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 "id": "rankbolt",
 "name": "RankBolt",
 "research_status": "researched",
 "vendor_domain": "rankbolt.ai",
 "category": "SEO & Marketing",
 "task": "SEO, content & landing pages",
 "summary": "AI SEO platform that writes and publishes articles to WordPress, Webflow or Shopify, tracks keyword rankings and monitors how AI engines mention your brand, for site owners and agencies.",
 "best_for": "site owners and small agencies that want AI-written SEO articles, rank tracking and AI-search visibility reports in one subscription with auto-publishing",
 "skip_if": "you want to pay in dollars or euros, need a permanent free plan, or want proof of ranking results before you pay",
 "honest_knock": "Prices are in Swiss francs, so a US or EU buyer pays a converted amount, and we could not read the yearly amounts behind the \"-17%\" toggle. The free trial is only 3 days. The charts on the homepage are labelled illustrative, so they are not evidence of ranking results.",
 "pricing": {
  "status": "see_details",
  "entry_price": null,
  "entry_price_terms": null,
  "from_price_usd_month": null,
  "plans": null,
  "plans_source": null,
  "notes": "(read 2026-11-06 on rankbolt.ai) RankBolt prices in Swiss francs and sells three monthly plans, each with a 3-day free trial that, per the page, needs no credit card. Starter costs 69 CHF a month for 1 connected site, 10 published SEO articles, 25 tracked keywords checked weekly and 20 AI prompts tracked daily across 4 engines. Pro costs 149 CHF a month for 3 sites, 30 articles, 50 keywords checked daily and 75 AI prompts. Agency costs 299 CHF a month for 10 sites, 60 articles, 100 keywords and 175 AI prompts. Add-ons: an extra site costs 19 CHF a month, 25 more daily AI prompts 45 CHF a month and 10 more articles 15 CHF a month. A Yearly toggle on the page says -17%, but we did not read the yearly amounts. Every plan includes publishing to WordPress, Webflow, Shopify and Wix, a site audit and an MCP server and API. The page says there are no per-seat fees; it does not say whether Swiss VAT is included. Custom volume pricing is available for more than ten sites.",
  "verified_at": "2026-11-06",
  "source_url": "https://rankbolt.ai/",
  "schema_offer": {
   "price": 69.0,
   "currency": "CHF",
   "description": "Starter, Starter billed monthly in Swiss francs: 1 connected site, 10 SEO articles a month, 25 tracked keywords checked weekly, 20 AI prompts tracked daily across 4 engines; Pro 149 CHF, Agency 299 CHF; a Yearly toggle says -17% but the yearly amounts were not read (read 6 Nov 2026). Read on the vendor's own pricing page on 2026-11-06.",
   "page": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/rankbolt-review.html"
  },
  "source_quotes": null,
  "recent_change": null,
  "price_history": null
 },
 "free_plan": false,
 "free_plan_evidence": null,
 "cost_traps": [
  {
   "id": "addons_extra",
   "label": "Key features are paid add-ons",
   "evidence": "Add-ons: an extra site costs 19 CHF a month, 25 more daily AI prompts 45 CHF a month and 10 more articles 15 CHF a month.",
   "verified_at": "2026-11-06",
   "source_url": "https://rankbolt.ai/"
  }
 ],
 "compare_with": {
  "name": "Elite Site Optimizer",
  "why": "Elite Site Optimizer is in our dossiers as a rank-tracking and site-crawling suite from $49 a month. RankBolt adds AI-written articles that publish straight to your site, and is priced in Swiss francs from 69 CHF a month"
 },
 "links": {
  "record": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/api/v1/products/rankbolt.json",
  "review": "https://marketingandsalessoftware.com/rankbolt-review.html",
  "marketplace": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/marketplace/rankbolt/",
  "vendor_site": "https://rankbolt.ai"
 },
 "purchase": {
  "seller": "the vendor",
  "how": "AIBuilder Marketplace does not sell this software. Sign up, start a trial or buy on the vendor's site.",
  "handoff_url": "https://rankbolt.ai/?red=aibuil",
  "affiliate": true,
  "disclosure": "Where purchase.affiliate is true, purchase.handoff_url is an affiliate link: AIBuilder Marketplace may earn a commission at no extra cost to the buyer. Commission never changes what a record says, and products are not ranked by commission. Where it is false the link is the vendor's plain site."
 },
 "provenance": {
  "research": "hand-researched dossier, read on the vendor's own pages",
  "researched_since": "2026-07",
  "method": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/how-we-review/",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0. Credit 'AIBuilder Marketplace' with a link to https://aibuildermarketplace.com/atlas/.",
  "note": "A rebuild is not a new measurement: pricing.verified_at is the date that matters."
 },
 "cost": {
  "status": "not_yet",
  "engine": "https://aibuildermarketplace.com/agents/#cost",
  "rules": null,
  "growth": null
 },
 "unknowns": [
  "Pricing status is 'see_details': no single public entry price.",
  "Plan-by-plan prices are not structured in this record yet; pricing.notes has the full text.",
  "Contract terms (cancellation, data export, data location, minimum seats) are not researched as separate fields; pricing.notes mentions them only where the vendor's pricing page does.",
  "Being verified: free trial and refund terms are not yet matched to a verbatim line on the vendor's own pages. Not matched does not mean there is none.",
  "No computable price rules yet: cost at a given team size cannot be calculated for this product.",
  "Not tested hands-on by us: what the product does comes from the vendor's pages and our reading of them."
 ],
 "verification": {
  "price": "read",
  "free_trial": "being_verified",
  "refund": "being_verified"
 },
 "status_page": null,
 "task_evidence": null,
 "open_questions": [
  {
   "question_id": "rankbolt:cancellation_terms",
   "key": "cancellation_terms",
   "question": "Can a customer cancel at any time, and what happens to an annual plan that is cancelled mid-term?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "rankbolt:data_export",
   "key": "data_export",
   "question": "Which data can a customer export, in which formats, on which plans?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "rankbolt:data_location",
   "key": "data_location",
   "question": "Where is customer data stored, and can a customer choose the region?",
   "status": "open"
  },
  {
   "question_id": "rankbolt:minimum_seats",
   "key": "minimum_seats",
   "question": "Is there a minimum number of seats or users on any plan?",
   "status": "open"
  }
 ],
 "vendor_answers": [],
 "agent_channels": {
  "vendor_mcp": null,
  "agent_checkout": {
   "status": "not_checked",
   "detail": "We could not read the vendor's pages as plain HTML.",
   "checked_at": "2026-10-07",
   "method": "homepage, /pricing and the pricing page we cite, read as plain HTML (no JavaScript) and searched for explicit support of purchases by AI agents: Agentic Commerce Protocol, Instant Checkout, Agent Payments Protocol, buy in ChatGPT, agentic checkout"
  }
 }
}