INSIGHTS & RESEARCH

INSIGHTS & RESEARCH

AI search visibility, Measured

Rigorous teardowns, field guides, and peer-reviewed data on how brands appear — and disappear — in AI-powered answers.

Rigorous teardowns, field guides, and peer-reviewed data on how brands appear — and disappear — in AI-powered answers.

AI search visibility, Measured

INSIGHTS & RESEARCH

AI search visibility, Measured

Rigorous teardowns, field guides, and peer-reviewed data on how brands appear — and disappear — in AI-powered answers.

AI search visibility, Measured

[peer-reviewed research]

Statistical framework for measuring AI search visibility at scale

We formalize brand citation as a measurable variable, derive confidence intervals across 47 categories, and show that most published visibility score fail basic significance tests.

[peer-reviewed paper]

Rank Stability and Structural Sufficiency in AI Visibility Measurement

When have you collected enough data to trust an AI visibility ranking? A framework that answers from the structure of the citations themselves.

Citation share accumulation over response order for top domains
Citation share accumulation over response order for top domains

[peer-reviewed research]

Statistical framework for measuring AI search visibility at scale

We formalize brand citation as a measurable variable, derive confidence intervals across 47 categories, and show that most published visibility score fail basic significance tests.

[peer-reviewed paper]

Rank Stability and Structural Sufficiency in AI Visibility Measurement

When have you collected enough data to trust an AI visibility ranking? A framework that answers from the structure of the citations themselves.

Citation share accumulation over response order for top domains

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Prompt Volume vs Keyword Volume

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What Keyword Volume Had That AI Prompt Volume Doesn't: A Number You Could Check

Prompt volume promises to do keyword volume's job for answer engines, but with an extra modeling step and no first-party check. A close read of what AthenaHQ's 95%+ accuracy claim does and doesn't disclose.

Jack Westbrock

youtube-ai-search-citation-infrastructure-2026

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Why AI Search Keeps Routing Through YouTube: 2026 Data From 147,934 AI Search Queries

Data from 147,934 AI search queries across 256 brand tracking projects shows Gemini and Perplexity cite YouTube almost every time they answer a query. Here is what that means for brands that do not run a YouTube channel.

Chinmay Dhamapurkar

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Updates

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How to Tell If Your AI Search Visibility Number Is Real

AI visibility scores move because answer engines are stochastic. Here’s how to tell when a ranking is stable, the gaps are real, and the number is solid enough to act on.

Tracie Kambies

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Case Studies

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AirOps’ State of AI Search Report: What 70% Churn Means for Every Visibility Number in the Category

70% of brand appearances in AI search answers vanish on the next query run. Most visibility metrics in the category aren't built to account for it.

Kevin McCabe

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Product

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AirOps’ Asana Case Study: The Questions Behind a 71% Citation Lift

Over the past year, a new generation of answer engines, SearchGPT, Perplexity, Claude.ai, and others, has begun reshaping how people discover information.

Kevin McCabe

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Case Studies

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Profound’s Ramp Case Study: Does the Math Support the Headline?

Profound’s Ramp case study has a headline every marketer wants to put in a deck. It's worth a second look.

Kevin McCabe

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Research papers

Case Studies

Product

Guides

Updates

Prompt Volume vs Keyword Volume

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Updates

]

What Keyword Volume Had That AI Prompt Volume Doesn't: A Number You Could Check

Prompt volume promises to do keyword volume's job for answer engines, but with an extra modeling step and no first-party check. A close read of what AthenaHQ's 95%+ accuracy claim does and doesn't disclose.

Jack Westbrock

youtube-ai-search-citation-infrastructure-2026

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Guides

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Why AI Search Keeps Routing Through YouTube: 2026 Data From 147,934 AI Search Queries

Data from 147,934 AI search queries across 256 brand tracking projects shows Gemini and Perplexity cite YouTube almost every time they answer a query. Here is what that means for brands that do not run a YouTube channel.

Chinmay Dhamapurkar

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Updates

]

How to Tell If Your AI Search Visibility Number Is Real

AI visibility scores move because answer engines are stochastic. Here’s how to tell when a ranking is stable, the gaps are real, and the number is solid enough to act on.

Tracie Kambies

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Case Studies

]

AirOps’ State of AI Search Report: What 70% Churn Means for Every Visibility Number in the Category

70% of brand appearances in AI search answers vanish on the next query run. Most visibility metrics in the category aren't built to account for it.

Kevin McCabe

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Product

]

AirOps’ Asana Case Study: The Questions Behind a 71% Citation Lift

Over the past year, a new generation of answer engines, SearchGPT, Perplexity, Claude.ai, and others, has begun reshaping how people discover information.

Kevin McCabe

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Case Studies

]

Profound’s Ramp Case Study: Does the Math Support the Headline?

Profound’s Ramp case study has a headline every marketer wants to put in a deck. It's worth a second look.

Kevin McCabe

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AI search visibility you can defend

Whether you're building, buying, or briefing on AI search, get decision-grade data that holds.

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