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# July 2026

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## Releases

## Client reports - Show the work completed, not only the results

**New**

Shared client reports can now show the meaningful work delivered for the client alongside performance and recommended next steps.

**Make ongoing value visible** — The Work completed section summarizes eligible completed and measuring work for the selected reporting period and pairs it with the lifetime total. A quieter week therefore stays in the context of the longer delivery record.

**Keep the report client-ready** — The section uses concise, active descriptions without attributing every line to Serena, a specific employee, or an agency name. Low-value setup activity and raw monitoring noise are excluded.

**Control each shared report** — Work completed can be enabled or disabled with the other report-visibility options and disappears when there is nothing eligible to show.

See [Setting up the client portal](https://help.rankability.com/account-and-settings/client-portal-sharing) to configure the share link and visible report sections.

## Tracker - Export complete AI answers for deeper analysis

**New**

Tracker's multi-report spreadsheet export now includes the complete captured AI answers, giving you evidence you can audit, compare, and analyze outside Rankability.

**Keep the answer with its context** — Each exported answer includes its report, keyword, platform, capture time, location, mention and citation states, sentiment evidence, cited URLs, provider, and provider tier. Missing answers are not mislabeled as successful captures.

**Preserve long responses** — When an answer exceeds Excel's per-cell limit, Rankability continues it across numbered rows so the workbook retains the complete text instead of silently cutting it off. Citation URLs are canonicalized to reduce superficial duplicates.

From the Tracker project list, select the reports you need and export them to a spreadsheet. The full-answer section appears with the existing traditional-search and citation evidence. See [Reading AI answers](https://help.rankability.com/track/ai-answers-tab) for interpretation guidance.

## Rankability's Help Center and product changelog are now public

**Announcement**

Rankability product guidance is now available at help.rankability.com without requiring an application login.

**One source of truth** — The public Help Center owns current setup instructions, product behavior, supported platforms, integrations, costs, API guidance, and troubleshooting. In-app help links route to the same canonical articles instead of maintaining a separate gated documentation library.

**A public release history** — The product changelog now lives in GitBook with monthly archives. Historical entries describe Rankability at the time of release, while the linked Help Center articles remain authoritative for current behavior.

Open the [Rankability Help Center](https://help.rankability.com/) to search the documentation, follow a workflow, or review the public changelog.

## Tracker v5.27 - See which ranking pages actually mention your brand

**New**

The Traditional search tab can now open up the pages that outrank you and tell you whether they mention your brand at all — turning a list of competitor rankings into a list of places you could be mentioned.

**Analyze the pages ranking above you** — Click "Analyze results" above the results table and each ranking page is visited, read, and checked for your brand. It runs across your Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and Brave results, and you can re-analyze at any time to pick up changes.

**Four clear outcomes per result** — Every row gets a Status. "Linked" means the page mentions you and links to a domain you own. "Unlinked" means it mentions you but doesn't link. "Not mentioned" means your brand is absent from the page. "Not available" means the page couldn't be read — usually a paywall, a login wall, or a site that was temporarily down. Hover any badge for the full explanation.

**Filter straight to the opportunities** — Once analysis finishes you get live counts for All, Has mention, and Not mentioned. Filter to "Not mentioned" for a clean outreach list of pages that rank for your keyword and have never talked about you. The "Unlinked" pages are usually the fastest win — they already mention you and just need a link.

**Carried into your CSV export** — The results export now includes Mention Status, Brand URL, and Analyzed At columns alongside the ranking data, so you can hand the list straight to whoever is running outreach.

**Kept separate from AI citation scoring** — This analysis doesn't touch your Citation Visibility Score, which still describes AI-cited sources only. It runs on demand rather than on every scan, so you only pay for the pages you choose to check.

Open the [Tracker](https://app.rankability.com/tracker), pick a project, and click Analyze results on the Traditional search tab.

## Page Auditor v1.19 - See where your content stands apart from competitors

**New**

Every page audit now includes a Content Differentiation analysis — a scored breakdown of how much your page contributes beyond what the competing pages already cover, and exactly where it's leaving value on the table.

