Prerender Buddy

Product updates

What’s new in Prerender Buddy

A curated record of features and meaningful improvements, grouped into useful releases instead of a raw engineering log.

Meaningful changes, in plain language

Availability can depend on plan, workspace configuration, and provider support.

  1. AI visibility

    AI Understanding is available on Starter, Growth and Pro

    Compare recorded AI answers and captured website statements with the business facts you confirm, then review where an explanation needs attention.

    • Report, Business profile and History are now available to eligible paid accounts, with page and answer allowances determined by your plan.
    • Review grouped findings, supported facts and affected pages alongside the saved answers and website captures behind them.
    • Start by reviewing your Business Profile, then run a check. Website suggestions remain unconfirmed until you review and save them.
    Open Understanding

    AI visibility

    AI referral visits, with setup and installation checks

    Starter, Growth and Pro can now use Referrals to review observable visits from AI assistants, with a website collector that works without requiring GA4.

    • Use Setup to enable collection, install the snippet with the required visitor consent, and check whether the installation is reporting correctly.
    • Review recognised sources and landing pages using the selected website and date range, with paginated tables in Simple and Advanced views.
    • Referrer information and supported campaign tags provide attribution. Referral visits stay separate from crawler activity and tracked AI answers; missing signals limit coverage.
    Set up Referrals

  2. AI visibility

    Clearer monitoring coverage and collection history

    Prompts now makes the scope of weekly and configured daily monitoring easier to understand, with a more readable summary and collection history.

    • See weekly and daily question and platform coverage separately, with platform names available in the scope help.
    • The latest collection shows its date, type, completion status, usable responses and platforms with answers. Brand visibility reflects the usable answers in that collection.
    • Collection history distinguishes weekly, daily and manual runs and links to their recorded results. The clearer scope display is available in Simple and Advanced views.
    Review tracked questions

    Platform

    More reliable website navigation

    Moving between Overview, Visibility and your websites now keeps the selected website and its evidence aligned more reliably.

    • Website and collection selections stay tied to their website when you move between pages, with steadier sidebar loading.
    • Overview's platform links respond within their visible labels, so empty space around the table no longer opens Visibility.

  3. Platform

    Add your website first, then connect rendering

    Website setup now saves the public address before asking for connection details, making it easier to start and return to unfinished setup.

    • Add your website name and public address, then continue into the appropriate rendering connection steps within your plan's website allowance.
    • When you return in the same browser, Developer integration remembers your selected hosting platform and shows the relevant instructions.
    • A saved website can still have a pending connection. Complete setup and verify the connection before expecting crawler rendering to be active.
    Add or connect a website

  4. Content workflow

    Publishing setup, closer to your articles

    Articles now gives CMS connection setup and Publishing Autopilot separate, clearer entry points, with integration guides and a route back to your work.

    • Open CMS connection settings directly from Articles and return to the article or list after setup.
    • Open the selected integration's guide in a new tab while keeping your setup in place. An unsaved-change check helps protect unfinished edits.
    • Publishing Autopilot groups its existing workflow and permission controls more clearly. Article approval, destination requirements and workspace allowances still apply.
    Open Articles

    AI visibility

    Review answers, cited pages and brands in one panel

    Visibility evidence is easier to scan, with separate answer, citation and brand tabs and more compact recommendations.

    • Switch between Answer, Cited pages and Other brands in the same panel. Cited pages and brands use aligned tables with the original evidence links.
    • Collection date, coverage status and usable-answer counts stay visible, with clearer messages when a saved response is unavailable.
    • Recommended next steps lead with the action and keep supporting evidence available to inspect. Monitoring has its own summary and question-management controls.
    Review visibility evidence

  5. Crawler visibility

    No-code DNS setup is available on Free

    Free now includes the managed DNS connection path, alongside Developer integration, so you can choose the setup that fits your website.

    • Connect a supported website using its public hostname and a stable, separate HTTPS origin, then follow the site-specific DNS instructions.
    • Website and render allowances remain those of your plan. Origin validation, hostname checks and connection verification remain part of setup.
    Choose a rendering setup

  6. Content workflow

    Agent keeps follow-up questions connected to the evidence

    Agent is better at retaining the website, dates and topic of a conversation when you ask where a mention came from or what to improve next.

