Commercial question
See where AI recommends your competitors instead of you.
Audit the commercial questions that influence revenue, trace every answer to source-level evidence, and publish a prioritized action plan.
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- Commercial questions
- The founding high-intent query set
- Source-level
- Retained evidence
- Answers, citations, and repetitions
- Evidence-gated
- Published actions
- Exceptions pause for review
Recommendation intelligence
AI visibility overview
| Commercial query | Leading competitor | Your position |
|---|---|---|
| Best CRM for agencies | HubSpot | Not listed |
| CRM with white-label reports | AgencyAnalytics | #3 |
| Affordable HubSpot alternatives | Pipedrive | #4 |
Relative mention share within the tracked competitor set.
Retained answers · source URLs · repeat observations
An answer is a signal.
The evidence makes it useful.
Follow one commercial question from a competitor recommendation to an action your team can review.
Illustrative workflow · fictional answer and finding
Explore the full sample reportRetained answer → recommendation
“HubSpot is one option for agencies looking for an integrated sales and marketing CRM.”
Citation evidence → gap
Inspect the sources behind the shortlist.
A cited competitor page describes agency workflows. The target brand’s equivalent evidence needs review.
Inspect the evidence record
- Retained artifact
- Original answer and citation URL
- Run conditions
- Question, provider, model, date, market
- Interpretation
- A source gap is a hypothesis, not proof of causation.
Prioritized action
Strengthen the agency use-case evidence.
Verify the gap, assign an owner, then retest the same commercial question under comparable conditions.
One evidence trail. Three commercial outcomes.
Measurement, interpretation, and action stay separate so every recommendation remains reviewable.
Test commercially valuable questions
Benchmark the questions buyers use to compare products, alternatives, pricing, and fit.
Trace recommendations to evidence
Inspect mentions, positions, competitor advantage, citation URLs, and differences between repetitions.
Prioritize the few actions that matter
Turn verified gaps into a short action plan ranked by evidence, value, confidence, and effort.
A defensible audit, ready for a commercial decision.
Raw answers are retained, evidence stays distinct from interpretation, and high-confidence live reports publish automatically. Exceptions pause for review.
Every delivered audit includes
- 01Technical accessibility and crawl evidence
- 02Query-level mentions, positions, and citations
- 03Competitive and owned-source gaps
- 04Confidence-scored recommendations
- 05Automatic publication or exception review
Use the method, metrics, and template before treating a score as a decision.
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Plan a B2B SaaS AI visibility audit
Select commercial questions, retain recommendation evidence, and build a repeatable measurement.
Open resourceSeparate useful signals from vanity metrics
Understand mentions, recommendations, citations, share of voice, stability, and agreement.
Open resourceRecord each answer as reviewable evidence
Use the public worksheet for scope, run conditions, evidence, actions, owners, and retests.
Open resourceRetained, not reconstructed
Original answers and source-level citations remain attached to findings.
Comparable by design
Defined questions and recorded provider conditions make repeat measurements interpretable.
Confidence made visible
Evidence, interpretation, and human review remain distinct. Uncertainty is part of the report.
Limits stated upfront
A bounded benchmark cannot promise universal rankings, inclusion, or future model behavior.
Find the questions you are missing.
Begin with a bounded free snapshot. Inspect the evidence before deciding what comes next.