Fundraising Fox

Cognizo

New York City, US · Founded 2025 · 9 employees on LinkedIn · 1 known investors

Find your way into Cognizo

88 people in our graph share verified history with the Cognizo team — schools, employers, funds. One of them is your warm intro.

Dr. Mung Chiangunlockedknows Alp Aysan · together at Purdue University (overlapped)
×2knows the team · via Purdue University
×7knows the team · via Robert College
knows the team · via Rockwellcollins
knows the team · via VeriPark

Cognizo is a platform that helps marketers optimize their brand visibility in AI-powered answer engines and generative search platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. The platform analyzes millions of daily data points to track brand citations, provide optimization recommendations, and automate content creation for AI search optimization (AEO).

Founders & leadership

Cognizo was founded in 2025 by Alp Aysan and Mehmet Alp Aysan.

AAAlp Aysan
Alp AysaninCo-FounderCo-founder of Cognizo, a platform for optimizing brand visibility in AI-powered search engines. Interested in backend systems and infrastructure design.
MA
Mehmet Alp AysaninFounder

Investors · 1

Competitors · 8

by search overlap
Profound25 shared keywordsProfound provides tools for PR and brand teams to monitor and influence how their brands appear in AI answer engines like ChatGPT, tracking brand sentiment and citations across domains. It surfaces earned media opportunities and supports generative engine optimization to improve brand visibility in AI-generated responses.
SEMrush25 shared keywordsSemrush provides competitive intelligence, SEO, keyword research, and content generation tools for growth marketers and small teams to improve visibility and optimize their acquisition funnel across Google and AI search.
SE Ranking23 shared keywordsSE Ranking provides a cloud-based SEO platform with AI and machine learning algorithms to help businesses, agencies, and SEO professionals manage search optimization tasks. The platform offers over 30 tools for keyword research, competitive analysis, backlink tracking, and rank monitoring across 188 country databases.
Zapier17 shared keywordsZapier provides a platform for connecting AI models and agents to workflows and business applications, enabling teams to automate tasks across over 9,000 apps without coding. The platform serves enterprises, operations teams, and businesses of all sizes looking to deploy AI-driven automation for lead capture, customer support, employee onboarding, and other business processes.
Writesonic17 shared keywordsWritesonic is a platform for growth teams to monitor brand visibility across AI search engines (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini) and take automated action through content creation, citation outreach, and technical fixes to improve AI search visibility and pipeline impact.
Ahrefs15 shared keywordsAhrefs is an AI-powered marketing platform built on proprietary web indexing that provides SEO, competitive intelligence, content optimization, and social media management tools for digital marketers. The platform integrates brand monitoring, rank tracking, website auditing, and AI-driven content improvement features.
Frase15 shared keywordsFrase is an AI-powered content platform that runs the full SEO and generative-engine-optimization loop — researching, drafting in a brand's voice, publishing to CMS platforms, and monitoring rankings and AI citations across engines like ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini. It is built for in-house content and SEO teams and for agencies managing multiple client sites.</parameter> <parameter name="sector_codes">["martech", "ai_ml", "saas"]
Visiblie14 shared keywordsVisiblie helps brands appear in the answers provided by AI assistants like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity through a platform and managed service offering. The company serves enterprises and brands seeking AI visibility in conversational AI search results.

Companies competing with Cognizo for the same Google search keywords, organic and paid, via search-intersection analysis.

In the news

Frequently asked questions

What does Cognizo do?
Cognizo is a platform that helps marketers optimize their brand visibility in AI-powered answer engines and generative search platforms like ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Google AI Overviews. The platform analyzes millions of daily data points to track brand citations, provide optimization recommendations, and automate content creation for AI search optimization (AEO).
Who founded Cognizo?
Cognizo was founded by Alp Aysan, Mehmet Alp Aysan in 2025.
Who are Cognizo's investors?
Cognizo's investors include Treeo VC.
Where is Cognizo headquartered?
Cognizo is headquartered in New York City, US.