Methodology

How Compete maps a market.

A deterministic pipeline turns one URL into a defensible market view. Here's each layer, and the guardrails that keep every finding honest.

The analysis layers

Profile

A bounded crawl extracts topic, schema, measurement-stack, keyword, and AI-citation signals for the company — the same extraction later run on every competitor.

Discovery

The competitor set is auto-discovered from SERP overlap, shared ranked keywords, and AI-answer citation co-occurrence — surfacing rivals you may never have named.

SERP share & AI-citation leaderboard

Classical share of voice plus an N-competitor leaderboard of who gets cited across ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Claude — per engine and blended.

Gaps, economics & synthesis

Content and measurement gaps, a positioning map, bounded dollar opportunity, and a curated overtake plan with priced next steps. Longitudinal snapshots track movement over time.

The guardrails

Evidence or it doesn't ship

Every finding cites a real evidence row, tagged with how trustworthy that signal is.

Bounded dollars

Economic impact is always a range with stated assumptions — never a fabricated point number.

Human-in-the-loop

Nothing reaches you automatically; a human reviews and releases every deliverable.

Truth-only, WCAG-AA, AI-image disclosure, and a human release gate are inherited from Emaration and are not optional. 10% of net profit funds EOCS.

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