Running an audit

On-demand: Run audit now

On the Monitoring page, 'Run audit now' triggers a full audit for the brand selected in the top bar, across every AI engine on your plan. It runs in about a minute; you can leave the page and the results save automatically.

You need at least one active prompt for the brand — if you don't, the button tells you to add one first. On-demand runs count against your plan's monthly limit, so if you hit the cap you'll see an upgrade prompt.

Automatic weekly monitoring

Beyond on-demand runs, Pondral automatically re-audits your brands on a weekly schedule so you can see trends over time without doing anything. Recent runs appear on the Monitoring page with timestamps and status; History shows the full trend.

Because AI engines are non-deterministic, a single run is directional and a trend across several runs is the real signal — daily monitoring plus the weekly full audit is designed to smooth that out.

Which engines run

The number of AI engines an audit uses depends on your plan. Paid plans run all five (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok); the free plan runs two per check. Each engine has a different knowledge base and retrieval method, so your score can differ a lot between them — that's expected, and the Engines page shows the per-engine detail.