# AyeWatch

> Ayewatch is your real-time AI companion that monitors the internet for any topic you care about and alerts you the moment something new happens. Stay ahead with instant updates, cross‑platform access (web & mobile), and an effortless dashboard to track news, trends, and research subjects.

AyeWatch is an AI-powered internet monitoring platform. Users describe a topic in plain English and AyeWatch's proprietary AI scans 1B+ sources (news, social, Reddit, government filings, academic publications, blogs, specific URLs) and delivers only the genuinely meaningful changes. Available on web, iOS, and Android with REST API and HMAC-signed webhooks for developers.

## Core pages
- [AyeWatch home](https://ayewatch.ai/): Product overview, features, pricing, FAQ.
- [Pricing](https://ayewatch.ai/pricing): Free Preview (6 lifetime runs), Pro ($9/mo), Pro+ ($19/mo), Max ($39/mo), and Ultra ($99/mo). ASAP monitoring is available on Max and Ultra.
- [API documentation](https://ayewatch.ai/documentation): REST API, authentication, topics endpoints, webhook events, error codes.
- [Blog](https://ayewatch.ai/blog): Long-form guides on AI monitoring, GEO, competitive intelligence, and use-case playbooks.
- [Contact](https://ayewatch.ai/contact): Support, partnerships, and feedback.

## API documentation
- [Authentication](https://ayewatch.ai/documentation/authentication): API key format and Bearer token usage.
- [Topics API](https://ayewatch.ai/documentation/topics): Create, list, update, delete monitoring topics via REST.
- [Webhooks](https://ayewatch.ai/documentation/webhooks): HMAC-SHA256 verification, event format, retry behavior.
- [Errors](https://ayewatch.ai/documentation/errors): Status codes and standard error response shape.

Every documentation page is also served as markdown: append `.md` to its URL (e.g. https://ayewatch.ai/documentation/topics.md) or request the page with an `Accept: text/markdown` header. The complete reference in one file is at https://ayewatch.ai/documentation/all.md.

## Featured guides
- [What Is AI-Powered Internet Monitoring? A Complete Guide for 2026](https://ayewatch.ai/blog/ai-powered-internet-monitoring-2026): AI-powered internet monitoring uses proprietary AI to surface only the changes that genuinely matter, not just keyword hits.
- [The Best Google Alerts Alternative in 2026](https://ayewatch.ai/blog/google-alerts-alternative): Google Alerts is free but floods you with noise. Discover why AI-powered monitoring is the best Google Alerts alternative for professionals in 2026.
- [Semantic AI vs. Keyword Alerts: Why Context Is Everything](https://ayewatch.ai/blog/semantic-ai-vs-keyword-alerts): Keyword alerts flood your inbox with noise. Semantic AI monitoring understands context, delivering only the alerts that actually matter to your work.
- [The 9 Best AI Web Monitoring Tools of 2026 (Compared Honestly)](https://ayewatch.ai/blog/best-ai-monitoring-tools-2026): A no-hype comparison of the top AI monitoring tools for web, news, and brand tracking in 2026 — with a clear verdict on who each tool is actually for.
- [How AI-Powered Web Monitoring Works](https://ayewatch.ai/blog/how-llm-monitoring-works): Fewer alerts, better alerts, and the confidence that what reaches you is worth your attention, here's what AI-powered monitoring actually delivers.
- [Real-Time Web Monitoring: The Complete Beginner's Guide](https://ayewatch.ai/blog/real-time-web-monitoring-guide): New to web monitoring? This complete beginner's guide covers everything you need to know about setting up real-time alerts for any topic or website.
- [Alert Fatigue Is Real, Here's How to Fix It With AI](https://ayewatch.ai/blog/alert-fatigue-solution): Alert fatigue happens when too many irrelevant notifications cause you to ignore all alerts, including critical ones. AI monitoring is the cure.
- [Monitoring Intervals Explained: How Often Should You Check the Web?](https://ayewatch.ai/blog/monitoring-intervals-explained): Monitoring frequency affects both alert latency and resource consumption. Here's how to choose the right interval for each type of monitoring topic.

