Glossary
Definitions of GetIntel's own product terms, from answer states and visibility to topic score, win rate, open slots, tasks and AI readiness.
This glossary covers GetIntel’s own product terms. For industry terms such as GEO, AEO, llms.txt, AI visibility and AI findability, see the main glossary.
Absent: an answer that names other products but not you. See Answer states.
Action access: permission on an MCP token to change your task list and run technical re-checks, not just read.
AI crawlers: AI engines’ bots reading your pages, from your Cloudflare analytics.
AI readiness score: whether each engine can reach, read and use your key pages, 0 to 100. See AI readiness score.
AI visitors: people who arrive on your site from an AI assistant.
Answer state: how your brand appears in one answer: recommended, mentioned, absent, open or no answer.
Brand perception: whether AI knows your brand and would recommend it, measured weekly.
Buyer question (prompt): a question a real buyer asks an AI engine, tracked daily.
Citation: in GetIntel, a page an answer links to as a source, counted per answer. See Citations vs mentions.
Confirmed task: a task seen on at least 2 days or backed by at least 3 answers.
Found: a topic’s score, how often AI names you unprompted on it over 7 days. See Topic score.
Head-to-head: a daily question that asks an engine to choose between you and a named rival.
Hidden strength: a topic status where you win comparisons but AI rarely brings you up.
Layer: a group of tasks: On-Page, Off-Page, UGC or Technical.
Mention: your brand’s name appearing in an answer.
Mentioned: an answer that names you, but not first.
No answer: the engine returned nothing to read; left out of scores.
Open (open slot): an answer that names no product at all, a slot any brand could fill. See what an open slot means.
Position: where you appear among the products an answer names, from 1. See Position.
Recommended: an answer that names you first.
Share of voice: your share of all brand mentions in the answers. See Share of voice.
Source type: how a cited site is classed: corporate, editorial, UGC, reference, competitor or you.
Topic: a group of buyer questions about one subject, scored on its own.
Topic score: how often AI names you unprompted on a topic over 7 days, shown as Found. See Topic score.
Visibility: how often AI names you, averaged across your buyer questions. See Visibility.
Weekly plan: this week’s chosen tasks, 2 On-Page, 2 Off-Page, 1 UGC and 1 Technical by default.
Win rate: how often AI picks you in head-to-heads, among answers that pick a side. See Win rate.