Changelog

What's new and what's improved. Follow our journey as we build the AI visibility platform.

Rankry 1.0.7 — Inline metric explanations and Prompt Lab response upgrade

FeatureUI/UX

Inline Metric Explanations

  • Info tooltips added across the dashboard — hover any primary metric card to see exactly what the number measures and how it's calculated
  • Coverage spans the Rankry Score, the four KPI cards, Visibility Category Spread, Positioning Gap to Leader and Stability, Sentiment Deal Breaker, Diversity widgets, Compete Leaderboard / Momentum / Gap to Leader, and the Insights weekly brief

Prompt Lab

  • Full ranked AI response now visible even when your brand isn't mentioned — see exactly how competitors stacked up and where you didn't land
  • Cited sources appear directly inside the expanded row — no extra click
  • Expanded response panel spans the full row width for easier reading on long answers

Positioning

  • Per-prompt "Show details" panel now available on Positioning, matching Visibility

Maintenance

  • Routine dependency and security updates across the platform

Rankry 1.0.6 — Sharper audit, smarter competitor discovery, and dashboard polish

FeatureUI/UXBackend

AI SEO Audit

  • Citation, author, and publication-date checks now run only against article-type pages — landing and product pages no longer get flagged for signals that don't apply to them
  • Content-Signal directive recommendation sharpened with a clear default for AEO-focused sites
  • Fix recipes adapt to your project instead of showing generic placeholder values

Onboarding

  • Competitor discovery on the onboarding step now uses broader candidate sourcing and cleaner URL normalization
  • Location-aware grounding flows through brand profile setup

Insights & Dashboard

  • Insights widget CTA refreshed to "See more insights"
  • Switching between AI providers now preserves your current section instead of jumping back to the top

Weekly Brief

  • Brief generation moved to a dedicated worker
  • Hero card layout responsive across mobile and tablet
  • Location context flows into the brief analyst core

Rankry 1.0.5 — Report exports, redesigned upgrade flow, and AI-readiness label clarity

FeatureUI/UX

Report Exports

  • Export report data for the brand and tracked competitors — share results outside the app or pull them into external reporting

Plan Upgrade Flow

  • When upgrading, users can now choose to start the project from scratch or continue with existing data

AI Readiness

  • Audit check labels now include the emerging standard names (Content-Signal directive, Markdown Negotiation) so results are easier to recognize

Rankry 1.0.4 — Audit reliability, new-section indicators, and onboarding polish

FeatureUI/UXFix

AI Readiness Audit

  • Expanded audit checks for broader coverage of AI-readiness signals
  • Audit run limits now scale with the subscription plan

New-Section Notifications

  • New notification system surfaces freshly added sections of the app, so users discover new functionality as soon as it ships

Onboarding

  • Onboarding now shows the signed-in email and a Sign out button, allowing users to confirm or switch accounts before the first report is generated

Polish

  • Minor UI display fixes across the dashboard

Rankry 1.0.3 — AI SEO Audit goes live

FeatureBackendUI/UX

AI SEO Audit

  • AI SEO website checker launched on the Base plan — scan any page and get a prioritized list of AI-readiness issues blocking your brand from being seen by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and other AI engines
  • Pro tier adds step-by-step fix recipes for every issue the audit surfaces
  • Audit run counter now resets automatically when your subscription period rolls over — no need to wait or contact support between cycles

Rankry 1.0.2 — Customizable Semantic Core and richer project controls

FeatureUI/UXFix

Semantic Core

  • Customizable Semantic Core is now available on the Base plan — edit the core prompts your brand is tracked against to match how your audience actually searches
  • Prompt generation budget scales with your plan so the seed stays in sync with what you're entitled to
  • Core Prompts page now shows an inline Upgrade CTA for trial users hitting the ceiling

Project Controls

  • "Create new report" action is now available directly from the project header
  • Next scheduled report run time is visible at the top of every project

Morning Insights brief and AI Readiness Pro polish

FeatureBackendUI/UX

Insights

  • New narrative morning brief generated from your latest report — a short written summary of what changed and what deserves your attention first, so you don't have to read every chart

