- Filters — All topics, region, period (7d / 30d / 60d / 90d), and the lightbulb Insights button.
- Metric toggle — switch the whole screen between Mention rate and Rank.
- Engine filter and the Competitors switch — narrow to one AI engine, or turn the competitor comparison on and off.
- Share of Voice (SoV) — each brand’s slice of the mention space, as one bar.
- Mention rate by topic — you versus competitors, topic by topic.
- Citations — the domains and pages AI answers cite.
What’s on the screen
The filters at the top
Select a retired version and the period picker is replaced by a Full version history chip — that version’s window is the whole era it was live for, so 7/30/60/90 doesn’t apply.
The top card: overall mentions
The big number on the left is your Mention rate (say, 34.2%) or your Mention rank (say, #2.4). The badge next to it compares this period against the immediately preceding window of the same length — on 7d, the 7 days before it. The line underneath tells you the denominator: “Across all 1,240 responses, 424 mention your brand” means 1,240 AI answers were collected and 424 named you. The trend chart shows day by day movement inside the window.- With Competitors on, you get your own line plus up to 4 competitor lines. The scoreboard lists everyone; the chart caps at 4 so it stays readable.
- The Fixed scale checkbox pins the vertical axis to 0–100% instead of zooming to the data band. It doesn’t apply to rank.
- A dashed vertical line marks a day your setup changed. Hover it for the reason, such as Prompt panel version changed.
Share of Voice (SoV)
In plain words: how much of the brand conversation inside AI answers is yours. It doesn’t just count mentions — it weights each one by how early you’re named (a mention near the top counts for much more) and how much of the answer is about you (a paragraph beats a passing line). That total is divided by the same figure for you plus every tracked competitor, which is why the SoV column adds up to 100% across the scoreboard. On the bar, any brand at 2% or less is rolled into a grey Other segment — their individual numbers are still in the table.Mention rate by topic
- Focusing on / Winning / Gaps / Custom — the four tabs that change which topics are listed.
- vs last week — the change column for each topic (see the warning below for how it’s calculated).
Citations
This card counts the source links AI answers leaned on. Switch between Domains (whole sites) and Pages (individual URLs); the table shows up to 6 rows.The Insights panel
The lightbulb button opens a panel with up to 6 cards, drawn from the period you’re looking at.Reading the numbers
A few things worth knowing:
- If your brand appears several times in one answer, mention rate still counts it once.
- A prompt that literally names your brand is weighted down to 10%, so “is Acme any good?” can’t inflate your numbers. The topic card excludes branded and comparison prompts entirely.
- Mention rank compares you against every brand the answer named, including ones you don’t track — so a brand that never shows on the scoreboard can still push your rank down. SoV counts tracked competitors only.
- If the previous window has no measurement at all, the change badge shows — rather than 0. “Not measured” isn’t “flat”.
- SoV and #1 share carry no change badge.
How the data is collected
Your prompts are asked once a day, at the hour set for your workspace, of every engine your plan measures. The engine icons on the page are exactly the engines with data in the selected window. The platform supports ChatGPT, Google AI Overview, Google AI Mode, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, Copilot, Naver AI Mode, DeepSeek and Amazon Rufus. Competitors come from two places: the ones you add yourself, and the ones found in AI answers. Discovery runs on your first analysis and then roughly monthly, and keeps up to 20. A competitor that stops appearing is set aside rather than deleted, so its history survives if it comes back.How to use it
1
Weekly check
Leave the period on 7d, read the big number and its change badge, and glance at the Share of Voice (SoV) bar. Then open the lightbulb Insights panel and click a card to apply its view to the chart.
2
Find who's beating you
With Competitors on, click Rate in the scoreboard header to sort, then click the top competitor’s row. The chart redraws as them versus your dashed line. Click again to clear.
3
Compare engines
Turn Competitors off and the scoreboard becomes a per-engine table. Click an engine row to scope the card to it; click Overall to go back.
4
Find topics to work on
In Mention rate by topic, click Gaps for the five topics where competitors lead you most. Click a row for its trend, then Prompts → for the questions behind it.
FAQ
What does the change badge next to the big number compare against?
What does the change badge next to the big number compare against?
The immediately preceding window of the same length — on 7d, the previous 7 days. If there’s no measurement in that prior window, the badge is left blank rather than showing 0.
Then why does the topic table's vs last week move differently?
Then why does the topic table's vs last week move differently?
That column is the change from the first measured day to the last measured day inside the window you’re looking at, not a period-versus-period comparison.
My mention rate dropped right after a prompt panel change.
My mention rate dropped right after a prompt panel change.
A new version asks different questions, so the denominator changed — it isn’t the same measurement. That’s why the page scopes to one version at a time, and why the chart marks the day with a Prompt panel version changed tooltip. Compare within a version.
My mention rate is high but my SoV is low. Why?
My mention rate is high but my SoV is low. Why?
Mention rate counts how often you appear. SoV measures how much of the brand conversation is yours. If you’re always named last in a single line while a rival gets a paragraph up top, you can have a high rate and a low SoV.
A brand I keep seeing in answers isn't on the scoreboard.
A brand I keep seeing in answers isn't on the scoreboard.
It isn’t tracked. Untracked brands still sit in the ranking pool and can push your mention rank down, but they contribute nothing to SoV and get no row. Add it as a competitor in settings to bring it in.
A day says it's being verified instead of showing a number. Is my visibility zero?
A day says it's being verified instead of showing a number. Is my visibility zero?
No. When the answers behind a day are under verification, the page withholds the number rather than publishing one that would read as a decline. It comes back when verification finishes.
Where do I read the actual AI answers?
Where do I read the actual AI answers?
Open the lightbulb Insights panel and click a card’s Mentions link. That takes you to Mentions for the full answer text.
Related
Mentions
Read the actual AI answers behind these numbers.
Citation
See every domain and page AI answers cite.
Prompts
Review and edit the questions being measured.
Reading the numbers
Which metric answers which question.