    • Ask for the recorded answer excerpts and citation links behind a visibility result, with collection status kept alongside the evidence.
    • Short follow-ups retain the relevant conversation context. Improvement advice can refer to existing drafts and saved website evidence.
    • A suggested improvement plan stays advice until you approve an available action. Existing publishing permissions and review requirements remain in place.
    Ask Agent

    Content workflow

    More reliable publishing setup and stronger connection safeguards

    Publishing Autopilot now gives clearer feedback when settings need attention, while website and CMS connections have stronger destination and redirect checks.

    • Invalid settings display a message inside the publishing panel instead of replacing the page with an error. Your entries remain available to correct.
    • Monthly article limits are easier to select. Automatic publishing permissions and article generation remain subject to shared workspace limits and your plan's allowance.
    • Keystatic clearly uses reviewed Git delivery. Send approved articles as pull requests and explicitly confirm a Git release; your hosting deployment determines when they become publicly visible.
    • Website and CMS connection checks now apply stronger destination validation and safer redirect handling to help protect requests and credentials.
    Open Agent

  7. Platform

    A clearer start with Prerender Buddy

    A new guided introduction helps you choose between rendering and crawler-readability checks, or AI visibility with rendering included, then takes you through the relevant setup.

    • The rendering path offers Free and Render. The AI visibility path explains Starter, Growth and Pro, including the seven-day trial for eligible new subscriptions.
    • Included rendering allowances and links to detailed pricing make the options easier to compare before choosing a plan.
    • Add your website before configuring the customer questions you want to track. Existing paid subscriptions continue into their relevant setup.
    • When website-based question suggestions are unavailable, you can still write and select your own questions before starting monitoring.
    Explore guided setup

  8. Platform

    Clearer crawler activity and more compact reports

    Crawler activity, competitor comparisons and Health summaries are easier to inspect, with visiting bot names, improved chart displays and better use of space.

    • Review recognised crawler names and request counts across the selected period, with bot identities also shown alongside recorded page and request activity.
    • Competitor charts and Health cards use more compact layouts so useful results take up less space.
    • Advanced is now the default workspace view. You can still switch to Simple, and your saved preference is respected.
    Review crawler activity

  9. Content workflow

    Agent runs approved work in the background

    Starter, Growth and Pro workspaces can now use Agent to review website evidence, manage tracked questions and prepare articles, with approved tasks continuing after you close the page.

    • Ask follow-up questions using the website and dates already in the conversation. Recorded crawler visits, AI answer checks and referral visits stay separate.
    • Review a proposed plan in chat, follow its progress in Tasks and History, and pause or stop the work when needed.
    • Publishing Autopilot offers drafts only, publication after review, or automatic publication under an explicitly approved policy. Automatic publication requires confirmed public business facts, a validated supported CMS connection and article checks; exceptions return for review.
    • Standing permissions have an expiry, shared monthly article limits and an approved budget. Generation also uses your plan's existing article allowance.
    Open Agent

    Content workflow

    One confirmed Business Profile for your website

    Starter, Growth and Pro can now review and save their website's Business Profile in AI Understanding. Agent uses those same confirmed facts for content work.

    • Review your business description, audience, capabilities and important conditions. Existing saved profiles and retained website suggestions are reused where available.
    • Confirm which facts are accurate and which may be used in public content. Website suggestions stay unconfirmed until you review and save them.
    • Agent links directly to the selected website's profile. Saving facts does not activate a publishing permission.
    Review your Business Profile

    Platform

    A more compact, useful notification panel

    Notifications are easier to scan and take up less space, with clearer unread states and links back to the relevant work.

    • Compact rows keep titles, timestamps and actions readable without overlapping.
    • Read status and unread counts stay in sync as you review notifications. Workspace checks keep each account's notifications separate.

  10. AI visibility

    Clearer evidence behind visibility results

    AI Visibility and Agent now distinguish limited answers from usable observations and make historical comparisons more carefully before suggesting content work.

    • Incomplete and failed collections retain their status instead of being treated as proof that your business was missed. Recorded answers remain available for inspection.
    • Comparisons check question versions, platform configuration and successful coverage. Charts retain recorded observations and leave gaps where matching evidence is unavailable.
    • Automatic article work waits when evidence is incomplete or an unusual change needs confirmation. Manual article preparation remains available.
    Review AI visibility

    Platform

    Follow the full blog through RSS or Atom

    The Prerender Buddy blog now has RSS and Atom feeds containing the full published archive, with new articles added automatically.

