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Askority vs Doing it by hand
Your spreadsheet was right. It just cannot keep up
Most teams start GEO the honest way: a list of prompts, six browser tabs, a spreadsheet and someone's Friday afternoon. It proves the channel matters. It cannot tell you why a number moved, and it stops the week that person is on holiday.
| Feature | Doing it by hand |
Askority |
|---|---|---|
| Cost | Better:One person, a few hours a week | From $79 / mo |
| Engines checked | As many tabs as you open | Better:All 6, automatically |
| Runs per prompt per day | 1, when someone remembers | Better:4 / 12 / 24 |
| Prompts you can keep up with | 10 to 30 | Better:50 to 600 |
| History | Whatever was pasted | Better:3 months to unlimited, every answer stored |
| Noise handling | A screenshot is the data | Better:Confidence labels on every move |
| Citations tracked | Rarely | Better:Every source, every run |
| Why it changed | A hunch | Better:Drop diagnostics with the page that started being cited |
| What to do next | A meeting | Better:Action queue with forecasts and drafts |
| Proof in GA4 | Manual referrer filter | Better:Automatic, by engine, region and URL |
| Flexibility | Better:Anything you can imagine | What the product does |
| Runs while on holiday | No | Better:Yes |
Three hours a week is 150 hours a year
Checking 20 prompts on six engines takes an afternoon. Doing it daily is a part-time job. And the person doing it is usually the one who should be writing the content that fixes the gaps.
Two screenshots can disagree, and both are right
Answers vary run to run. A spreadsheet with one cell per day cannot tell a bad sample from a real drop, so teams either panic at noise or ignore a loss.
The spreadsheet records that it fell. It cannot say why
Askority compares cited sources before and after a drop, names the page that took your slot and opens the matching action, then attributes results in GA4.
Pick the one that fits the team you have
Choose Askority if- You have more than 20 prompts or more than one brand.
- Someone has asked "why did this drop?" and nobody could answer.
- You need the check to happen without you.
Choose Doing it by hand if- You track fewer than ten prompts and check them monthly.
- You are testing whether AI answers matter for your category at all.
- Budget is zero and time is free.
Askority vs Doing it by hand: questions
Can I import my existing spreadsheet?
Yes. Import prompts from CSV in the Add brand wizard. Historical rows cannot be imported because they were not collected the same way, but you can keep the sheet for reference.
Can I still export everything?
Yes. Prompts, executions, citations and attribution export to CSV on every plan.
What if I only need a one-off check?
Start the 14-day trial, add your prompts and download the report. No card is needed and the account goes read-only after the trial.
See both side by side on your own prompts
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