The AEO Graveyard
Nearly 50 AI visibility tools have disappeared in the last two years. Most shut down, and the rest pivoted to something else or were bought and folded into another product. When a tracker disappears, its customers have to adjust to a new system or start from scratch.
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Absorbed
XFunnel
Acquired · Oct 30, 2025
Answer-engine visibility with a dedicated analyst and an experimentation platform
Acquired by HubSpot, which now sells its own AEO product; XFunnel's site only takes sign-ups for updates.
Absorbed
Hall
Acquired · Jul 21, 2026
AI brand visibility tracker, acquired by Tracksuit
Acquired by Tracksuit; new signups go to Tracksuit's waitlist.
Absorbed
Meridian
Acquired · Sep 2026
AI visibility platform acquired by Searchable in 2026
Acquired by Searchable; customers are being moved to Searchable.
Absorbed
Trajaan
Acquired · Dec 11, 2025
Paris search intelligence platform tracking brands across search engines, marketplaces, social and GenAI assistants
Acquired by Cision; its search and GenAI-assistant tracking is being folded into Brandwatch, CisionOne and PR Newswire, which now sells an AEO & GEO report built on it.
Absorbed
Vizby
Acquired · Oct 1, 2026
Shopify-native app that audits a store's visibility in ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Copilot
Acquired by Swap Commerce, its first acquisition; the product now runs as Swap Discovery and vizby.ai redirects there.
R.I.P.
Scope
Pivoted · 2026
Agent analytics: tracks AI coding agents' journeys through your docs, API, and checkout
Pivoted to analytics for how AI coding agents move through a company's docs, API, and checkout.
R.I.P.
Lorelight
Shut down · Oct 31, 2025
Discontinued AI visibility startup with a public postmortem
Shut down by its founder, who published a postmortem: customers signed up, but tracking alone didn't keep them.
Absorbed
AI Rank Checker
Acquired · 2026
AI rank tracker now part of Cognizo's content-led AI visibility platform
Acquired by Cognizo; its pay-as-you-go wallet was retired in favor of Cognizo's plans.
R.I.P.
Jarts
Shut down · May 4, 2026
Persona-based visibility tracker, acquired and shut down
Acquired by AI Trust Signals, then shut down; the operating company went into liquidation.
R.I.P.
Bear AI
Pivoted · 2026
Pivoted from AI visibility to enterprise workflow datasets for AI agents
Pivoted away from AI visibility to building workflow datasets for AI labs and agent builders.
R.I.P.
Genwolf
Shut down · Oct 2026
Daily prompt tracking across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity
The hosted app has been paused. Its MIT-licensed core is still on GitHub, but it hasn't been updated since February 2026.
R.I.P.
SearchAttention
Shut down · Sep 1, 2026
Content optimization for AI search, with relevancy scores and attention heatmaps showing what models focus on in a page
Its founders shut the product down, citing expensive GPU capacity, a crowded GEO tool market, and no product-market fit, and moved on to a new venture called Betalyra.
R.I.P.
Eldil AI
Pivoted · May 2026
GEO suite for SEO agencies that monitored and improved brand mentions on ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude
The agency-focused GEO suite was taken down in spring 2026, and the domain now advertises a service that sources rare print media as training data for frontier models.
R.I.P.
Visalytica
Pivoted · Apr 2026
AI visibility monitor that scored how ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity described a brand
By April 2026 the AI visibility monitor had been replaced by a general directory of SaaS and AI tools on the same domain.
R.I.P.
Rankly
Pivoted · 2026
Answer engine analytics that tracked brand visibility in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude and Gemini and tied it to conversions
Launched as an AEO analytics platform in November 2025 but now sells itself as an 'Agentic Commerce Experience' platform at tryrankly.com, and the rankly.ai domain is listed for sale.
R.I.P.
Exanimo.ai
Shut down · Oct 2026
AI engine optimization and brand-visibility tracking across ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, with white-label dashboards for agencies
The white-label GEO platform had been in open beta since mid-2025, and its hosted app has since been taken offline.
R.I.P.
BrandJet AI
Pivoted · Feb 2026
Brand monitoring platform combining social listening with AI search intelligence
It moved from brand monitoring with AI search intelligence to a multi-channel cold outreach platform for B2B sales.
R.I.P.
