Prompt Fan-Out

When an AI engine answers a prompt, it usually fans the prompt out into several smaller searches first, and the results of those searches decide what the answer says. Prompts → Prompt fan-out shows that hidden layer for your tracked prompts.

Reading the page

The header tiles summarize the report: how many prompt and provider groups have expansion data, coverage, active providers, and distinct cited domains. Below them, each row is one tracked prompt on one provider, with the related queries the provider reported, the sources it cited, and when the fan-out was last captured. Use the filters to narrow by engine or status, and View details to see every capture for a row.

Captured fan-out is available on every plan and fills in automatically as your tracked prompts run; there is nothing to configure.

Fan-out insights

The insights section covers the last 28 days in three tabs:

• Overview: coverage by engine (engines report their searches with very different fidelity, and some expose none), recurring themes across the captured queries, and the fan-out queries that name a tracked brand, yours or a competitor's.
• Modeled: predicted fan-out variants for each tracked prompt, generated by Citlyze. Modeled rows are always labeled as modeled and are never mixed into observed data.
• SERP gap: for your most frequent fan-out queries, a weekly check of who ranks on Google, with your own position highlighted. This is where fan-out becomes actionable: these are real queries engines run before answering, and a page that ranks for them is a page the engine is likely to read.

Plan limits

Captured and modeled fan-out are included in every plan. The SERP gap check covers up to 25 fan-out queries on Growth and 50 on Pro and above; it is not included on Starter. See Plans and limits.

Exporting

Fan-out queries are available through the API as fanout-queries, joinable to runs and prompts.