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July 2026: AI Overviews, traffic from AI and teamwork

Google's AI summaries and AI search volume measured, visits from AI assistants isolated, client-ready reports, project sharing and a bilingual interface

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July is where this changelog starts. Kaiku (then PivotSEO) now measures Google's AI Overviews and the search volume that goes through AI, isolates the visits sent by ChatGPT, Perplexity or Gemini, and tracks your rankings alongside their AI summaries. The month also brings teamwork on a project, reports that read like a deliverable and an interface fully in French and English.

What you need to do

  • Pick your Google properties after connecting: in Project › Settings › Connections, select the project's Search Console property and Google Analytics 4 property, then click Apply properties. Without this step, the Google pages stay empty. See Connect Google Search Console and Analytics 4.
  • Invite your team or your client: in Project › Team, invite someone and give them a role: Owner, Editor or Viewer. See Team: invite users and set what they can do.
  • Choose your language: the FR and EN buttons at the bottom of the sidebar, just above your profile. Each person keeps their own.
  • Link WordPress, if you want to send your articles as drafts: create an application password in WordPress, then click Configure in a brief's WordPress block. See Publish an article as a WordPress draft.

GEO and AI

Kaiku measures more precisely what AI engines show of you, and why. Where: Get cited by AI, unless stated otherwise.

  • Google's AI Overviews measured (July 2): you see whether Google shows an AI summary on your keywords and whether your brand is cited in it. Where: Get cited by AI › AI Citations. See AI Citations.
  • AI search volume (July 2): how often your keywords are asked to AI engines. Where: Rank on Google and Bing › Keywords › Research › AI Volume. See AI search volume.
  • Mentions of your brand on the web (July 2). Where: Get cited by AI › Mentions & sentiment › Web Mentions. See Web Mentions.
  • The detail behind each engine (July 7): on Score by engine, each card opens on the competitors cited, the prompts and excerpts from the answers. See Score per AI engine.
  • Reddit and YouTube (July 7): the Reddit threads that mention the brand and your keywords, and who owns YouTube on your keywords, with competitors flagged. Where: Get cited by AI › External presence, Reddit and YouTube tabs. See Reddit Presence and YouTube visibility.
  • AI crawler access and brand entity (July 8): can AI engines read your site, and does your brand exist in their eyes? Entity matching is strict, and a namesake is spotted through its Wikidata or Wikipedia description. Where: Rank on Google and Bing › Technical audit › AI Crawler Access and Get cited by AI › External presence › Entity & Brand. See AI Crawler Access and Entity & Brand.
  • Five-axis GEO content audit (July 31): how citable a page is for AI engines, axis by axis, with the fixes to make. Where: Get cited by AI › Citability & content › GEO Content Audit. See GEO Content Auditor.
  • AI response accuracy (July 31): is what AI engines say about your brand actually true? Where: Act › GEO Lab › AI Accuracy. See AI response accuracy.

Google, Bing and SEO

Classic tracking goes deeper, and your Google data is easier to read. Where: Rank on Google and Bing.

  • Rank tracking that shows AI summaries (July 3): history, intent, difficulty and potential traffic for each keyword, a column that flags Google's AI Overview, filters, CSV export, tags, alerts and discovered competitors. Where: Positions. See Rank tracking.
  • Keyword overview (July 4): everything known about one keyword — volume, difficulty, intent, Google results — with a Track button that adds it to the project, in the chosen country and language. Where: Keywords › Keyword overview. See Keyword overview.
  • Domain overview (July 4): the big picture of a domain, yours or a competitor's, in the country and language of your choice, with a Paid view showing real Google ads. Where: Competition › Domain overview. See Domain overview.
  • Traffic from AI (July 7): Google Analytics isolates the visits that come from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and other assistants, assistant by assistant and landing page by landing page. Where: Analytics › Google Analytics 4, Traffic from AI tab. See Google Analytics 4.
  • Fuller Search Console, GA4 and Bing pages (July 7): Search Console's four-metric performance chart, a complete GA4 report (compared indicators, channels, devices, countries, sources), and an empty page that states the real cause: account not connected, property missing or no data. Unusual Search Console drops become alerts. See Google Search Console — enriched view.
  • An archive of your Google data (July 7): Search Console, GA4 and Bing are kept reading after reading, beyond what each source retains. A defect prevented anything from actually being saved: it was fixed in September (see September's changes).
  • Cannibalization (July 8): when two pages compete for the same query, Kaiku suggests a plan that keeps your content — a pillar page, satellite pages and a target query for each — rather than a deletion. Brand queries are no longer mistaken for cannibalization. Where: Opportunities › Cannibalization. See Keyword cannibalization.
  • Search intent (July 8): the analysis tells you what to do about each intent, not just which family it belongs to. Where: Opportunities › Intents. See Search intent analysis.
  • SEO drift, SERP clustering and SXO analysis (July 31): Kaiku keeps a snapshot of your pages' SEO elements and flags what changed, groups your keywords by Google's actual results, and spots pages whose format doesn't match what Google shows. Where: Technical audit › SEO drift, Keywords › Research › SERP clustering and Opportunities › SXO analysis. See SEO drift, SERP clustering and SXO analysis.
  • Finer location targeting (July 7): provinces, states, regions and cities can be searched by name for search volumes, in Canada, the United States, France, Belgium, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Where: Project › Settings › Project.

Local

These pages show up when the project has a linked Google listing or a local keyword. Where: Rank on Google and Bing › Local.

  • Real local competitors (July 3): the businesses that actually compete with you nearby, with their reviews. See Local competitors.
  • Local heatmap (July 31): your share of local visibility across the Google Maps grid, a visibility score and the part of the grid where you are weakest. See Local heatmap.
  • No Google listing linked without verification (July 31): Kaiku never links a listing to a project unless its identity is confirmed, and reviews follow the same rule. Some projects simply aren't local.

Content and actions

  • Content queue (July 7): your pipeline, from the opportunity spotted in Search Console to the written content. Where: Act › Content queue. See Content Queue.
  • The content workshop (July 8): the express SEO template joins the briefs, with a target length, the keywords to include, an Evaluator that scores your text and says how to fix it, the target country and language, and .doc and PDF export, in French or English. Where: Act › Briefs. See The Content Workshop.
  • A WordPress draft in one click (July 31): the article generated in a brief goes to your WordPress site as a draft, never published without your review. See Publish an article as a WordPress draft.
  • Recommendations (July 8): the action plan takes the month's new measurements into account. Where: Act › Actions › Recommendations. See Recommendations.

Reports

  • Reports that read like a deliverable (July 8): the custom report gains new sections, reusable selection templates (monthly report, initial audit…) and a layout designed to be handed over as is, as a continuous PDF. Where: Project › Reports & sends › Reports. See Custom Reports.
  • Project API costs (July 8): what each project used, day by day and service by service, exportable to CSV and PDF. Where: Project › API costs. See Project API costs.

Teamwork

Platform and comfort

  • A fully bilingual interface (July 9): menus, pages, recommendations and server-written texts exist in French and English; each person picks their own language.
  • A single project picker and the ⌘K palette (July 3): you choose the project once, in the top bar, and the ⌘K palette (Ctrl+K on Windows) takes you to any page.
  • An automatic scan every Sunday (July 3) for every project. See Scan scheduler.
  • Messages that say what to do (July 4 and 7): an expired Google connection is flagged by a banner, the Home page reminds you to connect Google when the project isn't linked, and a network error offers to try again.
  • Privacy (July 7 and 13): the privacy policy and terms of use are published, with links right from the login screen. See the privacy policy.

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