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Get up and running in three steps

Lantern Agents monitor your brand across every major AI engine, surface citation gaps, and run content workflows — all without manual effort. Here’s how to get started.

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Step 1: Create your account

Visit asklantern.com and create your free account. No credit card required for your 7-day trial.
Complete your brand profile so Lantern knows what to track:
  1. Company name and website URL — your primary brand identity
  2. Key products or services — Lantern will monitor mentions of each
  3. Competitors (optional) — benchmark your visibility against them
  4. AI platforms to monitor — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google
Lantern begins tracking your brand immediately after setup.

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Step 2: Configure monitoring

Define the queries you want to monitor across AI platforms:
  • Comparison queries — “What are the best [product category]?”
  • Direct brand queries — “Tell me about [your brand]”
  • Use case queries — “Best solution for [specific need]”
  • Competitive queries — “Compare [your brand] vs [competitor]“
Start with 5–10 high-priority prompts and expand from there.
Add Lantern’s attribution snippet to your site to measure AI-driven traffic:
<script>
  (function(l,a,n,t,e,r,n){
    // Lantern tracking code is provided in your dashboard
  })();
</script>
Place this in your site’s <head> to start attributing AI-referred sessions to revenue.

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Step 3: Deploy your first agent

Go to Agents in the sidebar and click New Agent. Choose from ready-made templates — Blog Article Pipeline, AI Search Optimisation Article, Competitor Analysis — or build your own.Agents run in the background on Lantern’s servers. When finished, results appear in Run History with every step, output, and data point logged.See Agents — Getting Started for a full walkthrough.

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What you’ll see in your dashboard

Brand Monitoring

Real-time view of how every major AI engine represents your brand

Citation Sources

Which websites AI cites when talking about your brand — and the gaps

Traffic Attribution

Every AI-referred session traced through to conversion and revenue

Agent Run History

Full logs of every agent run — steps, tool calls, outputs, and timing

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Next steps

What are Agents?

Understand how Lantern Agents work and when to use them

Build your first workflow

Step-by-step guide to building a custom agent pipeline

Agentic Mode

Let the AI decide which steps to run based on your goal

API Integration

Integrate Lantern data and agents into your own stack
Need help? Contact our support team at support@asklantern.com