You find a competitor in an AI answer. Maybe you save the prompt and edit your own site. Maybe you prepare a recommendation for a client or a content team. This is when choosing a way to work matters. A mention chart may leave the edit unclear. A larger platform will not help either if nobody can put its recommendations into practice.
First, name the decision you need to make. Do you need to know where your brand appears, or what to change on a particular page? Monitoring tracks answers over time. A content audit connects the question, answer, source and your page passage to a possible edit. A manual review of one prompt can be a good starting point while you test whether the problem matters.
Bring your own question to the demo
Choose a buying prompt about something like integration, implementation or a plan limit. Bring a page you can edit. Ask the vendor to show the path from that question to a specific content change. A polished dashboard full of someone else's data will not tell you whether the tool fits your work.
| Check | Ask the vendor | Evidence to request |
|---|---|---|
| Answer coverage | Which models do you check, and do their results stay separate? | Answer, date and sources for the same prompt in each selected model |
| Sources | Can I open the page cited by the model? | Source URL and whether its text was available for analysis |
| Your page | Where exactly is the gap? | Your passage beside the question and source material |
| Reasoning | Why does this passage need work? | Assessment criteria, missing fact or evidence, and limits of the finding |
| Implementation | What should the writer and product expert do next? | A short brief naming the edit and facts to confirm |
| Repeat audit | How will I compare results after publication? | Same prompt and model, with dates and a record of the changed text |
| Data and cost | What do I submit, and what am I paying for? | Data-handling explanation, deletion terms, plan scope and cost per audit |
A simple decision card
For each row, mark shown with my data, shown only in a demo, or not confirmed. Note who must approve the result. In a team, a content lead can judge the brief, a product expert can check the facts and a budget owner can compare the cost with the current process. If you work alone or for a client, you may need to cover or coordinate those steps yourself.
Do not turn the marks into a precise-looking total. A gap in one critical area, such as source access or data handling, can matter more than several convenient features.
If your company has data requirements, read what data a TextRank audit uses and ask for written terms before wider use.
When TextRank fits
TextRank is for people responsible for pages they can improve: founders, SEO freelancers, agencies and in-house teams. For a selected prompt, it keeps ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Grok answers separate, compares surfaced sources with the page and points to a passage and a possible edit. The method documentation explains how to read the result. Pricing shows how audits are charged by model.
If you only need to track mention counts for now, start with monitoring. If you already have an important prompt, a URL and someone who can approve a change, run one audit. Then judge the product by the decision it helped you make.
Frequently asked questions
Does a platform need to cover every AI model?
Not necessarily. Start with the models where your buyers ask questions that matter to a purchase. Check that each model's answers and sources stay separate.
Is a higher score enough to choose a tool?
No. Ask to see where the score came from, which passage it concerns and what decision it helps you make.