Is VisiScan Worth It?
VisiScan.app looks like GEO software because it scores AI answers. It is a four-engine local scan. $0, $49, $29/mo. Software buyers should read the question caps first.
VisiScan will show up in a GEO shopping tab because it measures whether ChatGPT named you. Then you notice the product is five or twelve questions, four engines, and a weekly re-run if you pay $29. That is a scanner. Promptwatch is the GEO software we rank for standing prompts, crawler logs, and conversions. The two products share a shopping tab and not much else. A buyer who reads the question caps first will not confuse them. A buyer who reads only the headline will.
Whether it is worth it depends on whether you needed a local named-rate this afternoon or a Monday dashboard. Those are different purchases. The first is a one-time artifact you hand to a local operator. The second is a standing ledger you read every week. VisiScan sells the first. Promptwatch sells the second. The worth question only makes sense once you know which one you were shopping for.
What you run
visiscan.app. Founder: Mike Holp. Engines on pricing.md (24 August 2026): ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini. We re-read 29 August 2026. No Grok. No Copilot. No AI Overviews. No AI Mode. The four-engine list is the first thing to read on the pricing page. If your buyer lives in Grok or Copilot, or cares about Google's AI surfaces, VisiScan does not cover them. That is not a flaw in the product. It is a scope decision the buyer has to make before paying.
Pipeline: profile the site, ask buyer questions localized to the market, audit 30+ signals (Wikidata, Knowledge Graph, mentions, schema, crawler access, content health), score visibility and readiness, hand over schema and llms.txt on the paid report. Visibility is named in the answer. Readiness is whether the site is built to be found and cited. llms.txt weights trust and comparison intents at 1.5x. The two scores answer different questions. Visibility asks whether the engine named you on the prompts you ran. Readiness asks whether your site is built to be named next time. A site can score high on readiness and low on visibility, because readiness is about structure and visibility is about what the engine said.
Free: 5 questions, 2 samples, up to 40 answers, ~60s, no card. 1 scan per URL. Full report $49: 12 × 3, up to 144, quotes, citation plan, L1-L5 ladder, benchmark, 7-day refund. Monitor $29/mo or $290/yr: weekly full depth, trends, alerts, traffic beacon, API. The free scan is one scan per URL, which is the cap that matters for a multi-location operator. If you have ten locations, the free scan is ten runs, not one run that covers all ten.
Harborlight Plumbing is illustrative. 328 / 289 / 25 are vendor. Email-to-unlock-full-report on one homepage block versus $49 on the price card: screenshot. Vendor numbers stay vendor. We do not repeat them as our measurement. The screenshot of the email unlock is the part that tells you how the product converts a free user to a paid report. It is a friction step, not a defect.
GEO software versus a scan
GEO software, here, has to survive next week: which prompt moved, which URL got cited, which bot fetched it, whether the visit converted. VisiScan names most of those jobs as modules (citations, crawlers, traffic). The meter is still 12 questions a week on four chat engines if you buy Monitor. Crawler access is a readiness checkbox, not Agent Analytics from a CDN. The beacon counts AI referrers. It does not publish conversion attribution the way Promptwatch visitor analytics does. The difference between a module that names a job and a feature that does the job is the whole comparison. VisiScan names crawler access as a readiness signal. Promptwatch logs the actual crawl from the CDN and ties it to the citation.
Paste-in schema is a real deliverable for a local site. It is not Content Agents to Webflow or Framer. A local trade that needs schema on a single domain can use the paste-in file today. A brand that needs a publishing loop with a review inbox cannot. Those are different buyers, and the worth question splits along that line.
Explore remains $0 for ten ChatGPT prompts without a one-scan-per-URL rule. Essential is $95/mo. Professional is $245/mo with 25M crawler logs. VisiScan $29 is not a Promptwatch SKU. We will keep repeating that until the $29 ghost dies. The $29 ghost is the old fabricated number that used to sit on Promptwatch in this directory. It is not a VisiScan price repeated as a Promptwatch price. It is a Promptwatch price that was never real.
Who should pay $49
Pay the free scan if you are a local operator. The methodology page is public, which we like. A public methodology is the thing that lets you read the score before you pay. A vendor that hides the methodology is asking you to trust a black box. VisiScan does not.
Pay $49 if you need a shareable 144-answer artifact and will paste the files. Use the refund rule as written: five new things or you ask. The refund rule is the part that makes the $49 a low-risk purchase for a one-time artifact. If the report does not surface five things you did not know, you ask for the refund. That is a clear contract.
Skip Monitor as "GEO software." Weekly 12 questions is a re-grade. If that was the shopping query, open Promptwatch first. Monitor is a re-grade because 12 questions a week on four engines is a sample, not a ledger. A ledger stores the answer, the cited URL, and the trend. A re-grade stores a score and a new score next week. The difference matters when the client asks "which prompt moved and why."
The free scan's "up to 40" matters when a provider is down. Reports mark live versus replay. That honesty is a plus. It is also a reminder you are sampling, not running 6,000 responses a month. Essential's 6,000 figure is a different product class. The "up to 40" cap and the 6,000 response allowance are not the same kind of number. One is a sample of a single URL. The other is a monthly meter across a prompt list.
Local-only positioning is a feature. If you sell SaaS globally, four localized "near me" questions will not map to your prompt set. That buyer should not be on this SKU. A SaaS buyer who runs VisiScan will get a local-style report on a non-local business, and the readiness signals will read as if the business had a service area. That is a category mismatch, not a product defect.
VisiScan is worth a scan. It is not the GEO platform in this directory.