    • Subscribe once in a compatible reader or feed service to discover future articles.
    • Feed entries include an excerpt and a direct link to the original article. Drafts and future-dated articles stay out of the feeds until published.
    Find the blog and feeds

  11. Developer tools

    Connect Prerender Buddy to ChatGPT

    The Prerender Buddy connection is published in ChatGPT, bringing public website diagnostics and authorised workspace evidence into your conversation.

    • Complete the PB authorisation flow to grant read-only access to your websites, Health, crawler activity, AI visibility and content plans or draft metadata.
    • Use the returned evidence to investigate a website and choose a next step. This connection does not grant the in-app Agent's publishing permissions.
    Find the ChatGPT connection

  12. Developer tools

    Cursor tools and one place to find integrations

    The integrations directory now brings article publishing, automation, AI assistants and website setup guides together, including the new Prerender Buddy plugin for Cursor.

    • Use Cursor to inspect public crawler-readable content and discovery files. A scoped Developer API key adds read-only evidence from your PB workspace.
    • The Cursor package and installation guide are available on GitHub. Marketplace review is still in progress.
    • Find connection requirements and setup links by integration type. The homepage now links directly to the directory.
    Explore integrations

  13. Developer tools

    Automation apps for insights and reviewed articles

    Prerender Buddy connections for n8n, Make, Zapier and Activepieces bring website evidence and reviewed article workflows into your automations.

    • Read website health, crawler activity, AI visibility and article evidence using a scoped Developer API key.
    • Prepare proposals, generate confirmed drafts, approve reviewed versions and send or schedule eligible articles while retaining PB's permissions and publishing controls.
    • n8n is available as a community package and Activepieces as a custom piece. Make and Zapier use their available installation or invitation links; see the guide for each platform's requirements.
    • Make now has dedicated article searches, a universal API-call module, clearer mapping and errors, and explicit scheduling and cancellation controls.
    Set up an automation connection

  14. Content workflow

    Publish articles to Git-based Keystatic websites

    Keystatic joins the supported article destinations, with reusable collection and field mapping for websites whose content lives in GitHub.

    • Connect a repository and map the supported Markdown or Markdoc collection in your website's Publishing tab.
    • Send an approved article as a pull request for review, then explicitly confirm a Git release when it is ready.
    • Delivery records retain the pull request and release status. Your hosting deployment remains a separate step before the article is publicly visible.
    Set up Keystatic publishing

    Developer tools

    Developer API access on Starter, Growth and Pro

    All three paid tracking plans now include Developer API access for connected tools and controlled workspace workflows.

    • Create and revoke scoped keys from Developer API keys in your account menu.
    • Choose read permissions for website evidence, or the additional permissions needed for article preparation and reviewed publishing.
    • Generation uses the existing shared article allowance. Review, approval, live publication and scheduling retain their required confirmations.
    Read the Developer API guide

    Platform

    A 25k render pack and clearer account billing

    The new 25,000-render pack fills the gap between the 10k and 50k options, while Account & billing makes add-ons and invoice downloads easier to find.

    • Add 25,000 fresh renders per month for $25 monthly or $250 annually. The monthly capacity is shared across websites in the workspace.
    • Browse add-ons by Rendering, AI visibility or AI Ads using the same table controls.
    • Download an invoice PDF directly when Stripe provides one, alongside the existing hosted invoice link.
    Open Account & billing

  15. Content workflow

    Publish approved articles to more websites

    Starter, Growth and Pro workspaces can now connect WordPress, Ghost, Webflow, Shopify, Wix or Astro as a publishing destination for each website.

    • Open your website's Publishing tab to choose a platform and set up its connection with your authorised credentials.
    • Review and approve an article in PB, then send it as a CMS draft or confirm live publication. You can also schedule approved articles in the publication calendar.
    • Delivery status and destination links help you check the result. Retries and article updates retain the existing destination article rather than creating another copy.
    • Astro uses the new @prerenderbuddy/astro article loader and a hosting rebuild hook. Drafts stay in PB; a released article appears after your host completes a successful build.
    Set up publishing for your website

  16. Content workflow

    Articles and Calendar, with clearer publishing controls

    Articles replaces Content Calendar as the place to review ideas, work on drafts and manage publishing. Calendar gives you a separate view of scheduled workspace activity.

