How it works

See exactly why buyers can’t find you — and how to fix it.

ReachKit reads your live site the way a buyer’s search does, shows you the searches your rivals win, and puts one score on the gap — then hands you a short weekly queue that closes it. Every step is shown in the open — no black box, nothing to take on faith.

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Scan your live page

Paste your App Store URL or website. ReachKit reads the real page — the same signals search engines and buyers weigh — and scores all 18 in under a minute. No account needed for your first scan.

Under a minute
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See the searches your rivals win

In plain language: the searches your buyers run where a competitor shows up and you don't, and the score that measures the gap — every claim pulled straight from your live page, so you can see exactly what's costing you traffic.

Grounded in evidence
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Work a weekly queue that closes the gap

Paid plans turn the report into a short queue each week, ranked by impact. Mark a fix done and ReachKit re-checks your live page before your score moves — so what you're watching is the gap closing, week after week.

Verified, not vanity

What we check

The 18 things we check — and how much each one counts

This list is generated from the exact signal registry the engine scores with, so what you read here is what runs on your product. Three pillars, weighted by how much they actually move discoverability — so you always know where to spend your effort first.

SEO

45% of score

Can search engines find, understand, and rank you — and do you already rank?

  • 10%Title tagYour title is the single strongest on-page ranking and click signal.
  • 10%Meta descriptionThe description shapes your search snippet and click-through rate.
  • 12%Structured dataJSON-LD/schema.org lets search engines render rich results for your page.
  • 8%Canonical URLA canonical tag prevents duplicate-content dilution of your ranking.
  • 10%Heading structureOne clear H1 plus H2/H3 sub-heads tells search engines what the page covers.
  • 25%Organic keyword footprintThe breadth of queries you already rank for is your discoverability base.
  • 15%Ranking positionsWhere you actually rank for tracked terms determines real traffic.
  • 10%Referring domainsnot yet scored — never a fake zeroLinks from distinct domains are the strongest off-page authority signal.

Content

30% of score

Do you publish enough substance, often enough, on enough owned surfaces?

  • 25%Content depthThin pages rarely rank; substantive copy earns relevance and trust.
  • 25%Publishing cadenceFresh, regular content compounds discoverability over time.
  • 20%Owned channelsMore owned surfaces (blog, YouTube, newsletter) = more ways to be found.
  • 15%Social share tagsOpenGraph/Twitter tags control how your link looks when shared.
  • 15%Media & alt coverageImages with alt text aid accessibility, image search, and comprehension.

Outreach

25% of score

Are you present where buyers actually decide — marketplaces, communities, comparisons, press?

  • 25%Marketplace presenceListings on PH/G2/Capterra/AlternativeTo are high-intent discovery surfaces.
  • 25%Community presenceRecent mentions in HN/Reddit show your audience is finding and discussing you.
  • 20%Share of voiceYour slice of community mentions vs rivals is competitive visibility.
  • 15%Comparison pages"X vs Y" and "alternatives" pages capture high-intent comparison searches.
  • 15%Press & news mentionsnot yet scored — never a fake zeroRecent press signals momentum and earns authoritative links.

Percentages are each signal’s weight within its pillar (web). App Store scans score the subset of signals that apply and renormalise — nothing inapplicable is counted against you.

What the number means

Invisible029Hard to find3049Fair5069Findable7084Highly discoverable85100

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Inside a scan

How your scan turns into a plan

Every scan runs three passes: what's already out there (you vs. your rivals), what your buyers are actually searching for, and the specific plays that fall out of crossing the two. The free scan runs the first pass and scores you; paid plans run all three every week, so your queue re-ranks as the gap closes. The score is deterministic; every recommendation cites the evidence behind it.

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What's out there today

Everything your product already puts out — next to your rivals.

  • We crawl your live pages and parse the on-page facts: title, meta description, structured data, canonical, heading structure, content depth, share tags, image alt coverage.
  • We read your sitemap and feeds to measure how often you really publish, and map your owned channels (blog, YouTube, newsletter).
  • We run the same profile on a category-validated competitor set — so every gap is relative to rivals in YOUR category, not a same-named brand in another market.
  • We check the surfaces buyers decide on: marketplace listings (Product Hunt, G2, Capterra, AlternativeTo), community mentions (Hacker News, Reddit), and comparison pages.
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What buyers are searching for

The searches your buyers actually run — and the rivals who win them today.

  • From your product brief we generate pain queries in your buyers' own words — the things they type before they know your name.
  • Each query runs against live search results: real ranking positions and real search volumes, the same SERP data the big SEO suites are built on — not estimates.
  • Hits are deduplicated, classified by intent, and clustered into a ranked list of themes where the search demand is real — and reachable for you.
  • Competitor reviews are mined for buyer language: what people praise, what they complain about, and the words they use for both.
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What to do about it

The two crossed into your weekly queue — ranked, evidence-backed, biggest lever first.

  • Your content plan matches what buyers search with the format that currently wins each result page — topic, target keywords with real volumes, buyer angle, brief.
  • Your distribution plan is the overlap of where rivals get found and where your audience already is — channel, specific target, why, and effort.
  • Every item cites the evidence it came from. If we can't point at the evidence, the item doesn't ship.

Pass one is free — see what you have (and what's missing). Start the free scan

Why you can trust it

Why the number holds up

Most “AI audits” are a prompt and a prayer. ReachKit keeps the maths and the language separate: a deterministic score, evidence-grounded recommendations, and a verification loop that checks reality before anything counts. The score is hard to move by design — which is exactly why you can trust it when it does.

No AI in the score

The number is deterministic

Your score is computed from the 18-signal registry above — fixed weights, fixed pass/warn/fail thresholds, no AI anywhere in the arithmetic. Same inputs, same score, every time.

Evidence-cited, critic-gated

The words are grounded

Every AI step reads evidence extracted from your live pages, reviews, and search results — never free association. Each recommendation cites its evidence, and a critic gate pressure-tests every card before it reaches you. Cards that can't back themselves up get dropped.

Anti-vanity by design

Not measured never means zero

If a signal hasn't been verified for your product yet, it renders as “not measured” — it is never counted as a failing zero to make the number scarier. The score only speaks to what was actually checked.

Verify loop

Fixes are verified, not self-declared

When you mark an action done, ReachKit re-checks reality first — the page must be live, or the rank check must show movement — before the fix counts and your score re-snapshots. Progress you can defend.

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What you get

What your weekly dashboard looks like

These are the real dashboard components with sample data from a demo scan. Your own dashboard renders your live signals, your competitor set, and your ranked queue — refreshed weekly.

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Start free

You’ve seen how it works. Now see why they’re winning.

The free scan gives you your discoverability score and your top fixes right now. Paid plans run the whole engine every week — what your buyers search, where rivals show up, the ranked queue, the verification, your score history — so you’re never guessing what to do next.