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Competitor tracking

One question, asked once: who does the AI name first, who later, and who not at all.

How it compares

Same prompts, same day, same ruler

Headline metric

First-mention rate (approximate)

Denominator

Identical to your own score's

Where rivals come from

You name them; we don't guess

The shape of it

This diagrams the concept, not the UI — screenshots go stale on every redesign; structure doesn't.

Who gets named first for the same questionSame question · same day · same rulerRival Anamed 1st in the answerYou2ndRival B3rd★Ranked only within the brands you registered.Third parties named in the answer are invisible to us.

What it does

First-mention rate

In what share of cells you're the first brand named in the answer — closer to real competitiveness than mere presence.

Side by side, same frame

You and your rivals on the same prompts and the same day — no cherry-picking your best day against their worst.

Drill into individual prompts

Equal totals hide a lot — usually you're winning half the prompts and losing the other half.

How to get going

  1. 1

    Add the rivals

    Name and aliases is all it takes. They never enter the public benchmark sample — a rival is someone else's brand.

  2. 2

    They share your existing prompts

    No separate setup. Comparison only works on identical prompts; a second set would be a different ruler.

  3. 3

    See who gets named first

    Read the first-mention rate with the per-prompt detail: one gives the verdict, the other tells you what to fix.

How it actually works

These live behind a login, so you can't verify them on the spot. That's exactly why the mechanics are spelled out here; each line maps to a specific implementation.

The denominator is shared with your own score

First-mention rate is first-position cells over all qualifying cells — the same denominator as your visibility score, which is what makes brands comparable.

★It's approximate — and it flatters you

We can only rank within the brands you track. The answer may name third parties you never registered, ranked ahead of you and invisible to us — so your first-mention rate skews high. That caveat lives in our source code, and it belongs here too.

"Named first" is not "recommended first"

A brand can appear first in a preamble, as background, even as a counter-example. Treat it as a strong directional signal, not a precise rank.

What it can't do

This section matters as much as the ones above. Leaving it out would decide "this fits me" on your behalf.

  • It can't see rivals you never registered; it only ranks within your list.
  • It doesn't reverse-engineer a rival's content strategy, and it won't copy it for you.
  • It isn't a precise ranking — don't publish it as a leaderboard.

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Competitor tracking · OrcaScope