Radix AI
Shut down · 2026
Visibility software tracking brand mentions, citations and competitors across ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity
The site now returns Framer's 'Site Not Found' page; it was last archived live in January 2026.
R.I.P.
OverVeo
Shut down · 2026
Data-driven tools for winning placement in Google AI Overviews
The site no longer loads; it was last archived live in December 2025.
R.I.P.
LagRank
Pivoted · 2026
Tracked and optimized business visibility across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and other AI search engines
The domain now hosts a remote-work talent network for AI and technology roles rather than an AI search tool.
R.I.P.
AEOSpy
Shut down · Oct 2026
Cross-engine AI prompt and query discovery
The domain now shows a parked, for-sale page.
R.I.P.
Visble
Shut down · Oct 2026
AEO experimentation lab with affordable pricing ($29 starter)
The domain now shows a parked, for-sale page.
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Thirdeye
Shut down · Oct 2026
Visibility spike alerts and negative mention detection
The website is gone and returns a 'Site not found' page.
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Peasy
Shut down · Oct 2026
Server-side AI traffic analytics, privacy-first and cookie-free
The domain registration expired and the site shows a parking page.
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AllSearch
Shut down · Oct 2026
GEO opportunities with prompt intelligence and actionable alerts
The hosted app has been paused and the product has no remaining web presence.
R.I.P.
Anvil
Shut down · Oct 2026
AEO platform for brands
The website is gone and returns a 'Site not found' page.
R.I.P.
ChatGEO
Shut down · Oct 2026
Hybrid SEO+GEO engine with entity density optimization
The app's deployment no longer exists and the site returns a 404.
R.I.P.
SearchOne
Shut down · Oct 2026
GEO proxy and AI crawler visibility checker
The application is offline and the site returns a 404.
R.I.P.
GenRankEngine
Shut down · 2026
GEO platform that tracked B2B SaaS visibility in ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude
Went offline after February 2026; the domain no longer resolves.
R.I.P.
GrowthOS
Pivoted · Oct 2026
Helped brands become visible in AI answers
The AI-search visibility platform's domain now redirects to Agentrail, a product for analyzing how AI agents use websites and APIs.
R.I.P.
Mudra
Shut down · 2026
'AI research lab' that measured and improved how often LLMs mention, cite and recommend a company
Went offline after April 2026; the site now returns a 404 page.
R.I.P.
CoThou
Pivoted · Dec 2025
Company profiles designed to become the cited source of truth for AI answer engines
It launched in December 2025 as a way to control what answer engines say about a business, was relaunched a week later as a personal AI agent, and its domain no longer resolves.
R.I.P.
oParse
Shut down · Dec 2025
Tracked what ChatGPT, Gemini, Llama, Claude, and other models said about a brand
The brand-perception tracker launched on Show HN in February 2025, and its domain is now listed for sale.
R.I.P.
GPTScore
Shut down · Nov 2025
Free 30-second test of whether ChatGPT and other assistants know and recommend a business
The quick AI-visibility test launched on Show HN in August 2025, and its domain now serves a 'deployment not found' page.
R.I.P.
LLMContentReady
Shut down · Aug 2025
Scores and optimizes website content so ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude cite it
The tool launched on Show HN in May 2025, and its site now no longer loads.
R.I.P.
GPT Rank AI
Shut down · Apr 2025
Tracked keyword and brand rankings across AI search engines
The rank tracker for AI search engines was live in early 2025, and its Framer site now returns 'Site Not Found'.
R.I.P.
Propensia
Shut down · 2025
Free GEO audit tool that checked how discoverable a site was on ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity
Went offline after July 2025, and the domain registration has lapsed.
R.I.P.
LLMMM
Shut down · 2025
LLM Marketing Monitor that tracked how ChatGPT, Gemini, Meta AI and Perplexity perceive and rank a brand
The domain no longer resolves; the site was last archived live in April 2025.
R.I.P.
Deepserp
Pivoted · Nov 2025
GEO and AI visibility platform with modules for AI-readiness audits, AI crawler monitoring, prompt discovery, and citation measurement
The GEO platform's domain now redirects to Deepsona, a synthetic-audience market research product.
R.I.P.
ModelMonitor.ai
Shut down · Oct 2026
Brand monitoring across AI models such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Perplexity
The site has been unreachable since early 2026, and it returns a server error.
R.I.P.