    • Open an article in a side panel while keeping the list in view. Stage filters and search help you find ideas, drafts and published work.
    • Select generated articles to export Markdown, approve work or prepare publishing actions together. Review the eligible articles and confirm before changes are made.
    • Calendar brings AI collections, website checks and article publications together. Filter by website and switch between month and agenda views from the same toolbar.
    • Articles and Calendar now support Simple and Advanced views through the app's usual top navigation switch.
    Open Articles

    Platform

    Easier navigation in Simple view

    Simple view keeps important website controls accessible, with improvements to the guided tour and monitoring overview.

    • Website management tabs are available in Simple view, so you can reach setup and settings without changing modes.
    • The guided tour follows the Simple dashboard and keeps its highlighted controls within the viewport.
    • Monitoring uses a clearer bar display, with Run and Pause controls at the top of the card.

  17. Content workflow

    Conversion reporting in AI Ads

    Eligible connected advertising accounts can now review reported conversions alongside delivery and creative performance in both Simple and Advanced views.

    • See conversion counts, cost per conversion and conversion rate where the connected platform supplies the required data.
    • Measurement states distinguish an unconfigured or unavailable metric from a reported zero. Account currency and reporting timezone are retained.
    • Sync status makes it clearer when results were last imported and whether a refresh failed. Conversion measurement is configured in your advertising account.
    Explore AI Ads

  18. AI visibility

    Current questions stay separate from answer history

    Removing a tracked question now archives it for history while taking it out of the current question list and future scheduled collections.

    • Current-question results follow the questions you are tracking now. Older collections retain their recorded answers as historical evidence.
    • Removing the last active question pauses its collection schedule. Editing a question no longer treats an older version's answer as a result for the new wording.
    • Question suggestions use the website's business context, with generic starter suggestions when that context is not yet available.
    Explore AI visibility

    Content workflow

    Content Calendar, organised by website

    Focus on one website's article ideas, drafts, and calendar activity, or keep the whole workspace in view with All websites.

    • The website selector works in both Simple and Advanced views, across calendar entries, article lists, and research leads.
    • Website labels make it easier to identify which site an article or research lead belongs to.
    • Your monthly article generation allowance is unchanged and remains shared across all websites in the workspace.

    Platform

    Optional management for your workspace

    Add account-wide management to Starter, Growth, or Pro for an additional $99, $199, or $299 per month, alongside your software subscription.

    • Management includes initial setup, a monthly human account review and report, and 2, 4, or 6 human-reviewed content outputs per month, depending on the package.
    • Each output includes one revision round. Approved articles can be published through a supported CMS connection; custom development and unsupported integrations are outside the package.
    • Choose management before checkout, or review the available options in Account & billing. Combined packages start after payment without a trial; eligible existing monthly subscriptions can add management at renewal.
    Explore plans and management

    Developer tools

    Prepare article proposals and drafts through MCP

    Connected assistants can now prepare article proposals and start draft generation through Prerender Buddy's MCP integration when you grant the required permissions.

    • Use a connected assistant to move from a relevant visibility opportunity to an article proposal and draft.
    • Article generation uses the workspace's existing allowance and requires opt-in content permissions.
    • Generating a draft does not publish it. Review and publishing approval remain separate steps.

    AI visibility

    Clearer visibility and competitor evidence

    Improved dashboard calculations and competitor suggestions make it easier to understand recorded results and identify brands worth reviewing.

    • Dashboard summaries use the relevant website and evidence scope, with clearer states when data is unavailable.
    • Recommendation attribution and visibility evidence loading have been corrected to improve the accuracy of recorded summaries.
    • Possible competitors are assessed against their role in recorded answers and the tracked question's topic, helping separate competitors from other cited sources.

  19. Platform

    Simple and Advanced views for every workspace

    Choose a focused overview or open the full evidence and controls with the view switch at the top of the app. Simple is the starting view for new users, and each person's choice is remembered.

    • Simple views make it easier to find the next action across the dashboard, portfolio, AI Visibility, competitors, crawler activity, and other supported pages.
    • Advanced views keep the detailed results, filters, and controls close at hand.
    • Switching views changes only how information is presented; it does not change monitoring data or website settings.

  20. Content workflow

    Review article ideas before generating a draft

    Content Calendar now turns recorded answers to tracked questions into article proposals that you can review and steer before generating a draft.

    • Each proposal gives you an article angle, questions to answer, and points to check against linked sources.
    • Generate an editable draft, then review and approve it before sending it to a connected CMS as a draft.
    • The calendar shows your remaining article generations. Browsing ideas and making manual edits do not use one.

  21. Platform

    A clearer workspace overview

    The main Overview now brings the most important visibility, crawler, rendering, and health results together without replacing the underlying evidence.

