r/Citedlogic

I’ve been running the same business through different AI search prompts, and I’m starting to think the idea of a single “AI ranking” is misleading.

Take a local company and test:

• “best company for X in Dallas”
• “reliable X company in Dallas”
• “who would you recommend for X in Dallas?”
• “X company for an emergency”
• “affordable X service near Dallas”

Same business. Same general service.

But ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity can produce surprisingly different recommendations depending on the intent and wording.

What seems more useful to me is measuring appearance rate across a group of prompts.

That’s what I’ve been testing with Signal AEO: prompt-level visibility, platform differences, recommendation consistency, and which sources appear alongside the recommendation.

Instead of asking:

“What position do we rank?”

I’m starting to ask:

“Across 50 realistic ways a customer could ask for this service, how often are we actually part of the answer?”

That feels much closer to what AI visibility really means.

Curious if anyone else is measuring it this way. Have you found certain types of prompts to be significantly more stable than others?

Here's an AEO experiment I'd really like to see done properly.
Take one factual claim that appears on 20 different websites.
Same underlying information.
But the pages have completely different characteristics.
One has the original source.
One has stronger domain authority.
One was updated yesterday.
One explains the claim more clearly.
One uses structured data.
One has a named expert author.
One has the shortest, cleanest answer.
One has dozens of backlinks.
Then ask AI systems questions where that specific fact is needed.
Which page actually gets cited?
I've been thinking about this while working on Cited Logic because citation analysis gets complicated very quickly once multiple sources are saying essentially the same thing.
It's tempting to say "authority wins," but I'm not convinced it's that simple.
The interesting part would be repeating the experiment across ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini and seeing whether they consistently prefer the same source.
My guess is they wouldn't.
Has anyone seen research that isolates individual citation factors like this?
I'd love to compare results.