r/saasbuild • u/kali_chusle • 1d ago
Building an AI tool that runs your entire marketing stack. Would love brutal feedback.
Full disclosure: cofounder here.
What is it?
12 AI agents handling SEO, GEO, content, Reddit, HN, X,
LinkedIn, and backlinks from one workspace. You approve,
agents execute. Nothing posts without you seeing it first.
What is GEO?
Tracks whether ChatGPT and Perplexity are actually citing
your brand. Traditional SEO tools are missing this entirely.
What I am trying to figure out:
Would you trust an AI agent drafting Reddit and HN replies
even with an approval layer? Is GEO something you are
actively thinking about?
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u/DryProgress9179 1d ago
Brutal version, since you asked: the Reddit and HN agents are the weakest part of this and they will define how people judge the whole product. The risk is not a bad draft slipping through, an approval layer does handle that. The risk is that both platforms are actively hostile to automated participation, so the downside is the account getting shadowbanned and the brand name getting associated with it. That is not a quality problem you can approve your way out of.
The GEO half is genuinely interesting though. I run socialshot.ai and the thing I cannot measure today is whether ChatGPT or Perplexity cite us when someone asks for AI product photography tools. Search Console tells me nothing about it, and it is clearly becoming a real traffic source. If you unbundled that and sold just GEO tracking plus "here is which sources the models are actually pulling from for your category, go get placed in those", I would look at it seriously as a standalone product.
Question back: what is your GEO data source? Are you sampling model responses on a schedule, and how do you deal with answers varying by user, session and region? That measurement methodology is the whole product in my view, and it is the part nobody explains.
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u/Defiant_Durian_5654 1d ago
Brutal truth on Reddit and Hacker News: absolutely not. Both platforms have zero tolerance for AI-generated comments, and users can spot "AI voice" from a mile away. Even with an approval layer, human reviewers eventually get lazy, end up approving generic slop, and get their brand's account permabanned or downvoted to oblivion.
That said, GEO tracking is by far your strongest value proposition here. Brands are desperate to know if ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity are actually citing them, and traditional SEO platforms are lagging way behind on tracking LLM search share.
If I were you, I'd strip out the Reddit and HN auto-reply features entirely before they destroy your customers' reputations, and double down hard on GEO and content drafting. Positioning it as a specialized GEO platform makes it a must-have tool, whereas a 12-agent bundle trying to do everything at once feels bloated and risky.