ProminAI FAQ — 58 honest answers about AI visibility, pricing and what we refuse to promise

ProminAI is a managed AI search presence and authority building programme by StartupFeed, built for Indian brands, founders and professionals. It builds and maintains the public evidence AI systems — ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Google AI — read when someone asks which company or expert to trust.

The work runs end to end: an audit of what AI says about you today, an approved Brand Truth File, authority articles published on StartupFeed, verified brand mentions across other platforms, profile corrections, monitoring, and a portal where every deliverable is logged with a live link.

No — and neither does anyone else. There is no advertising slot inside an organic AI answer, no partnership that inserts a name, no fee that buys a mention. Anyone selling "placement" is selling something that does not exist.

What ProminAI does is work on the raw material. We build and maintain the public evidence that selected major AI platforms — ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Google's AI experiences — actually read: published articles, verified brand mentions, corrected and consistent profiles. Your baseline audit records exactly what each selected platform returns for your questions, on which date, so progress is measured against reality rather than memory.

PR earns coverage — a story placed with a journalist, a launch in the business press. It is episodic by nature: coverage spikes, then fades, and no PR firm controls whether any of it is consistent enough for a machine to rely on. ProminAI works on the layer underneath: one approved source of truth, published evidence that stays live, verified mentions that corroborate each other, and monitoring that shows what AI actually says — every deliverable logged with a live link, month after month.

They are complementary. If you need a product launch covered next month, hire PR. If you want the durable public record that AI systems read every time a buyer asks who to trust, that is this programme. Good PR coverage even strengthens our Corroboration signal — we are happy to build alongside it.

A managed service, deliberately. You are not buying a dashboard login and a to-do list — ProminAI's team does the work: the audit, the Brand Truth File, the writing, the publishing, the mention-building, the profile corrections and the monthly monitoring. The software you do get is the customer portal, which exists to prove the service: every deliverable logged with a date and a clickable live link.

The distinction matters because tools measure AI visibility while someone still has to do the work that changes it. If you want a self-serve tool, we are the wrong choice — and the glossary explains the method openly so you can even do it yourself.

ProminAI is built for Indian companies, startups and founders, doctors and clinics, consultants and coaches, professional firms, schools and institutions, manufacturers and suppliers, and personal brands. In short: anyone whose next customer, patient, client or parent might ask an AI assistant "who should I trust?" before making contact.

If your category is one where trust is decided before the first conversation, this programme was built for you.

Then you will see that clearly in your reports — and you will still hold everything you paid for: the published articles, the verified mentions, the corrected profiles, the Brand Truth File. These are permanent public assets, not rented attention, and they keep working after the programme ends.

Honestly: outcomes vary by category, competition and starting point. What does not vary is the deliverable guarantee — if anything in your plan is not delivered and documented with a live link, we make it good at no cost. And your reports include competitor movement, so you always see the full picture, not a curated one.

Your articles are researched, written and edited by people — the ProminAI editorial team — and every fact is checked against your approved Brand Truth File. We use AI tools the way a modern newsroom does: for research assistance and cross-checking, never as an unedited author and never as a source of facts about you.

Each authority article is fact-based editorial published on StartupFeed with a custom visual, structured so both people and machines can read it. No superlatives we cannot verify, no claims you have not confirmed in writing — and you see every article before it is published. That restraint is exactly what makes it usable as evidence.

The Brand Truth File is one approved document stating precisely who you are, what you do, whom you serve, where you operate, and why you're different. You approve it word-for-word before anything is published, and every future asset — articles, mentions, profile corrections — uses it exactly.

It exists because inconsistency is one of the main reasons AI systems get brands wrong or leave them out. One source of truth, used everywhere, is the fix.

One authority article or one verified brand mention; a Leadership membership builds 132+. It is the unit we use to make plans comparable: Foundation builds 11+ evidence points, Momentum 33+, Authority 66+, Leadership 132+ — and the cost per evidence point falls as the plan lengthens.

Every evidence point is individually listed in your portal with its live link and date.

The materials built for you are yours outright: your Brand Truth File, your photographs and visuals supplied by you, your fix-list, your reports and your baseline records. Take them anywhere, use them in proposals, hand them to another agency — no lock-in, no export fee.

