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An Adobe LLM Optimizer alternative that wins AI citations.

Adobe LLM Optimizer, now called Adobe Brand Visibility, is an enterprise GEO product sold through a demo. Wellows is a self-serve tool for AI citations: see who engines cite, how they describe you, and what to fix.

Start on any plan from $29 a month. All five AI engines and unlimited projects are included, with a 7-day trial (card).

Head-to-head

Wellows vs Adobe LLM Optimizer

Coverage, metrics, actions and reporting in one table.

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Wellows Top pick

Coverage and plans

AI engines
All five, on every plan
Projects
Unlimited on every plan
Team seats
Unlimited
Tracking
Daily or weekly, by project

Measurement

Visibility score
Daily rank against your competitors
Share of voice
For each engine and rival
Sentiment
Rated for each cited page
Explicit citations
Logged by prompt, engine and URL
Implicit citations
Reported as its own metric
Daily brief
What changed, and what to do

Acting on the data

Next steps
Quick Wins with a 30-day plan
Content opportunities
Missing pages, ranked and titled
Content writing
AI page drafts from KIVA research
Page optimisation
Section fixes (beta)
Outreach
Cited pages featuring competitors
Contacts and pitch
Verified contact plus email draft
Outreach pipeline
Open, Contacted, Won, Lost

Reporting

Client reporting
White-label on all plans
Performance history
Any two dates, compared
Exports
CSV by project and date

Trial

Free trial
7 days, card required

Adobe

Coverage and plans

AI engines
Ten LLM families, with Claude too
Projects
Limits not published
Team seats
Not published
Tracking
Cadence is not published

Measurement

Visibility score
Brand visibility views
Share of voice
Versus five competitors
Sentiment
Sentiment not listed
Explicit citations
Citation tracking is not detailed
Implicit citations
Not split out
Daily brief
No daily brief is listed

Acting on the data

Next steps
Prioritized briefs
Content opportunities
Topic cluster gaps
Content writing
Generated content
Page optimisation
Edge-deployed changes
Outreach
Earned-media content
Contacts and pitch
Not listed
Outreach pipeline
No pipeline is listed

Reporting

Client reporting
White-label is not listed
Performance history
Not detailed publicly
Exports
Adobe Analytics link

Trial

Free trial
Demo

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of citation exist in AI answers. In one, your page is the cited source. In the other, a cited page mentions you. Wellows counts both and helps you win more.

The short version

  • Mentions are noise without citations. A brand name in an AI answer is easy to miss. A cited source is linked, trusted and clicked. Wellows separates the two, and then divides citations into explicit ones (your own URL is the source) and implicit ones (a cited third-party page talks about you).
  • Your shadow reputation, mapped. AI repeats what other sites say about you. Wellows reads each page engines cite, grades how it describes you, and lists the URLs hurting your sentiment.
  • Tools for the fix are included. Outreach opportunities with verified contacts, KIVA keyword research, AI-generated drafts and optimisation that assigns one page per prompt are in every plan, without any extra modules to buy.
  • Clear pricing. Wellows is $29 to $497 a month, and you can sign up and begin today. Adobe lists no pricing for LLM Optimizer and sells it through a demo request to its sales team.

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kinds of citation, measured one by one

5

AI engines, on each of the plans

∞

projects and seats in every plan

Daily

scans of sentiment for your brand and for your rivals

Why teams pick Wellows

Why marketing teams pick Wellows as their Adobe LLM Optimizer alternative today

Adobe's product is built for large enterprises with CDN and analytics teams. Wellows suits teams that want citation results without a rollout.

Being quoted matters more than being named

A name in an answer may be read and forgotten. A citation places your page beneath the answer, where the engine's trust and the reader's click both land. Wellows tracks them as different things, so you can see which one you are earning.

Your AI image is written on other websites

Engines piece together their view of you from reviews, rankings and community posts. Wellows shows which of these pages get cited most, what tone each takes towards you, and which ones send readers to a competitor instead.

Every insight ends in a task

Every gap shows up as a job to do: update a page, write a missing one, or pitch a source. Quick Wins sorts them by impact, and the 30-day plan spreads the work across the month.

Explicit vs implicit

Two kinds of AI citation, and the work behind each

Engines build each answer from pages they retrieve. One of those pages can be yours, or one can mention your brand. Wellows keeps separate counts and has a set of tools for each kind.

