Answers are collected the way your buyers see them
RankRaft AI collects answers through a combination of official APIs and browser automation, choosing the method that most faithfully reproduces what a real person sees on each engine. Answers are collected as a logged-out user would get them: the engine decides for itself which model to use and whether to search the web, as it would for a real buyer. We store each answer exactly as the engine returned it, together with every source it cited, so every figure in the dashboard can be traced back to the text it came from. Open any prompt in Prompts & Answers to read the stored answers.Engines
Which engines you get depends on your plan.
Daily, because one answer tells you very little
AI gives different answers to the same question. We ask every active prompt once a day on every engine in your plan and report the trend, because a single answer, however many times you repeat it in one sitting, tells you less than a fortnight of them. Each site has a fixed daily scan slot, set when the site is created, so your scans run at a consistent time.Localised to your market
If you set a main market, every question is asked as a buyer in that market would ask it. In the dashboard a prompt shows a badge like Asked as “best mixed pickle brand (Pakistan)”. The difference is large. Without a market, a question about a local category often returns US retailers and publications. With one, it returns the local brands and sites your buyers actually see. Global adds no location.AI Overviews and AI Mode are always measured as a searcher in a specific place sees them, so they need a country market. If your market is Global or empty, those two engines are skipped for your site, and they aren’t counted against your results.