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Understanding your results

Named, recommended, cited, absent

What do the four verdicts on the Answers screen mean?

At a glance

Cited beats recommended, which beats named, which beats absent. A “failed” cell is our error, excluded from your score with the credit refunded.

Every question × engine produces one of four verdicts. They are ordered by value.

  • Cited. The engine used your website as a source and linked it. The strongest result: you are not just mentioned, you are the evidence.

  • Recommended. You are put forward as an answer, usually with a reason. This is what most people mean by "does AI recommend me".

  • Named. You appear, but as one of a list, without a particular case being made for you.

  • Absent. You are not in the answer at all. The starting point for most businesses, and the thing the Fix Pack exists to change.

Read the answer yourself

Click any cell to read the full answer the engine gave, with your business highlighted and the model and date it came from. We show the text rather than asking you to trust the label. If you think we have read an answer wrong, the evidence is right there.

When a cell says failed

That means the engine errored on our side. Those cells are excluded from your score and the credit is refunded automatically. They are a fact about that engine, not about you.

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