose. Forty courses is forty questions, and on five apps that is two hundred answers in a single round. On an entry tier of 15 prompts you would be watching your three best sellers. On ours you would be watching a hundred questions weekly, which covers a mid sized catalogue with room for the pricing, certification and comparison questions a buyer asks alongside the course name.
Being fair about where rivals beat us: Peec, Otterly, Profound and Depra publish a daily cadence against our weekly, Rankscale publishes an hourly option, four of them publish unlimited seats where we publish one login with full access, Peec and Rankscale publish a changelog and we publish none, and we publish no single sign-on. Rankscale publishes a credit calculator and we publish a worked example instead. What our page does publish is the unit: one credit is one question on one app once, a Claude check is three, a failed check refunds its credit, and the page tells you what a check will use before it starts.
What a course seller should track, in order
- One question per course that pays the bills. Not per module. "Best course for X", "X certification worth it", "X course with placement".
- The comparison questions. Your course against the two platforms a buyer would otherwise use. These are where a named recommendation happens, and four of six readings here produced one.
- The price and refund question. Fees, instalments and the refund window in plain text, because an answer will quote a number if it can find one.
- Press, not the profile. Press was named in three of six readings and a profile in none. A review in a sector publication is worth more to this buyer than a map listing.
- Re-check after you publish. The only way to show a change worked is the same question asked twice, which is why we publish our own re-reads with dates on our proof page.
What a buyer actually asks before enrolling is set out in our page on the questions an assistant gets asked before somebody picks a course provider. It carried no inbound internal link when we counted, as is true of 964 of our 1,987 live pages.
Questions about AI visibility tools for an online course business
How many tracked questions does a course catalogue actually need?
Start with one per course that earns money, add the three comparison questions your sales calls keep raising, and add fees and certification. For most sellers that lands between 30 and 100, which is why the entry tier allowance is the line to read first.
Why did this question produce a tool name in four readings of six?
Because a course business reads as a digital business to both apps. Four of six readings produced a tool name and five different vendors appeared across them, which the tour operator question also managed. A plumber asking the same shaped question is told to fix a listing instead.
Does this page cover a corporate training provider?
No, and deliberately. Neither audit bank contains a training provider question, so there is no reading behind that buyer and nothing on this page claims to speak for it. The course readings here are about selling courses direct, and the word training appears in them only as "AI training corpora" and as a trademark class.
Is a daily check worth paying for on a course catalogue?
Daily is useful in a launch week and during a sale. Outside that, weekly on your priority questions keeps you working from current data without spending the allowance you need for the rest of the catalogue. Four vendors publish daily as standard and we publish weekly with extra checks on demand.
What should a course seller ask a vendor on the first call?
Ask what one check costs in their unit, how many of those a month the plan includes, and whether a failed check is refunded. Then multiply by your course count and your app count. Three of the nine pages we read publish enough to let you do that sum before you buy.
A course buyer types the course name and the word worth into an assistant, and on this evidence gets handed a product recommendation about half the time. That makes a course catalogue the rare case where the tracking bank, not the listing, is the first thing to size.