Brandlight
Updated 2026-06-06Enterprise AI-visibility platform positioning toward AI-native advertising — what it calls the "AI Market Shelf." Customers include Kimberly-Clark, Estée Lauder, LG, and The Hartford. $30M Series A led by Pelion in Feb 2026 (~$35.75M total). Recent direction: expanding from AI search visibility into AI ads and agentic commerce.
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The Solution & Approach
Brandlight is an enterprise platform for monitoring and shaping how brands show up in AI-driven discovery. It tracks how AI answers get generated across engines and verticals, surfaces the sources that shape those answers, and turns the signal into recommendations for marketing, PR, content, and media teams. The governance posture is enterprise-first: SOC 2 Type 2, a no-PII stance, SSO, and licensing-data provenance. source
The category POV is that AI visibility is becoming a real ad market, not just a measurement problem. Brandlight frames the destination as the "AI Market Shelf" — and positions the product as a marketing operating system for AI as a channel, starting with AI search and extending into AI ads and agentic commerce. CEO Imri Marcus: "Brandlight was built to become a marketing operating system for AI as a channel, starting with AI search and now expanding into AI ads and commerce." source
Brandlight self-describes as the "#1 AEO platform"; we treat that as a vendor claim, not a verified placement. No independent analyst grid has named Brandlight a leader as of this writing.
Best for
Large enterprises and Fortune 500 brand teams that want an AI-visibility platform with enterprise governance baked in, and that are leaning into the shift from AI search visibility to AI-native ads and agentic commerce.
Pricing & trial
Sales-led, no published self-serve pricing. Third-party directories estimate an entry tier and enterprise tiers in the low-to-mid four figures per month, but those figures are unverified — treat pricing as quote-only. source
Agent Experience
How you build on Brandlight (or wire it into your own agents):
| Surface | Available | Docs |
|---|---|---|
| API | Yes (RESTful, enterprise-gated) | — |
| MCP | No | — |
| SDK | No | — |
| CLI | No | — |
| llms.txt | No | — |
Brandlight exposes a RESTful API for enterprise integrations — data flows to Looker Studio, GA4, GSC, CRMs, and PR/outreach tools, with SSO and governance controls — but access is reserved for enterprise deployments and there is no public developer-docs URL, MCP server, SDK, or CLI. Among AEO vendors this is one of the thinner build-on-top stories today. source
Reference customers
Kimberly-Clark, Estée Lauder, LG, The Hartford, Publicis Groupe, Caesars Entertainment, Mediaocean.
Case studies & customer stories
- No public, named, metrics-backed case study found as of this writing. The company cites "hundreds of the world's largest brands" including Fortune 500 logos but has not published individual customer-outcome stories. source
Recent moves
- 2026-02-17Raised a $30M Series A led by Pelion Venture Partners, with existing investors Cardumen Capital and G20 Ventures — bringing total raised to ~$35.75M. source
- 2026-02-17Announced expansion from AI search visibility into AI ads and agentic commerce, positioning as the "control room" for the agentic web where search, commerce, ads, and agents converge. source
- 2026-02-17Adweek published Brandlight's $30M pitch deck used to pitch enterprise CMOs on navigating the agentic web. source
- 2026-02CEO Imri Marcus argued in The Drum that by 2026 every company will budget for AI visibility as a dedicated line item. source
Company, Financials & Funding History
Founded October 2024 in New York by Imri Marcus (CEO), Uri Gafni, and Didi (Dvir) Dvash. The company reported ~35 employees across Israel and the U.S. at the time of its Series A, with the round earmarked to grow engineering, scale data infrastructure, and build tools that let brands act on AI insights. source
| Date | Round | Amount |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-02 | Series A | $30M led by Pelion Venture Partners, with Cardumen Capital and G20 Ventures; ~$35.75M total raised |
Analyst placement
No independent analyst-grid placement found (no G2 AEO Grid leader/performer designation as of this writing). Brandlight self-claims to be the "#1 AEO platform"; we record that as a vendor claim, not a verified placement.