Can a prompt replace SE Ranking?

Build a multi-project rank tracker whose real output is a scheduled, branded client report.

Projects: each holds a domain, a set of keywords, a target country, language and device, and a client profile (name, logo, accent colour, contact email). Keywords can carry tags for grouping into report sections.

Data collection: fetch positions through a commercial SERP API whose key sits in the environment, behind a single swappable provider module. Never scrape a search engine directly, and say so in the README. Enforce a daily query budget per project and a global one; when the budget is exhausted, skip and record the skip rather than silently overspending. Store the full raw SERP response for every check, so any reported position can be audited months later, and so a ranking URL change can be explained.

History: positions stored daily with the ranking URL, so URL changes, cannibalisation between two of the client's own pages, and featured-snippet gains are all visible from the same table.

Reporting, which is the reason to build this. A report template composed of blocks the user enables per client: position summary (up, down, unchanged counts), top movers, keywords by tag group with a sparkline each, visibility trend as a weighted score, and a free-text commentary section the operator writes before sending. Render to PDF with the client's logo and colours. Schedule monthly or weekly generation, and email it to the client contact, with every generated report archived so an old one can be reproduced exactly.

Operator views: a dashboard across all projects showing today's biggest movers and any project whose collection failed, plus cost tracking — queries used and estimated spend this month, per project and total. An agency tool that hides its own data bill is useless.

Out of scope: crawling client sites for an audit, backlink data, keyword volume or difficulty estimates, competitor keyword research, and anything requiring a proprietary web index.