Before you touch anything in Okara's settings, read the part of its FAQ about your website URL. Change that URL and Okara "permanently deletes all existing data for your current website," according to the FAQ. The list of what goes runs from SEO reports and Reddit opportunities to your articles and competitor analysis, and it ends with "all strategy documents."
Deleting the account is worse. The FAQ says everything is "permanently deleted immediately" and "cannot be recovered." Okara's docs don't describe an export button either, so the order of your exit matters more than usual: save everything, cancel, and only then delete.
What follows is that order, applied to a move from Okara, the AI CMO at okara.ai, to RankControl. Everything we say about Okara comes from its site, docs, pricing page and policies as they stood on September 26, 2026.
What comes with you when you switch from Okara
Until you publish something, it mostly lives inside Okara's dashboard, and that's the material at risk when you leave. The table maps each piece to what you can do with it and where it ends up on our side.
| In Okara | Can you take it? | Where it lands in RankControl |
|---|---|---|
| Articles published to WordPress, Webflow, Framer or Sanity | Already native posts on your site | Link targets, found by a sitemap scan |
| Unpublished article drafts (Pro) | Download each as markdown | Reference while you plan titles |
| Strategy documents: product info, competitors, brand voice, strategy | Copy by hand | Brand Control |
| GEO prompts (up to 15 on Lite) | Copy the list and last results | Tracked queries (up to 50) |
| Queued X and LinkedIn posts | Post or copy before you cancel | Repurposing drafts |
| Open pull requests from the coding agent | Merge or close them | Nothing to carry |
| Unused monthly credits | Reset each cycle | Nothing to carry |
Check which plan you're on first
Okara gates its agents by tier, so your plan decides how much there is to move. On the pricing page, the AI Content Writer Agent only shows up on Pro. Lite gets the SEO Agent instead, and that one hands you recommendations and content gaps rather than finished articles.
Lite costs $129 a month, or $108 billed annually, and if that's your plan, the saving list is mostly strategy documents, GEO prompts, X posts and whatever the coding agent built. Pro runs $249, or $208 billed annually. On Pro you'll also have article drafts, Reddit drafts and LinkedIn posts to rescue. Figure out which list is yours before you start, because it saves you an hour of hunting for things that were never there.
Time it around your credits
Both paid plans come with 2,000 credits a month, and Okara's credits doc says they reset on your billing anniversary and "do not carry forward." Top-up credits work differently. The ones you buy separately never expire, but they belong to the account, which means deleting the account deletes them too.
Don't count on getting money back. Okara's refund policy calls payments for Lite, Pro and the older Founding User plan "not refundable" in most cases. The one exception is a documented bug or service error, and getting that reviewed means booking a call with support. That makes just before your renewal date the cheapest moment to cancel, once you've spent the credits you already paid for.
Save your work before you cancel
Do this while your plan is still active:
- In the Company panel, copy your product information, competitor analysis, brand voice and marketing strategy into a document of your own.
- Copy your GEO prompts and screenshot their latest results, so you have a before-picture.
- Download unpublished article drafts as markdown, one at a time. The docs describe this per article, as the manual way to publish.
- Save any queued X and LinkedIn posts you still want, plus Reddit drafts you haven't posted yet.
- Open the Archived tab in your Agents Feed. Okara keeps archived cards, and some of them may hold content ideas worth keeping.
- Screenshot your traffic and SEO dashboards for your records.
One setting to avoid while you work is the website URL. Changing it is the step that wipes your data, so leave it alone until every item above is saved.
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Disconnect what Okara can reach
Okara's docs don't describe a single "disconnect all" step, so you'll revoke its access from each service's side. There are six connections to check. Two are Google's, Search Console and Analytics, and the others are GitHub, your CMS, X and LinkedIn.
GitHub comes first, because Okara's coding agent opens pull requests against your repository. Merge the ones you want and close the others, then remove Okara's access in GitHub itself. After that, take Okara out of your Google account permissions and revoke what it has on X and LinkedIn.
