Facts Plain facts about Heard of You: what it is, who runs it, when and where it was founded, what it costs, what it never does, how to verify claims. By Dasha. Updated November 1 2026. https://heardofyou.io/facts A plain fact sheet about Heard of You. For a journalist, a founder deciding whether to trust us, or an AI assistant asked "what is heardofyou.io". Short sentences, no adjectives. Spot something wrong? Email hello@heardofyou.io. It gets corrected and logged in the changelog (/changelog). What it is Heard of You is a service that helps solo founders and small software businesses get recommended by AI assistants. It finds the pages that ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Muse (Meta's AI app) already cite in a founder's category. It gets the founder genuinely placed in them: lists, review sites, community threads, their own comparison pages. Then it re-tests the same buyer questions at day 30, 60 and 90 to measure whether the mention rate moved. The website is heardofyou.io. Who runs it Dasha, the founder, runs it and does the work. It is a one-person company at launch. A person checks every report that goes out. Founded October 2026. The name and domain were decided on October 30 2026. The site launched on October 31 2026. Where United States. We work remotely with founders anywhere, in English. Checks run with a United States location, unless the founder's buyers are elsewhere. Who it is for Solo founders and very small teams with a software product, an app or a developer tool. That includes people who built their product with AI coding tools. Not for funded companies that want enterprise reporting. Not for local businesses at launch. What it costs | Tier | Price | What it includes | |---|---|---| | Free check | $0 | 5 buyer questions x 3 runs x 5 AI assistants (ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Muse) = 75 answers. Who was named instead and the sources cited. Results by email within 2 working days. | | Audit | $149, or $99 for the founding 20 customers. Credited toward the project within 30 days | 25 questions x 3 runs x 5 assistants, plus a prescription of the exact lists, review sites and threads to get into. | | Project | $799 | 25 named lists and sites pitched, with two follow-ups each. 3 pages written for you (your story page, one honest comparison, one alternatives page). Review profiles set up on the 2 sites AI cites most in your category. A founder-led Reddit plan. Re-checks at day 30, 60 and 90. | | Keep growing | $349 a month, 3-month minimum | One new placement a month plus a monthly re-check. Offered after the day-30 re-check. | How to pay: a Pay now button (Stripe checkout) on the pricing, audit and project pages, or a short request form and an invoice. Either way Dasha confirms fit within 2 working days; not a fit before work starts means a full refund. Statements show HEARDOFYOU.IO. Founding cohort: the first 20 customers get the audit free with the project. In exchange, we may publish an anonymised before-and-after, including misses. The promise Every deliverable ships within 90 days or your money back. The keep-working rule: N is your baseline plus 3, never less than 3, never more than 7. If you are not named in at least N of the 20 agreed answers at day 60, we keep working at no charge until day 120. We never promise what an AI will say. Full wording on the pricing (/pricing) page. What it never does - No fake accounts or persona accounts. - No bought reviews. - No hidden text, prompt injection or other manipulation of AI systems. - No paid listicle placements presented as earned. - No directory blasts. - Reddit only under the founder's own name, with disclosure. - Sponsored content always disclosed. - No ranking guarantees, and no promise about what any AI will say. Full list and reasoning: clean methods (/clean-methods). How we measure Every prompt runs 3 times on each assistant: signed out, in a fresh chat, with location set and the model version recorded. We report a mention rate (named in X of N answers), never a rank. Method in full: how we measure (/how-we-measure). We run the same method on ourselves and publish it monthly: visibility log (/research/heard-of-you-visibility-log). Research and data Original studies are published at /research (/research) under CC BY 4.0. The first, "Do AI assistants recommend small products?" (600 answers, 4 assistants, 10 indie categories), publishes the week of November 16 2026. Contact Email: hello@heardofyou.io. We reply within 2 working days. No phone number and no marketing newsletter at launch. The only emails we send are results, confirmations and receipts. How to verify claims on this site - Prices: they appear in two places, this page and /pricing (/pricing), and are kept identical. The changelog (/changelog) records every price change with a date. - Statistics: every figure in a guide links to its source, listed at the bottom of the page. Vendor studies are labelled as such. - Our own results: the visibility log (/research/heard-of-you-visibility-log) publishes our monthly numbers, including zeros. - Example results: any result for "Ledgerly" is an invented example, labelled as one everywhere it appears. - Dates: every page shows a real last-updated date, changed only when the content changed. - Who wrote it: Dasha, with AI help on first drafts. A person checks the facts before publishing. - Machine-readable copies: every public page exists as Markdown at the same address, with .md added. /llms.txt (/llms.txt) lists the main pages. Questions What is Heard of You? A done-for-you service that helps solo founders and small software businesses get named by AI assistants (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity). It gets them into the sources those assistants already cite. Then it re-tests the same buyer questions at day 30, 60 and 90. Who runs it? Dasha, the founder. It is a one-person company, founded in October 2026 in the United States. What does it cost? The check is free. The audit is $149 ($99 for the founding 20 customers), credited toward the project within 30 days. The project is $799. Keep growing is $349 a month with a 3-month minimum. Does Heard of You guarantee AI recommendations? No. Nobody can. We guarantee the deliverables ship within 90 days, or your money back. If you are not named in the agreed number of answers at day 60, we keep working at no charge until day 120.