OpenLens Launches AI Visibility Platform for Agencies, Specializing in LLMO/AIO Solutions
OpenLens today announced the launch of its AI visibility platform (LLMO/AIO countermeasure tool) designed specifically for marketing agencies. Already, over 35 agencies are leveraging OpenLens to manage AI visibility for hundreds of brand clients across diverse industries, from dental and legal to healthcare, B2B SaaS, financial services, and professional services.
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OpenLens today announced the launch of its AI visibility platform (LLMO/AIO countermeasure tool) designed specifically for marketing agencies. Over 35 agencies are already utilizing OpenLens to manage AI visibility for hundreds of brand clients across diverse industries including dental, legal, healthcare, B2B SaaS, financial services, and professional services.
### Unmeasurable Changes Faced by Agencies in the AI Search Era
The service launch comes at a time when agencies are facing structural shifts in discovery that cannot be measured by existing tools. ChatGPT currently boasts 900 million weekly active users. Google AI Overviews reaches 2 billion users monthly. According to Pew Research, organic click-through rates decrease by 61% when AI summaries are displayed in Google search results. Data from SparkToro and Datos indicates that per-user Google desktop searches decreased by approximately 20% year-over-year from 2024 to 2025, marking the first sustained decline since Google's inception. Apple Senior Vice President Eddy Cue revealed in May 2025 testimony that Safari's search volume had declined for the first time in 22 years.
### Rapid Expansion of the AI Visibility Tool Market and Limitations of Existing Tools
In response to these changes, the AI visibility (LLMO/AIO countermeasure) tool market has rapidly expanded. Currently, approximately 24 tools compete in the AI visibility monitoring space, but most charge monthly fees ranging from ¥60,000 to ¥450,000 ($400 to $3,000) while failing to provide agency-scale workflows or source-level data that agencies can actually use for their strategies. The majority of major market tools were developed by SEO companies retrofitting AI tracking features onto existing ranking monitoring products. OpenLens takes the opposite approach: it is built from the perspective of models, not keywords, and designed by AI researchers, not MarTech industry veterans.
### Key Features of OpenLens
OpenLens runs hundreds of brand-related prompts across ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity, and DeepSeek, offering agencies the following:
* **Competitive Comparison Analysis:** Agencies can see how their clients appear compared to competitors on each AI platform, segmented by query, attribute, and source. This goes beyond a mere visibility score, revealing which specific queries competitors dominate and why.
* **Granular Source-Level Analysis:** OpenLens displays the specific URLs, articles, and threads that AI models cite when mentioning a brand. This is not just top-level domains; it's the difference between 'there's work to be done' and 'knowing the specific three pages to fix on Monday.'
* **Large-Scale Custom Prompt Execution:** Agencies can execute hundreds of location-specific or category-specific queries for numerous clients within a single workflow. These are true agency-level work units, not tasks designed merely for demos.
* **Historical Tracking:** Track visibility trends across four AI platforms over time, enabling agencies to demonstrate the numerical impact of their strategies to clients.
### Pricing Structure
OpenLens can be started for free. Premium plans, designed for agencies managing numerous clients simultaneously, are scheduled for release in May 2026.
### About the Co-founders
OpenLens co-founders Cameron Witkowski and Aman Bhargava are both AI researchers who have published academic papers on large language model behavior, prompting control theory, and prompt baking. The team's background in AI research rather than the SEO or MarTech industry defines OpenLens's approach—the idea of measuring AI visibility from the model side, not the keyword side.
### About OpenLens
OpenLens is an AI visibility platform built for marketing agencies. It tracks how ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity, and DeepSeek describe and recommend brands through thousands of prompts, redefining the 2026 search environment.
### Unmeasurable Changes Faced by Agencies in the AI Search Era
The service launch comes at a time when agencies are facing structural shifts in discovery that cannot be measured by existing tools. ChatGPT currently boasts 900 million weekly active users. Google AI Overviews reaches 2 billion users monthly. According to Pew Research, organic click-through rates decrease by 61% when AI summaries are displayed in Google search results. Data from SparkToro and Datos indicates that per-user Google desktop searches decreased by approximately 20% year-over-year from 2024 to 2025, marking the first sustained decline since Google's inception. Apple Senior Vice President Eddy Cue revealed in May 2025 testimony that Safari's search volume had declined for the first time in 22 years.
### Rapid Expansion of the AI Visibility Tool Market and Limitations of Existing Tools
In response to these changes, the AI visibility (LLMO/AIO countermeasure) tool market has rapidly expanded. Currently, approximately 24 tools compete in the AI visibility monitoring space, but most charge monthly fees ranging from ¥60,000 to ¥450,000 ($400 to $3,000) while failing to provide agency-scale workflows or source-level data that agencies can actually use for their strategies. The majority of major market tools were developed by SEO companies retrofitting AI tracking features onto existing ranking monitoring products. OpenLens takes the opposite approach: it is built from the perspective of models, not keywords, and designed by AI researchers, not MarTech industry veterans.
### Key Features of OpenLens
OpenLens runs hundreds of brand-related prompts across ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity, and DeepSeek, offering agencies the following:
* **Competitive Comparison Analysis:** Agencies can see how their clients appear compared to competitors on each AI platform, segmented by query, attribute, and source. This goes beyond a mere visibility score, revealing which specific queries competitors dominate and why.
* **Granular Source-Level Analysis:** OpenLens displays the specific URLs, articles, and threads that AI models cite when mentioning a brand. This is not just top-level domains; it's the difference between 'there's work to be done' and 'knowing the specific three pages to fix on Monday.'
* **Large-Scale Custom Prompt Execution:** Agencies can execute hundreds of location-specific or category-specific queries for numerous clients within a single workflow. These are true agency-level work units, not tasks designed merely for demos.
* **Historical Tracking:** Track visibility trends across four AI platforms over time, enabling agencies to demonstrate the numerical impact of their strategies to clients.
### Pricing Structure
OpenLens can be started for free. Premium plans, designed for agencies managing numerous clients simultaneously, are scheduled for release in May 2026.
### About the Co-founders
OpenLens co-founders Cameron Witkowski and Aman Bhargava are both AI researchers who have published academic papers on large language model behavior, prompting control theory, and prompt baking. The team's background in AI research rather than the SEO or MarTech industry defines OpenLens's approach—the idea of measuring AI visibility from the model side, not the keyword side.
### About OpenLens
OpenLens is an AI visibility platform built for marketing agencies. It tracks how ChatGPT, Google AI, Perplexity, and DeepSeek describe and recommend brands through thousands of prompts, redefining the 2026 search environment.