Creating and running an scan

Scans and your monitor

LumaRank works as a monitor: each project has a Home that tracks how your brand shows up in AI assistants over time. A scan is one measurement of that project (a point in time). Most scans happen automatically on your schedule; you can also run one yourself.

Running a scan yourself

Open your project Home and use Refresh now. It runs a fresh scan of the project's prompts using its saved setup (brand, competitors, providers) and updates your current visibility and trend. See Refreshing a single prompt if you only want to re-check one prompt.

Setting up what a scan measures

A scan uses your project's saved configuration, which you edit in project Settings:

• Brand & competitors: the brand and the competitors you want compared.
• Target markets: the places or audiences to focus on.
• AI providers: which assistants to query (see Choosing providers).
• Prompts: the questions asked; you can generate or edit them (see Prompt types).

While it runs

A scan runs in the background, so you can leave the page and come back. You'll see it appear in the running state; when it finishes, your Home and the scan's report update. See Scan statuses.

Good to know

• A fuller, well-balanced prompt set gives a richer result.
• Accurate competitors make the comparison meaningful.
• Your first manual scan is free; after that a manual scan uses one refresh, and scheduled monitoring is always included (see Refreshes and how runs are billed).