These metrics answer four different questions:Documentation Index
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- Do you appear at all?
- How much of the conversation do you own?
- How high do you rank when you appear?
- How positively are you described?
Visibility
What it is: The percentage of tracked prompts where your brand appears in the response. How it’s calculated:Visibility tells you your reach — how broadly covered you are across the query landscape. A brand with 90% visibility appears in almost every tracked query. A brand at 30% has significant blind spots.
Share of Voice (SoV)
What it is: Your brand’s share of total appearances across all prompts, relative to all detected competitors. How it’s calculated:Position (Rank)
What it is: Where your brand appears within a response, averaged across prompts where you are detected. Position 1 means your brand is the first recommendation. Position 3 means you’re the third brand mentioned. Why it matters: AI shopping results are not equal. The first recommendation gets the most attention. A brand that consistently appears at position 1 will convert far better than one that appears at position 4, even if both have the same Visibility score.Sentiment
What it is: A supporting score that reflects the tone of your brand’s mentions in tracked responses. Sentiment helps distinguish a strong recommendation from a lukewarm or skeptical mention. Two brands can both appear in the same prompt, but one may be described as a top choice while the other is framed as a compromise.Sentiment is helpful context, not a replacement for Visibility or Rank. A positive mention still matters less if you appear rarely or too low in the result.
How the four work together
| Scenario | Visibility | SoV | Avg Rank | Sentiment | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Market leader | 95% | 40% | 1.8 | Strong | Appears almost everywhere and is framed positively |
| Strong challenger | 80% | 25% | 2.4 | Strong | Good presence, but still loses some head-to-head comparisons |
| Niche player | 60% | 15% | 1.2 | Strong | Narrow coverage, but excellent performance in the prompts it wins |
| Struggling | 35% | 8% | 3.9 | Mixed | Missing coverage and underperforming when detected |
- Increase Visibility so you appear in more prompts.
- Improve Share of Voice and Rank so you win more often inside the prompts you already reach.
- Improve Sentiment so your mentions become stronger recommendations rather than weak references.