How it works
From a website URL to replies you can prove.
Eight steps, in the order you meet them: what Upthread does at each one, what runs on our servers, what runs in your browser, and what stays with you.
No card required. 7 days with Starter limits.
01 Set up· Buyer asks AI
Start from your website.
Enter your URL. Upthread reads your homepage and up to four more pages, like pricing, about and features, and drafts a brand profile. Every fact in it links to the page it came from, and you can edit all of it.
Then pick from suggestions: competitors, keywords, 15 to 25 buyer questions, and the subreddits you care about, each with a reason. Set your voice too: your real role, your tone, a disclosure line and your link policy.
Setting up a brand from its website: Upthread reads five pages of acme-crm.example and drafts a brand profile with sourced facts, buyer questions, subreddits and a disclosure line. 02 Find· Buyer asks AI
Threads from Google and AI answers.
Upthread searches Google for new Reddit threads on your keywords and competitors: daily on Starter, every 6 hours on Growth and Agency. Each week it records where Reddit ranks for your keywords. And it reads what Google AI Overviews, AI Mode and the AI engines answer to your buyer questions, collecting every Reddit thread they cite.
On the same schedule it searches Google for your brand's names. Mentions lists the Reddit threads that name you, from Google results of the past 24 hours, threads already in Discover and threads you open, each labelled praise, complaint, support question, recommendation request, comparison or neutral. It sees what Google has indexed plus what your team opens, so a comment deep in a thread may not show until someone opens it.
From search results we take URLs, titles, snippets and ranks. Our servers never request reddit.com.
Where threads come from: Google search results for your keywords, and the Reddit threads cited by Google AI Overviews, AI Mode and four AI assistants for your buyer questions. They land in Discover, ranked by priority. 03 Prioritize· Upthread finds the thread
A score you can read.
Every thread gets a priority from 0 to 100. It weighs how relevant the thread is, how close the poster is to buying, how visible the thread is on Google and in AI answers, and how fresh and crowded it is. Threads in your focus subreddits get a boost.
Some threads score zero no matter what: sensitive topics, locked or archived threads, and NSFW threads. If scoring fails, the thread shows as Unscored. It never counts as a pass.
Each thread also shows its surface chance, whether a new reply can still rise given the top comments' scores and the thread's age, and its reply window: open, closing, or closed once Reddit archives it at six months. A help-only stream lists threads where you can be useful without mentioning your product.
Insights steps back from single threads. Communities ranks the subreddits that matter for your brand, with the evidence and how each one treats vendors. Competitors shows who the threads AI answers cite recommend, you included. Buyers ask sums up the questions, objections, comparisons and exact phrases buyers use, each linked to its threads.
How a priority is built: four weighted parts (relevance, buying intent, visibility in Google and AI answers, freshness), a boost for focus subreddits, and the threads that always score zero. 04 Read· Upthread finds the thread
The whole thread, from your browser.
Open a thread from Discover. The extension reads the post, the top comments and the subreddit's rules from the page you have open. On your phone, or without the extension, paste the thread instead.
Drafting stays off until Upthread has the full thread. Drafts written from a title alone go off-topic, so we don't write them.
Each time your workspace reads a subreddit's rules, Upthread compares them with the version it saw before. A change to self-promotion, links, disclosure, flair, karma or account age shows on that subreddit's threads, and drafts that no longer fit are flagged. There is no scheduled check: we only see what someone opens.
Reading a thread: the extension captures the post, the top comments and the subreddit's rules from the page you have open. Without the extension, you paste the thread instead. Drafting turns on once the full thread is in. 05 Draft· You post the reply
Two drafts, checked before you see them.
Help answers the question and never names your brand. Help + mention brings your brand in only where it fits, always with your disclosure line. Refine either one: shorter, more casual, more detail, without the mention, or your own instruction.
A lint checks links, disclosure, length and stock AI phrases. An AI judge checks whether the draft answers the question, adds something new, and makes claims it can't back up. If the judge is down, the draft says so instead of passing.
Drafts follow the subreddit's culture profile, its usual tone and length, and show its gates before you write: karma and account-age minimums, required flair and AutoModerator rules.
The same drafting writes your own posts: a guide, a question to the community, a case study, a show and tell or an AMA request, shaped to the subreddit's captured rules. Guides and questions never name you. The other three do, so they are offered only where the rules allow self-promotion, with your disclosure.
