Public competitive baseline

SmartSites is making the shortlist. AI still isn’t consistently giving buyers a reason to prefer it.

That is not a visibility problem. It is a preference problem.

Based on 10 answers from 1 of 5 assistants, recorded by us before contacting you — nothing here came from your team. The full record behind it is complete and available to you.

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The question a buyer asked

“Is SmartSites a good choice for agency?”

SmartSites was the recommended choice in this answer.

The buyer is still forming a view of the market at this point.

consideration

Read the full answer the buyer would see

SmartSites is a digital marketing agency that offers a range of services, including SEO, PPC, web design, and social media marketing. Whether SmartSites is a good choice for your agency depends on several factors: 1. **Expertise and Services**: SmartSites has a strong reputation in the industry, particularly for its SEO and PPC services. If these align with your agency's needs, it could be a good fit. 2. **Client Reviews**: Look at client testimonials and case studies to gauge their success and client satisfaction. Reviews on platforms like Clutch or Google can provide insight into their performance. 3. **Industry Experience**: Consider whether they have experience in your specific industry. Agencies that understand your market can often deliver better results. 4. **Budget**: Evaluate their pricing structure to ensure it fits within your budget. Compare their services and pricing with other agencies to determine value. 5. **Communication and Support**: Assess their communication style and support options. A responsive and supportive agency can make a significant difference in your collaboration. 6. **Customization**: Determine if they offer tailored solutions that fit your specific goals rather than a one-size-fits-all approach. 7. **Long-Term Partnership**: Consider whether you are looking for a long-term partnership. Agencies that prioritize building relationships may be more invested in your success. Ultimately, it's essential to conduct thorough research and possibly schedule a consultation to discuss your needs and see if SmartSites aligns with your agency's goals.

ChatGPT · gpt-4o-mini · 2026-08-24

Where SmartSites stops moving

Across the 10 answers recorded in this baseline.

Mentioned

Shortlisted

Recommended

Preferred

SmartSites appears in 1 answers and is carried through to a recommendation in none of them.

AI is talking about SmartSites without citing SmartSites.

Every answer we recorded, and where it came from.

answers that describe SmartSites to a buyer

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of them cite an official SmartSites source

If AI is going to explain your company to a buyer, whose version of the facts is it using?

Two more questions we recorded

Ranked by how close each sits to a purchase decision.

“What is the best agency provider?”

SmartSites never came up in this answer.

The "best" agency provider can vary greatly depending on your specific needs, industry, and goals. Here are a few types of agency providers and some well-regarded names in each category: 1. **Marketing Agencies**: - **Wieden+Kennedy**: Known for creative advertising campaigns. - **Ogilvy**: Offers a wide range of marketing services, including digital marketing and PR. - **HubSpot**: Focuses on inbound marketing and provides tools for content marketing and lead generation. 2. **Digital Marketing Agencies**: - **Neil Patel Digital**: Specializes in SEO and content marketing. - **Disruptive Advertising**: Focuses on PPC and conversion rate optimization. - **Ignite Visibility**: Offers a full suite of digital marketing services. 3. **Public Relations Agencies**: - **Edelman**: One of the largest PR firms with a global reach. - **Weber Shandwick**: Known for its strategic communications and reputation management. - **FleishmanHillard**: Offers a wide range of PR services and has a strong focus on digital. 4. **Creative Agencies**: - **BBDO**: Renowned for its creative advertising work. - **Leo Burnett**: Known for its storytelling approach in advertising. - **DDB**: Offers innovative marketing solutions and creative campaigns. 5. **Social Media Agencies**: - **Social Chain**: Focuses on social media marketing and influencer partnerships. - **Hootsuite**: While primarily a social media management tool, they also offer consulting services. - **Sprout Social**: Similar to Hootsuite, with a focus on analytics and engagement. When choosing an agency, consider factors such as their expertise in your industry, client testimonials, case studies, and whether their values align with your brand. It's often beneficial to have initial consultations with a few agencies to see which one feels like the best fit for your needs.

ChatGPT · 2026-08-24

“Which agency platform would you recommend for an enterprise?”

SmartSites never came up in this answer.

Choosing the right agency platform for an enterprise depends on various factors, including the specific needs of the organization, the industry, budget, and the features required. Here are some popular agency platforms that are well-suited for enterprises: 1. **HubSpot**: Known for its comprehensive marketing, sales, and service tools, HubSpot offers a robust CRM and a suite of marketing automation features that can be tailored for enterprise needs. 2. **Salesforce**: A leading CRM platform that provides extensive customization options, Salesforce can be integrated with various marketing and sales tools, making it suitable for large enterprises. 3. **Marketo**: A powerful marketing automation platform, Marketo is ideal for enterprises looking to manage complex marketing campaigns and customer engagement strategies. 4. **Adobe Experience Cloud**: This suite offers tools for analytics, content management, and marketing automation, making it suitable for enterprises focused on delivering personalized customer experiences. 5. **Oracle Marketing Cloud**: This platform provides a range of marketing solutions, including data management and customer engagement tools, which can be beneficial for large organizations. 6. **Asana or Trello**: For project management, these platforms can help teams collaborate effectively, manage tasks, and track progress on various projects. 7. **Slack or Microsoft Teams**: For communication and collaboration, these platforms are widely used in enterprises to facilitate team interactions and project discussions. 8. **Wrike**: A versatile project management tool that offers features for collaboration, reporting, and resource management, making it suitable for enterprise-level projects. 9. **Zoho One**: An all-in-one suite that includes CRM, project management, and various business applications, Zoho One can be a cost-effective solution for enterprises. 10. **Basecamp**: While simpler than some other options, Basecamp is effective for project management and team collaboration, especially for teams that prefer a straightforward interface. When selecting a platform, consider conducting a needs assessment, evaluating user reviews, and possibly requesting demos to see how well the platform fits your enterprise's specific requirements.

