Notra
Intro
Notra (usenotra.com) is a GEO (Generative Engine Optimization) tool — the AI-search counterpart of SEO. Its pitch: "Be the answer when buyers ask ChatGPT." Notra asks ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini (and Perplexity, Grok and others) the questions your buyers ask, then shows whether your brand appears, who appears instead, and how to fix it.
Notra launched its GEO product on Product Hunt on 2026-10-27 (its 4th Product Hunt launch; earlier launches covered Notra Studio, its content-automation workspace) and finished #6 Product of the Day with 139 upvotes. Maker: Dominik Koch. Product Hunt: producthunt.com/products/notra-3.
Explain
Key points
- Scans: each enabled prompt × each enabled engine × each tracked language becomes one task; a separate judge model scores every answer for mention, position, sentiment and which competitors appear. Engines with web search (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overview) answer with live retrieval, and Notra records the queries they ran and the pages they cited.
- Visibility metrics: mention rate and average position per engine, share of voice versus tracked competitors (including their misspellings), broken down by prompt, language and engine; the full answer text is stored so you can read what each engine actually said.
- Conversations / personas: replays multi-turn buyer journeys to test whether a recommendation survives follow-up questions.
- Content gaps → drafts: finds questions and cited sites where you are missing and generates guides, listicles or comparisons in your brand voice.
- AI Crawl Analytics: the
@usenotra/geoSDK separates training crawlers, search indexing, assistant browsing and human referrals from AI answers; free up to 1 million events per month. - Agent readiness audit and Studio (drafts changelogs, launch posts and social updates from GitHub, Linear and Slack).
Why this radar term
GEO is a fast-growing category (competitors include Profound, Peec AI and Promptwatch). Notra's Oct 27 Product Hunt launch placed in the daily top 10, and Chinese X accounts picked it up on Oct 28 — a newly visible, distinctive product name.
Usage
Get started
- Sign up at usenotra.com ("Start for free").
- Add buyer prompts manually, generate them from your website, import a CSV, or use Google Search Console queries as suggestions.
- Choose engines and languages, add competitors, then run a scan and review mention rate, position and share of voice.
- Open the content-gap opportunities to generate drafts; install the
@usenotra/geoSDK to see AI crawler and AI-referral traffic.
Tips
- Coding-agent engines (Cursor, OpenCode, Claude Code, Codex) require a paid plan and your own credentials.
- A page being fetched by an AI bot is not proof it was cited — use the cited-sources view for that.
- Docs: usenotra.com/docs.