Metrics & Scores
Key performance indicators for AI visibility
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All Metrics & Scores (21)
PIS
PIS (Prompt Impression Score) is the primary AI visibility metric, measuring what percentage of relevant user prompts result in your brand being mentioned by AI.
Also: Prompt Impression Score
SMR
SMR (Semantic Match Rate) measures the alignment between your content and the underlying intent of user queries.
Also: Semantic Match Rate
ARD
ARD (AI Reasoning Depth) measures how thoroughly AI explains and justifies its recommendation of your brand.
Also: AI Reasoning Depth
PPMA
PPMA (Prompt-Page Mapping Accuracy) measures how comprehensively your content addresses the questions users are asking.
Also: Prompt-Page Mapping Accuracy
Context Resilience Score
Context Resilience Score (CRS) measures how stable your AI visibility is when prompts are modified with different contexts, constraints, or noise.
Also: CRS, Stability Score
Model Consensus
Model consensus measures whether different AI models provide consistent information about your brand.
Also: Cross-model consistency
Sentiment
AI sentiment measures the tone and framing AI uses when discussing your brand.
Also: AI tone, Brand perception
Cross-Model Agreement
Cross-model agreement measures how often different AI models recommend the same brands for the same query.
Also: Platform agreement, AI consensus
Temporal Instability
Temporal instability refers to variance in AI recommendations over time.
Also: AI response variance, Recommendation volatility
PASOR
PASOR (Platform-Adjusted Stability of Recommendations) is a research metric that measures how consistently an AI platform recommends brands across multiple queries.
Also: Platform stability score
Citation Share
Citation share measures how often AI platforms explicitly reference and link to your content when generating answers.
Also: Source share, Citation rate
Answer Share
Answer share measures your brand's presence in AI-generated answer text, regardless of whether you are cited as a source.
Also: Response share, Mention share
Visibility Velocity
Visibility velocity measures the change in your AI visibility metrics over time.
Also: Visibility trend, Growth rate
Recommendation Momentum
Recommendation momentum tracks whether AI is recommending your brand more or less frequently over time.
Also: AI preference trend
Persona-AI Alignment
Persona-AI alignment measures whether AI recommends your brand to the right audiences.
Also: Audience alignment, ICP-AI fit
Brand Generosity Score
Brand generosity score measures how many brands an AI platform typically includes when answering recommendation queries.
Also: Platform brand density, Mention capacity
AI Impression
An AI impression occurs each time your brand appears in an AI-generated response to a user query.
Retrieval Rate
Retrieval rate measures the percentage of times your content is retrieved by AI systems using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) when users ask questions relevant to your brand or category.
Query Fan-Out
Query fan-out refers to the background queries that AI systems generate internally to gather comprehensive information for a single user question.
Narrative Control Score
Narrative control score measures the degree to which a brand influences what AI says about it -- comparing the AI's actual narrative about your brand against your intended brand messaging.
Persona Resonance Score
Persona resonance score measures how effectively AI connects your brand to specific buyer personas when those personas ask questions relevant to your products or services.
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