AI Readiness

  • Pro fix recipes now included with every audit — concrete, ordered guidance for resolving each flagged issue
  • Audit results persist across sessions with per-plan usage limits
  • Server-side gating ensures Pro-only fix data stays Pro-only

Polish

  • Chart anchoring fix — the latest completed report is now always included when rendering a selected date range, so you never lose your most recent data point

Core Prompts groundwork and fuller Head-to-Head comparisons

FeatureUI/UX

Core Prompts

  • Backend foundation for customizable core prompts — the groundwork behind the Semantic Core editing that shipped the following day

Compete

  • Head-to-Head widget now shows all comparison cards instead of a pre-sliced subset, so you can see the full competitive landscape at once

AI Readiness Audit launch

FeatureBackend

AI Readiness Audit

  • Launched the AI Readiness Audit — a full-stack site analysis that checks how AI crawlers see your brand and flags issues blocking visibility in AI-generated answers
  • Covers crawl access, structured data, content freshness, and LLM-specific signals in a single run

Richer Overview, redesigned Model Comparison, and full response view

FeatureUI/UX

Overview

  • Redesigned hero widget for a cleaner, faster read on where your brand stands

Model Comparison

  • Rebuilt comparison widgets with clearer compact and full variants across the Overview and dedicated comparison views

Visibility

  • Full AI response is now visible inline alongside sources — no more switching between separate sections to see what the model actually said

Trial Experience

  • Lock icons over blurred data replaced with a direct "Upgrade" call-to-action — one click to unlock instead of hunting for the billing page

Onboarding

  • Location autocomplete expanded to cover previously missing countries and territories

Rankry 1.0.1 — security hardening and trial polish

FixUI/UX

Security

  • Hardened OAuth sign-in flow to prevent account-takeover edge cases across Google and Microsoft providers — recommended update for all workspaces

Trial Experience

  • New in-app welcome notification greets users on their first day of trial with a quick tour of what to try first
  • Trial banner now shows the correct provider example (Gemini) so users see what they actually get during trial

Billing

  • "Custom prompts count" renamed to "Custom prompt requests" on the billing page for clearer usage accounting
  • Upgrade plan card simplified — removed the data-history block that duplicated info shown elsewhere
  • Report building screen now shows your site favicon and the number of active AI providers

Rankry 1.0 Beta — trial polish and onboarding improvements

FeatureUI/UXFix

Rankry 1.0 Beta

  • Beta milestone reached — all core modules (Visibility, Positioning, Sentiment, Diversity, Compete, Prompt Lab) are now available to early users

Trial Experience

  • New welcome screen after email confirmation introduces the product before onboarding
  • Trial countdown now shows full days remaining instead of hours — no more "6 days" on day one
  • Report generation screen leads with your brand favicon + name and shows dynamic model and prompt counts

Onboarding

  • Macro-region support in country selector — Europe, Asia Pacific, Latin America, Middle East & Africa, North America
  • Competitor edit pencil now visible on mobile without hover
  • First competitor card no longer clips against the limit notice when hovered

Billing

  • Stripe promotion codes now accepted at checkout

Smarter scheduling and plan-aware report rebuilds

BackendFix

Report Scheduling

  • Reports now rerun automatically on a schedule tied to your plan
  • Failed reports no longer trigger endless retries — they wait until the underlying issue is resolved before rescheduling
  • Scheduler reliability improvements across background jobs

Performance

  • Fixed blocked assets issue when loading the dashboard on slower networks

OAuth sign-in, plan-aware prompts, and rewritten compete charts

FeatureBackend

Authentication

  • Sign in with Google — faster onboarding without a password (more providers coming soon)

Prompt Lab

  • Custom prompts now respect your plan's monthly budget — no surprise overruns

AI Providers

  • Consistent, on-brand system instructions now applied across every AI model for more reliable answers

Compete Page

  • All compete page charts fully rewritten with a dedicated history endpoint — faster, smoother, and with longer time windows

