Question 1

What is RankCaster AI?

Accepted Answer

RankCaster AI is the first Proactive AI Visibility Marketing Platform. Where monitors (Profound, Peec, Writesonic) only measure how often your brand appears in AI answers, RankCaster also gives you the tools to change that. You get Answer Presence Rate (APR) tracking across ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity, an LLM-pack that makes your brand data machine-readable, MCP-as-a-Service so AI agents can query your site directly, and a content workflow targeted at the prompts AI actually surfaces. Built for SEO and GEO agencies who need to show clients real, measurable AI visibility.

Question 2

How does RankCaster compare to Profound, Peec, and Writesonic?

Accepted Answer

Those tools are monitors — they show you the gap. RankCaster is proactive: it shows the gap and closes it. After you measure APR (Answer Presence Rate), you get LLM-pack (machine-readable brand data), MCP-as-a-Service (your AI interface in 5 min), and a Content manager that drafts material AI actually picks up. Monitoring is step 1 of 6, not the product.

Question 3

Can't I just use Semrush or Ahrefs for this?

Accepted Answer

Traditional tools only see links and keywords inside Google. They are blind to the ~20% of traffic now landing as direct answers inside ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. Even a #1 Google ranking no longer guarantees AI citation — only ~3% of SEO-ranked pages get pulled by LLMs. APR is the metric Semrush and Ahrefs can't give you.

Question 4

What's the difference between SEO and GEO?

Accepted Answer

SEO optimizes for link-based search engines (Google, Bing). GEO — Generative Engine Optimization — optimizes for generative AI (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini), where the brand has to appear inside the answer itself, not just in a list of links. Different ranking signals, different content shape, different success metric (APR vs SERP position).

Question 5

How quickly will I see results?

Accepted Answer

Free Audit gives you your current APR in ~45 seconds. After signup, LLM-pack and MCP can be live in the same week. APR uplift typically shows in 2–4 weeks once your content and structured data are picked up by the next model crawl. Pilot agencies on the Growth plan have seen their first client-facing APR report within 7 days.

Question 6

Do you offer white-label reporting for agencies?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Growth and Agency plans include white-label exports (PDF + Excel) you can hand straight to clients with your own branding. Agency plans add the higher project and prompt limits most agencies need. Enterprise adds API access if you want APR data piped into your own BI tool or client dashboard.

Question 7

How does the Free Audit work?

Accepted Answer

Enter your brand name, market, and website — we run live queries against ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity and return your current APR plus the top 3 gaps blocking citation. Takes about 45 seconds, no sign-up required to see the result. Useful as a benchmark before you decide whether to start.

Capability	RankCaster AI	Peec
Answer Presence Rate across 5 LLMs	ChatGPT + Gemini + Claude + Perplexity + DeepSeek	ChatGPT + Gemini + Claude + Perplexity
10× cross-validation per prompt Cancels per-call randomness
Confidence interval on APR
Two-layer measurement (Daily Pulse + Bi-Weekly Anchor)
LLM-pack — machine-readable brand data
MCP-as-a-Service
Content workflow that ships drafts		Read-only suggestions
Real visitor attribution from AI referrals
Source mapping — find where AI learns about your niche		Partial — citation tracking only
Starting price	$125 / mo	€89 / mo (~$95)