## Competitor comparisons
- [Ayewatch vs Google Alerts](https://ayewatch.ai/vs/google-alerts): Google Alerts is a free keyword-matching service tied to Google's web index. AyeWatch monitors 1B+ sources with semantic AI that understands context, eliminates duplicates and noise, and supports specific URL change tracking, Slack, webhooks, and ASAP mode on Max and Ultra — none of which Google Alerts offers.
- [Ayewatch vs Mention](https://ayewatch.ai/vs/mention): Mention is a social-first listening tool aimed at marketing teams, with pricing starting around $49/mo. AyeWatch is broader (covers news, filings, blogs, specific URLs in addition to social) with semantic AI matching, starts at $9/mo, and offers its REST API plus HMAC-signed webhooks on Pro+.
- [Ayewatch vs Brand24](https://ayewatch.ai/vs/brand24): Brand24 is a sentiment-focused social listening platform starting around $79/mo. AyeWatch starts at $9/mo, covers a wider source mix, and uses semantic AI to suppress noise instead of relying on Boolean operators and sentiment scoring.
- [Ayewatch vs Visualping](https://ayewatch.ai/vs/visualping): Visualping is a page-change detection tool that compares screenshots. AyeWatch can monitor the same URLs but also monitors arbitrary topics across 1B+ sources with semantic AI, summarizing what changed in plain language.
- [Ayewatch vs Distill.io](https://ayewatch.ai/vs/distill): Distill.io is a developer-friendly URL tracker with a browser extension and selector-based diffs. AyeWatch is broader: it monitors topics across the web in addition to specific URLs, summarizes changes with AI, and ships native mobile apps and a REST API.
- [Ayewatch vs ChangeDetection.io](https://ayewatch.ai/vs/changedetection): ChangeDetection.io is a well-loved open-source page-diff tool you self-host. AyeWatch is a hosted, AI-native service that adds semantic topic monitoring, plain-language summaries, mobile apps, and zero operational overhead.
- [Ayewatch vs Feedly](https://ayewatch.ai/vs/feedly): Feedly is a feed reader you actively check; its Leo AI tier ($18+/mo) prioritizes items in your feeds. AyeWatch flips the model — you don't read a feed, you receive only the meaningful events as alerts, across sources broader than RSS.
- [Ayewatch vs Talkwalker](https://ayewatch.ai/vs/talkwalker): Talkwalker is enterprise-grade social listening with deep analytics, image recognition, and contracts in the thousands per month. AyeWatch covers the alerting and meaningful-change-detection use case for $19–99/mo without the enterprise lift.
- [Ayewatch vs Meltwater](https://ayewatch.ai/vs/meltwater): Meltwater is an enterprise media-monitoring suite with sales-led pricing typically in the thousands per month. AyeWatch delivers the alerting + meaningful-signal-detection layer at SaaS pricing, with a public API and self-serve signup.
- [AyeWatch vs. Visualping: Which Web Change Monitor Is Right for You?](https://ayewatch.ai/blog/visualping-alternative): A fair, feature-by-feature comparison of AyeWatch and Visualping — so you can pick the right tool for your web monitoring use case without wasting time on manual evaluations.
- [AyeWatch vs. Distill.io: Which Is Right for You in 2026?](https://ayewatch.ai/blog/distill-io-alternative): Distill.io is excellent for element-level page monitoring in a browser. AyeWatch handles topic monitoring, mobile alerts, and scale. Here's when to use each.
- [AyeWatch vs. ChangeDetection.io: AI Monitoring vs. Page Diffing](https://ayewatch.ai/blog/changedetection-alternative): ChangeDetection.io is the best free self-hosted page differ. AyeWatch is the best cloud-based AI topic monitor. Here's when each one wins.
- [AyeWatch vs. Mention.com and Brand24: A Straightforward Comparison](https://ayewatch.ai/blog/mention-brand24-alternative): Mention.com and Brand24 are built for brand monitoring teams with big budgets. AyeWatch covers both brand and topic monitoring for individuals and small teams from $9/mo.
- [AyeWatch vs. Feedly: When AI Monitoring Beats a Feed Reader](https://ayewatch.ai/blog/feedly-alternative): Feedly is a curated RSS reader with AI priority filtering. AyeWatch monitors topics across the whole internet, not just sources with RSS feeds. Here's when each wins.
- [AyeWatch vs. Rewatch AI: What's the Difference?](https://ayewatch.ai/blog/rewatch-ai-alternative): Rewatch AI is a video recording and meeting intelligence tool. AyeWatch is a web and internet monitoring platform. They're different products solving different problems.

