What it does
The competitive set, as the engines see it.
We surface the businesses AI names for your category, ranked, with the engines that name each, and the citation sources behind the answer. It is the map to closing the gap.
Named competitors
The businesses AI recommends instead of you, ranked, per engine.
Citation sources
The third-party sources the engines lean on in your category, where authority is decided.
Actionable
Every insight feeds the fix and content work, so it is a plan, not just a chart.
How it works
How the map is built.
We watch the same answers your buyers see, then structure them into a picture you can act on.
Capture the answers
For each buyer question, we record who the engines name, and how often.
Rank the field
We rank the competitive set by how consistently they are surfaced across engines.
Surface the sources
We identify the third-party sources cited in your category, so you know where to earn presence.
What good looks like
What good looks like.
You know your real competitors in AI, and the specific places that decide the answer.
- A clear, ranked view of who AI names in your category
- The engines each competitor wins, and the ones you can take
- The citation sources that shape the answer
- A prioritized path to displace, not just observe
Who AI names
What is shifting
What is shifting in AI search.
The engines trust a narrow set of sources, and citations are the new currency.
Narrow source sets
Engines lean on a limited set of sources per category, so presence in the right ones is decisive.
Citations are the new links
Being cited by the sources AI trusts is becoming what backlinks were to search.
See who AI recommends in your category.
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