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AI · January 16, 2026

Aventos – An experiment in cheap AI SEO

Hi HN, we built Aventos- a cheap way to track company mentions in LLMs. Aventos is an experiment we're doing after spending ~6 weeks working on various projects in the AI search / GEO / AEO space. One thing that surprised us is how most tools in this category work. Traditionally, they simulate ChatGPT or Perplexity queries by attempting to reverse engineer the search process. Over the past year, many have shifted to scraping live ChatGPT results instead, since those are signficantly cheaper and reflect more real outputs. Building and maintaining scrapers is tedious and fragile, so…

Aventos – An experiment in cheap AI SEO launched on January 16, 2026 with 19 votes, #732 of 14,584 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches.

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Aventos tracks how often companies are mentioned in large language models like ChatGPT and Perplexity. Rather than simulating queries or building fragile scrapers, it wraps existing third-party APIs to monitor LLM outputs affordably. The tool is designed for businesses wanting to understand their presence in AI search results without paying premium prices for similar existing solutions.

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Hi HN, we built Aventos- a cheap way to track company mentions in LLMs. Aventos is an experiment we're doing after spending ~6 weeks working on various projects in the AI search / GEO / AEO space. One thing that surprised us is how most tools in this category work. Traditionally, they simulate ChatGPT or…

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