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Once you’re running more than one client on Surfais, the brand switcher becomes the tool you use most. This page covers how it works, what moving to a new brand actually changes, and how to add or remove clients as your roster changes.

The brand switcher

At the top of the sidebar sits a dropdown showing every client brand on your account, with the currently active one highlighted. Pick a different brand and the whole dashboard — scores, mentions, citations, sentiment, competitors, audits, reports — re-renders for that brand. Nothing else needs to change; every page that shows brand-specific data reads from whichever brand is currently active.
If your account only has a single brand, the switcher shows a plain label instead of a dropdown — there’s nothing to switch between yet. As soon as you add a second brand, the dropdown appears.
Switching brands while you’re on a brand-specific page (for example, a mentions or citations view) takes you to the equivalent page for the newly selected brand, so you don’t lose your place. Pages that already show data for “whichever brand is active” — like your prompt library or competitor list — simply refresh in place.

Adding a brand

Add a new client brand from the Brands page, reachable via “Add brand” at the bottom of the switcher dropdown. Each new brand:
  • Starts with 10 suggested prompts generated from the brand’s domain, which you can accept, edit, or discard
  • Gets one free baseline scan you trigger yourself, giving you an initial read before automatic scanning takes over on your plan’s cadence
  • Has its own empty competitor list, ready for you to populate
See Setting up your account for the general setup flow that applies to each brand you add, and Managing prompts for building out that brand’s prompt set beyond the initial 10.
Add clients as you onboard them in real life rather than all at once — there’s no requirement to fill every brand slot on day one.

What’s configured per brand

Everything that defines how a specific client is tracked lives on that brand, not on the account: Prompts draw from your account’s shared budget, but once allocated to a brand, that allocation — and everything measured from it — belongs to that brand alone. A competitor you add for one client never appears in another client’s competitor list, and a country enabled for one client doesn’t enable it for the rest of your roster. Scores work the same way. Each client’s AIS Score is computed only from that client’s own prompt runs and that client’s own competitor comparisons — one client’s results never bleed into another’s, however unrelated or similar the clients happen to be.

Removing a brand

Removing a client brand is done from that brand’s settings. Once removed, its prompt allocation returns to your shared budget, freeing it up for another client. Historical scan data tied to a removed brand is not carried over if you re-add a brand with the same name later — treat removal as final for that brand’s history.
Removing a brand does not automatically refund or cancel a paid extra-brand add-on — check Add-ons or Managing your subscription if you’re removing a brand you added capacity for.

Adding capacity beyond the included brands

The bundle includes 10 client brands. If you’re managing more, an extra-brand add-on lets you add capacity one brand at a time rather than needing to change plans. Each extra brand you add:
  • Adds one more client brand slot to your account, usable the same as any included brand
  • Carries all the same agency-mode behaviour — its own prompts, competitors, countries, scores, and audits
  • Can be cancelled independently if you stop managing that client, without affecting your other brands
Pricing for the extra-brand add-on is on surfais.com/pricing. See Add-ons for how add-ons are billed alongside your main subscription, and Usage to see how close you are to your current brand allowance.

Agency mode: getting started

What’s shared vs per-brand, and the agency onboarding flow.

Managing competitors

Set up a competitor set for each client brand.

Managing prompts

Allocate your shared prompt budget across clients.

Add-ons

Extra brands, prompts, and countries.