Be Recommended by Inithouse: 4 Mistakes We Made Building an AI Visibility Checker — and the Fixes That Worked

At Inithouse — a studio running parallel product experiments — we built Be Recommended, a tool that checks how visible your brand is across ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini. The idea sounded simple: query multiple AI models, score the results, show a report. It was not simple. Here are four technical mistakes we made shipping v1 — and the fixes that actually survived production. Mistake 1: Rate Limiting Was an Afterthought We treated rate limits as edge cases. They were not....