**A score against the pages actually ranking** — The analysis reads your page alongside the competitors currently ranking for your target keyword, scores the content across five dimensions, and produces an overall 0–100 score. The exact comparison cohort is listed so you know which pages your content was measured against.

**Five dimensions of differentiation** — The breakdown covers: Distinct contribution (does your page make claims competitors don't?), First-party evidence (do you cite original data, case studies, or direct experience?), Question coverage (do you answer the questions the search results leave open?), Original examples or methodology (do you demonstrate a process rather than just describe one?), and Passage clarity (is your writing direct and scannable, or padded?).

**Validated differentiators and claims needing proof** — Specific passages in your content are categorized as validated differentiators (verifiably distinct from competitor content), potential differentiators (promising but not yet backed by evidence in the page), or claims needing proof (assertions that competitors also make or that lack supporting detail). This tells you exactly what to keep, what to strengthen, and what to cut.

**Prioritized recommendations** — The analysis closes with a ranked list of the highest-impact opportunities to make the page more distinctive, so you know where to focus the next revision.

**Beta — not yet in the overall score** — Content Differentiation runs on every audit but is shown as an unweighted subsection while we validate its relationship to citation outcomes. It does not affect your overall page score yet.

Open the [Page Auditor](https://app.rankability.com/page-auditor) and run or re-run an audit to see Content Differentiation in the results.

## Serena v5.3 - Show Serena a screenshot

**New**

You can now paste or attach screenshots directly into any Serena conversation — up to four images per message — and Serena will analyze what she sees alongside your question.

**Paste or attach any image** — In any Serena chat, paste a screenshot from your clipboard or attach an image file. Up to four images per message are supported. Each image appears inline in the conversation before Serena responds, so you can confirm what she received.

**Ask about anything visual** — Share a screenshot of a search results page, a competitor's layout, a Google Business Profile, a site audit finding, an analytics chart, or anything else you'd normally have to describe in words. Serena reads the image and responds based on what she actually sees, grounded in the client's data and knowledge.

**Live context, not stored** — Images are used for the turn you attach them to and are not saved or re-sent in later messages. If you reference a screenshot in a follow-up, attach it again.

Open [Serena](https://app.rankability.com/clients) for any client and paste a screenshot into the chat to get started.

## Tracker v5.14 - Share the tracker with clients — no login required

**New**

You can now generate a private share link for any client's tracker and send it directly to them. Anyone with the link can view live keyword rankings, AI answer data, and performance history without creating an account or signing in.

**One toggle, instant link** — In a client's settings under "Client portal access," flip the "Share link" toggle on and a unique URL appears immediately. Copy it and send it however you like — email, Slack, a client report. The link works on any device, in any browser.

**Branded experience** — The shared tracker displays your agency logo and brand colors. Clients see their performance data in a portal that looks like your platform, not Rankability's.

**Full tracker access, read-only** — The shared view includes keyword positions across traditional search and AI platforms, mention data, citation history, and trend charts — the same data you see inside the platform, with no ability to make changes.

**Rotate or revoke any time** — If you need to cut off access, flip the toggle off to disable the link immediately. Use the rotate button to generate a fresh link and invalidate the old one without disabling sharing.

Open any client's [settings](https://app.rankability.com/client-settings) and scroll to "Client portal access" to turn on the share link.

## Page Auditor v1.18 - Schema checks that match your page's intent and query

**New**

The Page Auditor now checks whether your page's structured data and content components match what the search query actually expects — so instead of just telling you "schema is present," it tells you whether the right schema is there for your intent and whether your page is built the way search engines and AI answer engines need it to be.

**Schema matched to your page's intent** — The audit compares your structured data against what's expected for your page's detected intent and components. An informational article should expose Article or BlogPosting markup; a local-service page needs LocalBusiness; a commercial or comparison page needs Product, Review, or ItemList. If the page has an FAQ section or numbered steps, the matching FAQPage or HowTo schema is required too. The audit lists exactly which types are present and which are missing.

**Query-implied components** — For comparison and "best of" queries, the audit checks whether the page has a comparison table. For how-to queries, it checks for a step-by-step structure. For question-style queries, it checks for a FAQ or direct-answer block. Only the checks that apply to your specific query are scored — so a page is never flagged for not having a component its query doesn't call for.

