Extend your SEO program into AI answers

No, it is the answer-engine layer on top of it, and the discipline transfers almost intact. You still research the questions that matter, measure position, audit pages, earn citations and watch a trend. What changes is the surface: there is no single ranked list, each engine answers in its own words, and the unit of measurement is a prompt on an engine rather than a keyword. Teams already running SEO well tend to pick this up in days.

It slots in at the same three points your SEO stack does. Prompt research feeds the content backlog the way keyword research does; the citation-gap report feeds outreach the way a link-gap report does; and the GEO page auditor scores a URL the way a technical audit does, but against what earns a citation rather than a ranking. Exports, the REST API and a Looker Studio connector put the numbers into the reporting you already run.

Yes. Every plan exports rankings and citations as CSV, Excel or JSON and includes the hosted MCP server for querying from Claude or Cursor. Professional and Enterprise add the REST API, the airankly CLI and a Looker Studio connector, which is the usual route when AI visibility needs to sit next to organic and paid in one view. Exports include the captured answer text, not only the scores.

Professional is the common fit: 300 tracked prompts, ten competitors, five engines including Perplexity and Gemini, and the developer surfaces, the REST API, CLI and Looker Studio connector, that reporting depends on. It also adds prompt discovery with volume estimates and AI-referred traffic from GA4 and Search Console. Starter at $99 a month is a reasonable place to establish a baseline on ChatGPT and Google's AI surfaces before widening coverage.

Map them across. Mention rate is coverage, position is where you sit inside an answer, share of voice is your slice of the category, and citations are the AI equivalent of the links that earn you a place. The one thing to state clearly is that these are frequency measurements across repeated daily runs, not fixed positions: a single prompt moving on a single day is noise, and a trend across prompts and engines is the reportable signal.

A lot of it does, which is the useful news. Crawlability, structured data, clear on-page answers, credible authorship and third-party citations all feed both. What does not carry over is keyword-shaped thinking: engines answer questions, so pages built to satisfy a query string rather than to answer something specific tend to get passed over. The GEO auditor scores that difference on your existing pages, so you can see which already qualify.