HAND-VERIFIED · SOURCE-LINKED
We hand-count what Reddit, G2, and YouTube actually say — vendor-written noise excluded.
✦ READ THE SIGNALSThe GEO tool three-way no one had run on real buyer discussions — until now.
Read the signals →Top signal: pricing called too high · 12 of 12 pricing mentions negative
Scrunch splits 20 positive / 20 negative · Profound runs 46 negative / 5 positive
47 usability complaints, all negative · fast onboarding: 17 signals, zero negative
48 videos scanned · 9 genuine buyer voices found · 4 pollution patterns, with receipts
A buyer signal is one concrete praise or complaint about a tool that a human read and verified in a public Reddit, G2, or YouTube discussion before it was counted. SignalBeforeBuy has hand-counted 249 of them across 10 AI-marketing tools.
No. Every conclusion is our own, and affiliate links never affect a verdict — the signal count does. That is why the running total of sponsored verdicts stays at 0.
Every count traces back to a public thread a human opened and read first — on Reddit, G2, or YouTube. There is no vendor-supplied copy and no AI-generated review text behind the figures.
So far 10 tools across two categories: AI-visibility monitors like Otterly, Peec, Profound, and Scrunch, and AI content-optimization tools like Surfer, Clearscope, and MarketMuse. New tools are added only after enough real buyer discussion exists to count.
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Every claim traceable
0 sponsored verdicts
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