Explicit

Engines cite a page from your site

An engine pulled facts from your own URL and showed it beneath the answer. Because the page belongs to you, you decide how clear and how quotable it becomes.

Increased with content: Content Opportunities, KIVA keyword research, AI drafts, page fixes.

Implicit

Engines cite a page that names you

An engine used a review, a list article, a Reddit thread or a YouTube video as its source, and your brand is in it. Such citations usually outnumber explicit ones, and they make up your shadow reputation.

Increased with outreach: cited pages naming rivals, verified contacts and a pitch to send.

Start your 7-day free trialSee both in a live sample report ↗See your own explicit and implicit citations during the trial.

Product preview

Preview three Wellows screens before your trial

How you rank today, and what has moved

The overview begins with a short brief on what changed after the latest scan: who climbed, where you fell and what deserves attention today. Rank, visibility score and citations follow.

  • Share of voice: your citation share against all the competitors you track
  • Explicit and implicit citation counts and their change over time
  • Filters by engine, by region and by branded or other prompts
Wellows overview with today's brief, rank #2, visibility score, explicit and implicit citations, and brands ranked by visibility

Included with tracking

What you get in Wellows besides the numbers

Outreach that raises your implicit citations

Cited pages that mention your rivals already, listed by authority and projected citations. For each one you get a verified contact and an email that is ready to go out.

KIVA researches keywords, Wellows drafts pages

KIVA reads your Search Console data to pick the keywords a missing page should target and the follow-up questions engines ask behind the scenes. Wellows drafts the page from that work, so it reads as a quotable source.

Shadow reputation for every URL

AI engines describe you with pages written by someone else. Wellows scores the tone of each cited page and ranks the negative ones by how often engines return them, which tells you what to tackle first.

A daily brief on you and competitors

You open your dashboard and it's already there: a quick summary of what moved overnight. Rivals get scanned for sentiment too, so their changes don't catch you off guard.

White-label dashboards for clients

Branded for your agency, split by client and by country. Included in all plans, from $29.

Unlimited projects, shared pool

A brand, a regional site or a client account each count as a project. Opening one costs nothing until prompts run.

A worked example

Same gap, different result

One "best platforms" article keeps getting a competitor cited, and you are not in it. This is what you get from each tool.

In Wellows

  1. 1The article goes on your outreach list, ranked by domain authority and projected citations.
  2. 2It comes with a verified contact and an email already written for that exact URL.
  3. 3Once you've pitched it, you move it from Open to Won, and a later scan picks up the new implicit citation.

Outcome: You have a task, an owner and a result you can show.

In Adobe LLM Optimizer

  1. 1Share-of-voice reporting shows the competitor ahead of you on that topic.
  2. 2Prioritized briefs suggest content to create, including pieces for earned media.
  3. 3Finding the editor and sending the pitch is done by your team, elsewhere.

Outcome: You know which topic to work on.

Beyond reporting

Where Wellows does more once the report is ready

Both products show how you appear in AI answers. Wellows does more in three specific areas.

Citation types

Wellows

Explicit and implicit, split

Adobe

Share of voice by platform

Wellows reports your explicit and implicit citations as separate figures, and reads each cited page to show the tone it takes towards you.

Closing the gap

Wellows

Pages, fixes and outreach

Adobe

Briefs and edge changes

For every gap there is a next action: a page generated from KIVA's research, a fix that avoids creating a competing page, or a pitch sent to a verified contact.

Plans and price

Wellows

5 engines, $29 to $497 a month

Adobe

By demo, price not published

ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode are in every Wellows plan, along with sentiment, share of voice and white-label dashboards for each client you serve.

This is how Wellows does it

Introducing C.I.T.A.T.I.O.N.™

Wellows' proven framework for AI visibility optimization.

"See, Craft, Proof, Sell" is what you experience. C.I.T.A.T.I.O.N.™ is the eight-step method behind it.

  1. Chart the visibility gap

    Exactly where you're cited today and where you're not, against every named competitor.

  2. Investigate why competitors are cited

    We check both the AI answer and the source pages behind it, the layer most tools never open.

  3. Target the prompts and pages that matter

    The gap becomes a ranked list: the prompts and pages worth going after first, not a generic content calendar.

  4. Author content built to be cited

    KIVA finds the keywords and follow-up questions in your own Search Console data, and Wellows drafts the page from that research.

  5. Trust-build through verified outreach

    Citations you can go earn directly, not just wait for.

