Quickstart

This is the fastest path from a brand-new account to your first AI visibility report. If you're integrating programmatically, see the Overview for MCP and REST instead.

1. Start a scan

Enter your website on the Pendium homepage and start a scan, or sign up first and add your site. Sign-in is handled by email or a connected account — no API key needed to use the product.

2. Confirm your brand

Pendium reads your site and drafts your setup, then asks you to confirm it:

• Your business and competitors — who you are, your category, and who you're up against.
• Buyer personas — the buyer types whose perspective the scan runs from (you can edit roles, goals, and pain points).
• Topics and queries — the questions that get asked of AI platforms, tagged by reach level.
• Platforms — the AI platforms your plan scans. Free scans Gemini and Google AI Overviews; Starter adds ChatGPT and Claude; Pro also adds Perplexity.

While you review, Pendium builds your knowledge base from your site in the background.

3. Read your first report

The first visibility scan runs in about a minute or two. You'll see live progress, then land on your dashboard with:

• Your AI Visibility score (0–100) and what level it maps to.
• Per-platform and per-persona breakdowns — where you're strong, where you're invisible.
• Top competitors AI named alongside or instead of you.
• Cited sources shaping AI's view of your category.
• Recommendations — prioritized actions to improve.

4. Do the next thing

Your dashboard suggests the highest-impact next action based on where your brand stands. Common next steps:

• Review recommendations and work the highest-priority gaps.
• Set up your site — a public surface built for AI agents to read and cite.
• Create content with a content workflow that turns a goal or trend into a batch of on-brand posts.
• Re-scan after you publish to watch the score move over time.

Free vs. paid

Your first scan is free to start on the web. Site creation includes a one-time preview allowance for each brand; later site and page generation uses credits, which can come from a plan allowance or a standalone top-up. Continuous scanning and some other managed features still require a paid plan — see pricing for the details.

Next steps

• AI Visibility Score — what the score means and how scans work.
• Content Workflows — turn a seed into a batch of posts.
• Site: Pages & Feed — your public, AI-readable site.
• Connect your agent over MCP — drive all of the above from Claude, ChatGPT, or a coding agent.