> ## Documentation Index
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# Lantern Docs

> The full-stack marketing agent platform for AI search. Lantern orchestrates research, content, SEO, GEO, PR, and publishing end-to-end — so your team wins AI and organic search without the manual overhead.

## What is Lantern?

Lantern is the full-stack marketing agent platform built for the AI era. Think of it as the operating system for your marketing team — describe what you want, and a multi-agent system plans and executes it step by step in real time.

The pipeline is genuinely end-to-end: keyword discovery from Google Search Console, People Also Ask, and Reddit → SERP and competitor gap analysis → structured content brief → writing → voice QA → CMS publish. Beyond blog content, Lantern handles press releases, journalist pitches, newsletters, presentations, and Google Ads campaign copy.

On top of content, Lantern monitors your brand visibility across every major AI engine — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google — so you always know where you stand and what to fix.

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  **1 billion+ people** search with AI every day. If your brand isn't cited, you're invisible. Lantern keeps you visible and handles the work to get you there.
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![Lantern platform showing AI search monitoring, citation gap analysis, and automated content workflows](https://cdn.asklantern.com/snapshots.png)

## The old way vs Lantern Agents

Marketing teams used to stitch together five or more tools to do what Lantern handles end-to-end.

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  <Card title="The old way" icon="circle-xmark">
    * SEMrush / Ahrefs — Research
    * Notion / Gong — Internal knowledge base
    * Jasper / Copy AI — Writing
    * Surfer SEO — Optimization
    * Ghost / WordPress — Publish
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  <Card title="With Lantern Agents" icon="circle-check">
    * Research
    * Unified knowledge base
    * Create
    * Optimize
    * Publish

    **Agents, always working.**
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## What Lantern does

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  <Card title="AI Search Monitoring" icon="monitor-waveform" href="/quickstart">
    Track your brand across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google from one dashboard. See every citation, gap, and opportunity.
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  <Card title="Traffic Attribution" icon="chart-line" href="/quickstart">
    Identify every AI-referred session and trace it through to conversion. Know exactly which AI engines drive real business.
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  <Card title="Agents for GEO & AEO" icon="robot" href="/agents">
    Close citation gaps and increase brand visibility across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews automatically.
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  <Card title="Agents for Content" icon="pen-fancy" href="/agents">
    Research, write, optimise, and publish end-to-end — from GSC keyword data and Reddit conversations to a CMS-published article in one orchestrated run.
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  <Card title="Agents for SEO" icon="magnifying-glass" href="/agents">
    Site-wide health audits, crawl reports, competitor gap analysis, and content refresh — all driven by live GSC and DataForSEO data.
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  <Card title="API Access" icon="terminal" href="/api-reference/introduction">
    Integrate Lantern data and agents directly into your existing workflows.
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## Why AI search can't wait

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  <Accordion icon="arrow-trend-down" title="25% drop in traditional search volume">
    Users are migrating to AI answer engines. Brands not optimised for AI search are losing visibility fast — and most don't know it yet.
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  <Accordion icon="hand-pointer" title="60% of Google searches end without a click">
    AI answers the question before anyone visits your site. Zero-click is the new normal. Lantern helps you win the answer, not just the ranking.
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  <Accordion icon="arrow-trend-up" title="14.2% conversion rate from AI-referred visitors">
    Visitors arriving from AI search convert at 14.2% — versus 2.8% from standard Google clicks. The traffic quality is transformational.
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## Search engines we monitor

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  <Card title="ChatGPT" icon="comment">
    858M+ monthly active users
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  <Card title="Google Gemini" icon="sparkles">
    650M+ monthly active users
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  <Card title="Perplexity" icon="magnifying-glass-chart">
    20M+ monthly active users
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  <Card title="Google Search" icon="google">
    Traditional and AI Overviews
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## Ready to get started?

<Card title="Quick Start Guide" icon="rocket" href="/quickstart" horizontal>
  Get up and running with Lantern Agents in minutes — no credit card required
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