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.Step 1: Create your account
Sign up for Lantern
Sign up for Lantern
Visit asklantern.com and create your free account. No credit card required for your 7-day trial.
Set up your brand profile
Set up your brand profile
Complete your brand profile so Lantern knows what to track:
- Company name and website URL — your primary brand identity
- Key products or services — Lantern will monitor mentions of each
- Competitors (optional) — benchmark your visibility against them
- AI platforms to monitor — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Google
Lantern begins tracking your brand immediately after setup.
Step 2: Configure monitoring
Add prompts to track
Add prompts to track
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]“
Install the tracking snippet
Install the tracking snippet
Add Lantern’s attribution snippet to your site to measure AI-driven traffic:Place this in your site’s
<head> to start attributing AI-referred sessions to revenue.Step 3: Deploy your first agent
Run an agent
Run an 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.
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