What Prompts Tracked Is
The Prompts Tracked tab lists the automated queries that run on AI platforms at regular intervals. Instead of manually checking how ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, or other AI platforms respond to specific questions, you set up prompts to run automatically—daily, weekly, or monthly. Each time a scheduled prompt runs, Slate captures the AI response, analyzes brand mentions, tracks citations, and measures your visibility against competitors. Over time, this builds a historical dataset showing how AI platform responses change.Why Schedule Prompts
AI-generated responses aren’t static. The same query asked today might produce different results next week as AI platforms update their models, index new content, or adjust their algorithms. Scheduled prompts help you:- Track visibility trends: See if your brand is gaining or losing presence in AI responses over time
- Monitor competitor mentions: Understand when and how often competitors appear in responses
- Measure content impact: Determine if new content or campaigns improve your AI visibility
- Catch narrative shifts: Identify when AI platforms change how they describe your industry or brand
- Automate monitoring: Save time by letting Slate track queries continuously instead of manual checks
How Tracked Prompts Work
1. Create a Prompt
Write a query that AI platforms will answer. This should be a question or search term relevant to your brand, product, or industry. Examples:- “What are the best project management tools for remote teams?”
- “Top AI-powered marketing platforms in 2025”
- “How to choose a CRM for small businesses”
2. Select Platforms
Choose which AI platforms should answer your prompt:- ChatGPT: Track mentions in ChatGPT responses
- Google AI Overviews: Monitor Google’s AI-generated summaries
- Google AI Mode: Track results in Google’s AI search mode
- Perplexity: Track mentions in Perplexity answers
- Claude: Track mentions in Claude responses
- Gemini: Track mentions in Gemini responses
3. Assign a Topic
Tag your prompt with a topic to organize related queries. Topics help you filter and analyze prompts by theme. Example topics:- SaaS Marketing
- SEO for SaaS
- Product Comparisons
- Industry Trends
4. Set a Schedule
Define how often the prompt should run:- Run Once (default): Run the prompt one time, with no schedule
- Daily: Daily monitoring for high-priority queries
- Weekly: Runs every Monday, for broader trend analysis
- Monthly: Runs on the 1st of each month, for long-term visibility trends
5. Track the Prompt
When you click Run now, Slate runs the prompt right away. After that, the prompt runs automatically on its schedule. Each execution captures the AI response and updates your analytics data.Adding Prompts
- Open the Prompts Tracked tab in Insights → AI Visibility.
- Click Add prompts in the toolbar and choose:
- Add a prompt — track one question across AI platforms.
- Bulk Upload (CSV) — upload a CSV of prompts.
- For a single prompt, fill in the prompt text, platforms, topic, schedule, and location, then click Run now.
- Drag your CSV into the Bulk Upload window, or click to browse. Click Download sample CSV for an example file.
- Under Map CSV columns, choose your Prompt column and Topic column.
- Choose the Platform, Schedule, and Location for the imported prompts.
- For a Daily, Weekly, or Monthly schedule, leave Run now on to also run the prompts right away.
- Click Add prompts.
Managing Tracked Prompts
The prompt list shows each prompt with its status (Active or Paused), last run, Topic, Platform, Schedule, Brand Mention, and Owned Citations. Owned Citations counts citations of URLs owned by your brand.Search and Filter Prompts
- Status: Click the Prompts column header and choose All, Active, or Paused.
- Search: Click the search icon in the toolbar to find specific prompts.
- Filters: Use the filter bar to narrow the list by Platform, Topic (one or more), Location, and Period.
- Mentions and Owned Citations: Show only prompts whose count is at least, at most, or exactly a number you enter.
Prompt Actions
Open the actions menu at the end of a prompt’s row:Run Prompt
Run the prompt immediately without waiting for the next scheduled time. Use this after publishing new content, when industry news might affect AI responses, or to test a prompt’s configuration.Pause Prompt
Stop the prompt’s scheduled runs. Select Resume Prompt to reactivate a paused prompt.Edit Prompt
Modify the prompt text, platforms, topic, schedule, or location. Note: Editing a prompt doesn’t affect historical data. Past results remain intact, but future runs use the updated configuration.View Prompt History
See the past runs of this prompt.Delete Prompt
Remove the prompt and all its historical data permanently.Deleting a prompt is permanent. All history and results will be lost. To stop a prompt temporarily, use Pause Prompt instead.
