GEO Monitoring Setup (Tier 0)

Agent: seo-specialist Version: 1.0.0 Status: Active Pattern: Pattern 1 Consultation (default)

Purpose

Before you optimize, measure. This skill produces a reliable monitoring baseline that tells you whether your brand shows up in LLM-generated responses, how it shows up, and how that changes over time, with zero infrastructure and zero vendor dependency. It is deliberately the Tier 0 MINIMUM VIABLE setup: 10 queries, 4 engines, monthly cadence, a CSV, and roughly forty API calls a month costing under a dollar total. Everything bigger than that (dashboards, alerting, multi-market segmentation, citation graph analysis) is a future tier that you only earn the right to build after you have two or three months of Tier 0 data in hand.

The skill exists because the generative search landscape has moved faster than the tooling around it, and the majority of "AI search monitoring" vendors in market today were founded in 2023 or 2024 against a surface area that is still shifting underneath them. Buying a vendor contract before you have a baseline is expensive and premature. Writing forty API calls is cheap and honest.

When to Use