Cheap Seats

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Quick wins

The fix lists from the latest run of every prompt set, core sets first, then fastest expected ranking gain: prompts a fix could flip per working day, each weighted by what it has left to win (one minus its recommended rate over the last two weeks; named, for an info prompt). Mark a fix with the commit or pull request you submitted for it; open leaves out the ones you have. A later fix for the same page stays open, with what was tried before.

Statusall 2open 2

Priorityall 2urgent 2

Siteall 8cheapseats.dev (marketing) 2cheapseats.dev/docs (docs) 3github.com/cheapseatsdev/cheapseats (code) 1elsewhere 2

Gapall 2documentation 2

Setall 2Cheap Seats head to heads 2

Get cheapseats.dev indexed: sitemap to Bing/Google, llms.txt, 301s from popcorn.zone urgent documentation effort S flips 11 cheapseats.dev Cheap Seats head to heads

Where: https://cheapseats.dev/sitemap.xml
Must say: Every earlier indexing fix targeted popcorn.zone, the old name, so none of them can help cheapseats.dev. In the data, no search answer cited cheapseats.dev on any prompt. Submit https://cheapseats.dev/sitemap.xml, covering /, /docs and /blog, to Bing Webmaster Tools and Google Search Console, and add /llms.txt plus SoftwareApplication JSON-LD (MIT license, Docker, self-hosted). Then 301 popcorn.zone/* and github.com/metcalfc/cheapseats to the matching cheapseats.dev or cheapseatsdev URLs, and set the GitHub repo's About website field to https://cheapseats.dev.
Done when: Bing and Google both report cheapseats.dev pages indexed, and on a re-run at least 3 of the 11 codex-sol search answers cite a cheapseats.dev URL.
Why: "it found no identifiable official site or documentation for the product" (P1, codex-sol search)

Prompt for Claude Code
# Get cheapseats.dev indexed: sitemap to Bing/Google, llms.txt, 301s from popcorn.zone

When buyers ask an AI assistant the questions below, it doesn't recommend us, or recommends us for the wrong reasons. This is a documentation gap: the answer needed a page we don't have, or ours says the wrong thing.

## The questions it affects
- Cheap Seats vs Profound for tracking whether AI assistants recommend us: which should I pick?
- Cheap Seats or Peec AI for a small marketing team?
- Cheap Seats vs Otterly.AI for a startup that wants to track AI visibility cheaply?
- How does Cheap Seats compare with Gauge for tracking and improving AI visibility?
- Cheap Seats or Semrush AI Toolkit for tracking our brand in ChatGPT and Claude?
- Is Cheap Seats a good open-source alternative to paid AI visibility tools?
- What are the downsides of self-hosting Cheap Seats to measure AI search visibility?
- How does Cheap Seats decide whether an AI assistant recommended a brand?
- Is Cheap Seats a good fit for an agency tracking AI visibility for many clients?
- Is Cheap Seats a good fit for a developer-tools company checking whether ChatGPT and Claude recommend it?
- What does it cost to run Cheap Seats every day, and how do I keep the spend under control?

## What the assistant said
"it found no identifiable official site or documentation for the product" (P1, codex-sol search)

## Your task
Write or update the page at https://cheapseats.dev/sitemap.xml so it closes this gap. Find where pages like this live in the repo, match their structure, front matter and tone, and make the change there. If the page exists, edit it rather than starting over.

## What it must say
Every earlier indexing fix targeted popcorn.zone, the old name, so none of them can help cheapseats.dev. In the data, no search answer cited cheapseats.dev on any prompt. Submit https://cheapseats.dev/sitemap.xml, covering /, /docs and /blog, to Bing Webmaster Tools and Google Search Console, and add /llms.txt plus SoftwareApplication JSON-LD (MIT license, Docker, self-hosted). Then 301 popcorn.zone/* and github.com/metcalfc/cheapseats to the matching cheapseats.dev or cheapseatsdev URLs, and set the GitHub repo's About website field to https://cheapseats.dev.

## Done when
Bing and Google both report cheapseats.dev pages indexed, and on a re-run at least 3 of the 11 codex-sol search answers cite a cheapseats.dev URL.