Prompt Lab v2 — budgets, archive, and niche editing

FeatureUI/UX

Prompt Lab

  • Per-prompt budget validation — see exactly how many AI requests a prompt will consume before running it
  • Archive cleanup — remove old runs directly from the lab
  • Smarter variable suggestions reduce irrelevant completions

Project Settings

  • Edit your project's niche anytime without recreating the project

Competitor Discovery

  • More reliable competitor scraping with smarter fallbacks when websites block automated access
  • Cleaner display of scraped competitor data

LLM sources across widgets, trial banner redesign, and subscription reliability

FeatureUI/UXBackend

LLM Sources

  • Visibility prompt table and Top Prompts now display the web sources AI models cited
  • Category Performance widget shows sources per category — full traceability from metric to answer

Trial Banner

  • Redesigned banner shows plan limits at a glance (prompts, projects, competitors)
  • Inline upgrade CTA with a one-click path to paid plans

Subscription Reliability

  • Subscription state reconciles automatically on the next session if webhook events are delayed
  • Cleaner cancellation flow handled end-to-end

Subscribe Page

  • Official Stripe wordmark added for clear payment trust signals

Favicons everywhere and richer competitor selection

FeatureUI/UXFix

Brand Visuals

  • Brand and competitor favicons now appear throughout the app — leaderboards, tables, competitor cards, report headers
  • Graceful initials fallback when a website blocks favicon requests so every brand stays visually recognizable

Onboarding

  • Competitor selection step now surfaces more candidates so you can pick from a wider, more representative set
  • Smoother scroll in the competitors step — longer lists no longer feel cramped

Location Prompts

  • Zip code and city are now both respected — zip no longer silently overrides the selected city
  • Hybrid businesses get fully expanded location context for more accurate competitor discovery
  • Stricter location context in AI prompts for more relevant answers

Subscribe Page

  • Background Rankry logo watermark
  • Unified button styling for consistency with the rest of the app
  • Official Stripe security badge

Competitor settings overhaul and notification cleanup

FeatureUI/UXBackend

Settings

  • Competitor and project settings fully updated — easier to edit, add, or remove competitors
  • Safer archive flow — projects with in-progress reports are protected from accidental archiving

Notifications

  • Duplicate notifications eliminated — each alert fires at most once
  • Cleaner delivery pipeline for in-app notifications

Compete Widgets

  • Gap-to-leader and stability calculations corrected for more accurate competitive positioning

Win Rate widget redesign and SEO improvements

UI/UXFix

Win Rate Widget

  • Redesigned Win Rate widget with responsive flex layout — competitor names auto-shrink instead of truncating to 1–2 characters on smaller screens
  • Compact overall win rate label for better space utilization
  • Improved competitor brand display across all screen sizes and DPI settings

SEO & Discoverability

  • Improved meta titles and descriptions across all pages for better search engine visibility
  • Added unique Open Graph images for each page — better social sharing previews on LinkedIn, Slack, and Telegram
  • Extended sitemap with all feature sub-pages (Visibility, Positioning, Sentiment, Diversity, Competitors)
  • Improved structured data with complete Organization, WebSite, and SoftwareApplication schemas
  • Enabled AI crawler access — site is now discoverable by ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, and other AI search engines

Compete page overhaul with per-provider analytics

FeatureUI/UXBackend

Compete Page — Provider-Level Intelligence

  • Complete Compete page redesign with unified color palette across all competitor visualizations
  • Per-provider switcher on every widget — filter competitive data by ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, or Claude individually
  • Leaderboard rows dynamically recalculate visibility, position, sentiment, and composite score per selected provider
  • Performance Radar chart redraws with provider-specific metrics
  • Gap to Leader bars recompute from provider data with color-coded badges (leading, tied, losing)
  • Share of Voice breakdown now shows mention share per AI model

Performance Trends

  • Rebuilt Performance Trends widget with date-range picker (7d / 30d / 3m / 1y)
  • Metric tabs for Visibility, Position, and Sentiment trends
  • New area chart with gradient fill for clearer data visualization