  6. Improve against daily signals

    Nothing sits still. Every shift surfaces the next day, at the URL level.

  7. Own the answer

    The goal was never a mention. It's being the source the model pulls from.

  8. Numbers that prove the movement

    Pick two dates, see the exact lift, and put your climb next to a named rival.

Eight steps, one loop. That's the difference between a platform that reports a number and a method built to move it.

See the method in action ›

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  • I've been testing a tool called Wellows that turns these hidden signals into real visibility. The workflow is surprisingly smart!

    Mike GinleySr. SEO Professional
  • If you want to measure AI visibility, reliably track your LLM citations, identify where competitors are winning, and systematically close those gaps. That's exactly what Wellows is built for.

    Vladi KriulinContent Strategist
  • You're guessing which sites to contact. Guessing what to say. Guessing if it'll even move the needle on AI visibility. That's where Wellows turns this into a repeatable system. And it's why I've decided to use this.

    Alex GrobermanFounder, Alex Groberman Labs
  • Your client's competitors are being cited by ChatGPT. Your client isn't. And until you fix that, the gap is only going to widen. The strategy is simple. Get your client onto the pages that LLMs already trust. But finding those pages? That used to be a nightmare. Wellows changes this completely.

    Freddie ChattEcommerce SEO Consultant

Make the call

Adobe LLM Optimizer or Wellows: which fits?

Wellows is right if you

  • Want AI citations to grow and a list of tasks that gets you there
  • Need explicit and implicit citations as two metrics, with content and outreach for each
  • Want to trace your shadow reputation to the pages causing it
  • Prefer to sign up yourself at a published monthly price today
  • Run client accounts and want white-label dashboards built in

Adobe may be right if you

  • Need Claude, Copilot and other models tracked beyond the main five
  • Want changes served to AI agents at the CDN edge and results tied to Adobe Analytics revenue
  • Are an enterprise with CDN, analytics and web teams to involve

Try Wellows

Bring your Adobe prompt list to Wellows

Track the same prompts and rivals, then compare the actions each suggests.

Start your 7-day free trial

Trial plan

How to get the most out of a 7-day Wellows trial

The trial gives you the complete product. You add a credit card to start.

Day 1

Start one project

Enter your domain, competitors and prompts, including those you track in Adobe. Choose engines and a cadence.

Days 2 to 4

Review the citations

Look over explicit and implicit citations, sentiment per source page and share of voice per engine. Daily briefs start to arrive.

Days 5 to 7

Work on early gaps

Open the 30-day plan, select a Quick Win, generate a page with KIVA's keyword research and send your first outreach emails.

FAQ

Adobe LLM Optimizer alternatives: FAQs

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What are the best alternatives to Adobe LLM Optimizer?

Wellows is the best Adobe LLM Optimizer alternative for teams that want AI citations without an enterprise rollout. It tracks explicit and implicit citations, sentiment and share of voice across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews and Google AI Mode, from $29 a month. Profound and Peec AI are other dedicated options, and all three can be bought on their own.

Which AI visibility tools work without an Adobe Experience Cloud subscription?

Wellows, Profound and Peec AI are standalone tools with no tie to Adobe software. Wellows needs only a domain, competitors and prompts. Adobe says its product is not exclusive to Adobe Experience Manager, though its revenue reporting runs in Adobe Analytics.

Adobe LLM Optimizer vs Profound: which is better for tracking brand mentions in ChatGPT?

Both track ChatGPT and are sold to enterprises on custom pricing. Adobe's product covers ten LLM families and adds CDN-edge deployment and Adobe Analytics reporting. Profound tracks up to nine answer engines and offers a 7-day trial. Adobe suits Adobe-centred stacks; Profound suits teams wanting a dedicated tool.

Is a credit card required to start the Wellows trial?

Yes. Every Wellows plan includes a 7-day free trial, and a credit card is needed to start it.

Was LLM Optimizer renamed?

Yes. Adobe's product page now calls it Adobe Brand Visibility, formerly Adobe LLM Optimizer. It is described as a generative engine optimization product for enterprises that measures brand presence in AI answers and deploys content changes at the CDN edge.

Can Wellows be used alongside Adobe products?

Yes. Wellows runs independently, so you can use it next to Adobe's product or any analytics stack. A team could keep Adobe for edge deployment and revenue reporting, and use Wellows for citation tracking, sentiment by source page and outreach.

Comparing the two? Book a demo and we'll run your own prompt list live, or start a 7-day free trial.