How to get started?

CrowdReply is a platform that helps brands get discovered in AI search results and grow their presence on Reddit. Whether you're here for AI visibility tracking, Reddit marketing, or both — here's how everything fits together.

The three pillars of CrowdReply

1. AI Search Tracking

AI platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Mode are rapidly becoming the way people discover products and services. CrowdReply tracks how your brand appears across these AI platforms by monitoring your visibility score, competitor rankings, citations, and mentions.

Start here:

• Overview — See your visibility score, competitor rankings, and engagement opportunities
• Prompts — Add the search queries you want to track across AI models
• Citations — See which sources AI models cite and find threads to engage on

2. Social Listening

CrowdReply monitors Reddit for discussions relevant to your brand, industry, and competitors. You can track keywords to find ongoing conversations, discover new threads as they're posted, and identify high-value engagement opportunities.

Start here:

• Keyword Tracking — Set up keywords to monitor continuously
• Mentions — Browse discovered threads, use Single Search for quick lookups, and save favorites

3. Reddit Engagement (Platforms)

This is CrowdReply's engagement engine — a network of persona based Reddit accounts that post comments, replies, and threads on your behalf.

Start here:

• Add Task — Create comment, reply, thread, or upvote tasks
• Task Tracking — Monitor your active and completed tasks

How everything connects

These three pillars aren't separate tools, they feed into each other:

AI Search → Citations → Engagement

AI Search tracking shows you which sources AI models cite. Those citations are often Reddit threads. You engage on those threads through the engagement engine, which builds your brand's presence on the sources AI trusts most. Over time, AI models start recommending your brand more.

Social Listening → Engagement

Social Listening discovers relevant Reddit discussions, both established threads ranking on Google (Ranked) and fresh discussions as they're posted (New). You engage on the best opportunities, building your brand's presence across the conversations that matter.

Engagement → AI Visibility

Every comment, reply, and thread posted through CrowdReply's engagement engine strengthens your brand's presence on Reddit. Since Reddit is the most cited social platform by AI models, this directly drives your AI visibility score up.

Using CrowdReply just for Reddit marketing

You don't need to use the AI Search features to get value from CrowdReply. If you're focused purely on Reddit marketing, CrowdReply is a powerful standalone tool:

• Post comments and replies on relevant Reddit threads using our trusted pool of accounts
• Create new threads in target subreddits to start discussions around your brand
• Track performance — monitor comment rank, upvotes, removal status, and engagement metrics
• Find threads using Social Listening to discover where your audience is talking

Many of our users started with Reddit marketing and later added AI Search tracking as they saw how Reddit engagement influences AI recommendations. The platform is designed to work for both use cases — separately or together.

Getting started checklist

If you're new to CrowdReply:

1. Complete the onboarding — set up your brand, add competitors, and select prompts
2. Check your Overview dashboard to see where you stand
3. Browse your Citations to find high-impact Reddit threads
4. Create your first engagement task via Add Task

If you're here for Reddit marketing:

1. Go to Add Task and create your first comment or thread task
2. Set up Keyword Tracking to discover relevant threads
3. Browse Mentions to find engagement opportunities

Updated on: 22/03/2026