What AI Radar measures
Radar asks the real questions your buyers ask, sending them to five AI engines every week, then reads back which sources each engine actually cited. It measures real citations. It is modeled on Google Search Console, so if you have used that, you already know how to read it.
- The four metrics. Citations, AI answers checked, citation rate, and average position.
- Weekly chart. Your citations against the answers checked, week by week.
- Dimension table. Results broken down by prompt, engine, page, and source.
- The you row. Where your domain sits among the sources that win the answer slot.
How to use it
Add your domain.
Confirm your market and awareness stage.
Let the first weekly scan run.
Open Overview to see your citations, rate, and trend.
Read the email digest each week.
How to read it
The headline number is your citation rate. The trend tells you whether it is rising or falling. Anything flat or empty is where engines answer without you, which the Fixes tab turns into actions.
Good to know
AI Radar measures real citations. The Scanner's AI Citability Index predicts readiness from on-page signals instead. Use the Scanner to prepare a page, and Radar to track whether it worked.
Try Radar with a free check, then track a domain every week on a paid plan. See Radar pricing.
If you know Search Console, you know Radar
Radar borrows the Search Console layout on purpose. If you know Google Search Console, the four headline numbers map one to one.
- Citations
- Like Clicks. How often an engine cited you.
- AI answers checked
- Like Impressions. How many AI answers we looked at.
- Citation rate
- Like CTR. The share of answers that cited you.
- Avg cite position
- Like Position. Where you tend to sit among the cited sources.
How to read it
Read it the way you read Search Console. A rising citation rate is the goal.
The free AI Radar check
The free check is a one-time taster. It asks eight sample questions across all five engines and emails you the result. You do not need an account to try it.
How to use it
Go to the AI Radar page and enter your domain and email.
Submit the check.
Wait about ten to fifteen minutes while it runs.
Open your result from the email.
How to read it
The free check shows your citation score, a per-engine grid, and a competitor leaderboard. It is a snapshot. Paid tracking runs every week so you can watch the trend.
The free check needs no account. To track a domain every week, see Radar pricing.
Setting up tracking
Setting up tracking tells Radar who your buyers are and where they search, so it can build the right set of questions to track.
- Market / region
- The country and language Radar asks from, so results match where your buyers actually search.
- Awareness stage
- Whether your buyers are just discovering the category, comparing options, or ready to choose. It shapes the kind of questions Radar tracks.
How to use it
Add the domain you want to track.
Pick your market and language.
Pick your awareness stage.
Review the questions Radar suggests, then edit or add your own.
Weekly tracking is part of the SMB and Agency plans. See Radar pricing.
The dashboard, tab by tab
The dashboard has a tab for each part of the picture. Here is what each one is for.
- Overview
- The headline citation rate, the trend, and your top fixes.
- Performance
- Your citation numbers, broken down by engine and prompt.
- Coverage
- Every tracked question, marked cited, mentioned, or absent.
- Competitors
- Share of voice: who wins the answer slot when you do not.
- Prompts
- The questions you track, where you add, edit, and prioritize them.
- Fixes
- The ranked actions to improve your citation rate.
- Settings
- Your domain, market, awareness stage, and branding.
- Scan progress
- Whether a scan is running and when the next one is due.
- Building mode
- A lighter view for brands still building early awareness.
How to read it
Start on Overview each week, then open Coverage to see what changed and Fixes to act on it. You can see a full sample report on the Radar page.
The five engines
Radar checks the same five AI engines on every plan, with no per-engine add-ons.
- ChatGPT
- Perplexity
- Claude
- Gemini
- Google AI Mode
How to read it
Coverage differs by engine. It is normal to be cited often on one engine and rarely on another. The Performance tab shows the split so you know where to focus.
Weekly scans and email digests
Radar re-asks your questions every week and emails you a digest when the citation picture changes. It is weekly, not real-time, by design. AI citations move slowly, so a weekly read is the honest signal.
The trend across weeks is the signal, not any single week.
How to read it
Watch the trend across weeks, not a single week. The digest highlights what moved. For why weekly beats daily, see weekly vs daily AI citation tracking.
Single-pass vs the 3-pass confidence band
How often Radar asks each question depends on your plan.
- Single-passPaid
- Each question is asked once a week. A clear, honest read for one domain.
- 3-pass confidence bandAgency
- Each question is asked three times a week and shown as a range, so a one-off answer does not look like a trend.
How to read it
Read a band as a range. If the band is wide, the engines were inconsistent that week. For the reasoning, see the 3-pass confidence band.
Competitors and managing prompts
Two tabs do the day-to-day work. Competitors shows who beats you, and Prompts is where you manage the questions.
- Share of voice
- Your portion of the cited slots versus competing domains, for your tracked questions.
- AI presence column
- On the Prompts tab, a quick read of how often each question gets cited across the engines.
How to manage prompts
Open the Prompts tab.
Add a question your buyers actually ask.
Drag your most important questions to the top.
The top questions are the ones scanned every week.
How to read it
Use Competitors to find a question a rival owns, then make sure that question is in your tracked set.
Multiple domains and white-label
Agencies track more than one client domain and deliver white-labeled reports from a single place.
How to use it
On Agency, add a client domain.
Set its market and awareness stage.
Apply your branding.
Track all your clients from one dashboard.
Multiple domains and white-label reports are part of the Agency plan. See Radar pricing.
Key takeaway
Add your domain, confirm your market, and let the first weekly scan run. Then read Overview each week and act on the Fixes tab.