Show HN: Aventos – An experiment in cheap AI SEO

Hi HN, we built Aventos- a cheap way to track company mentions in LLMs.

Aventos is an experiment we're doing after spending ~6 weeks working on various projects in the AI search / GEO / AEO space.

One thing that surprised us is how most tools in this category work. Traditionally, they simulate ChatGPT or Perplexity queries by attempting to reverse engineer the search process. Over the past year, many have shifted to scraping live ChatGPT results instead, since those are signficantly cheaper and reflect more real outputs.

Building and maintaining scrapers is tedious and fragile, so recently a number of SaaS products have emerged that effectively wrap a small number of third-party ChatGPT/Perplexity/Google AIO/etc scraping APIs. What felt odd to us is that many of these still tools charge $70–$200+ per month, despite largely being wrappers around the same underlying data providers.

So we wanted to test a simple idea: if the core cost is just API usage and commodity infrastructure and software costs are lower because of AI, can we be a successful startup if we price near our costs?

What we have so far:

1. Analytics similar to other tools (tracking AI citations, AI search results, and competitor mentions)

2. Content creation features (early and still being improved)

We’d love feedback- especially from a non-marketing perspective on:

* bugs

* confusing terminology or tabs

* anything that feels hand-wavy or misleading

There’s a demo account available if you want to poke around:

username: [email protected] password: password

Happy to answer questions about what other things we've built in the space, how these tools work, etc.