Methodology

Measurement you can actually defend.

Generative engines are non-deterministic. The whole category pretends otherwise. We treat the uncertainty as the problem to solve — and that honesty is the moat.

One

A metric that decomposes

"Are we mentioned?" hides three different signals. We measure them apart, because each has a different lever: Answer Presence (are you named), Source Citation (is your own page the cited source), and Share of Voice (your standing against named rivals) — plus how favourably you're framed. The headline score is a transparent, weighted index you can take apart.

Two

Statistical honesty

Every prompt runs many times, across engines and over time. Results carry a confidence interval, never a bare number. Before any work begins we measure the noise floor — so we can tell you the smallest lift we could honestly detect, and prove later movement is real rather than sampling drift.

Three

A derived prompt corpus

Anyone can guess fifty prompts. We derive the real distribution your buyers use — from search data, sales calls and support tickets — classified by intent and weighted by volume. That per-sector corpus is proprietary, and it's what keeps the measurement representative.

Four

Source diagnosis

Not "you're cited 12% of the time", but why. We log the pages each answer leans on and build a source graph per query cluster. Where a competitor appears and you don't is the gap — and the gap is your work plan. Measurement and delivery become the same thing.

Five

The attribution ladder

We never claim deterministic ROI. We climb a ladder of evidence and report the strongest rung achievable for you:

  • AI-referral trafficSessions arriving from ChatGPT, Perplexity and the rest, tracked to conversion.
  • Branded-search liftBuyers hear your name from the model, then search it — often the clearest fingerprint.
  • Enquiry attribution"Where did you first hear about us?" captured at the point of contact.
  • Holdout testingOptimising some query clusters and holding others as control.
A method that quantifies its own uncertainty turns AI visibility from a vibe into something auditable.

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