The authority articles work slightly differently, on purpose. They are published by StartupFeed as independent editorial about you — that independence is exactly what makes them valuable evidence (a machine discounts what you publish about yourself). You are free to link them, quote them, excerpt them in your materials and share them anywhere, and they carry no paywall. What you are buying is not a document to file away — it is a live, independent public record.

They stay live after your plan ends — same URL, no ongoing fee, no "hosting rental". Your membership pays for the work of researching, writing and publishing; it does not rent the result. That is what we mean when we say you are building an asset, not renting attention.

Honestly stated: no publisher on earth can promise a URL will exist for eternity, and we will not pretend otherwise. What we can say is concrete — StartupFeed maintains its archive as its own core asset, articles are not removed when a plan ends, and if the platform ever restructures, redirects preserve the links. Every live link stays checkable from your portal records.

Open your portal. Every article, mention, question run, fix and report is logged there with a live link and a date. Click any of them and see the deliverable itself, on the platform where it lives. If it cannot be clicked from your portal, it does not count toward your plan.

This is deliberate. In a category full of vague promises, radical proof is the point — you should never have to take our word for anything.

People at StartupFeed — the ProminAI research and editorial team. Researchers verify your facts, editors write and edit your articles, and a named contact manages your programme and answers to you. Nothing is farmed out to anonymous content mills, and no article is auto-generated and shipped.

We use AI tools the way a modern newsroom does — for research assistance and cross-checking — never as an unedited author and never as a source of facts about you. Every fact traces back to your approved Brand Truth File, and every deliverable is logged in your portal with a live link, so you can always see exactly what was done.

Ninety minutes of your time in month one. We do everything else. That covers a kickoff conversation (about thirty minutes), approving your Brand Truth File (most clients take 20 minutes), and a quick review of your priority questions.

After month one, your involvement is approvals only — a few minutes per article or correction, on WhatsApp or email, whenever suits you.

Accurate facts, and someone who can approve them. Specifically: your legal and trading name, services, locations, leadership names and credentials, genuine achievements you can substantiate, your real competitors, your logo, and the name of the person who signs off.

Nothing enters your Brand Truth File unverified — so the more precise your inputs, the faster everything moves.

Yes. You approve the Brand Truth File word-for-word before anything is built from it, and every article is shared with you before publication. Corrections to profiles and listings follow the file you approved. Nothing about your brand is published that you have not seen.

Say so, plainly — that is what the approval step is for. Factual corrections are made immediately, always. Requests about tone and emphasis get a rewrite within our editorial rules: calm, factual, no hype. Most drafts settle in one revision, because they are built from the Brand Truth File you already approved word-for-word.

Two honest limits. We will not add claims that cannot be evidenced, however good they sound — unverifiable claims are precisely what makes AI systems distrust a source, so refusing them protects your asset. And nothing is ever published while you are unhappy with it: no written approval, no publication. That rule has no exceptions.

The schedule stretches, honestly and visibly — nothing is lost. Your onboarding records the approval turnaround you committed to (three working days is the default). Inside that window, your programme runs on schedule. Beyond it, deliverables shift later by roughly the length of the delay; they never disappear, because your targets are cumulative for the plan period, not use-it-or-lose-it by month.

We nudge gently on your preferred channel, and if a draft sits unanswered for long your named contact will simply call. The one thing slow approval genuinely costs is momentum — the single biggest cause of delay in this programme is not the work, it is waiting for a yes.

Carefully, and conservatively. We publish only what you can substantiate and have confirmed in writing — qualifications, services, locations, verifiable facts. No outcome claims, no superlatives, no testimonials where your regulator restricts them. Your onboarding records your regulator, and your approver sees everything before it goes live.

Factual, verifiable public information is exactly what professional advertising norms permit — and it happens to be exactly what AI systems read. The compliant path and the effective path are the same path.

It can happen — unless you take exclusivity. On the Authority and Leadership plans, category + city exclusivity is available on request: we take only one brand per category per city for your plan term, confirmed in writing. If a competitor asks after you have it, they are told the slot is taken (never who holds it).

Without exclusivity, we still never share your Brand Truth File, your question list or your strategy — each client's file is their own. But the deeper answer is arithmetic: the brand that starts earlier holds more published, dated evidence, and cumulative evidence is precisely what these systems weigh. The best protection against a competitor joining is being the one who started first.

