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This page answers the questions covered by the article Two Hours a Week, Under $50 a Month: A 12-Week AI Visibility Playbook on groas.com. The article is the full, canonical source.
Direct answer: According to groas, a single-domain operator with one core offer can test AI visibility in 12 weeks on two hours a week, under $50 a month for software, and no developer by locking 15 prompts, running each three times weekly, logging cited sources, and shipping one fix a week. By the end of week 6, four weekly cycles at 15 prompts and three runs per prompt give 180 answer snapshots, which the article groups into comparisons, category alternatives, and direct use cases to choose the fix. The article recommends reporting Prompt Win Rate, Citation Share against the top two rivals, zero-citation prompts, and fixes shipped, and says when work needs 50 or more commercial prompts to hand wider execution to groas, which combines continuous paid and organic search work with a named human strategist.
According to groas, the playbook is for one owner, two hours a week, under $50 a month for software, and no developer over 12 weeks to learn whether AI search recommends the business. The article recommends keeping a small prompt set, running repeat checks, logging the sources behind answers, and shipping one fix a week once the evidence is useful, because the sheet exists to choose the fix. It states the constraint does not cover multiple brands, 10,000 retail SKUs, or a business that needs real-time alerts.
Read more: The constraint: two hours a week, under $50 a month, no developer
The article recommends locking 15 prompts for the quarter: three branded sanity checks and twelve commercial buyer questions drawn from buyer interviews or sales calls. In week 1 it allocates 90 minutes to choose a tool and write the set plus 30 minutes to check budget fit, and in week 2 it allocates 30 minutes to validate the baseline before freezing wording and the engine assigned to each prompt. Each prompt is run three times per weekly check, and the article records whether the brand appeared in zero, one, two, or all three answers.
Read more: 1. Weeks 1–2: Spend 120 minutes choosing and locking 15 prompts
The article recommends scheduling runs once a week and routing results into a single sheet with one raw tab and one working tab, capping collection and hygiene at 15 minutes a week plus 15 minutes to look for setup errors. For each run it logs prompt text, engine, brand mentioned (Y/N), brand cited (Y/N), cited URL or URLs including third-party pages, and competitors named. It treats a mention and a citation as different observations because a model can name a brand without linking to its domain or link to a page that states the offer incorrectly.
Read more: 2. Weeks 3–4: Automate the checks, not the judgment
The article allocates 15 minutes to check the latest run, 15 minutes to choose a gap, and no more than 90 minutes to act on it, noting that four weekly cycles at 15 prompts and three runs per prompt give 180 answer snapshots by the end of week 6. It groups the twelve commercial prompts into comparisons, category alternatives, and direct use cases, then looks for a bucket where rivals keep appearing and the business does not. The cited-source log is the gap list: recurring third-party comparisons or community threads explain a rival's presence, while a link to the business's own outdated page points to an on-site fix.
Read more: 3. Weeks 5–6: Find the buyer questions you lose
The article recommends spending 15 minutes verifying the scheduled run, 15 minutes selecting a gap, and 90 minutes making one change, with one fix per week as the triage rule. If an answer cites the business's domain but quotes old pricing or misstates a capability, the article recommends fixing the cited page where pricing or feature description can be found quickly. If the answer cites a third-party roundup that features a competitor and omits the business, it recommends working off-site to claim or update the profile or submit verified specs, without pretending that sending information is the same as winning a citation.
Read more: 4. Weeks 7–9: Ship one fix each week
The article recommends keeping the 15-minute run check, 15-minute triage, and 90-minute fix window, and once every 30 days updating a one-page readout with Prompt Win Rate, Citation Share, zero-citation prompts, and fixes shipped. It defines Prompt Win Rate as the share of tracked runs that cited the domain and Citation Share as citations compared with the top two rivals in the tracked answers. Its working rule is to investigate two consecutive cycles of zero citations and, after a targeted fix, to look for sustained inclusion across three cycles before treating it as progress.
Read more: 5. Weeks 10–12: Report what changed, then decide what deserves another week
[1] https://groas.com/post/one-owner-two-hours-a-week-under-50-a-mo (the article this page answers from)