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Track your brand in Grok

Grok Visibility Tracker:
is your brand in the answer?

Rankshift runs your prompts in Grok on a schedule and reports how often your brand is named, where it sits in the answer, which sources are cited and which competitors appear next to you.

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What you see

What Rankshift tracks in Grok

Grok is the AI assistant made by xAI. It answers on X, on grok.com and in its own apps, and it searches the web and public X posts in real time when that helps the answer. It names a few brands in the answer and links its sources. Rankshift records the answer, the brands and the sources for every prompt you track, each time it runs.

  • Visibility

    The share of Grok answers that name your brand, per prompt and overall.

  • Position

    Where you appear among the brands in the answer: first, second or last.

  • Share of voice

    Your mentions as a share of all brand mentions, next to your competitors.

  • Citations

    The domains and URLs Grok cites, and how often your own site is one of them.

  • Sentiment

    Whether Grok describes you in positive, neutral or negative terms.

  • Countries and languages

    Each prompt tracked in the countries and languages you sell in.

Prompts

How often Grok names you, prompt by prompt

Add the questions your buyers ask. Rankshift runs each one in Grok, stores the full answer and marks your brand and your competitors in it. You see where you are named and where you are missing.

  • Full answer stored for every run
  • Visibility per prompt and for the whole project
  • Filter by persona, scenario or tag
Tracking over time

One answer is not a measurement

Ask Grok the same question twice and the brands can change, because it writes a new answer each time and the web pages and X posts behind it can differ. Rankshift repeats every prompt on the schedule you set and reports visibility as a share of all runs, so one lucky or unlucky answer does not decide your number.

  • Daily or weekly runs, set per prompt
  • History per brand, prompt and model
  • Unlimited countries and languages
Competitors

Which competitors Grok names next to you

Add your competitors and Rankshift counts them in the same answers. You get visibility and share of voice per brand, plus the position of each brand in the answer, so you know who Grok puts first.

  • Visibility, share of voice and sentiment per brand
  • Position of each brand in the answer
  • Compared on every prompt you track
Citations

Which sources Grok cites

When Grok searches, it links the web pages and X posts it used. Rankshift lists every cited domain and URL on your prompts and shows how often your own site is among them. Mentions and citations are counted separately, because Grok can cite your page without naming your brand, and name your brand without citing you.

  • Cited domains and URLs, ranked by frequency
  • Your own citation rate next to competitors
  • Review sites, articles and X posts where you are missing
Across models

Grok next to ChatGPT, Gemini and AI Mode

Your buyers do not all use the same assistant, and the brands each one names can differ. Rankshift runs the same prompts on Grok, ChatGPT, Gemini, Google AI Mode, AI Overviews, Claude and others, so you can see where your brand is strong and where it falls behind.

  • Visibility and citation rate per model
  • The same prompt set on every model you select
  • Eleven AI models, including ChatGPT and Gemini
Action Center

Actions based on what Grok says and cites

Tracking shows where you stand. The Action Center turns what Rankshift finds in the answers into tasks: a page to update, a publication to pitch, a comparison article to get listed in. Each task is tied to the prompts and sources behind it and lands on a board your team can work through.

  • Prioritized by expected impact on your visibility
  • Based on the answers and sources from your prompts
  • One board for outreach, page updates and community replies
How it works

From prompt to Grok report

  1. Add brand and prompts

    Step 1

    Enter your brand, your competitors and the questions your buyers ask. Rankshift suggests prompts to start from.

  2. We run them in Grok

    Step 2

    Each prompt runs in Grok on the schedule you choose, in the countries and languages you add.

  3. Act on the results

    Step 3

    See visibility, position, share of voice and sources per prompt, then work through the tasks in the Action Center.

Related

More AI search data in the same project

Grok is one place where AI answers questions about your brand. These reports sit in the same Rankshift project.

See all AI models Rankshift tracks
FAQ

Questions about Grok visibility tracking

What is a Grok visibility tracker?

A Grok visibility tracker runs a fixed set of prompts in Grok on a schedule and records the answers. From those answers it reports how often your brand is named, where it sits in the answer, which sources are cited and how you compare with competitors.

How does Rankshift collect Grok answers?

Rankshift runs your prompts in Grok and stores the full answer with the sources it cites. From each answer it records mentions, citations, sentiment and share of voice, for your brand and your competitors. You choose how often each prompt runs, daily or weekly.

Why does Grok give different answers to the same question?

Grok writes a new answer each time, and when it searches the web and X the pages and posts behind the answer can differ. So the brands and sources can change from one run to the next. That is why Rankshift reports visibility as a share of all runs. One check tells you very little.

How is Grok different from ChatGPT?

Grok is the assistant made by xAI, available on X, on grok.com and in its own apps, and it searches public X posts as well as the web. ChatGPT is OpenAI's assistant. For the same question, the two can name different brands and cite different sources, so Rankshift tracks them as separate models.

What is the difference between a mention and a citation?

A mention is your brand name in the answer text. A citation is a link to a page that Grok used as a source. You can have one without the other, so Rankshift tracks them separately.

Which other AI models can I track?

ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude, Perplexity, Microsoft Copilot, DeepSeek, Google AI Mode, Google AI Overviews, Meta AI and Mistral. The same prompts can run on each model, so you can compare your visibility in Grok with the rest.

How do I improve my visibility in Grok?

Start with the sources. Grok builds its answer from the web pages and X posts it finds, so look at which domains and posts it cites on your prompts and where competitors are listed and you are missing. Then update your own pages so they answer the prompt directly. Posts about your brand and your category on X can end up in Grok's sources too. The Action Center turns these findings into specific tasks, ranked by expected impact.

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