Measurement shows you the problem.
Action solves it.
Layer 1 reveals your complete AI funnel — which engines crawl you, cite you, and send visitors — with an annual subscription at early bird rates. Layer 2 generates content aimed at exactly the topics where AI reads you but never recommends you. No other tool can write those briefs, because no other tool holds your crawl and citation data.
Annual subscription · Early bird from $79/yr
Shows you the problem. All eight features ship at launch — no waitlist, no drip.
AI crawler reveal
The hero feature. Reads server access logs, Cloudflare Logpush, or a lightweight tracking endpoint to surface every AI bot hit: GPTBot, ClaudeBot, OAI-SearchBot, PerplexityBot, Google-Extended, GrokBot, CCBot, and more. Shows which pages were crawled, by which engine, how often. Server-side — no referrer stripping can hide it.
Why it matters
Signal 1 is the only unstrippable data point in your AI funnel. GA4 can't see it. Your analytics platform can't see it. It lives in your server logs and nowhere else. If AI isn't crawling your pages, no other AI visibility metric is possible.
Citation check
Scheduled, brand-targeted prompt checks against major AI engines — ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, Copilot. Records whether your site is cited in answers for your key topics. Deliberately light: a presence signal that populates the middle of your funnel and feeds the gap engine.
Why it matters
Most "AI monitoring" tools stop here. DarkTraffiK keeps this signal honest — it's what it is: a light presence check, not a definitive audit. Its real power comes from being triangulated against Signal 1 and Signal 3.
AI referral reveal
Connect GA4 via OAuth or paste a referral export. DarkTraffiK filters against the AI engine domain registry and surfaces human click-throughs by engine and landing page. Explicitly framed as the floor: referrer stripping means the real number is higher — which is exactly why we also measure crawls and citations.
Why it matters
Signal 3 is the most familiar — it's what you already see in GA4, filtered and named. Its value in DarkTraffiK is what it confirms and what it contradicts when compared with Signals 1 and 2.
The Funnel View
Reads → Cited → Clicked as a single visual funnel, with the drop-off at each stage named and quantified. This is the product's identity — the screen that screenshots sell. Every named break is a gap with a prescription.
Why it matters
No other tool shows all three stages of your AI visibility as a connected funnel. Showing only citations (Signal 2) is like a sales team that tracks deals closed but not pipeline entries — you can't diagnose the break.
Monthly trend comparison
Month-on-month movement across all three signals. Crawler volume moves meaningfully every month even for small sites, giving the trend real substance. The engine that turns a one-time reveal into a reason to return every month.
Why it matters
AI crawler behaviour changes. New bots appear. Existing bots change their crawl patterns. Pages that were actively read stop being read. Trend data turns a static snapshot into a live signal.
GEO readiness score
0–100 scored across three mechanisms: training-data signals (entity recognition, brand mentions, structured data), retrieval signals (content structure, schema, LLM-readable formatting), and live-search signals (freshness, IndexNow, PageSpeed). Flags hedge language, missing citations, and weak entity signals.
Why it matters
The GEO readiness score translates the crawl and citation data into a single actionable number — and then breaks it down into the three mechanisms where improvement is possible.
Crawled-but-not-cited gap list
Topics where Signal 1 is strong — AI is reading your pages — but Signal 2 is absent: no citation. Ranked by crawl volume × citation opportunity. This is the direct, defensible feed into the Action Layer. No other tool can generate this list because no other tool holds your crawl and citation data together.
Why it matters
This is the product. The gap list is the only output in the market that tells you not just that you're not being cited, but specifically which content is close — being read, not recommended — and therefore most likely to respond to targeted improvement.
Five-phase progress dashboard
Foundation → Data/Evidence → Technical → Authority → Distribution. Maps your position in the GEO journey, creates ongoing sense of progress and incompleteness, and surfaces the next most impactful action at each stage.
Why it matters
GEO is not a one-time fix. The five-phase dashboard frames it as the ongoing journey it is — giving you a clear sense of where you are and what comes next, every time you log in.
Pro · $19/mo early bird
Solves the problem. The prescription is impossible without the three-signal data — no standalone content tool can replicate it, because none of them hold your crawl and citation data.
"AI engines crawled 14 of your pages last month. They cited only 3. You have 6 topics being actively read but never recommended — that's citation potential leaking every week. Generate the content that closes the gap."
Gap-targeted brief generation
AI brief per crawled-but-not-cited topic. E-E-A-T scaffold, comparison-content prompt, FAQ schema flag, quotable-statement checklist, hedge-language alerts. Structured to convert a read into a citation. Your key, your cost — BYOK throughout.
Draft article generation
Full draft from approved brief. Answer-first, entity-rich, citation-ready format. BYOK. Zero AI cost to operator.
HITM approval queue
Every draft waits for explicit human approval. Draft-first always. Zero auto-publish in supervised mode. Autonomous toggle is opt-in, per-workspace, licence-gated.
WordPress publish via WP MCP
On approval, publishes to your connected WordPress install. Rank Math metadata auto-populated. IndexNow ping fired on publish.
Citation-lift tracking
After a gap-targeted piece publishes, DarkTraffiK watches whether Signal 2 (citation) appears for that topic over subsequent weeks. Proves the content worked — in the product's own data. The single strongest retention mechanic in the plan.
Distribution action list
Per piece: 3–5 specific syndication targets — LinkedIn draft, niche newsletter pitches, relevant forum threads, authority-citation prompts. Addresses the off-site authority gap no content tool touches.
Content calendar
4-week rolling plan from the gap list. Prioritised by crawl volume × citation opportunity. Status: brief / draft / approved / published / cited.
BYOK throughout. Content generation and citation checks run on your own API key. DarkTraffiK never stores, proxies, or marks up AI usage. Your key, your cost, your data.
Three signals. Three funnel stages.
Each signal measures a different layer of your AI funnel. Together they show not just what's happening, but where it breaks.
| Signal | Data source | Strippable? | Funnel stage | What a gap here means |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AI Reads Signal 01 | Server logs · Cloudflare Logpush | Never | Top — Ingestion | AI not crawling you = no visibility possible |
| AI Cites Signal 02 | Scheduled prompt checks · BYOK | N/A | Mid — Citation | Crawled but not cited = content isn't citation-ready |
| Humans Click Signal 03 | GA4 referral export · OAuth | Yes — floor | Bottom — Click | Cited but few clicks = weak snippet or poor page match |