Settings
Configure your brand, competitors, prompts, and AI model settings.
Settings Overview
The Settings section is accessible from the sidebar. It has four sub-pages for managing your Elmo configuration.
Brand Settings
Configure your brand identity:
- Name — Your brand name as tracked in AI responses
- Website — Primary website URL
- Domains — Additional domains associated with your brand (e.g. blog subdomain, product domains)
- Aliases — Alternative names or spellings that AI models might use
Competitor Settings
Manage the competitors you're tracking:
- Add competitor brand names and their domains
- View competitor mentions alongside your brand in visibility data
- Track citation overlap between your brand and competitors
Prompt Settings
Manage your tracking prompts:
- Add prompts — Create new prompts manually, paste several at once, or click Suggest Prompts for AI suggestions that skip what you already track
- Edit prompts — Modify prompt text and tags
- Enable/Disable — Toggle tracking for individual prompts without deleting them
- Delete — Remove prompts you no longer need
LLM Settings
Configure which AI models Elmo queries:
- OpenAI (ChatGPT) — Requires
OPENAI_API_KEYin your environment - Anthropic (Claude) — Requires
ANTHROPIC_API_KEYin your environment - Google AI Overviews — Tracks Google's AI-generated summaries
You can enable or disable individual models and adjust query parameters.
Updating Environment Variables
Some settings (like API keys) are configured via environment variables rather than the UI. To update them:
# Edit your .env file in the config directory
nano ./elmo/.env
# Restart to pick up changes
elmo compose down
elmo compose up -dSee the Configuration page for a complete reference of environment variables.
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