Methodology
A visibility score is only useful when the experiment behind it is preserved.
AIVM-1.0 separates different questions about AI visibility instead of collapsing them into one opaque monitoring mode.
Natural
Measures spontaneous brand recall without web search or forced brand context.
Grounded
Measures current, evidence-backed answers using web search and captured sources.
Competitive
Measures relative market positioning with explicit comparative framing.
Reputation
Measures trust, risk and public-perception narratives with balanced evidence.
Purchase intent
Measures recommendation behavior in decision-oriented buying contexts.
Why modes matter
Different questions require different experiments.
A brand may be spontaneously recalled in Natural Visibility but lose when the answer is grounded in current web evidence. It may rank well in general awareness yet underperform in purchase-intent prompts. Treating all of those as one score hides the actual business problem.
A comparable series preserves
Methodology is part of the evidence.
Every run persists methodology and version information. That means later trend comparisons can reject incompatible experiments instead of producing a polished but misleading chart.
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