ChatGPT · 2026-08-24

Your platform measures the outcome.
We work on what produces it.

You already know where you stand. What measurement does not show is what the answer was assembled from.

Measure

Visibility
Mentions
Competitor position
Trends

What we work on

Which facts about you an assistant can find
Whether they come from a source it will use
Where your own version is missing from the answer
How that changes across the questions that matter

What decides the answer

Nobody tells an assistant which sources to trust. It decides that on every single answer — and the only thing you control is what it finds about you when it looks.

What it reads

Third-party write-ups, retailer pages, forums, review sites — 10 of the 10 answers we recorded were built this way.

What it doesn’t

Your own published facts. Across this baseline, an official SmartSites source was cited 0 times.

What that means

The version of SmartSites a buyer hears is assembled from other people’s descriptions of you, not from yours.

This is the part your monitoring platform reports on but does not reach. We work on the layer underneath it: which facts about SmartSites are available to an assistant, in what form, from a source it will actually use.

What you actually get

Not a report and not a dashboard of scores. A maintained layer of facts about SmartSites that an assistant can find, plus the record of what it does with them.

/fact-center

Facts, with their state

Product line & categories verified

Certifications held verified

Positioning vs alternatives needs review

Pricing & availability not published

Each fact carries its source and the date it was confirmed.

/company/smartsites

Machine-readable profile

.jsonld.yaml .md.txt .html

Structured factslive

Verification statelive

Recent changeslive

The form an assistant can actually read and cite.

/monitoring

What the answers do next

“Is SmartSites a good choice for agency?…” tracked

ChatGPT10

10answers on record

0 cite you today

So: software, not a report. The record you see on this page is the starting point. What you run afterwards is a maintained fact layer for SmartSites and continuous monitoring of what assistants do with it.

456 / 1,501

company domains we scanned already publish a machine-readable fact layer or explicit rules for AI systems

Measuring and managing are two different jobs

Measuring tells you the score. It does not change what the score is calculated from. Both matter — and only one of them is something you can act on.

SmartSites publishes no fact layer and no rules for AI systems. Everything an assistant says about you today, it assembled without you.

What your team takes into a budget review

The answers themselves

Quotable, each with its date and the assistant that produced it.

The source gap

1 answers describe SmartSites; 0 of them cite SmartSites.

Where the brand stops moving

Mentioned 1 → recommended 0 → preferred 1.

What is actually controllable

Which facts about SmartSites an assistant can reach, and which it cannot.

Every line above traces back to a recorded answer with a timestamp and a provider — which is what holds up in a review, unlike a score whose method nobody can see.

The uncomfortable part

You already have the score. If a competitor keeps winning the same commercial questions:

Do you know why?
Can you change one thing without changing everything else?
Can you prove that it moved the outcome?
Can you repeat it?

If the answer is no, that is a reporting system, not a growth system.

Fix what assistants say about you

Every prompt, every answer in full, every source behind it, broken down by assistant. It is a record about SmartSites, so we release it to a verified smartsites.com address rather than publishing it.

Fix this →

The record stays with your team. Keep Profound, Scrunch, Peec, Semrush or whatever you use now — this works on the layer underneath what they measure, and does not replace them.

Who sees this record

Released to a verified smartsites.com address only. Not indexed, not published, not shared with third parties.

Built for regulated work

We already run this method for FDA- and FCC-regulated manufacturers, where a claim about a product has to survive scrutiny.

Every claim is traceable

Each statement links to the answer it came from, with the provider and the timestamp. Nothing here is a modelled estimate.

Assistants in this baseline

ChatGPT10 answers recorded

ClaudeNot included in this run

GeminiNot included in this run

PerplexityNot included in this run

GrokNot included in this run

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AuthorityPrompt

We maintain the layer of verified company facts that AI assistants read, and we track what they say afterwards.

Where we are

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Security

SOC 2
SSO for team accounts
Data encrypted in transit and at rest

Your record

Released to verified company domains only
Never indexed or resold
Deleted on request

How this was measured

Buying questions	10
Answers recorded	10
Requests attempted	50
Assistants that answered	ChatGPT
Recorded	2026-08-24 20:36 UTC

Every answer is reproduced as the assistant returned it at the time shown, with the classification shown next to the answer it came from — so your team can check it line by line, and quote it where a number without a method would not hold up. Each answer carries the assistant, the date and the sources it drew on, so a business case can be built on the record rather than on an estimate.

Independent AuthorityPrompt profile based on publicly available sources. This company has not claimed or verified this profile and is not an AuthorityPrompt customer.