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Documentation Index

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Key terms

Response

An individual AI-generated answer to a prompt. Also referred to as an LLM response or chat. Each response is collected from an AI provider (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overview, Gemini, or Claude) and stored for analysis.

Prompt

A question or query sent to AI platforms. Prompts represent the search queries your target audience might ask. Example: “Which MOBA games are best for beginners?” Topify.ai sends each prompt to multiple AI providers and collects their responses over time.

Volume

Estimated AI search demand for a prompt — how frequently people are likely asking similar questions to AI tools. Derived from keyword research signals, topic coherence, and intent type. This is not a count of responses collected by Topify.ai. See Volume for details.

Visibility

A brand is visible when it appears in the list of brands extracted from a response. Visibility is a prerequisite for sentiment and position — if a brand isn’t mentioned, those metrics aren’t computed for that response.

Position rank

Your brand’s order among brands named in a response. For each response that mentions your brand, every brand is sorted by where it’s first named (lowest character offset wins); your brand’s rank in that response is its index + 1.
  • Rank 1 = you’re the first brand named
  • Rank 3 = two brands are named before you in that response
  • The dashboard shows the average rank across responses where your brand appears
Character offsets are computed internally but not surfaced in the UI. What you see is the rank.

Metrics at a glance

Topify.ai tracks five categories of metrics across your project.
MetricWhat it measuresScale
VisibilityHow often your brand appears in AI responses0—100%
SentimentHow positively your brand is portrayed0—100
PositionWhere your brand appears relative to competitorsRank (1 = best)
Share of voiceYour share of all brand-mention slots in AI answers0—100%
VolumeEstimated AI search demand for a promptEstimated monthly queries
SourcesHow your content is cited by AI providersCitation count, %, averages

What “good” looks like

Each metric describes a different facet of your AI presence. None of them stands alone — they make sense together.
  • Visibility is your share of voice inside AI answers. High visibility means your brand is consistently named when buyers ask AI about your category. It is not the same as impressions — visibility tells you whether you appear, not how many people see the answer.
  • Volume is the demand side. It estimates how often real users actually ask each prompt. A prompt with high volume but low visibility is a high-leverage gap; a prompt with high visibility but near-zero volume is a vanity win.
  • Visibility × Volume is the closest proxy to real AI-driven impressions. Optimize for prompts that score well on both.
  • Sentiment only matters once visibility exists. A high sentiment with zero visibility means nothing — there were no mentions to score.
  • Position only matters once visibility exists, for the same reason. Once you do appear, an earlier position usually translates to higher buyer recall.
  • Share of voice (SOV) complements visibility by measuring how crowded the answers are. High visibility + low SOV means you appear often but in answers that name many brands; high visibility + high SOV means you dominate the conversation.
  • Sources explain why your visibility is what it is. The websites AI cites most often for your prompts are the model’s “trusted answers” — earning a place there is one of the most direct ways to lift visibility.

Filters

All metrics can be filtered by time period, AI provider, and topic tags. For details on each filter and how they affect what’s shown on the dashboard, see Overview dashboard › Global filters.