> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://rankahead.mintlify.site/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# 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.

<Steps>
  <Step title="Create your account">
    Go to [https://app.rankahead.ai/register](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.

    <Tip>
      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**.
    </Tip>
  </Step>

  <Step title="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.

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

  <Step title="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.

    <Tip>
      Start with two or three of your closest competitors. You can add more later from **Settings → Domains → \[your domain] → Competitors**.
    </Tip>
  </Step>

  <Step title="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.

    <Note>
      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.
    </Note>
  </Step>

  <Step title="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.

    <Info>
      Each manual run counts the same as a scheduled run against your monthly quota.
    </Info>
  </Step>

  <Step title="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.

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

## What to do next

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

<CardGroup cols={2}>
  <Card title="Dashboard overview" icon="chart-bar" href="/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.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Gap analysis" icon="git-compare" href="/dashboard/gap-analysis">
    Discover the queries where your competitors appear in AI answers but your brand does not, and prioritize which gaps to close first.
  </Card>

  <Card title="Generate content" icon="file-text" href="/content/blog-posts">
    Use Rankahead's AI content generator to create blog posts optimized for the answer gaps you identified, and publish them directly to your CMS.
  </Card>

  <Card title="MCP agent integration" icon="bot" href="/agent/mcp-integration">
    Automate visibility monitoring and reporting by connecting an AI agent to Rankahead via the Model Context Protocol.
  </Card>
</CardGroup>