CiteAnalytics
Shut down · Sep 2025
Tracks when AI systems cite or reference a website's content
The tool launched on Show HN in April 2025 after winning a Supabase hackathon, and its domain now serves a 'deployment not found' page.
R.I.P.
MonitorLLM
Shut down · 2026
Budget 'LLM SEO Monitor' that tracked product mentions and citations across AI platforms
Went offline after May 2026, and the domain registration has lapsed.
R.I.P.
VisibleInAI
Shut down · 2026
Done-for-you AI visibility service that monitored and pushed ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google AI to recommend a brand
Launched in February 2026 and went offline after May 2026; the app now returns an 'Application not found' page.
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Surchee
Shut down · Dec 2025
Showed how ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude summarize a site and tracked AI bot visits
The AI search optimization platform launched on Show HN in September 2025, and its domain no longer resolves.
R.I.P.
LinRush
Shut down · 2025
Early-access analytics platform for tracking when ChatGPT and other AI systems recommend your products
Pitched on Hacker News in June 2025 as 'Ahrefs for AI search results'; the site was last archived live in July 2025 and the domain no longer resolves.
R.I.P.
Winglytics
Shut down · 2025
AI visibility tool for tracking prompt rankings and brand discovery in AI search
Went offline after mid-2025 (last archived live in August 2025), and the domain now redirects to a for-sale listing.
R.I.P.
Looptic
Shut down · 2026
Generative engine optimization platform for visibility in ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini
The domain no longer resolves; the only archived live snapshot is from March 2026.
R.I.P.
Prompttracker
Shut down · 2026
Tracked and improved a website's visibility in ChatGPT, Perplexity and other AI search engines
The domain now redirects to an unrelated gambling site; the product was last archived live in November 2025.
R.I.P.
Project 40
Shut down · 2026
AI visibility score tracker across GPT, Gemini and Claude
The domain no longer resolves; the site was last archived live in January 2026.
Screenshots were taken while each tool was live. Dates are when the shutdown, pivot, or acquisition was announced, or the month we found the site offline.
Your AI visibility tool shut down. Now what?
Step 1
Export everything while you still can
Shutdown notices often give a few weeks. Pull your prompts, competitor list, and as much history as the tool will export: CSV, API, or screenshots of the charts if that's all there is.
Step 2
Write down how your numbers were made
Note which engines you tracked, how often, and in which countries. Visibility scores are not portable between tools, so you need this to explain the jump when you switch.
Step 3
Re-baseline instead of stitching
Start the new tool on the same prompts and treat its first few weeks as a fresh baseline. Grafting one vendor's numbers onto another's makes the trend line meaningless.
Step 4
Pick a tool that can't disappear
Check whether the code is open source and under which license, whether you can self-host it, and whether your data leaves through an API. A permissive license means the software outlives the company.
Step 5
Move your prompts over
In Elmo you can paste a list of prompts in one go, add your competitors, and pick the engines to track. The first runs land within minutes.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What happens to my data when an AI visibility tool shuts down?
- Usually it goes with the tool. Hosted trackers keep your prompts, answers, and history on their servers, so once the service is switched off there is nothing left to export. That's why it pays to export regularly, or to use a tool you can self-host so the data lives in your own database from day one.
- How does open source protect me if a tool shuts down?
- With a permissive open-source license like MIT, the code stays available and usable whatever happens to the company behind it. You can keep running your own copy, fix it, or fork it, and because a self-hosted install stores data in your own database, your history doesn't depend on anyone else's servers. Copyleft licenses like AGPL and source-available licenses like FSL still protect you from a shutdown, but they add conditions on how you can modify or offer the software.
- Can an open-source tool go closed source?
- Yes. A company can stop publishing new code, as Notra did in October 2026 when it took its AGPL repository private. What it can't do is take back code already released under an open-source license: anyone who has a copy can keep using and forking that version. That's another reason to prefer a permissive license and an active community over a single vendor's goodwill.
- My AI visibility tool was acquired. Should I switch?
- Not necessarily, but watch the roadmap. Acquired tools are often folded into the buyer's product, repriced, or put on a waitlist, as happened when Hall joined Tracksuit. Export your data now so you have the option, and re-evaluate when the new owner announces its plans.
- Is Elmo going to shut down?
- Elmo is MIT-licensed and bootstrapped, and everything it does is on GitHub. Even in the worst case, you could keep running your own copy indefinitely, with your data in your own PostgreSQL database.
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