Yes — and for founder-led businesses it is often the right call, because diligence on the company is diligence on you. AI systems describe brands through their people: a well-documented founder makes the company easier to trust, and a well-documented company makes the founder easier to describe.

Practically, they run as two brand programmes — two Brand Truth Files, two sets of published evidence — because mixing them muddies both entities. Many founders start the company on a membership and take the ₹3,499 Starter for the personal brand to judge the work first, then decide. Tell us the situation on WhatsApp and we will lay out the honest options, including the one where you only need one of the two.

No. ProminAI does not run your ads, rebuild your website or replace your agency. We build the evidence layer — published articles, verified mentions, an approved source of truth — and hand your team a prioritised fix-list for the website and profiles they manage.

Most agencies welcome it: their work gets a cleaner, better-corroborated brand to promote. We are happy to coordinate directly with them.

WhatsApp is fastest: we reply within one working day, and usually much sooner during support hours (Monday–Saturday, 10:00–19:00 IST). Email gets the same one-working-day promise. If you book a call, the calendar shows real availability — typically within two or three working days. We do not run a call centre, so there is no hold music and no ticket number; the person who replies is the person who can act.

Yes, at no extra cost. Send us the email addresses and we add them — most clients add a founder, one marketing owner, and the accountant who needs the GST invoices. Everyone sees the same live links, the same counts and the same reports, because the numbers do not change depending on who is looking.

Approvals stay with whoever you named as approver during onboarding, so adding viewers never slows the content cycle down.

Prices are shown excluding GST; 18% is added at checkout, and the full breakup is shown before you pay. A GST invoice is issued for every payment. Add your GSTIN at checkout and it appears on the invoice so you can claim input credit where eligible.

Once work commences it is not refunded — and work commences fast: research on your article begins within 24 working hours of your brand details. What it is instead is fully creditable: the full ₹3,499 is adjusted against your membership if you upgrade within 30 days. Judge the work; if it convinces you, the trial effectively cost nothing. One Starter credit per brand.

If you change your mind before work has begun, write to us and we will resolve it fairly. The full policy is on the refund policy page.

Payments are generally non-refundable once work has commenced — and work commences quickly: Starter research begins within 24 working hours, membership onboarding on day zero. Before work commences, write to us and we will resolve it fairly.

Two protections apply regardless. The Starter credit: the full ₹3,499 is adjusted against your membership if you upgrade within 30 days. And Delivery Assurance: any plan deliverable not delivered and documented with a live link is made good at no cost. To raise a request, use WhatsApp or email; we respond within one working day. The full policy is on the refund policy page.

No. Nothing auto-renews and no card details are stored for future charges. Before your plan ends, we share your final report and a renewal proposal; continuing is a decision you take with the results in front of you, not a charge you have to remember to cancel.

Online, on this site, through Razorpay — UPI, credit and debit cards (Visa, Mastercard, RuPay), net banking and popular wallets. Payment happens in a secure Razorpay window; your card or UPI details never touch our servers. You receive a payment confirmation and GST invoice by email.

On Authority and Leadership plans, you can request that ProminAI works with only one brand in your category in your city for your plan term — one cardiologist in Indore, one packaging manufacturer in Delhi NCR. It is confirmed in writing, subject to availability, at no extra cost.

Request it at checkout or onboarding. If your slot is already taken, we tell you plainly before you pay.

Two different things, and the distinction matters. Everything the programme built — published articles, verified mentions, corrected profiles, your Brand Truth File — lives on the public web, not inside the portal, so it stays yours and stays live after the plan ends. The portal is the index that proves it all, not the place the assets live.

Your portal then stays open read-only for 30 days so you can download every report, invoice and link list. If you renew or upgrade later, your full history is restored and the record picks up where it left off.

Then you are, oddly, in the cleanest starting position. Brands with years of scattered, contradictory information first need their record repaired; you get to build a correct one from the first brick. Nothing to untangle, nothing arguing with itself.

Two honest notes. Your baseline audit will be blunt — it will likely show you absent from most answers, which is uncomfortable to read and exactly the point of recording it. And starting from little means relative change tends to show sooner, but the timeline promise stays the same as everyone's: published assets in month one, observable change typically from month three. The ₹3,499 Starter is a sensible first step if you want to watch the machine work before committing to a programme.

