Glossary of terms
Full scan
Visibility in AI
The full scan covers a month’s worth of data, including the full set of search queries, citations, competition, barriers and the audit. This is used to produce a report and a to-do list for the following month.
Last updated: 8 September 2026
What does that mean?
Why once a month, and not every day?
Changes to the website and signals from outside it take weeks to be reflected in the models’ responses at all. With a shorter time interval, the graph mainly shows the variability of the models themselves, as the same query can produce a slightly different response each time it is run.
The scan runs on the same day of the month, using a frozen set of queries. This is a prerequisite for comparability. We explain this in the article How often should visibility be measured?.
Launch your brand’s first scan
To start with, you’ll receive 250 AeloCoins, without a card. That’s enough to start a measurement and test the modules. Once you’ve used them up, you’ll switch to a paid plan. The first measurement serves as a baseline for all subsequent ones.
