— Resources

Reading room for operators learning the agentic channel.

Benchmarks, guides, and methodology notes for the small group of teams now treating AI recommendations as a measurable performance surface.

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Google Now measures AI Search Visibility

News

Google Now Measures Your AI Search Visibility

Google's new Search Console reports show how often your pages appear in its AI answers. Read them as the first signal, then measure ChatGPT, Gemini, and Claude.

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Primer

Agentic commerce, in plain language

What an AI shopping agent is, why ChatGPT and Claude became the new shelf, and how the loop differs from SEO.

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Benchmark

The AI commerce performance benchmark — Q1 2026

Average Visibility, Favorability and Citation Score across 200 DTC brands — and the widening gap between leaders and laggards.

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Benchmark

What gets cited in 2026: 12,000 AI shopping answers

Source-type analysis across ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini and Amazon Rufus — which providers reach for reviews vs forums vs owned vs marketplace.

10 min read →
Benchmark

Visibility vs. Favorability: which moves AI-assisted revenue?

A correlation read across the Lantern sample — and why in some categories Favorability matters more than Visibility for conversion.

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Methodology

How Lantern scores Brand AI Health

The composite formula. Why Visibility, Favorability and Citation Score are weighted across Website Signals, Brand Reputation and Content Strategy.

10 min read →
Methodology

The Citation Score: a per-URL scoring methodology

Provider count, query count, position in answer, recency — and the Own / Earned / Competitor / Social classifier behind every URL.

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Methodology

Industry Changes: a weekly diff methodology

How Lantern compares this week's AI answers against last week's, the shift detection thresholds, and how we suppress false positives.

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Guide

Make product pages legible to AI shopping agents

PDP, schema, feed and FAQ patterns the Catalog and Content agents prioritize. Before / after with schema snippets and a closing checklist.

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Guide

Writing comparison content that wins AI citations

Why "vs." pages outperform marketing copy in AI answers, the answer-shape format models prefer, and the FAQ schema that goes with it.

9 min read →
Guide

External Signals: a 30-day plan to claim your off-site authority

Wikipedia, YouTube, G2, Trustpilot, LinkedIn — a week-by-week plan for the Offsite agent, with Nova Skincare as the running example.

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Guide

Setting up your prompt set: a category-by-category playbook

The buyer-intent, branded, category and comparison prompts to track in coffee, beauty, apparel, fitness and home goods — and how to prune the rest.

10 min read →
Guide

Reading the Recommendations queue: Engine, Scanner, Long-term, Applied

Triaging Engine bundles you can ship this week against Long-term work that compounds over months, with Impact Runway and Trust Phase guiding the call.

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