Compete Page Polish

  • Category Battleground now has expandable rows for per-prompt position breakdown
  • Head-to-Head comparison with custom dropdown and clearer win/loss labels
  • Competitive Position shows ordinal ranking (1st, 2nd, 3rd) with trophy for #1
  • Momentum widget updated with "Changes since last report" context

Prompt Lab Updates

  • Graph logic and TrendChart rendering — trends now appear with 2+ report runs
  • Provider icons displayed in archived prompt views
  • Dynamic suggestions for quick variables
  • Plan-based prompt limits and total prompts counter fix
  • Refactored Prompt Lab into 3 focused hooks for better performance
  • Comprehensive test suite added with full coverage across frontend and backend

New Dashboard, global search, account settings, and navigation overhaul

FeatureUI/UXBackend

Dashboard Redesign

  • Complete visual overhaul of all metric pages with new component architecture
  • New Overview Hero section with prominent project stats at a glance
  • Unified Project Header with date picker, provider switcher, and export button
  • Compact Metrics bar for quick visibility, position, sentiment, and diversity scores
  • Competitive Bar showing competitive position across all models
  • Top Prompts ranking — see which queries drive the best AI recommendations for your brand
  • AI Verdict Card presenting sentiment verdict with clear deal-breaker highlights
  • Full-width metric tables for Visibility, Positioning, Sentiment, and Diversity
  • Sentiment redesign with verdict cards, donut charts, and badge styling for deal-breakers
  • Diversity module with dynamic gap insights and "Divergent View" indicators
  • Pro badge indicators on premium insights with 7-day trial window

Global Search (Command Palette)

  • New Command Palette (Ctrl+K / ⌘K) for instant navigation across the entire platform
  • Dynamic search indexing — all metrics, categories, prompts, highlights, verdicts, and deal-breakers are searchable
  • Real-time results as you type, sorted by relevance: metrics → categories → prompts
  • Keyboard-driven workflow for power users

Account Settings

  • New Account Settings page with vertical tab navigation — Profile, Authentication, API Tokens
  • Profile tab consolidates user meta, personal info, and address into a single view
  • Authentication tab with working Change Password flow and Two-Factor Authentication placeholder
  • API Tokens tab prepared for future integrations

Affiliate Program

  • Full affiliate dashboard with stats cards, referral link with one-click copy, and referral tracking table
  • Payout method management with payout schedule info
  • Promotional materials section with downloadable assets — banners, social kits, email templates

Navigation

  • Redesigned header with logo top-left, collapsible sidebar toggle, and persistent layout state
  • Collapsed mode shows initial letter avatar for projects — minimal footprint
  • User dropdown updated with direct links to Account Settings, Billing, and Affiliate Program
  • Billing page now accessible from the main navigation menu

Diversity metrics refinements and Prompt Lab backend

FeatureBackendFix

Diversity

  • Updated diversity calculation algorithm for more accurate recommendation spread analysis
  • Fixed table content alignment in diversity metric blocks
  • Improved Diversity components and page layouts

Prompt Lab Backend

  • Full backend infrastructure for Prompt Lab — custom prompt creation, storage, and async execution
  • Queue-based processing for running prompts against multiple AI models simultaneously
  • Prompt monitoring with status icons and execution history
  • Project data auto-loading — prompts now use real project metadata (location, niche, business type)

Prompt Variables

  • Split location into separate city, zip code, and country parameters for granular prompt customization
  • Separated business type and niche into independent quick variables

Prompt Lab frontend launch and AI search controls

FeatureUI/UXBackend

Prompt Lab

  • Launched Prompt Lab — create, edit, and test custom prompts across all five AI models
  • Create Prompt dialog with configurable prompt templates and quick variables
  • Prompt Card displaying per-model performance metrics and test results
  • Model Breakdown Table showing detailed response analysis per AI provider
  • Trend Chart tracking prompt performance across multiple test runs

