Turn online conversations into your next customers

That's exactly what the AI relevance scoring is for. Octolens learns what your product is about and filters out unrelated uses of the word — and negative keywords plus muted authors clean up anything recurring. Prisma, Tally, and Juicebox all have common-word names and track hundreds of relevant mentions a week without the noise.

Under five minutes. Add your brand name, top competitors, and the problem phrases your customers use — Octolens starts collecting and scoring immediately. No sales call, no onboarding session. The practical pattern founders follow: start small, look at a week of results, then iterate and expand keywords from there.

15+ platforms: Reddit, Twitter/X, LinkedIn, Hacker News, GitHub, YouTube, TikTok, Bluesky, DEV, Product Hunt, Stack Overflow, Medium, podcasts, newsletters, and news. One honest caveat: LinkedIn is valuable but inherently less comprehensive than Reddit and X for broad keyword discovery — its API limits what any tool can see. We'd rather tell you that than pretend otherwise.

Intent platforms infer interest from content consumption and firmographics — after the fact, at the account level. Octolens catches the actual moment: someone publicly describing the problem you solve, complaining about their current tool, or asking for alternatives. That conversation usually happens long before anyone fills out a form, and it comes with the exact words the buyer used.

No, and it never will on your behalf. Automated replies read as spam and burn trust — the opposite of why founders engage. Octolens surfaces the shortlist of conversations worth your time and gives you the context to answer well; the reply is yours, written like a human, because it is one.

For a startup, social listening is the fastest read on the market you can get without a research budget: how buyers describe the problem in their own words, what they say about competitors, and the moment someone asks for an alternative. Founders typically start with demand signals and competitor intelligence, then add brand monitoring as mention volume grows — a daily brief instead of living in five feeds or hiring it out.

If people are already talking about your product, your competitors, or the problem you solve — yes, that's the moment monitoring starts compounding. If you're pre-launch or pre-PMF with very few mentions, you might want to wait; there isn't much signal to collect yet. We'd rather you start when it's genuinely useful.

Google Alerts is delayed, web-only, and unfiltered. Octolens monitors the social platforms and communities where conversations actually happen, in near real time, scores every mention for relevance and sentiment, and delivers a prioritized brief to Slack or email — instead of a daily dump of links you have to triage yourself.

Yes — every plan includes unlimited seats. Founders typically loop in whoever owns the follow-through: a co-founder on product feedback, marketing on competitor intel, support on bug reports. Same data, no per-seat math.