Two drafts for one thread. The Help + mention draft carries a disclosure line and a placeholder for your own experience. A lint and an AI judge check it before you see it, and the subreddit's gates show alongside. 06 Post· You post the reply
You click Comment. Always.
With the extension, Insert puts the draft in Reddit's comment box. You edit it, add your own experience where the placeholders are, and click Comment. The extension spots your new comment and saves its link.
Without the extension, copy the draft, post it, and paste your comment's link back into Upthread.
Your own posts work the same way: copy the title and body, post them from Reddit's submit page, and paste the link back. On a team, assign a thread to a teammate so only one of you replies. Each person still posts from their own account.
Posting from your own browser: the extension's side panel shows the draft, its checks and the posting checklist next to the thread. Insert fills Reddit's comment box; you edit it and click Comment yourself. 07 Track· You see what happened
What happened after you posted.
Each time you view the thread or your profile, the extension reads your reply's score and reply count. Turn on the daily check and it also looks at up to 25 of your replies a day, logged out, to catch moderator removals you can't see yourself.
Links in drafts go straight to your site with UTM tags, so clicks show up in your own analytics. On Growth and Agency you can turn on tracked redirect links instead, which count clicks here, filtered for bots. Every visibility run updates the thread's citation history, so you can see whether it stayed cited after you replied.
When the poster or someone else replies to you, or challenges you, it shows up with a follow-up draft for you to finish. Your standing sits alongside: your karma and account age, read when you open your own profile, and your ratio of help-only replies to mentions.
Once a subreddit has 5 of your tracked replies, What works compares them: for example, whether your replies under 80 words stayed up more often there. A clear pattern shows with its counts, and drafts in that subreddit get it as a hint.
After posting: the reply's score at each check from 1 hour to 30 days, whether moderators removed it, its link clicks, the thread's citation history per engine before and after you replied, and a reply to you with a follow-up draft. 08 Report· You see what happened
Alerts, digests and client reports.
Slack alerts when a high-priority thread appears, a cited thread drops out, a mention is a complaint or a support question, or a subreddit you work in changes its rules. A daily or weekly email digest with new threads, how your replies are doing, citation changes, new mentions and rule changes.
Read-only report links for a client or your boss, for any date range, with AI visibility, replies and citations. Slack alerts and shareable reports come with Growth and Agency.
Reporting: Slack alerts for a new high-priority thread, a citation change and a complaint that names the brand, a weekly email digest, and a read-only client report with the share of AI answers that name the brand.
What runs where
Our servers never touch Reddit.
Every request to reddit.com comes from your own browser, on pages you open, or from the daily check you can turn on.
| Task | Upthread's servers | Your browser |
|---|---|---|
| Finding threads | Google results and AI answers | Not needed |
| Finding mentions | Google results for your brand's names | Threads you open |
| Reading a thread | Never | The page you open, or your paste |
| Writing drafts | From the thread you captured and your brand facts | Not needed |
| Posting a reply | Never | You click Comment |
| Checking your reply | Never | When you view it, plus the opt-in daily check |
| Checking AI answers | Google AI Overviews, AI Mode and API engines | Not needed |
| Spotting rule changes | Compares the rules you captured with the last version | Subreddits you open |
Finding threads
- Upthread's servers
- Google results and AI answers
- Your browser
- Not needed
Finding mentions
- Upthread's servers
- Google results for your brand's names
- Your browser
- Threads you open
Reading a thread
- Upthread's servers
- Never
- Your browser
- The page you open, or your paste
Writing drafts
- Upthread's servers
- From the thread you captured and your brand facts
- Your browser
- Not needed
Posting a reply
- Upthread's servers
- Never
- Your browser
- You click Comment
Checking your reply
- Upthread's servers
- Never
- Your browser
- When you view it, plus the opt-in daily check
Checking AI answers
- Upthread's servers
- Google AI Overviews, AI Mode and API engines
- Your browser
- Not needed
Spotting rule changes
- Upthread's servers
- Compares the rules you captured with the last version
- Your browser
- Subreddits you open
See which threads AI cites for your buyers.
Enter your website. Upthread drafts your brand profile, suggests buyer questions and subreddits, and runs your first discovery.
No card required. 7 days with Starter limits.