Introduction
Signal by Metrics Hive tracks how AI answer engines mention, describe, and cite your brand.
What Is Signal?
Signal by Metrics Hive is an Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) platform. It asks AI answer engines like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews the questions your buyers ask, records every answer, and shows you how often your brand is mentioned, how it's described, which competitors appear beside it, and which sources the engines cite.
Signal is a hosted service from the team behind Metrics Hive. There's nothing to install: sign up at app.signal.metricshive.com, choose a plan, and add your brand.
Key Features
- AI Visibility Tracking — How often AI answers mention your brand, per prompt and per platform, over time
- Share of Voice and Competitors — Your share of mentions against every competitor you track
- Sentiment — Whether the answers that mention you praise or criticize you, with the passages behind the score
- Citation Analysis — The domains and pages AI engines cite for your prompts, including your own
- Query Fan-Out — The web searches AI engines run while answering your prompts
- Audits — A saved record of every round of answers, with on-demand Run Now audits you can compare over time
- Opportunities — Content, outreach, and community ideas generated from your own tracking data
- API and MCP — The same data from your own code or from an AI assistant
How It Works
Signal runs each of your enabled prompts on the AI platforms your plan covers once a day. Every answer is stored, checked for mentions of your brand and competitors, read for sentiment, and broken down by the sources it cites. Over time your dashboard fills with trends showing how your AI visibility changes.