Choose a plan and pay online. Then complete your brand details — five minutes for the Starter, about ten for a membership. That starts your clock: the Starter article is researched, written and shared with you within 24 working hours; membership clients receive portal access within one working day and their Day 0 begins.

Not sure which plan? The free AI presence check shows you where you stand first, with no obligation.

Of course. WhatsApp gets the fastest reply — we respond within one working day. You can also email us or book a call from the contact page. And if you would rather judge the work than the pitch, the ₹3,499 Starter exists for exactly that.

No. Every plan can be purchased directly on the website — choose a plan, pay by UPI or card, and onboarding starts the same day. The 20-minute call exists for people who want to see live evidence before deciding, not as a gate we make you pass through. If you already know what you want, the fastest route is the plans page, and nobody from our side will insist on a call first.

Yes — no payment, no card details, no “free trial” that quietly becomes a subscription. We run up to five of your real buying questions across selected major AI platforms and send you a written summary of what came back. It costs us some analyst time; we spend it willingly because a portion of the people who see their own results choose a membership afterwards. That is the entire business model of the free check, stated plainly.

You will get your summary, and one question: whether you would like a 20-minute call to walk through it. Say no — or say nothing — and that is where it ends. No drip sequence, no weekly follow-ups, no third-party lists; we use your details only to run and send your check. If the results are not worth acting on, we tell you that too and leave it there. People remember restraint longer than they remember pitches.

Scale and formality. The free check covers up to 5 buying questions on selected platforms with a short written summary — a genuine sample of the method, enough to see where you stand. A membership's baseline audit covers up to 20–100 priority questions (by plan), records every observation in a dated, formal report, feeds your Brand Truth File, and becomes the benchmark all later monitoring is measured against.

Neither produces a “visibility score” — we don't sell those, because a single number implies a precision that AI answers do not have.

Yes — and often you should check both. The form asks whether you are checking a company, an individual, or both, and we build the question set accordingly: identity questions (“Who is …?”), buying questions for your category and city, and — for individuals — the credibility questions clients and employers actually ask. Doctors, consultants, founders and creators typically learn the most from the combined view, because AI systems link the person and the business whether you have planned for it or not.

Within one working day of payment. Membership plans — Foundation and above — get the full nine-module portal: your login is created and the onboarding centre is ready before your kickoff call. The ₹3,499 Starter includes order status and delivery rather than the full portal — you still see your draft, your live link and your invoice, and if you upgrade within 30 days your history carries into the full portal.

Nothing waits for the portal either way: onboarding starts from your thank-you page the moment payment completes.

Generative Engine Optimization (GEO) is the work of building and structuring a brand's public information so generative AI systems — ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Claude and Google's AI experiences — can understand it, trust it and cite it when answering a buyer's question. Where SEO optimises pages to earn a ranked link, GEO builds the evidence an answer is assembled from: one consistent set of facts, independent corroboration, and content structured for extraction.

ProminAI is a managed GEO programme for Indian brands — the full method is on the how-it-works page, and the glossary defines every term in plain English.

Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) is the craft of making content quotable by answer engines: question-shaped headings, the direct answer in the first sentence, self-contained passages, schema markup and consistent entity facts — so an AI assistant or AI-mode search result can lift an answer whole and attribute it. GEO and AEO overlap heavily; ProminAI treats them as one discipline built on the five signals AI reads: Clarity, Consistency, Corroboration, Coverage, Currency.

This FAQ page is itself built the AEO way — every question is a real heading and every answer survives being read alone. Definitions live in the glossary.

The unit of competition. SEO competes for a ranked link on a results page — its currency is keywords, backlinks and technical health. GEO competes to be the brand named inside an AI-written answer — its currency is a clear entity, consistent facts across every public surface, independent corroboration, and content a machine can quote. A page can rank #4 and still be the only brand an AI answer names, or rank #1 and never be mentioned.

They are complementary, not substitutes: keep your SEO if it earns traffic. ProminAI adds the evidence layer AI answers actually read — the honest side-by-side comparison is on the how-it-works page.

ProminAI memberships run ₹14,999 to ₹1,19,999 + GST for one to twelve months — and the longer the plan, the lower the effective monthly cost. For comparison, a traditional SEO retainer in India typically runs ₹25,000–₹1,00,000 a month and a PR agency retainer ₹75,000–₹3,00,000 a month — the same figures used in the break-even section on our home page, where the alternatives are laid out honestly.