**Semantic HTML structure** — The audit checks whether the page uses proper HTML5 structural regions like \`

\` and \`\`, and estimates what share of the page is primary content versus boilerplate like navigation and footers. Pages that lack a clear main region, or where boilerplate dominates, are flagged so you can see what crawlers and AI answer engines are likely struggling to isolate.

Open the [Page Auditor](https://app.rankability.com/page-auditor) for any client and run or re-run an audit to see the new signals.

## Serena v1.5 - YouTube videos as a knowledge source

**New**

You can now add YouTube videos to your client's knowledge base — paste any YouTube link and Serena extracts the full transcript automatically, making everything said in the video available for every conversation about that client.

**Paste any YouTube URL** — In the Client Brain, click Add source, paste a YouTube video link, and Serena pulls the full transcript in the background. The video's title and word count are stored alongside the content so you can see exactly what's been indexed.

**Serena draws on it immediately** — Once the transcript is imported, it's available to Serena just like any other knowledge source. Ask questions about the client's market, products, talking points, or positioning, and Serena will pull from the video alongside your other sources.

**Works alongside your existing knowledge base** — YouTube transcripts sit next to website sources, uploaded documents, and pasted text. Serena uses all of them together to give grounded, client-specific answers.

**One credit per import** — Importing a transcript costs 1 brain credit and is charged only on success. If a video has captions disabled, Serena lets you know rather than silently failing.

Open the [Client Brain](https://app.rankability.com/brain) for any client, click Add source, and paste a YouTube URL to get started.

## Serena in Slack (beta) - Ask Serena about your clients without leaving Slack

**New**

Serena is now available directly in Slack. Install the app, connect it to your Rankability organization, and mention Serena in any channel or thread to ask about your clients' performance — no need to switch tabs.

**Ask about any client** — Ask Serena what's going on with a client, why rankings dropped, what the latest GSC trends look like, or what to focus on next. Serena pulls from the same data and knowledge it uses inside Rankability, so the answers are grounded in real numbers rather than generic SEO advice.

**Works in channels and threads** — Mention the Serena app in any channel your workspace has access to, or use it in a thread to keep the conversation context tight. Serena remembers the thread, so you can follow up without repeating yourself.

**Propose and approve actions** — For write actions like starting a content project or running a site audit, Serena proposes the action before doing anything and waits for your explicit approval. Nothing happens until you say yes.

**Connect in settings** — Go to [Settings](https://app.rankability.com/settings) → Connected apps and click **Connect Slack** to install the app and pair your workspace to your Rankability organization. Once paired, mention the Serena app in Slack to get started.

**This is an early beta.** Some features available in the in-app Serena experience are not yet available in Slack, and behavior may change as we improve it. Serena is AI and can make mistakes — please double-check responses before acting on them, especially for client-facing work.

## Tracker v5.26 - Track your visibility in Meta AI's answers

**New**

Meta AI is now a trackable answer engine in the Tracker — see whether your brand shows up, and which sources get cited, when people ask Meta AI.

**A new engine alongside the rest** — Meta AI joins ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, Claude, Grok, Copilot, Brave AI, and DeepSeek as a trackable platform. Its answers are grounded in live web search, so you're measuring what people actually see today.

**Turn it on per project** — Meta AI is opt-in. Add it to a project's tracked platforms whenever you want to start measuring it, and leave it off for the clients that don't need it.

**Rolls into your SPI and citations** — Meta AI results feed your Search Performance Index and citation tracking just like every other AI platform, so you can see where you stand and which pages and domains Meta AI is citing.

Open the [Tracker](https://app.rankability.com/tracker), edit a project's platforms, and add Meta AI to start tracking.

## Copywriter v5.13 - WordPress publishing that matches your site's editor

**New**

Articles published to WordPress now arrive in the format your site actually uses. On block-editor sites they open as real, editable Gutenberg blocks instead of one big HTML blob — and on page-builder sites (Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, and others) they land as clean HTML that drops straight into your builder without markup noise.

