Glossary
Where terms are defined. The general AI search vocabulary lives in the RankX AI glossary; the terms specific to this product are defined here.
General AI search vocabulary is defined in
the RankX AI glossary, which covers the field:
AI Overviews, generative engine optimisation, answer engine optimisation, LLM
citation, share of voice, retrieval, llms.txt and the rest.
This page covers only the terms that mean something specific inside RankX AI, and each links to the page that defines it properly rather than repeating a definition that would then drift.
Terms specific to RankX AI
| Term | What it means here |
|---|---|
| Website | One site you track. The unit prompts, keywords, audits and content all belong to. Object model |
| Client Workspace | One client business on the agency track, holding its Websites, permissions and ceiling. Client Workspaces |
| Prompt | A question RankX AI asks the AI assistants on your behalf. Not a keyword. Prompts and topic clusters |
| Topic cluster | The subject that keywords, prompts and content all hang from. Topic clusters |
| Check | One prompt asked on one assistant on one run. The atom of AI visibility, and of its cost. How RankX AI measures visibility |
| Known check | A check that produced a determined verdict. The only honest denominator. Metrics |
| AI Answer Citations | Domains cited inside an AI assistant's answer. Citations, two kinds |
| AI Overview Citations | Domains cited by Google's AI Overview. A different engine and a different screen. Citations, two kinds |
| Not assessed | A check whose audit path could not produce a verdict. Not a pass and not a failure. What "a check did not run" means |
| Cadence floor | The fastest a check may be scheduled. Your plan's, or seven days on trial, whichever is slower. Check cadence |
| Per-client budget | A ceiling on the shared agency wallet, never a sub-wallet. Per-client credit budgets |
| Scope | Which MCP tools a credential can see. A tool outside a credential's scopes is not listed and not callable. MCP authentication |
Two terms RankX AI has retired
Both were removed from the product deliberately, and both appear here so that someone searching for the old name lands on the explanation rather than on nothing.
"Citation Sources" is now AI Answer Citations. The old name sat two navigation groups from "AI Overview Citations" and told a reader nothing about which engine either came from.
The abbreviation of AI Overviews is not used anywhere. It reads as a fourth product area to anyone who has not met it before, and it leaked into a page title, a chart heading and four stat labels before it was caught.
Why there is not a second glossary here
Because a second glossary is a second thing to keep in step with the first, and two definitions of "share of voice" that drifted apart would be worse than one definition somewhere slightly less convenient.
So: the field's vocabulary lives in the glossary, the product's vocabulary is defined on the page that owns the concept, and this page is the index that points at both.
Where to go next
- The RankX AI glossary, for the field's terms.
- Metrics defined, for every figure the product shows.
- Null is not zero, for the convention behind most of them.
Check cadence
How often RankX AI checks things, the two floors that apply, why the trial floor is seven days, and how cadence decides most of your credit spend.
Prompts and topic clusters
The two objects that decide what RankX AI measures. How a prompt differs from a keyword, what a cluster joins together, and how to structure both.