## Rules
- Don't invent numbers, benchmarks, prices, capabilities or customer names. Where a fact is needed and you can't find it in the repo or on our site, leave a clearly marked TODO saying exactly what to measure or who to ask.
- Answer the questions above directly and early on the page, in the words buyers use. AI assistants quote pages that state the answer plainly.
- Keep it scoped to this one fix. When you're done, summarise what you changed and list any TODOs.

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Publish cheapseats.dev/compare/ hub with 5 vs pages (Profound, Peec, Otterly, Gauge, Semrush) urgent documentation effort M flips 5 cheapseats.dev Cheap Seats head to heads

Where: https://cheapseats.dev/compare/ plus /compare/profound, /compare/peec-ai, /compare/otterly-ai, /compare/gauge, /compare/semrush-ai-toolkit
Must say: The earlier popcorn.zone/compare pages sit on the old, unindexed domain and use the old name, so port them to cheapseats.dev under the Cheap Seats name. There should be one page each for Profound, Peec AI, Otterly.AI, Gauge and Semrush AI Toolkit. Each page needs a table covering engines tracked, hosting, pricing model, data ownership, fix-list output and the search vs recall tracks. The pages must concede plainly that Cheap Seats covers Claude and OpenAI only, while competitors cover Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. Against Gauge's Action Center, show that every run outputs a ranked fix list naming the page, the claim and the prompts it should flip. Use competitors' published prices only after re-checking them on their pricing pages.
Done when: On a re-run of P1–P5, at least 2 search answers cite a cheapseats.dev/compare page and none says Cheap Seats' features or pricing "can't be verified".
Displaces: https://www.tryprofound.com/pricing
Why: "It’s the option I could verify; I couldn’t find reliable public product or pricing information for Cheap Seats." (P2, codex-sol search)

Prompt for Claude Code
# Publish cheapseats.dev/compare/ hub with 5 vs pages (Profound, Peec, Otterly, Gauge, Semrush)

When buyers ask an AI assistant the questions below, it doesn't recommend us, or recommends us for the wrong reasons. This is a documentation gap: the answer needed a page we don't have, or ours says the wrong thing.

## The questions it affects
- Cheap Seats vs Profound for tracking whether AI assistants recommend us: which should I pick?
- Cheap Seats or Peec AI for a small marketing team?
- Cheap Seats vs Otterly.AI for a startup that wants to track AI visibility cheaply?
- How does Cheap Seats compare with Gauge for tracking and improving AI visibility?
- Cheap Seats or Semrush AI Toolkit for tracking our brand in ChatGPT and Claude?

## What the assistant said
"It’s the option I could verify; I couldn’t find reliable public product or pricing information for Cheap Seats." (P2, codex-sol search)

## Who wins the question today
https://www.tryprofound.com/pricing. Read it and make sure our version answers everything it does, better.

## Your task
Write or update the page at https://cheapseats.dev/compare/ plus /compare/profound, /compare/peec-ai, /compare/otterly-ai, /compare/gauge, /compare/semrush-ai-toolkit so it closes this gap. Find where pages like this live in the repo, match their structure, front matter and tone, and make the change there. If the page exists, edit it rather than starting over.

## What it must say
The earlier popcorn.zone/compare pages sit on the old, unindexed domain and use the old name, so port them to cheapseats.dev under the Cheap Seats name. There should be one page each for Profound, Peec AI, Otterly.AI, Gauge and Semrush AI Toolkit. Each page needs a table covering engines tracked, hosting, pricing model, data ownership, fix-list output and the search vs recall tracks. The pages must concede plainly that Cheap Seats covers Claude and OpenAI only, while competitors cover Perplexity and Google AI Overviews. Against Gauge's Action Center, show that every run outputs a ranked fix list naming the page, the claim and the prompts it should flip. Use competitors' published prices only after re-checking them on their pricing pages.

## Done when
On a re-run of P1–P5, at least 2 search answers cite a cheapseats.dev/compare page and none says Cheap Seats' features or pricing "can't be verified".

## Rules
- Don't invent numbers, benchmarks, prices, capabilities or customer names. Where a fact is needed and you can't find it in the repo or on our site, leave a clearly marked TODO saying exactly what to measure or who to ask.
- Answer the questions above directly and early on the page, in the words buyers use. AI assistants quote pages that state the answer plainly.
- Keep it scoped to this one fix. When you're done, summarise what you changed and list any TODOs.

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