AI Providers

  • Enabled web search for ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok for richer, real-time analysis
  • Improved Gemini stability when combining search with reasoning capabilities
  • Fine-tuned search behavior across all providers for optimal data accuracy

New AI providers and web search integration

FeatureBackend

AI Providers

  • Added Perplexity and Grok as new AI providers
  • Fine-tuned search behavior across providers for optimal data accuracy

Scoring accuracy improvements and sentiment refinements

FeatureBackendUX

Scoring & Metrics

  • Refined Rankry Score calculation for more accurate overall brand performance ratings
  • Updated average position algorithm for better competitive benchmarking
  • Improved sentiment analysis scoring precision with corrected data mapping

Data Quality

  • Enhanced prompt quality controls to ensure more reliable AI-generated insights
  • Enabled web search for AI providers, delivering richer and more up-to-date analysis

Dashboard

  • Fixed strategic insight cards on the Positioning and Diversity modules

Niche suggestions and unmentioned prompt tracking

FeatureBackendUX

Niche Suggestions

  • Smart niche recommendations while setting up your brand profile — powered by AI-driven category analysis
  • Custom taxonomy input for businesses that don't fit predefined categories

Visibility Tracking

  • New unmentioned prompt tracking — see exactly which queries AI models don't associate with your brand
  • Visibility metrics now account for both mentioned and unmentioned prompts for a fuller picture

Interface

  • Introduced a shared component for consistent metric information presentation

Scheduled report rebuilds, leaderboard fixes, and insight accuracy

FeatureBackend

Report Scheduling

  • Reports can now be scheduled for automatic rebuilds, keeping data fresh without manual re-runs

Insights & Metrics

  • Fixed Gap-to-Leader insight calculations for more accurate competitive positioning data
  • Removed duplicate percentage signs from the Competitors Leaderboard display

Product feature pages, usage tracking, and email notifications

FeatureBackendUX

Product Pages

  • Launched dedicated feature pages for Visibility, Positioning, Sentiment, Diversity, and Competitors with detailed product overviews
  • New Features dropdown in the main navigation for quick access to all product modules

Usage Tracking

  • Added LLM usage metering per project — foundation for plan-based limits and consumption analytics

Platform

  • New transactional email templates for improved user communication
  • Disabled state for unavailable command palette items to prevent confusion
  • Fixed competitor report building flow with correct provider selection

Real-time competitor report progress and parallel processing

FeatureBackend

Competitor Reports

  • Competitor reports now stream progress in real time — see results as each model completes
  • Competitor and main brand reports build independently, so partial results are available sooner

Infrastructure

  • Optimized background worker pipeline for parallel report generation

Performance radar, momentum data, and compete module improvements

FeatureBackendUX

Compete Module

  • Performance Radar chart now displays active data from competitor reports
  • Momentum section powered with real competitive data
  • Leaderboard made interactive — click into individual competitor details
  • Updated compete report endpoint logic for more accurate data aggregation

Dashboard

  • "Unlock all insights" link added to the insights widget for easier navigation

Interface

  • Simplified navigation and removed placeholder sections for a cleaner alpha experience

Crisp chat integration, metrics card polish, and alpha access controls

FeatureUX

Live Chat

  • Connected Crisp support chat across the entire platform
  • Chat widget loads automatically for all authenticated sessions

Dashboard Polish

  • Redesigned expand/collapse chevron on metric cards for clearer affordance
  • Improved hover and active states across all four KPI cards

Access Control

  • Registration disabled for the alpha period — invite-only access enforced
  • Sign-up route hidden from navigation and auth flow

Provider Overview page, usage tracking, and metrics refactor

FeatureBackendUX

Provider Overview

  • New per-model overview page — drill into any single AI model's performance
  • Four KPI cards showing Visibility, Position, Sentiment, and Diversity for the selected model
  • Summary block with model ranking, horizontal score bars, and aggregated insights
  • Rankry Score Trend chart with timeframe filters (1M, 3M, 6M, 1Y) and multi-model comparison
  • Model Comparison Matrix — all metrics across all providers with highlighted current model