**Native blocks delivery** — In your WordPress connection settings, set **Article delivery** to **Native blocks**. Published articles then open in the WordPress block editor as individual headings, paragraphs, lists, and images — every piece separately editable, exactly as if it were written in WordPress.

**Your page builder is detected automatically** — The Rankability plugin reports which builder your site runs, and publishing adapts on its own. Sites using Elementor, Divi, Beaver Builder, Bricks, Oxygen, or WPBakery receive clean formatted HTML that renders correctly inside the builder's own widgets — no configuration needed.

**See what was detected** — Each WordPress connection now shows an Environment section listing the builders found on the site, when it last checked in, and a refresh button — so you always know why your content arrives in the format it does.

**Safe on older plugins** — If the plugin on a site hasn't been updated yet, publishing still works: articles are delivered as classic HTML and the settings show a clear note telling you an update unlocks native blocks.

Open a client's WordPress connection in the [Copywriter](https://app.rankability.com/copywriter) publish settings and switch Article delivery to Native blocks to try it.

## Researcher v2.0 - Perplexity answers inside keyword reports

**New**

Keyword reports now include a dedicated Perplexity tab — see the AI-synthesized answer, cited sources, and which domains Perplexity is surfacing for any keyword, right alongside your Google, YouTube, and AI Mode data.

**What Perplexity says about your keyword** — The Perplexity tab shows the full synthesized answer Perplexity returns for that search query: formatted text, bold highlights, bullet points, and comparison tables rendered cleanly — the same experience a user would see, without leaving Rankability.

**Cited sources panel** — Below the answer, every source Perplexity cited is listed with its title, domain, and a snippet. You can see at a glance which sites Perplexity trusts most for this topic and where your domain sits in that list.

**Cross-surface compare** — Switch to the Compare tab to see Google organic, AI Mode, and Perplexity side by side. The table shows which domains appear across all three surfaces so you can identify who owns the topic end to end, and where your gaps are.

**Download everything** — The existing report download now includes Perplexity citations alongside the organic and AI Mode data so you can drop the full picture into a client deck or spreadsheet in one click.

Open the [Researcher](https://app.rankability.com/researcher) and run a keyword overview, then click the Perplexity tab to see it in action.

## Copywriter v5.12 - Autopilot: hands-off content from topic to editor

**New**

The Copywriter now has a fully hands-off mode. Give Serena a topic, and it researches, writes, optimizes, fact-checks, and adds imagery in one pass — delivering a finished draft to your editor with no steps in between.

**Complete mode** — When you create a content project, choose how much Serena should complete. Draft mode writes a first draft for you to review and polish. Complete mode goes all the way: Serena writes, optimizes against the competition, adds links and citations, then sends the finished piece to the editor. Best for competitive topics and high-stakes pages.

**One flat price, charged only on success** — A Complete mode run is a flat 3,000 credits, and you're only charged when a usable draft is actually produced. If a run fails along the way, nothing is deducted.

**Optimizes against the competition** — Serena doesn't stop at a first draft. It scores the piece against the top-ranking competition and runs additional optimization passes to close the gap — the same loop you'd run by hand in Optimize mode.

**Fact-checked with sources** — Before anything reaches your editor, claims are checked and citations added, so the draft you receive is grounded in real sources rather than left for you to verify.

**Auto-publishing (beta)** — For clients on WordPress or Webflow, you can now put content creation on a schedule: pick a destination and a daily, weekly, or monthly cadence, approve a topic list, and Rankability generates and pushes content automatically. Only drafts that meet the quality bar go live — anything below it is saved as a CMS draft for your review. This one is early and experimental, so start with a weekly cadence on a site you watch closely. Find it under Auto-publish in the Copywriter.

Open the [Copywriter](https://app.rankability.com/copywriter), start a new project, and choose Complete mode to try it.

## API v1.8 - Run Copywriter Autopilot from the API and AI assistants

**New**

The new hands-off Copywriter Autopilot is also available programmatically — start a full topic-to-finished-draft run from your own systems or from an AI assistant connected over MCP.

