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Sector intelligence

Who AI cites in the category — with confidence intervals.

Sector intelligence is a category citation benchmark: the same buyer questions, run on real answer engines, rolled up with Wilson 95% confidence intervals — one published edition that many buyers share.

The programme unlock is Dominate. The standalone diagnose SKU is a Sector Intelligence Report on /intel at $199 — no account required. This page is the programme. /intel is where you buy the paper.

A private “where you stand” addendum is computed for a buyer from their domain versus the shared rollup. The excerpt on this page is the shared paper, not that addendum. We will not dress a teaser as your standing.

Thin samples refuse to publish. Depth floors live in code. Rankings freeze once per UTC month. Buying a report does not buy a private re-rank.

Programme unlock is Dominate at $499/mo (four cycles, plus the edition). Standalone report is $199 on /intel. Site Care is included on Dominate.

Questions in the research corpus
96
Recorded citations
3,563
CI on every brand rate
Wilson 95%
Standalone paper on /intel
$199

Published studies + purchasable sector editions. Depth floors refuse thin papers. Buying does not buy a private re-rank. Google AI Overviews not in the four-study corpus.

What ships

Concrete artifacts in the client room — not a slogan.

  • A shared edition

    Leaderboard with confidence intervals, per-category battlegrounds, source economy, engine contrasts, test-retest flip rates, and invisible brands. Negatives are rows, not omissions.

  • A content-war cut

    Where citations land on LinkedIn, Reddit, YouTube and similar surfaces, attributed by deterministic URL parsing. Unattributable citations are counted, never invented.

  • A private addendum (paid copy)

    Gap plan, open-ground plan, and surface plan for the buyer’s domain. Only on their tokened copy. Dominate rooms see the linked edition plus that addendum.

  • Standalone checkout

    On /intel: one purchase covers the first published edition for that market plus the next eleven monthly freezes. Missing markets use the commission form. We refund if we cannot measure the market honestly.

How it works

  1. 01

    We run the same buyer questions across real answer engines for a category roster.

  2. 02

    Every citation rate carries a 95% Wilson confidence interval.

  3. 03

    One published edition serves many buyers.

  4. 04

    Your paid copy adds a private addendum. This excerpt is not that addendum.

Measured data

Four studies: 96 questions, 3,563 recorded citations — editorial 89.5%; Reddit led AEO-visibility queries at 33.7% (95% CI 24.9–43.8%).

Every citation rate on a sector edition carries a Wilson 95% interval. Same-day variance panels publish flip rates. Negatives are rows. A private where-you-stand addendum is on the buyer’s copy only — this marketing page never dresses a teaser as your standing. Research updated 17 August 2026.

  • Original research hub
  • Sector reports storefront
  • AI sector reports guide

What we measure

Sweep
Query × engine × repeat runs against the real clients — ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI. “Not cited” is stored. The Brave proxy is not this instrument.
Rollup
Wilson 95% intervals on brand rates. Movement between editions is shown only when two freezes exist. A single edition states the measurement date.
Depth floor
A report that cannot clear the floor does not ship. That refusal is the honesty bar, not a delay tactic.

What this is not

  • Not “where you stand” on this marketing page. That sentence belongs on a paid addendum or a Dominate room.
  • Not a private re-rank you buy mid-month.
  • Not blended with your branded site queries. The sector roster is the population.
  • Not a citation guarantee for anyone on the leaderboard.

Strategists who need a category instrument, operators comparing themselves to a roster, and researchers who want to see whether a “sector report” publishes negatives and confidence intervals.

How to test it

For buyers and researchers. Every step is something you can do without taking our word.

  1. 01

    Open /intel and read a teaser. Check that every rate idea on the page mentions intervals or a sample caveat.

  2. 02

    Read AI sector reports and A competitive citation benchmark for a sector.

  3. 03

    Commission a missing market if yours is not listed. Same $199; we say so if we cannot measure it.

  4. 04

    Dominate at $499/mo includes the programme edition and the Citation Strategy Report. The paper alone is /intel.

Measured AEO vs rebadged SEO

Ask any vendor — including us

Ask any AEO vendor these questions — including us. Measured AEO answers with instruments and dates. Rebadged SEO answers with keyword coverage and search rank.

  1. 01

    Show me a measured citation rate from real answer-engine checks — not search rank — and the engines you checked.

  2. 02

    Show me one verified before/after: a page re-scored against a pinned baseline, with a system-granted verified status.

  3. 03

    Which entity signals changed, and where is the live evidence they resolve?

  4. 04

    Do you record the checks where the brand was not cited?

  5. 05

    Who granted “done” — a person, a model, or a re-probe of the live page?

  6. 06

    Show me your run-to-run flip rate. If the tool will not publish variance next to the headline rate, the decimals are decoration.

Framework licensed from our category positioning record. No named competitors — demand instruments and negatives, not slogans.

What it looks like

Published edition — not your site.

AEO & AI Search Visibility

2026-08

Brands
15
Queries
45
Checks
296
Measured citation rates for the first roster brands
BrandCitation rate (95% Wilson)
Profound16.2% (12.5–20.8)
Semrush12.2% (8.9–16.4)
Writesonic7.1% (4.7–10.6)
Frase6.1% (3.9–9.4)
Otterly5.7% (3.6–9.0)

296 live engine checks across 45 buyer questions on perplexity, gemini, chatgpt. Rates are measured observations with 95% Wilson confidence intervals. This excerpt is the shared edition — not a private standing for your domain.

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Answer engines we check

  • ChatGPTChatGPT
  • PerplexityPerplexity
  • Google AIGoogle AI

Questions we get

Is this the same as the citation board?
No. The board is your questions on your workspace. A sector report is a shared roster and a shared question set for a category. Dominate is how a client gets both.
Can I buy just the paper?
Yes. /intel is self-serve, $199, no login. The private addendum is on the buyer’s copy. This product page does not show your standing.
Do you re-rank the market when I pay?
No. Editions freeze on a monthly cadence. A purchase can accrue extra checks toward the next freeze. It does not rewrite the published leaderboard for you.

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  • A competitive citation benchmark for a sector
  • Sector reports storefront

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