Usage Tracking

  • New project usage model in the database — foundation for tracking AI response consumption
  • Per-project usage counters ready for plan limit enforcement

Dashboard Internals

  • Refactored MetricsList and MetricsInfo components for better maintainability
  • New chevron toggle component for expanding metric detail sections
  • Cleaner data flow between metric cards and their detail views

Report progress screen, aggregated metrics, and command palette fix

FeatureBackend

Report Progress

  • New report building progress screen with per-model breakdown
  • Live status indicators showing which AI models have completed analysis
  • Visual feedback while reports are being generated — no more blank waiting screens

Aggregated Metrics

  • Server now saves "all provider" aggregated metrics for each report
  • Cross-model averages calculated and stored for Visibility, Position, and Sentiment
  • Enables the "All" view on the dashboard to show combined performance at a glance

Fixes

  • Fixed command palette width — no longer overflows on smaller viewports

Support chat, command palette, competitors module, and dashboard refinements

FeatureBackendUX

Live Support Chat

  • Integrated Crisp live chat widget for authenticated users
  • Custom trigger button with seamless open/close behavior
  • Support available directly from the dashboard — no need to leave the app

Command Palette

  • Global search with keyboard shortcut for quick navigation across the platform
  • Instant access to projects, pages, and actions from anywhere in the app

Competitors Module

  • Continued development of the Competitors section — defining calculation logic for competitive metrics
  • Database schema validation and data integrity checks for competitor tracking
  • Laying the groundwork for side-by-side brand comparison analytics

Dashboard & UI

  • Refined dashboard layout — improved spacing, alignment, and visual consistency
  • Sidebar padding and navigation polish
  • Rankry Score block alignment with page content grid
  • Various UX tweaks across metrics cards and chart components

Account settings overhaul, affiliate program, and user menu redesign

FeatureBackendUX

Account Settings

  • New Account Settings page with vertical tab navigation — Profile, Authentication, API Tokens
  • Profile tab consolidates user meta, personal info, and address into a single view
  • Authentication tab with working Change Password flow and Two-Factor Authentication placeholder
  • API Tokens tab prepared for future integrations
  • Server-side: fixed profile update endpoint, added password change with validation

Affiliate Program

  • Full affiliate dashboard with stats cards, referral link with one-click copy, and referral tracking table
  • Payout method management with empty state and payout schedule info
  • Promotional materials section with downloadable assets — banners, social kits, email templates
  • Vertical tab layout: Dashboard view and Promo Materials as separate tabs
  • Complete backend: 5 database models, service layer with business logic, REST API with 18 endpoints
  • Core mechanics: referral code generation, click tracking, conversion attribution, commission calculation
  • Admin API: program configuration, affiliate management, commission approval, payout processing
  • Edge case handling: self-referral prevention, cookie expiration, refund window, duplicate protection

User Menu

  • Redesigned user dropdown — removed Edit Profile and Support links
  • Added direct links to Billing and Affiliate Program
  • Billing page now accessible from dropdown, powered by full-featured billing UI

Platform polish, pricing refinements, and navigation overhaul

DesignUXInfrastructure

Navigation

  • New "Resources" dropdown in main nav with Blog and Changelog links
  • Unified header styles across all pages — consistent font, sizing, and logo shadow
  • Google Sans Flex font now loads globally on all routes

Pricing Page

  • Refined card sizing for better readability at a glance
  • Aligned billing toggle with card grid edge
  • Improved spacing between header and pricing content
  • Cleaner headline copy without trailing punctuation

Landing Page

  • Prompt Sandbox visual scaled down for better balance
  • Renamed "Run Simulation" to "Start Monitoring" for clearer intent
  • Fixed glow border-radius on process cards (Analyze / Scan / Score / Insight)

Platform

  • Completed Diversity Dashboard — full analytics view ready for internal QA
  • Subscription engine: license routing and plan tier logic wired end-to-end
  • Billing flow prepared for Base / Pro / Enterprise tiers with annual discounts

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