SORANK

I test a lot of SEO tools, but the one that surprised me most over the last few months is Sorank.

What's different: most SEO suites still treat "AI visibility" as a bolt-on module added after the fact. Sorank built its whole workflow around both at once, ranking on Google and showing up in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and AI Overviews answers.

What I actually use day to day:

→ Keyword research built from my own Search Console data plus my competitors', not a generic third-party database
→ Weekly tracking of the sub-queries AI models quietly run behind the scenes when someone asks "best software for X"
→ A leaderboard showing who's actually winning AI answers in my market
→ Competitor monitoring that auto-adds keywords from their new articles straight into my content calendar
→ A credit-based backlink system, no outreach emails to send
→ One-click blog article generation, written to read well for Google and AI alike

The thing that flipped me: brand mentions in AI answers now correlate more strongly with AI visibility than classic backlinks do. Sorank is the first tool I've seen treat that as the actual product, not a slide in a sales deck.

If you're still doing SEO in 2026 without looking at the AI side, you're solving half the problem.

→ sorank.com