When data updates
How often your prompts run, why today's numbers can look low, and what happens to days that were not collected
GEOflux asks your prompts on a schedule, and the answers arrive over a few hours rather than all at once. Knowing that rhythm keeps you from reacting to a dip that is only today's run still coming in.
A new prompt runs right away
You do not wait for the next scheduled run. When you save a prompt, typed, imported from CSV or tracked from the suggestions, GEOflux sends it to the engines within about a minute. The first answers usually arrive within minutes, and appear on the Answers page and in your charts as they land.
The regular run
After its first run, every prompt is asked again on a schedule:
| Plan | How often | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Starter, Growth and trials | Every day | The daily run starts at 06:00 UTC. |
| Free | Every 3 days | All the prompts in a Free project run together on the same day, so each point on your charts is built from the full set rather than a different handful every day. |
A prompt added partway through a cycle gets its first run when you add it, then joins the rest of the project on the next scheduled day.
On Free, over-time charts plot only the days a run happened. Change badges read too few runs until the period holds at least 3 runs, because a comparison built on one or two runs is not a trend.
Only completed answers count in your numbers. An answer that is still being collected, or that failed, is left out rather than counted as a miss.
Today's numbers are still coming in
The run does not finish at once. Each prompt is asked on each engine separately, and the brands, tone and sources in each answer are read after it arrives. Until the last answer is in and read, today's point on an over-time chart is built from part of the day, and it can look like a real drop.
While that is happening, GEOflux says so:
- A notice above the chart: "Today's answers are still coming in, so today's point is incomplete and may change until the run finishes."
- The tooltip for today's point: "Still collecting, may change".
The notice follows the project's run as a whole, so it can show on a prompt whose own answers are already in. A prompt added today counts as still collecting for its first few hours. The notice switches off at 18:00 UTC whatever the state of the run.
Wait for the run to finish before acting on a dip that only shows on today's point. Better still, read periods of 14 or 30 days: a single day is noise in any case. See How GEOflux works.
Days that were not collected
When tracking stops, no new answers come in, and nothing is filled in later. How those days look depends on why tracking stopped:
- A free report picked up late. If you sign in to a free report you requested on geoflux.ai after its first week of tracking has run out (see Claiming a report), the days between its last answer and your sign-in are shaded and labeled Not collected, with a note: "No data was collected on [those days]: tracking was paused, so those days are shaded rather than missing."
- An ended trial or subscription. Your data stays readable, but new answers stop until you add a payment method or restart your subscription.
- An inactive Free account. If nobody opens a Free project for 90 days, tracking is paused, after warning emails from day 60. Everything stays readable, and Reactivate sends every active prompt to the engines straight away instead of waiting for the next scheduled day. The paused days stay empty.
See Billing and credits for plans and trials.