The Intelligence Engine · RocketTools Labs
2026
The scoring brain Sonaro productizes — built and deepened across the year inside the Labs.
August 2026
AI-visibility becomes a score
Sonaro doesn't just detect whether AI surfaces your content — it now scores it, ranks your topics by how much AI demand each one has, and turns the sub-questions AI asks into ready-made content opportunities.
July 2026
Decision memory
Every content and advertising decision, paired with its measured outcome, becomes queryable institutional memory — a private knowledge graph the engine can recall in seconds. Sonaro learns from what worked, not just what happened.
July 2026
Reputation and reach
Folded multi-platform reviews and reputation signals into the opportunity score, and added deeper analysis of how AI assistants break a question apart — so you're scored on the whole picture, not just classic search rank.
May 2026
Local-market signals
Added per-client local-market intelligence — local visibility, review momentum, and image presence in search — as a bounded layer on top of the universal score. Destinations and local businesses get judged on what actually matters to them, without distorting everyone else.
March–April 2026
Scoring gets deep
A run of new intelligence: search-intent and difficulty weighting, weak-spot detection in search results, authority and link-strength scoring, keyword-cannibalization detection, content-drift monitoring, and pattern intelligence that learns from what's already winning.
February 8, 2026
🏗️ The intelligence engine ships
The foundation Sonaro is built on. A multi-layer data architecture — structured data, time-series trends, and a cross-client learning graph — pulling from search, analytics, market data, and first-party AI-visibility checks, and turning all of it into a single weighted opportunity score. Its first run scored 234 opportunities for a live client. This is the engine's birthday.
February 7, 2026
Revenue attribution
Wired in analytics so the score knows the difference between a page that gets traffic and a page that makes money — revenue became a first-class ranking signal.
February 5, 2026
AI Pulse Check
First-party AI-visibility measurement: dozens of parallel questions across ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Perplexity, scored for how consistently they recommend you — so we can see, not guess, whether AI is putting you forward.
January 27, 2026
Search & traffic foundations
Search-performance data and privacy-first, first-party analytics went live together — the first two data sources the engine ever read.
January 21, 2026
Our own hardware
We made a deliberate call to build the Labs environment on our own hardware — the private infrastructure everything runs on, with redundancy, point-in-time snapshots, and nightly off-site backups. Owning the infrastructure is why client data never has to leave our control.
January 2026
Market intelligence
Added deep search, keyword, backlink, and AI-mention data — the market-side view that complements your own analytics.