Comparison · Updated 2026

Kodiac vs Scrunch AI — where visibility tools stop, the control layer begins.

Scrunch AI shows you where competitors displace you in AI answers. That is useful — and it is Phase 1. The deeper problem is that organisations have lost control over how AI understands them. Kodiac is the control layer for AI-mediated discovery: understand how AI interprets your organisation, improve what it relies on, then participate directly as a system AI depends on. The comparison below sets out the differences capability by capability.

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What Kodiac adds

Capabilities Scrunch AI does not provide.

Kodiac is built as three phases of one journey — understand how AI interprets your organisation (Kodiac Audit), improve what it relies on with structured, governed content across your existing systems (Kodiac Content), and participate directly as the system AI depends on (Kodiac Agent). The capabilities below are present in Kodiac and absent or materially weaker in Scrunch AI.

Source Intelligence depth

Scrunch identifies competitive displacement at the output layer. Kodiac diagnoses why displacement happened by analysing the third-party sources AI is reading - Reddit, Wikipedia, G2, news, Hacker News - with per-source AI weight scoring and intervention playbooks. Knowing you were replaced is one thing; knowing what to fix is another.

Active intervention via Content and Agent

Scrunch is a measurement product. Kodiac Content lets you improve root-cause content inline with write-back to source CMS. Kodiac Agent lets you participate directly via MCP and REST. The combination turns measurement into operational change.

Three-layer audit framing

Scrunch focuses on output measurement. Kodiac's three-layer architecture means every audit is structurally complete - output, input, ecosystem - giving you the full picture rather than the symptom.

Side by side

Where the gap shows up.

A capability-by-capability view of where the two platforms diverge. Kodiac on the right, Scrunch AI on the left, no padding or rounding.

Dimension Scrunch AI Kodiac
ArchitectureOutput measurement and displacement analyticsControl layer: Audit + Content + Agent + Workspace
Replacement analysisPrimary featureAvailable within competitive benchmarking
Audit layersLayer 1 primarilyAll three layers
Source IntelligenceNot a primary surfaceNative to every paid tier
Content layer (structured knowledge)Not availableKodiac Content
Brand AgentNot availableKodiac Agent
Best fitMarketing teams focused on competitive displacementTeams running all three phases end to end
FAQ

Common questions about Kodiac vs Scrunch AI.

The questions buyers ask most often when deciding between the two.

Does Kodiac have a replacement analysis feature like Scrunch?

Kodiac's competitive benchmarking shows where competitor brands win across buyer-intent queries with score gap analysis and primary cause attribution. The framing differs from Scrunch's 'replacement analysis' but the underlying intent - understanding competitive displacement - is covered.

Is Scrunch AI cheaper than Kodiac?

Scrunch's mid-tier price point can be lower than Kodiac Audit Starter at £499/month for narrow use cases. Kodiac Audit Starter (£499/mo) includes Source Intelligence and the website AI-readiness audit. Kodiac Content (from £799/mo) and Kodiac Agent (from £1,499/mo) are separate products on the same platform — the comparison is between point measurement and the full three-phase journey.

Does Scrunch include Source Intelligence?

Scrunch focuses on output-layer measurement and competitive displacement reporting. It does not currently provide the per-source AI weight scoring and intervention playbooks for Reddit, Wikipedia, G2, and news that make up Kodiac's Source Intelligence.

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