See who AI is citing.
Pick the fights you can win.

For every topic, Ranko runs ongoing checks across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and Gemini and records which competitor domains get cited. The checks run continuously in the background, no manual triggering. As citations land, they flow into the dashboard with the competitor name, the engine, the exact question, the page pulled, and the frequency across the recent window. The team always works from a current view of who is winning which fight.

A competitor citation is any time an AI assistant pulls a specific page from one of your tracked competitor domains as a source: the name appears, the URL is surfaced as a source, or the page is referenced as the basis for a fact. Passing mentions where the competitor is named without their content being cited are tracked separately as brand mentions, because the signal is different being mentioned is awareness, being cited is authority.

An opening is a question where the citation pattern is fragmented or thin: no single competitor wins consistently, incumbents are cited only occasionally, or answers come from tangential sources. These are questions where a fresh answer has a chance of taking the citation. Ranko surfaces them by attractiveness: high search demand plus weak competitor coverage makes the strongest opening; strong coverage pushes it down.

Ten is the number where tracking is genuinely strategic rather than performative. Teams that track twenty or thirty rivals usually watch nobody seriously the dashboard becomes noise and the team stops looking. Ten forces a real choice about which rivals matter most, which is itself a useful exercise. If the brand competes with more than ten, the cap encourages picking the ten that need the most current signal; the rest can be reviewed quarterly through manual audits.

Ranko flags it as a leapfrog event with the specific question, the engine, the new competitor, and the citation frequency that triggered the alert. The team sees not just that a leapfrog happened but the exact context which question, on which engine, against which rival so the response targets the situation rather than a generic write more reaction. Most leapfrogs reflect a competitor publishing a stronger answer or an engine shifting preferences, and the dashboard makes the distinction clear.

Competitor Tracking watches the rivals. Analytics Forge watches you. Analytics Forge tracks every citation your own brand earns across the four AI engines, while Competitor Tracking tracks the citations every rival earns on the same engines and topics. Side by side, the team sees not just where they win and lose but who they lose against, on which questions. Used together, they make the citation landscape readable.