**Start a run with one call** — `POST /api/agent/v1/copywriter/autopilot` takes a topic (plus optional client, intent, and extra context) and kicks off the entire pipeline: research, brief, draft, optimization passes, fact-checking with citations, and imagery. You get a job ID back immediately and the run continues in the background.

**Poll progress stage by stage** — `GET /api/agent/v1/copywriter/autopilot/:id` reports exactly where the run is — researching, briefing, drafting, optimizing, fact-checking, adding imagery, finalizing — plus how many optimization passes have run and whether the flat 3,000-credit charge has been applied or released.

**Safe to retry** — Send an `Idempotency-Key` header and retrying the same request returns the original job instead of starting (and charging for) a duplicate run.

**Fetch the finished draft** — When the run completes, pull the final content, brief, and images through the same artifacts endpoint used by other content jobs.

**Built in for AI assistants** — Connect over MCP and your assistant can start and monitor runs directly with the new `create_content_autopilot` and `get_autopilot_status` tools.

Generate or rotate a key in [Settings](https://app.rankability.com/settings) → API Keys, and see the full endpoint reference in the [Help Center](https://help.rankability.com).

## Serena v5.2 - Now learns from how Rankability actually does the work

**New**

Serena keeps getting deeper. On top of Rankability's coaching knowledge and step-by-step playbooks, it now learns from real demonstrations of the work being done — hundreds of recorded sessions of our team executing SEO — so its answers reflect not just what to do, but how it's actually done in practice.

**Grounded in real demonstrations, not just theory** — We distilled hundreds of videos of Rankability's team doing live SEO into thousands of practical lessons and gave them to Serena. Now when you ask how to approach something, the answer is shaped by how experienced practitioners actually handle it — the sequencing, the judgment calls, and the details that only show up when you watch the work get done.

**Spans strategy, teardowns, and tutorials** — The lessons come from live strategy walkthroughs, site and campaign teardowns, and hands-on tutorials across the whole job — technical SEO, local search, content, AI-search visibility, links, and more. So whether you're planning a campaign or fixing one specific problem, there's real-world execution behind the advice.

**Still leads with current, durable thinking** — Serena blends this with the coaching knowledge and playbooks it already had and keeps surfacing the most current, most durable guidance first — so you get advice that reflects where Rankability's approach is today, now grounded in practice as well as principle.

**Works everywhere, nothing to set up** — This is on in every Serena chat and during guided client setup, for every client, automatically. There's no toggle and no new screen — Serena is simply sharper and more practical the moment you ask.

Open [Serena](https://app.rankability.com/clients) for any client and ask how you'd tackle your next piece of work.

## Copywriter v5.11 - Ecommerce collection pages, built for product categories

**New**

Copywriter now recognizes when your keyword is a product category and writes an ecommerce collection page for it — shaped for a store's category page, not a blog article.

**Recognizes product-category keywords** — Enter a keyword like "baseball cleats," "gift baskets," or "sewing machines" and Copywriter detects that it's a browsable product category and switches to a collection-page format. It's deliberately careful: software, services, how-to, and comparison searches keep the formats they already use, so only genuine shopping categories get restructured.

**Built around your product grid** — The page is written thin above the grid and deep below it: a short, benefit-led intro that never pushes your products out of sight, then richer category copy underneath for search. The copy stays tight and scannable instead of ballooning into a long read.

**Set to Convert automatically** — Product-category keywords now default to the Convert intent, matching what the intent picker already describes, so the page is written to help shoppers choose and buy rather than just read.

**Shopping-focused guidance** — When you add guidance for the draft, Copywriter now suggests shopping-oriented prompts — "Highlight the range of products and top categories," "Guide shoppers with sizing, fit, or buying tips," and "Add a clear call to action to shop the collection."

**Links only to real pages** — The page only links to pages found in your site's sitemap and won't invent subcategory links that lead nowhere, so you don't ship a collection page full of dead links.

Open the [Copywriter](https://app.rankability.com/copywriter) for any client and enter a product category like "running shoes" to try it.

## Copywriter v5.10 - Serena edits your draft with you, right in the editor

**New**

Serena now works alongside you inside the Copywriter editor. Ask for a change in plain language and she revises the draft in place — grounded in the client's full context — and you can restore the previous version anytime.