Bulk Actions
Select multiple prompts to act on them together: Run Selected, Pause, Reactivate, Edit, or Delete. Edit changes the topic, schedule, or platforms of every selected prompt. To select prompts on all pages, click Select all N prompts.Download Prompts
Click the download icon in the toolbar to download the filtered prompts as a CSV. To edit prompts in bulk, change the downloaded file and upload it with Bulk Upload (CSV). Slate shows Changes to apply before you confirm.Prompt Details
Click a prompt to open Prompt Details. The page shows the prompt’s Last Run, Topic, Schedule, Platform, and Target Location, followed by:- Prompt Overview — Brand Visibility, Brand Mentions, and Citation Rate over time, grouped Daily, Weekly, or Monthly.
- Competitive Ranking and Brand Mention Rate — how your brand compares with competitors for this prompt.
- Related searches — related keywords for the prompt.
- Citations — the URLs cited for this prompt and how often.
- Fanout Queries — the searches AI platforms ran for this prompt. Click the download icon to export them as CSV.
- Answer History — this prompt’s past answers. Click View Details to open one.
Reviewing Past Runs
Every execution is recorded in the Answer History tab, where you can view results and compare how AI responses evolve over time.Best Practices
1. Start with High-Value Queries
Focus on prompts that directly relate to your business goals. Prioritize:- Product comparison queries where you want visibility
- “Best of” lists in your category
- How-to questions related to your solution
- Industry trend queries
- Generic queries unrelated to your business
- Queries where your brand is irrelevant
2. Use Consistent Scheduling
Match schedule frequency to query importance and volatility. Daily scheduling for:- Competitive product searches
- High-priority brand visibility queries
- Fast-moving industry topics
- General industry trends
- Broader “best of” lists
- Educational how-to queries
- Long-term brand awareness tracking
- Stable industry topics
- Benchmark queries
3. Organize with Topics
Group related prompts under topics to simplify analysis. Example topic structure:- Product Comparisons: All queries comparing your product to competitors
- Brand Awareness: Queries where brand mentions matter most
- Industry Education: How-to and educational queries
- Competitor Monitoring: Queries focused on competitor visibility
4. Monitor Answer History Regularly
Review execution history to identify trends and anomalies. Weekly review:- Check for failed executions
- Identify sudden changes in brand mentions
- Compare latest results to previous runs
- Analyze trends across all prompts
- Adjust prompts that aren’t providing useful insights
- Add new prompts based on content strategy
5. Balance Prompt Volume
More prompts provide more data, but focus on quality over quantity. Guidelines:- Start with 10-20 high-priority prompts
- Add more as you understand which queries provide value
- Remove or deactivate prompts that consistently show no relevant data
Common Use Cases
Track Product Visibility
Goal: Monitor how often your product appears in AI-generated recommendations. Setup:- Create prompts like “best [product category] for [use case]”
- Run daily or weekly depending on competition
- Track position in AI responses over time
Monitor Competitor Mentions
Goal: Understand when competitors are mentioned instead of your brand. Setup:- Use the same prompts as product visibility tracking
- Analyze competitor mention frequency in Answer History
- Identify content gaps where competitors dominate
Measure Content Impact
Goal: See if new content improves AI visibility. Setup:- Schedule prompts for topics you’re creating content about
- Run before and after publishing content
- Compare mention frequency and citation rates
Track Industry Narrative
Goal: Monitor how AI platforms describe your industry or category. Setup:- Create prompts about industry trends, definitions, or best practices
- Run weekly or monthly
- Track changes in how AI platforms frame the industry
Defend Brand Accuracy
Goal: Ensure AI platforms cite accurate information about your brand. Setup:- Create prompts that should mention your brand
- Check cited sources in Answer History results
- Identify outdated or incorrect information being cited
What’s Next
Now that you understand Prompts Tracked:- Create your first scheduled prompt to track a high-priority query
- Review Answer History to analyze execution trends
- Set up topics to organize your prompts by theme
- Explore the Overview tab to see how prompt data feeds analytics