    • Recommendations, mentions, citations, search and AI visits, renders, and health are summarized up front.
    • Recommendation evidence and cited pages are easier to review, with platform filters for cited-page results.
    • Repeated response evidence is consolidated, while Health presents clearer next actions with less duplicated information.

    AI visibility

    More control over tracked questions

    AI Visibility now makes it easier to expand monitoring deliberately without replacing or changing the questions that are already tracked.

    • Add and select multiple tracked questions in the monitoring workflow.
    • Generate related question variations from an existing question and review them before tracking.
    • Suggested variations use plan capacity only after they are approved and added, and refreshing suggestions leaves current questions unchanged.
    Explore AI Visibility

  22. AI visibility

    Clearer AI collection status and scope

    AI monitoring now makes it easier to understand what is running, what finished, and which questions belong to each recorded collection.

    • Unified queued, running, partial, completed, and failed states across collection views.
    • Clearer separation between selected-question analysis and full collection evidence.
    • More useful progress feedback while evidence is being collected.
    Explore AI visibility guides

  23. AI visibility

    Actionable visibility recommendations

    Recommendations now connect observed visibility evidence to a specific improvement, its likely impact, and a practical recheck step.

    • Expanded recommendation details with supporting evidence and affected URLs.
    • Tracked-question suggestions can be refreshed without changing existing questions.
    • Provider configuration and worker health are reported as separate states.

  24. Crawler visibility

    Meta crawler purposes are reported separately

    Meta search indexing, model training, user-requested fetching, and Facebook link previews now appear as distinct crawler purposes instead of one ambiguous Meta signal.

    • Separate evidence for Meta-WebIndexer, Meta-ExternalAgent, Meta-ExternalFetcher, and facebookexternalhit.
    • Robots policy and observed rendered access remain separate facts.
    • Meta visibility is reported where supported evidence is available.
    See supported crawlers

    Content workflow

    AI Ads evidence workflow

    Eligible accounts can turn monitored visibility opportunities into reviewable ad concepts and creative variations without handing campaign control to Prerender Buddy.

    • Opportunity, studio, creative library, and results views form one connected workflow.
    • Creative proof keeps claims tied to available website and visibility evidence.
    • Exports and imported performance support a manual advertising-platform handoff.
    Explore AI Ads

  25. AI visibility

    Recorded responses and citations in AI monitoring

    Visibility summaries now link back to the recorded model responses and source evidence behind the result.

    • Inspect provider answers, mentions, recommendations, and citations together.
    • Rolling history charts retain sparse observations without inventing missing samples.
    • Trend ranges and platform coverage use the actual recorded collection data.

  26. Platform

    Portfolio view and guided monitoring setup

    Multi-site workspaces gained a clearer portfolio overview, while AI monitoring setup became more guided and cost-aware.

    • Compare connected sites from one cross-site overview.
    • Start monitoring with a small set of suggested customer questions.
    • See provider and sampling scope before a collection begins.

  27. Developer tools

    Scoped API keys

    Eligible plans can create workspace API keys with explicit read and action scopes for safer developer integrations.

    • Separate workspace, visibility, content, diagnostics, cache, and render permissions.
    • Keys remain tied to the issuing workspace.
    • Developer setup guidance explains the supported integration path.
    View the Developer API

  28. Crawler visibility

    Shareable reports and discovery-file repair

    Public reports became easier to review and share, and Health gained guided fixes for robots.txt, sitemap, and llms.txt discovery issues.

    • Redesigned shareable reports with clearer evidence boundaries.
    • Review-only discovery-file proposals preserve existing site rules.
    • Reachability findings retain the affected paths needed for follow-up.

  29. AI visibility

    More visibility providers and competitor evidence

    AI monitoring expanded with Gemini and Grok support, plus clearer comparisons between the monitored brand and its competitors.

    • Provider-specific response and citation normalization.
    • Tracked and detected competitors remain clearly distinguished.
    • Provider and question breakdowns link back to supporting evidence.

  30. Crawler visibility

    Search and AI visit history

    Crawler activity gained exact visit rollups and clearer evidence about which crawler requested a page, what it received, and when it was last seen.

    • Separate cached and freshly rendered visit activity.
    • Longer chart history without loading an unbounded event list.
    • Synthetic monitoring probes are excluded from customer activity.

Start with a website check.

See what crawlers receive, then decide what needs attention.

Check your website