## By role
- [AyeWatch for Journalists — never miss a beat-defining story](https://ayewatch.ai/for/journalists): AyeWatch monitors 1B+ sources for journalists, surfacing breaking developments on your beat the moment they appear. Replace dozens of saved searches and RSS feeds with semantic AI alerts delivered to Slack or push.
- [AyeWatch for Investors — information edge in ASAP or less](https://ayewatch.ai/for/investors): Real-time AI monitoring built for traders, fund managers, and analysts. Catch earnings updates, SEC filings, FDA approvals, regulatory developments, and competitor moves before they're priced in.
- [AyeWatch for Lawyers — automate the boring half of due diligence](https://ayewatch.ai/for/lawyers): AI monitoring for legal teams: track court dockets, regulatory updates, platform policy changes, and competitor announcements. Replace manual searching with semantic alerts that include AI summaries of the relevant change.
- [AyeWatch for Founders — competitive intelligence on autopilot](https://ayewatch.ai/for/founders): Track every competitor product launch, pricing change, hire, and press mention without burning a Saturday. AyeWatch's semantic AI monitors 1B+ sources and pushes only the things that matter to Slack or push.
- [AyeWatch for Researchers — stay ahead of published literature](https://ayewatch.ai/for/researchers): AI monitoring for academics, R&D scientists, and policy researchers. Track new papers, grants, preprints, and field developments across PubMed-adjacent open web, arXiv, government sites, and major publisher pages.
- [AyeWatch for PR Teams — real-time brand reputation monitoring](https://ayewatch.ai/for/pr-teams): Catch every meaningful mention, sentiment shift, and crisis signal across news, social, blogs, and Reddit. AI filters out noise so you only see the mentions that warrant a response.
- [AyeWatch for Recruiters — sourcing signals on autopilot](https://ayewatch.ai/for/recruiters): Get alerted when target candidates publish, speak at conferences, change roles, or land on industry award lists. Track competitor hiring to identify talent acquisition opportunities.
- [AyeWatch for Security Teams — threat-intel and vendor-risk monitoring](https://ayewatch.ai/for/security-teams): Continuously monitor vendor breach announcements, CVE disclosures, vendor status pages, and threat-actor mentions across open sources. Semantic AI cuts down on the noise that breaks traditional CTI feeds.

## Glossary
- [AI Internet Monitoring](https://ayewatch.ai/glossary/ai-internet-monitoring): AI internet monitoring is the automated, continuous surveillance of web sources using machine learning models that understand context — surfacing only meaningful changes, not raw keyword matches.
- [Brand Monitoring](https://ayewatch.ai/glossary/brand-monitoring): Brand monitoring is the systematic tracking of mentions of a brand, product, or executive across online sources — news, social media, blogs, forums, and review sites — to surface reputation, sentiment, and crisis signals.
- [Media Monitoring](https://ayewatch.ai/glossary/media-monitoring): Media monitoring is the practice of continuously tracking news outlets, broadcast media, and online publications for mentions of a topic, brand, or person — historically a clipping service, today an AI-powered alerting workflow.
- [Competitive Intelligence](https://ayewatch.ai/glossary/competitive-intelligence): Competitive intelligence (CI) is the disciplined collection, analysis, and dissemination of public information about competitors, markets, and the competitive environment to inform strategy.
- [Web Change Detection](https://ayewatch.ai/glossary/web-change-detection): Web change detection is the automated practice of monitoring a specific URL or web page and alerting when its content changes — visually, structurally, or semantically.
- [Topic Tracking](https://ayewatch.ai/glossary/topic-tracking): Topic tracking is the continuous monitoring of an idea, theme, or subject across many sources, where the system understands the concept rather than just matching exact keywords.
- [OSINT (Open-Source Intelligence)](https://ayewatch.ai/glossary/osint): OSINT (open-source intelligence) is the collection and analysis of publicly available information — news, social media, public records, satellite imagery, online forums — for intelligence purposes.
- [Semantic Search](https://ayewatch.ai/glossary/semantic-search): Semantic search is information retrieval that uses meaning rather than literal string matching — typically powered by vector embeddings or language models that understand concepts.

## Stats
- [Ayewatch by the numbers](https://ayewatch.ai/stats): Coverage, speed, pricing, and platform facts.

## Optional
- [llms-full.txt](https://ayewatch.ai/llms-full.txt): Full markdown corpus of docs and blog content for RAG ingestion.
- [Sitemap](https://ayewatch.ai/sitemap.xml): Complete URL index.
- [Blog RSS feed](https://ayewatch.ai/feed.xml): Latest articles.