The copilot

The copilot is a chat assistant built into the RankYak app. It reads and manages the site you are working in, so instead of clicking through the app you may simply describe what you want: the copilot looks up the answer in your account, or makes the change and confirms what it did. Everything it does happens through the same actions you may take yourself, on the account you are signed in to.

Opening the copilot

Once you open a site, the copilot lives in the input bar at the bottom of every page. Click the bar and it expands: a few quick prompts appear to get you started, and once a conversation exists, focusing the bar reopens it. From the panel header you may step back to a list of your recent conversations, where you may resume one, start a new one, or delete one you no longer need. Conversations belong to the site you are in, so each site keeps its own history.

What you may ask

Anything you would otherwise do by hand in the app is fair game. A few examples:

• "How many keywords do I have, and which are the strongest?"
• "How is my site doing in Google search this month?"
• "Add keywords about invoice templates and schedule them for next week."
• "Fill the rest of this month's plan with the best keywords."
• "Tighten the intro of yesterday's article."
• "Where did the statistics in this article come from?"
• "What would improve this article's score?"
• "Run a site audit and suggest fixes for the pages losing clicks."
• "Add our pricing page as a goal page."
• "Invite [email protected] to my organization."

Behind the scenes, the copilot works with your keywords and topics, the content plan and calendar, your articles, their revisions and the research behind them, publishing, the site audit and its fix suggestions, goal pages, integrations, your search performance and backlinks, site settings, and team invitations. When you are viewing an article, the copilot knows which one, so "this article" needs no further explanation. Two mechanisms are worth knowing. Articles are written in the early morning of their scheduled date, so when you ask for an article about a subject, the copilot adds the keyword and schedules it rather than writing the article on the spot; when you would rather not wait, it points you to Generate article now on the keyword overview. And when you ask for a content edit while viewing an article, the copilot proposes precise edits that appear inline in the article editor for you to accept or dismiss, so nothing changes on the article until you accept. The same applies to the article's title, SEO title, and meta description: the copilot proposes new values on a review card in the editor, written from the article's own research, and you may steer the result in your own words, for example "make the title a question". These suggestions only work from the article's own page, so if you ask from anywhere else, the copilot will point you to the article first.

Past conversations

Each conversation starts fresh; the copilot does not carry memory from one chat into the next. However, your earlier conversations for the site are kept, and the copilot searches them when an answer likely lives there: when you mention something from a previous chat, or when you wonder how your account ended up in its current state. Because those are records of the past rather than live data, the copilot double-checks your current account before acting on anything it finds.

Limits

The copilot confirms destructive changes before making them. Anything that removes or replaces something, such as archiving keywords or regenerating the content plan, is stated first, and the copilot waits for your go-ahead.

Some things stay in the app: billing, subscriptions, and plan changes are managed on your organization's billing page, and deleting sites, organizations, or members is only possible in the app itself. The copilot will point you to the right page. Finally, the copilot is a work tool, so it politely declines requests that have nothing to do with your SEO work.

If you would like these same capabilities in an assistant outside the app, see the MCP server.