Measuring AI visibility

How to count whether AI assistants name you, why one answer proves nothing, and what the numbers can and cannot honestly tell you.

  • Why one AI answer proves nothing

    Ask an assistant the same question 100 times and there is under a 1 in 100 chance of getting the same list of brands back. Here is what that does to AI visibility measurement, and which numbers survive it.

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  • Mentions and citations are not the same thing

    Being named in an answer and being used as a source are different events with different causes. In our own run, 77 companies were named and 204 domains were cited, and almost nobody managed both.

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