The structural difference: retainers buy ongoing activity, while this programme leaves permanent public assets — published articles, verified mentions, corrected profiles — plus a live-link proof trail for every deliverable. Full pricing is on the plans page, nothing gated behind a call.

It depends on one question: do your customers ask an AI assistant, or an AI-answered search, before choosing someone like you? If they do — and in India that is now common for clinics, consultants, schools, suppliers and local services — then whoever is easiest for AI to describe wins the introduction, whatever their size. The economics are forgiving: this does not need to work spectacularly, it needs to work once. The break-even calculator shows how few customers cover a whole plan in your category.

The low-risk way to decide: the ₹3,499 Starter — one published article, judged on its quality, credited in full against any membership within 30 days.

Parts of the market currently are. Here is how to tell the difference: ask any vendor what they guarantee. If the answer includes a ranking, a position or a citation inside ChatGPT, Gemini or any AI platform, they are selling something that does not exist — no one controls those platforms, and there is no ad slot inside an organic AI answer to buy.

What can honestly be sold: published evidence, corrected and consistent profiles, monitoring with dated verbatim observations, and proof for every deliverable. That is exactly what ProminAI guarantees — the work and the proof, never the platform's behaviour. Our proof page defines the three levels of proof we hold ourselves to.

Ask the platforms the questions your buyers ask — today, before anyone pitches you anything. Open ChatGPT, Gemini or Perplexity and type the question a customer would: “best {your category} in {your city}”, “is {your brand} trustworthy”. Note the date, screenshot the answers, and repeat on a second platform; answers vary, so one check is a sample, not a verdict. The 60-second test on our home page gives you copyable prompts.

If you would rather have it done properly: ProminAI's free AI Presence Check runs up to five of your real buying questions and sends a written summary within two working days. Free, no card.

Almost always because more verifiable public evidence exists about them than about you — not because they paid. Nobody can buy a place inside an organic AI answer. A competitor with published articles, consistent profiles, independent mentions and a clear category description is simply the easier brand for AI to name, and AI systems name what they can support.

What to check: whether your basic facts agree across your website and profiles, whether anyone independent has written about you, and whether your category and city are stated anywhere machine-readable. The free AI Presence Check shows exactly which competitors appear for your questions — and what evidence they hold that you do not.

Yes — the method is public and none of it is secret. The honest cost is time: done properly, expect 15–20 founder-hours a month, sustained for months — writing and publishing on a schedule, pursuing independent mentions, keeping every profile consistent, and re-running your buying questions with dated records. Consistency is the hard part; the work only compounds if the rhythm never breaks.

One thing is structurally difficult alone: independent corroboration — third parties writing about you — which you cannot grant yourself. Many owners start solo using our published method, then hand over the rhythm when the hours stop being worth it. Either way, the website fix-list we produce stays yours to implement.

ProminAI is built for Indian brands and for brands selling to Indian customers — the market data, the city coverage, the GST invoicing and the platform mix are all India-specific by design. If you are based abroad but your buyers are in India, the fit usually works; the programme runs in English and the evidence we build serves any market that reads it.

If both you and your customers are outside India, ask us first — if we cannot serve you properly, we will say so plainly rather than take the money. That rule costs us some revenue and saves both sides a bad engagement.

Three differences you can verify yourself, rather than adjectives. First, the proof rule: every deliverable is logged in your portal with a date and a clickable live link — if it cannot be clicked, it does not count toward your plan. Second, the refusal in writing: we never promise a ranking, a position or a citation inside any AI platform, because nobody can deliver one — and we put that refusal on every relevant page. Third, every price is published in full, with GST stated, nothing gated behind a call.

Judge us on the public pages — the proof standard is published precisely so you can hold us to it.

ProminAI is a programme by StartupFeed, the Indian startup media platform, and launched in 2026. StartupFeed's publishing experience is the operating advantage: authority content, editorial standards and distribution are the daily trade of the parent brand, and ProminAI applies them to AI search presence for Indian businesses, founders and professionals.

The about page carries the entity details, the operating team and the registered company information, and every plan is invoiced with GST by the entity named there. If you want to talk to a person before paying, that is what WhatsApp is for — replies within one working day.