On the CMS side, remove the credentials you gave Okara in WordPress, Webflow, Framer or Sanity. Reddit needs nothing at all, since Okara never connects to it and a person posts every Reddit draft by hand.
Okara doesn't say what happens to scheduled social posts once you downgrade. Post them or delete them yourself before you cancel, just to be safe.
Take a baseline before you switch
Your last GEO readings are the only record of where you stood, so save them before anything else here. Okara's GEO docs name four engines: ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI and Claude.
Then open a logged-out session and run your ten most important buyer questions by hand in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Grok, writing down who gets named. Grok isn't on any of Okara's pages, and Gemini depends on which page you read, since its GEO page lists Gemini where its docs list Google AI Overviews. Your notes also give you something to compare against a month from now.
Cancel, then delete
Cancelling happens "via account settings," according to Okara's refund policy, after which "your subscription will no longer renew and you will not be charged again." Okara hasn't published a step-by-step guide for it, so screenshot the confirmation screen.
Leave deletion until the very end. Okara's FAQ says it's immediate, while the privacy policy says data is deleted or anonymized within 30 days and may sit in encrypted backups for a while after that. For any other question about your data, the privacy policy points you to [email protected].
Where everything lands in RankControl
Your strategy documents go into Brand Control first. It reads your live site and drafts your voice, products, buyers and competitors, and then you fix whatever it got wrong. The positioning, ICP and brand voice you copied out of Okara go in as guideline rules, and up to three of your best articles can sit alongside them as style references.
Next comes a publishing destination. RankControl publishes natively to nine of them, WordPress, Webflow and Framer included, but there's no Sanity connector. If Sanity is how you publish, the Content API or a webhook can feed your front end instead. Once you're connected, run the sitemap scan so new articles link into the ones Okara already published.
From there, the content engine plans titles from your buyers' questions and writes each article against the pages already ranking for it. It handles 26 content formats, and auto-publish stays off until you switch it on.
Your GEO prompts become tracked queries, and you can keep adding until you reach 50. AI visibility tracking checks each one weekly on ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, Gemini, Grok, Google AI Mode and Google AI Overviews, which means more queries and three more engines than Okara's GEO agent had.
Links run through Link Control, which finds prospects for each article and drafts outreach from your own mailbox. Managed Backlinks adds five links a month from DR 25+ sites for $350. For social, repurposing turns each article into drafts for eight platforms, X and LinkedIn among them, and can push them to Postiz. The Social agent works from the other end: it finds Reddit and X threads your article answers and drafts a reply.
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The switch from Okara, step by step
Here's the full switch with the time each step takes:
| Step | What to do | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Note your renewal date and use your remaining monthly credits | |
| 2 | Copy strategy documents, GEO prompts and results | 30 to 45 minutes |
| 3 | Download drafts and save queued posts | 20 to 40 minutes |
| 4 | Merge or close coding-agent pull requests | About 15 minutes |
| 5 | Start RankControl's 7-day free trial and let setup read your site | About 15 minutes |
| 6 | Correct the brand draft and add guideline rules | 30 to 45 minutes |
| 7 | Add tracked queries and competitors, then connect your CMS | About 45 minutes |
| 8 | Revoke Okara's access, cancel before renewal, then delete the account |
Add it up and you're looking at three to four hours, spread around your renewal date.
What changes after the switch
The first change is how you pay. Okara charges $129 or $249 a month and gives you a monthly credit balance, and your plan decides which agents you get. RankControl is a single plan at $400 a month. The plan includes 100 pages and five seats, plus 50 tracked queries on seven engines, and there's no credit balance to burn through before you go.
Measurement changes too. Okara's GEO agent tracked up to 15 prompts on four engines. RankControl checks 50 queries every week on seven, and a weekly email sums up new citations, ranking moves and visits from AI answers.
You can run this loop yourself, which means writing the pages, publishing them, pitching the links and checking seven engines every week. Or RankControl's agents can run it every month while you focus on your product. If you want the two tools side by side, read RankControl vs Okara.
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