**She rewrites the draft in place** — Ask Serena to rewrite a section, tighten the copy, restructure, fix a specific part, improve clarity or SEO, add an FAQ, or adjust the tone, and she applies the revised draft straight into the editor. Every change is reversible — restore the previous version with one click, so you can experiment without fear of losing work.

**An editorial and claims pass on demand** — Ask her to proofread or run a claims check and she flags unsupported or risky statements, then softens or qualifies them in the rewrite. She won't invent facts, figures, or citations — so if a number can't be verified she'll leave it out or add a note rather than make one up, and what stays in the draft is something you can stand behind.

**Expands what the page covers** — Ask what queries the page should answer, and Serena reasons from the client's Search Console data and your target keywords to suggest — or add — the coverage you're missing, so the page speaks to more of what people are actually searching.

**Full client context, not a generic assistant** — She works from the client's website, Search Console, saved knowledge, and the same research and audit skills she uses everywhere else, so her edits fit the business rather than just the sentence in front of her. Your chat also stays with the draft — switch tabs or reload and you pick up right where you left off.

**For articles and YouTube scripts** — The same in-editor Serena helps with both your Copywriter drafts and your YouTube scripts, tightening a hook or expanding a section the same way.

Open the [Copywriter](https://app.rankability.com/copywriter) for any client, open a draft, and ask Serena to make your first edit.

## Guided client setup - Build a client's foundation, focus, and 90-day plan in one flow

**New**

Adding a new client is now a guided experience. Instead of just creating a record and figuring out the rest yourself, Rankability can walk you from a brand name to a ready knowledge base, a chosen focus, and a 90-day topic plan — all grounded in the client's real search demand.

**Pick guided or quick** — When you add a client you now choose how to start. Quick setup just needs a name and website to begin tracking right away, while guided setup walks you through the whole foundation. Every guided step is optional and you can leave and pick up right where you left off anytime.

**Connect the client's data in the flow** — Connect Google Search Console — and Google Business Profile for local businesses — without leaving setup. Rankability finds and matches the right property and location to the site for you, or you can skip it and use keyword research instead.

**Its knowledge base, built for you** — Rankability reads the client's website and builds their knowledge base automatically, so everything that follows is grounded in what the business actually does rather than a blank slate.

**One demand pool from research and Search Console** — Rankability brings keyword research and your Search Console data together into a single demand pool and scores the biggest opportunities. It runs in the background, so a big research pass never times out and you can safely leave the page.

**Choose a focus, get a 90-day plan** — Rankability proposes focus areas from that real demand — and if it isn't sure it read the business right, you can correct it in one sentence and it re-analyzes. Pick a focus and you get a 90-day topic plan where each topic is either a new page to create or a refresh of a page you already have, and you can start a Copywriter report from any topic in one click.

Open [Add a client](https://app.rankability.com/clients/new) and choose Guided setup to try it.

## Copywriter API - Cheaper default and clear cost on every job

**Improved**

The Copywriter API now defaults to a cheaper, recommended set of research platforms and tells you what each job will cost — so automated content pipelines stop burning credits they didn't mean to.

**A cheaper default when you don't choose** — If you create a Copywriter job without specifying `research_platforms`, the API now runs the recommended subset — Google Organic, ChatGPT, and Claude — the same default the in-app picker uses, instead of running every platform. For a full auto run that's roughly 1,036 credits instead of \~2,100, with no change to how you call the API.

**You're always in control** — Want more sources? Pass a `research_platforms` array and the API runs exactly what you list (Google Organic is always included). Passing the full list runs every platform, just like before.

**See the cost before the run finishes** — Every job-creation response now echoes back the `research_platforms` actually used and a `credits_estimated` figure, so your automation can log and budget the exact cost of each run.

**Heads up if you relied on the old behavior** — If your integration expected every platform to run when `research_platforms` was omitted, add the full array explicitly to keep that behavior. Otherwise, you'll simply spend fewer credits per run.

See the updated field reference and cost guidance at [docs/agent-api.md](https://help.rankability.com/api/api-site-auditor).