MarketHQ
AI visibility + brand monitoring, in one
What is MarketHQ?
MarketHQ is an AI visibility and brand monitoring product at markethq.ai. It shows where buyers find your competitors instead of you, in AI answers, Reddit, news, blogs, social and developer communities, and turns each gap into a task with the source quote and link attached.
MarketHQ watches 14 kinds of sources. The free plan covers six: Hacker News, GitHub, Stack Overflow, Dev.to, Lobsters, and news and blogs. Paid plans add Reddit, LinkedIn, X, YouTube, Bluesky, Product Hunt, Perplexity search and the wider web. Paid plans also ask your buyers' questions to six AI assistants every week (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok and DeepSeek) and record which brands they name.
Every paid plan includes the same features: labelled mentions, AI-answer share of voice, gap analysis, a ranked action plan, chat over your data, drafted replies, SEO briefs, keywords you can win, competitor pages you are missing, and competitor page-change monitoring. Every paid plan also includes a REST API and an MCP server with 16 tools, so coding agents such as Claude Code or Cursor can list, claim and report on tasks. Paid plans differ only in how much they track.
MarketHQ is built for B2B SaaS and developer-tool teams: founders running go-to-market, marketing leads who need share of voice with proof, and agencies reporting to clients. The first check is free and needs no account or card.
If you need a demo or a slightly discounted introductory price, reach out to the founder on X (@manoj_surya_).
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