Quickstart: Set up AI visibility tracking

Create your Rankahead account, add your first domain and competitors, run your first AI visibility prompt, and read your results — all in under 10 minutes.

This guide walks you through the complete first-time setup for Rankahead. By the end you will have a domain configured, competitors added, a tracking prompt running, and your first visibility results on screen. The whole process takes less than 10 minutes.

1. Create your account

   Go to https://app.rankahead.ai/register and sign up with your email address. After you confirm your email, Rankahead launches an onboarding flow that guides you through the initial configuration.

   You can start on the Free plan with no credit card required. You can upgrade to Solopreneur or Agency at any time from Settings → Billing.

2. Add your first domain

   The onboarding flow prompts you to create your first domain. A domain represents the brand or website you want to track.

   1. Enter a display name for the domain (for example, Acme Corp).
   2. Enter the website URL (for example, https://acmecorp.com). Rankahead uses this URL to identify citations and mentions in AI responses.
   3. Enter the brand name exactly as it appears in your content and marketing (for example, Acme). This is the string Rankahead looks for inside AI-generated answers.
   4. Click Create domain to save.

   Free plan accounts are limited to one domain. Upgrade to Solopreneur (3 domains) or Agency (unlimited domains) if you need to track multiple brands.

3. Add competitors

   After creating your domain, Rankahead asks you to add competitors. Competitor data powers share-of-voice calculations and answer gap analysis — showing you which queries surface your competitors but not you.

   1. Click Add competitor.
   2. Enter the competitor’s brand name and website URL.
   3. Repeat for each competitor you want to track.
   4. Click Continue when you are done.

   Start with two or three of your closest competitors. You can add more later from Settings → Domains → [your domain] → Competitors.

4. Create your first prompt

   A prompt is a question that Rankahead sends to all configured LLM providers to check whether your brand appears in the answer. Good prompts mimic the questions your target customers actually ask AI tools.

   Navigate to Dashboard → Prompts and click New prompt.

   Fill in the following fields:

   Field	Description	Example
   Name	Internal label for the prompt	Best project management tools
   Query text	The exact question sent to the LLMs	What are the best project management tools for small teams?
   Brand name	The brand to look for in responses (pre-filled from your domain)	Acme
   Schedule	How often the prompt runs automatically	Daily

   Click Save prompt when you are done.

   You can configure the schedule as a cron expression for precise timing, or choose a preset interval (hourly, daily, weekly). Prompt runs count toward your plan’s monthly quota.

5. Run the prompt manually

   To see results immediately without waiting for the schedule, trigger a manual run.

   1. On the Prompts page, find the prompt you just created.
   2. Click the Run now button (or the play icon) next to it.
   3. Rankahead sends the query to all configured LLM providers simultaneously — OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Perplexity.
   4. The run typically completes within 30–60 seconds. The status indicator updates from Running to Complete when all responses have been collected.

   Each manual run counts the same as a scheduled run against your monthly quota.

6. View your results on the Dashboard

   Once the run completes, go to Dashboard → Overview to see your first visibility data.

   The overview shows:

   • Visibility score — a 0–100 score reflecting how consistently your brand appears across all LLM responses for this prompt.
   • Mention rate — the percentage of runs where at least one LLM mentioned your brand.
   • Share of voice — your brand’s share of total brand mentions compared to your competitors across all responses.

   Click into any individual prompt run to see the full raw response from each LLM, the extracted mentions, and which competitor brands appeared in the same answer.

   A single run gives you a snapshot. Run the same prompt over several days to see trends and catch fluctuations across LLM providers.

What to do next

Now that you have your first visibility data, explore the rest of the platform.

Dashboard overview

Learn how to read every metric and chart in the analytics dashboard, including visibility trends, share-of-voice breakdowns, and per-LLM comparisons.

Gap analysis

Discover the queries where your competitors appear in AI answers but your brand does not, and prioritize which gaps to close first.

Generate content

Use Rankahead’s AI content generator to create blog posts optimized for the answer gaps you identified, and publish them directly to your CMS.

MCP agent integration

Automate visibility monitoring and reporting by connecting an AI agent to Rankahead via the Model Context Protocol.