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Share-of-Answer Rank

The new Google rank — for when the AI does the recommending

“Where do I rank on Google?” is becoming the wrong question. When a customer asks their AI for the best option, it names a short list — and there's room for one winner. Share-of-Answer is the percentage of that answer that is you. We measure it against your real competitors, then engineer you to #1 in the answer.

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Who owns the answer?

Across the real questions your customers ask their AI, this is the share of the recommendation each business owns. The goal isn't to appear — it's to lead.

0%your share
of the answer
Your Business ← you34%
Canyon Aesthetics27%
Red Rock Skin Co.18%
Desert Glow Spa12%
Others9%

Illustrative example. Your report ranks you against the real businesses the AI names in your category today.

Rank didn't disappear — it moved

Then · SEO rank

Your position in a list of blue links. People scrolled, compared, and clicked.

Now · AEO

Whether the AI knows and trusts you at all — do you show up in the answer?

Next · Share-of-Answer

Of everyone the AI names, what percent is you? The answer is the new first page — and there's room for one winner.

What gets measured against a competitor gets won.

The same engine that measures your Share-of-Answer feeds the plan to grow it — your Answer Layer, entity authority, content and citations — and we re-measure until you own the answer. There's one winner per question. We make it you.

Questions

What is Share-of-Answer?

When someone asks an AI assistant for a recommendation, it names a short set of businesses. Share-of-Answer is the percentage of that recommendation set that is you, measured across many real buyer questions. It's the AI-era replacement for 'where do I rank on Google'.

How do you measure it?

We run the real buyer questions your customers would ask through a web-grounded answer engine, capture who gets named, and compute each business's share of the answer — you versus every competitor. You get a ranked leaderboard and your exact share.

How is this different from your AI Visibility score?

The AI Visibility score tells you how ready and recommendable you are. Share-of-Answer is competitive: it ranks you directly against the specific rivals the AI names instead of you, so you know exactly who to overtake and by how much.

Can you actually move it?

Yes — that's the point. The same engine that measures the gap feeds the fix plan (your Answer Layer, entity authority, content and citations) and we re-measure until you own the answer. What gets measured against a competitor gets won.

Is the leaderboard on this page real?

It's an illustrative example. Your report uses your real category, city and the actual businesses the AI names today. Text Rudy to run yours.

Find out whose answer it is right now.

We'll run your real category and city, show you your Share-of-Answer and exactly who's beating you — then engineer you to the top of the answer.