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Here's the Exact Weekly Task List 47 Solo Founders Got This Week

Redacted screenshots of actual weekly plan boards from our founding cohort: AI citation gaps, ranked tasks, and what changed by the next scan. What AI visibility looks like when it compounds.

Tarang AgarwalApril 24, 20267 min read

Here's the Exact Weekly Task List 47 Solo Founders Got This Week

When we tell founders the product is "a scan and a short weekly plan," the natural question is: what does it actually look like?

So here it is. Redacted screenshots from the weekly plan boards that shipped to our founding cohort this week. Names removed, patterns visible.

The format

Every week, GetIntel re-runs its probes across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews (plus Claude on Growth), and the weekly plan board surfaces three ranked tasks. Not ten. Not a dashboard you have to interpret. Three gaps, ordered by how much buyer intent they touch, each with:

  1. The gap: which prompt AI answers with a competitor's name instead of yours
  2. Why it matters: why this prompt matters for this specific founder's product and stage
  3. What to do: a checklist for the page to write, the site to pitch, or the crawler issue to fix, ready to hand to your coding agent or work yourself

Total read time: under 3 minutes.

What actually landed on 3 real plan boards this week

Founder 1: Solo founder, B2B SaaS at $8K MRR

Item 1 (High impact, On-Page): "Asked ChatGPT 'best API monitoring tool for startups': it named CompetitorX in position 1, you weren't mentioned. Task: build a comparison page targeting this exact prompt; a companion Off-Page task flags the DR 68 site CompetitorX is cited from as worth reaching out to."

Item 2 (Medium impact, Technical): "This week's technical scan found a key page returning a blocked response to one AI crawler, which Google AI Overviews checks before citing a company. Task queued, 2-minute review."

Item 3 (Low impact): "Your Authority topic score moved from 41 to 52 this week after last week's outreach landed. Technical is now your lowest-scoring layer; a crawler-access task is queued for next week."

This founder worked items 1 and 2. Next week's scan will show whether the fixes moved the citation.

Founder 2: Indie hacker, $1.2K MRR, pre-PMF

Item 1 (High impact, On-Page): "3 buyer-intent prompts on 'lightweight alternatives to Linear' returned no mention of you across any of the 4 engines. Task: build a positioning page targeting this phrase, based on your existing homepage copy."

Item 2 (Medium impact): "Your citation rate for this topic moved from 3/100 to 7/100. Perplexity started citing you for 'lightweight alternatives to Linear', the fix from two weeks ago worked. Capitalize: update your homepage H1 to include 'lightweight.'"

Item 3 (Low impact): "You have no competitors tracked yet. Add 2-3 direct peers this week so next week's probes have something to compare against."

Founder 3: Technical founder, pre-launch, 0 MRR

Item 1 (High impact, Off-Page): "0 of 12 buyer-intent prompts mention you. 4 editorial blogs in your niche cited a direct competitor in the last 30 days. Task list below, relevance-scored 7-9/10, one per site."

Item 2 (Medium impact): "Claude started citing your name in 1 of 12 probes this week, up from 0. Early signal: the content that's getting indexed is your comparison page. Worth a second one."

Item 3 (Low impact, Technical): "This week's technical scan is your fastest-moving layer at pre-launch: three crawler-access tasks queued, each under 5 minutes to review."

Why this format

Most visibility tools hand you a dashboard with every prompt, every engine, every topic at once. Two things happen: (1) founders skim, miss the gap that actually matters, defer everything; (2) there's no ranking, so the biggest citation gap looks the same size as a cosmetic one.

Three is the limit because three is what a solo founder can actually pick up and work in a week while shipping product. Ranked by how much buyer intent a gap touches means if they only do one, they closed the one that mattered.

What the next scan shows

This is the part most founders don't believe until they see it. The following week, the scan reruns the same probes and shows what moved:

  • Founder 1: comparison page published Tuesday → cited by ChatGPT for the same prompt the following week
  • Founder 2: positioning page live Wednesday → topic citation rate 7 → 15, cited by Perplexity and Gemini
  • Founder 3: 4 editorial pitches sent → 2 replies → 1 new backlink live, Off-Page score 12 → 34

Score movement tied to a specific task is the part a generic SEO dashboard doesn't give you. Ahrefs and Semrush tell you what happened to your rankings. They don't tell you whether an AI engine would recommend you over a competitor, or what to fix if it wouldn't.

Want to see yours?

Every founder gets their first weekly plan board the Monday after signup, built from a full baseline scan across every tracked engine, even if you have no history yet.

Start your 7-day free trial. Your first scan runs the moment you sign up, and your first plan lands next Monday.

The weekly plan is the whole product. If it doesn't match how you want to spend 20 minutes a week on AI visibility, you'll know fast. For how to know whether a change to your topic score is real signal or noise, see how many reruns an AI visibility number actually needs and how to prove the work is actually working.

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Written by Tarang Agarwal

Tarang Agarwal is the founder of GetIntel. He writes about AI visibility, generative engine optimization, and growth for SaaS founders, marketing teams, and the agencies who run AI-search visibility as a service line.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Real plan boards sent to our founding cohort this week. Names and specific competitor/prompt details redacted; structure and gap types are exactly as they shipped. Founders gave explicit permission to share the redacted versions.

Three is the maximum a solo founder can review and work in a week while shipping product. Longer lists lead to skimming and deferral. Ranking by how much buyer intent a gap touches means the top one is the one that matters most.

Based on how many buyer-intent prompts a gap touches across the tracked engines, how large the citation gap is (0 of 12 probes vs. 3 of 12), and stage context (pre-launch vs. $10K MRR).

It won't be. The first scan runs a full baseline probe across every tracked engine before your first plan ships, so even week one shows your starting topic scores and biggest gaps. Every week after that shows what changed since the previous scan.

Put this into action

Daily topic scores across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews, plus a ranked task list your coding agent can work through. Built for founders, teams, and agencies.