As of 13 August 2026, AI can analyse your competitors' SEO keywords.
This still needs a person who signs their name to it.
Can you do it?
15 minutesto a draft.
1 hourto something you’d act on.
Cost, all in£0
Skill neededpower-user
Who has to check ityou
What the alternative costsFrase is a purpose-built SEO content research and drafting tool, while Surfer is an AI SEO content editor that optimises pages against the SERP.
If this goes wrong: you spend time producing pages for low-value or irrelevant searches while missing terms that could support your commercial goals.
What to actually do
Hand it to a person
The route this page recommends
A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.
Use a tool built for this
Second choiceDo it yourself
The distant thirdA chat interface, power-user skill, and roughly 1 hour until you can act on the result.
How to actually do it
- Open your SEO platform or keyword research tool and export the competitor keyword data as a CSV or spreadsheet, including the keyword, competitor URL or domain, ranking position, estimated volume, difficulty and any intent fields available.
- Choose several genuinely comparable UK competitors and remove domains that target a different country, audience or business model.
- Write down your website, products or services, target customers, geographic area, commercial goal and topics you will not target.
- Paste the business details, the unedited export and the copyable prompt into a chatbot, keeping the column headings and source names intact.
- Ask the chatbot to separate direct observations from inferences and to identify missing fields instead of filling them in.
- Open the current UK search results for the highest-priority opportunities and compare the ranking pages, search intent and competitor coverage with the drafted analysis before creating or changing pages.
- Put accepted opportunities into your content plan, recording the source export date and the page you intend to create so the analysis can be repeated when the data changes.
Prompt
Analyse the competitor SEO keyword data below for my UK business. My business: - Website: [YOUR WEBSITE] - Products or services: [DESCRIBE THEM] - Target customers: [DESCRIBE THEM] - Geographic target: [UK, or specific UK locations] - Main commercial goal: [LEADS, SALES, BOOKINGS, SIGN-UPS OR OTHER] - Topics or services I do not want to target: [LIST THEM OR WRITE NONE] Competitor data: [PASTE CSV OR TABLES HERE] For each row, use the supplied figures and labels exactly. Do not invent keywords, search volumes, rankings, traffic, difficulty scores, intent or competitor coverage. If a field is missing, say that it is missing. Treat third-party volume, difficulty, traffic and ranking figures as estimates, not facts. Produce: 1. A short summary of the main patterns. 2. A table of keyword clusters, including the cluster name, representative keywords, competitors ranking for them, apparent search intent, business relevance, and evidence from the supplied data. 3. Gaps where competitors have visible coverage and my website appears not to, separating clear gaps from possible gaps. 4. Duplicate or overlapping keywords that should be handled by one page rather than several. 5. A prioritised list of up to 20 opportunities, scored as high, medium or low priority. Explain each score using commercial relevance, competitor coverage, apparent intent and the supplied difficulty or volume data. Do not create a numerical score unless the data already contains one. 6. A suggested page type for each priority opportunity, such as service page, product page, category page, comparison page or informational article. 7. A list of claims that need checking against current UK search results before publication. 8. Three practical next actions. Keep the recommendations specific to my business. Distinguish observed data from inference. Do not recommend targeting a keyword solely because it has a high estimated volume.
Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.
What it gets wrong
- AI cannot see competitors' private keyword data, conversion rates or business priorities unless you supply the relevant exports.
- It cannot turn estimated search volume, difficulty or traffic into verified facts.
- It cannot reliably judge whether a keyword fits your offer, margins, reputation and sales process without detailed context from you.
- It cannot guarantee that the ranking pages or search intent are still current without a fresh UK search check.
- It cannot decide how much budget or internal capacity your business should commit to an opportunity.
Even on a YES, the friction has a name: verification cost, real time truth and context depth.
How we scored this
Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.
| Axis | Score (0–2) |
|---|---|
| Output | 2 |
| Inputs | 1 |
| Verification | 1 |
| Liability | 2 |
| Effort delta | 2 |
| Total | 8 / 10 |
The methodology and its thresholds are published in full.
FAQ
- Can ChatGPT see my competitors' SEO keywords?
- No. A chatbot cannot see private keyword research, rankings or analytics from a competitor's account. Give it an export from your SEO tool and it can compare the supplied data, or ask it to analyse public search results that you provide.
- Can AI find keyword gaps between my website and my competitors?
- Yes, if you provide comparable keyword and ranking data. It can group terms, identify topics where competitors appear and your site does not, and flag gaps that need checking against current UK search results.
- Is AI keyword analysis accurate?
- It can accurately sort and summarise the data you supply, but search volume, difficulty, traffic and rankings from SEO platforms are estimates and can change. Check important recommendations against the source export and current UK search results before changing your site.
- What is the best AI tool for competitor keyword analysis?
- Frase is a suitable purpose-built option because it provides SEO content research and drafting. A chatbot is useful when you already have competitor exports and want a customised comparison, but neither replaces checking the source data and search results.
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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.
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