{
  "measured_by": "GetIntel",
  "measured_on": "2026-08-11",
  "question": "After a month of publishing, how do you tell whether AI visibility work is doing anything?",
  "window": {
    "start": "2026-07-14",
    "end": "2026-08-10",
    "days": 28
  },
  "google_search_console": {
    "total_clicks": 103,
    "total_impressions": 13274,
    "site_ctr_pct": 0.78,
    "clicks_attributed_to_named_queries": 73,
    "clicks_in_queries_google_withholds": 30,
    "withholding_note": "GSC suppresses rare queries for privacy, so the query breakdown never sums to the site total. The gap is stated rather than hidden.",
    "branded_clicks": 67,
    "branded_share_of_attributed_pct": 91.8,
    "non_brand_clicks_attributed": 6,
    "non_brand_queries": [
      "ai findability",
      "directory finder",
      "most cited domains in ai",
      "quota attainment calculator",
      "saas directories",
      "sequenzy"
    ]
  },
  "machine_traffic_signature": {
    "pattern": "An identical 11-domain exclusion list appended to a phrase: -site:reddit.com -site:twitter.com -site:x.com -site:wykop.pl -site:tripadvisor.com -site:youtube.com -site:yelp.com -site:booking.com -site:facebook.com -site:instagram.com -site:tiktok.com",
    "why_it_is_not_human": "No person types an 11-domain exclusion list, and the inclusion of wykop.pl (a Polish forum) in every instance marks it as one tool's fixed configuration.",
    "observed_in_top_45_by_clicks": 16,
    "clicks_from_them": 0,
    "reproducibility": "The count of 16 is published here but the 45 underlying query strings are not, so a reader can confirm this file says 16 without re-deriving it. Raw query exports carry their own privacy considerations. This is a weaker standard of proof than the click and citation counts, which are fully recomputable."
  },
  "ai_citations": {
    "total": 276,
    "probe_runs": 5120,
    "on_blog_paths": 221,
    "blog_paths_cited": 13,
    "on_the_blog_index_page": 7,
    "on_actual_posts": 214,
    "posts_cited": 12,
    "posts_published_in_window": 83,
    "posts_earning_zero": 71,
    "citations_on_non_blog_pages": 55,
    "tracked_prompts_naming_us": 24,
    "tracked_prompts_total": 60,
    "note": "13 distinct /blog/ paths are cited but one of them is the /blog/ index itself, which holds 7. Twelve actual posts hold 214. Corpus counted as posts published on or before 2026-08-10, the end of the measurement window; three posts published on 11 August are excluded as too new to have been cited."
  },
  "the_comparison": "Over the same period the site earned 103 Google clicks, 67 of the 73 attributable ones being the brand name, against 276 AI citations. The two scoreboards disagree by more than an order of magnitude, and only one of them is measuring the thing this work is for.",
  "publication_to_first_citation": {
    "clean_observation": {
      "slug": "single-ai-visibility-score-all-engines",
      "published": "2026-07-20",
      "first_cited": "2026-08-02",
      "days": 13
    },
    "why_only_one": "Citations in this corpus begin on 2026-07-28, so every post first cited on 28 or 29 July is floor-censored by the probe start date rather than measuring its own lag. single-ai-visibility-score-all-engines is the only post whose first citation falls clearly after that boundary while also having a known publication date inside the window.",
    "all_first_citation_dates": {
      "best-geo-tools-2026": "2026-07-12",
      "find-competitors-chatgpt-recommends": "2026-07-28",
      "definitive-llms-txt-guide": "2026-07-28",
      "ship-ai-visibility-fixes-without-engineering-backlog": "2026-07-28",
      "which-sources-ai-cites": "2026-07-28",
      "find-reddit-g2-sources-ai-cites-competitors": "2026-07-28",
      "get-cited-chatgpt-perplexity-without-agency": "2026-07-29",
      "see-perplexity-buyer-answer": "2026-07-29",
      "counter-article-brief-competitor-citation": "2026-07-29",
      "ai-brand-monitoring": "2026-08-01",
      "single-ai-visibility-score-all-engines": "2026-08-02",
      "ai-search-optimization": "2026-08-07"
    },
    "caveat": "n=1. Not a distribution, not a median, and not a promise."
  }
}