AI Automation/Construction & Trades

Monitor Your Company's Visibility in ChatGPT and Claude

To track if ChatGPT recommends your company, you must query its API with customer-problem prompts. The system then parses the AI's responses for mentions of your brand.

By Parker Gawne, Founder at Syntora|Updated Apr 7, 2026

Key Takeaways

  • Tracking AI recommendations requires querying LLM APIs with prompts your specific customers would use.
  • The system records every AI response, identifies brand mentions, and calculates your Share of Voice against competitors.
  • Syntora built and uses a 9-engine Share of Voice monitor for its own lead generation.

Syntora built an AI Share of Voice monitor for its own lead generation that tracks brand citations across 9 LLMs, including ChatGPT and Claude. The system uses Python and AWS Lambda to run hundreds of prompts weekly. This monitoring directly links specific content on Syntora's website to new client discovery calls.

Syntora developed this exact system for our own use after prospects told us they found us through ChatGPT and Claude. The effectiveness of the tracking system depends on the quality of your test prompts and the number of AI models you monitor. We monitor 9 different LLMs weekly to measure our visibility against other firms.

The Problem

Why Can't Construction Companies Just Ask ChatGPT Manually?

Marketing teams at construction firms might try asking ChatGPT or Gemini a few questions manually, like “who is the best general contractor for hospital projects in Austin?”. This manual approach fails because AI model responses are not stable. An answer you see today might be completely different tomorrow after a model update, making one-off checks useless for tracking progress.

Consider a commercial GC who asks Claude for local pre-construction specialists and sees their firm listed. The marketing director is thrilled. Two weeks later, the CEO tries the same prompt and gets a list of three competitors. Without a systematic tracking process, they have no data on why the answer changed, how often they appear, or what content influences the AI's recommendations. This creates confusion, not clarity.

Your existing marketing tools cannot solve this. Platforms like SEMrush or Moz are designed to crawl the web and track keyword rankings on Google. They are not built to execute hundreds of conversational prompts against LLM APIs like OpenAI's. Their crawlers look for HTML links and sitemaps, not for parsing natural language responses from a generative AI. They measure a different kind of discovery entirely.

The structural problem is that AI recommendations are probabilistic, not deterministic. Unlike a Google search result, an AI's answer is generated on the fly and can vary based on phrasing and model version. Reliable tracking requires a statistical approach: running a large, consistent set of prompts across multiple AIs over time to establish a baseline and measure change. Standard marketing dashboards lack the architecture for this.

Our Approach

How Syntora Builds a Custom AI Share of Voice Monitor

The first step is a discovery workshop to map your ideal customer profiles and the specific problems they need to solve. We define the questions a project executive or developer would ask an AI, such as “recommend a design-build firm with experience in cold storage facilities”. These questions form the core prompt library for the monitoring system, ensuring the data reflects real buyer behavior.

Syntora built our internal monitor using Python and a FastAPI service. For your construction firm, a similar system would use the Claude and OpenAI APIs to run your prompt library against the models on a weekly schedule. A Supabase PostgreSQL database stores every AI-generated response. An AWS Lambda function then parses the text to identify mentions of your firm and your top three competitors, creating structured data from the unstructured text.

The delivered system is a simple dashboard, hosted on Vercel, that shows your Share of Voice over time. You can see which specific prompts generate recommendations for you versus your competitors and track how your visibility changes weekly across all monitored AI engines. You receive the full source code and a runbook explaining how to add new prompts or competitors to the system.

Manual Spot-CheckingAutomated Share of Voice Tracking
Checking 1-2 prompts manually per monthRunning 250+ targeted prompts weekly
Covers 1-2 AI models (e.g. ChatGPT)Monitors 9 AI engines, including Claude and Gemini
Anecdotal, non-repeatable resultsTrend data showing Share of Voice vs. key competitors

Why It Matters

Key Benefits

01

One Engineer, No Handoffs

The engineer who builds your AI monitor is the same person who built Syntora's. You talk directly to the builder, ensuring your business context is never lost in translation.

02

You Own the System and Data

You receive the full Python source code in your GitHub and the data in your own database. There is no vendor lock-in. You are free to extend the system yourself or with another developer.

03

Scoped in Days, Deployed in Weeks

A core monitoring system for 2-3 AI models can be built and deployed in 2 weeks. The timeline is clarified in a written scope document before any work begins.

04

Transparent Support Model

After launch, Syntora offers an optional monthly retainer for system monitoring, prompt library updates, and adapting to AI API changes. You get predictable costs for ongoing maintenance.

05

Construction Industry Context

We adapt the prompt library to your specific market. Prompts for a commercial GC are different from a residential remodeler or a specialty subcontractor. The system reflects how your specific buyers search.

How We Deliver

The Process

01

Discovery and Prompt Mapping

In a 45-minute call, we define your top 3 competitors and map the 20-30 key problems your customers search for. You receive a scope document detailing the prompt library and target AI engines.

02

Architecture and Scoping

You approve the technical architecture, including the choice of LLM APIs (OpenAI, Anthropic), database (Supabase), and hosting (AWS Lambda). A fixed-price proposal is provided before any build work begins.

03

Build and Dashboard Review

Syntora builds the core API-polling engine and data storage. You get access to a staging dashboard within 7-10 business days to see the first results and provide feedback on the data visualization.

04

Handoff and Training

You receive the complete source code, deployment runbook, and a live training session on how to interpret the dashboard and update the prompt library. Syntora monitors the system for 4 weeks post-launch.

The Syntora Advantage

Not all AI partners are built the same.

AI Audit First

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Assessment phase is often skipped or abbreviated

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We assess your business before we build anything

Private AI

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Typically built on shared, third-party platforms

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Fully private systems. Your data never leaves your environment

Your Tools

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May require new software purchases or migrations

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Zero disruption to your existing tools and workflows

Team Training

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Training and ongoing support are usually extra

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Full training included. Your team hits the ground running from day one

Ownership

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Code and data often stay on the vendor's platform

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You own everything we build. The systems, the data, all of it. No lock-in

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