The plain explanation, no jargon

Your customer asks AI.
You are not in the answer.

MINDCEPTION measures whether your brand is named when somebody asks AI for a recommendation in your market, compares you with your competitors, explains why the gap exists and gives you a plan to close it. Then it measures again every month, with the same method.

Calibration phase: we measure a limited number of companies · Measurement within 4 working days · No access to your site or your accounts

The problem, in three sentences

1

Customers ask AI, not only Google: "who do you recommend for…". The answer arrives complete, and nobody opens your website.

2

That answer is not built from your website. It is built from what the trusted web says about you: press, encyclopedias, reviews, industry sources.

3

If the web does not say enough about you, AI names your competitor instead. It is not a website problem. It is a sources problem.

That is the part nobody sees. Our part is making it visible, measurable and fixable.

What we do, and where we are

Four steps. Only the first is live today: we are calibrating the others with a limited number of companies, and we say so instead of pretending they are on sale.

1 · Starting point

Entry measurement

A reduced set of real questions from your market, across several AI platforms. It answers one question: are you named, yes or no, and who is named instead of you?

Available today. It tells you whether this subject concerns you at all. No commitment.

2 · If the gap matters

Full audit: diagnosis and plan

More questions, more platforms, a comparison with the competitors you name, an analysis of the sources AI cites in your category, a diagnosis of the causes and a written 3-6 month plan.

In calibration. It tells you what to do, with the data in hand. We are fixing format and price on real cases.

3 · The work that continues

Monthly monitoring

The same measurement, repeated with the same method: trend over time, competitor watch, interpretation of the movements. This is the recurring service: it tells you whether the plan is working.

After calibration. It keeps you from working blind, month after month.

4 · When execution is needed

Advisory

Work on the levers that produce citations: the brand entity structure, earned media aimed at the sources AI actually cites, and content that answers your customers' questions.

Planned, not live. For when you want us to carry the execution too.

What you receive, concretely

The measurement is documented, not reduced to a number on a dashboard.

1

The measurement

Platform by platform: how often the brand is named, where it sits in the answer, and how it is described.

2

The comparison

The same data for the competitors you name. Who is mentioned, who is not, and where the gap is widest.

3

The sources

The list of sources AI cites in your category, so you can see which media and which pages build the answer.

4

Diagnosis and plan

Why the gap exists and what to do over the next 3-6 months, in priority order. With stated hypotheses, never with promises.

How we measure it (and what we do not claim to know)

We say it plainly
Why it matters to you
The questions are real customer questions, not keywords assembled in a meeting room
The measurement has to resemble the conversation your customer actually has
Being named is not the same as being recommended: we separate mention, recommendation and order in the answer
Being listed last is not the same as being the first recommendation
A limited sample is indicative, not universal, and we state that in the document
Nobody observes every conversation; anyone who claims to is selling vapour
We state the instrument used for each result (API measurement or the real interface)
APIs and the public interface can answer differently; blending them falsifies the data
No single blended score: results stay separate per platform
A number that averages everything serves the slide, not the decision

What we do not do

We do not sell guaranteed citations, link packages, or llms.txt presented as a shortcut

We do not promise rankings: we promise honest measurement and work you can verify

We do not ask for access to your site, your accounts or your data: we work on public information and on what you tell us

Who it is for, and who it is not for

It makes sense if

Your customers choose between alternatives and research before contacting you · The brand is already known but you do not know what AI says about you · You want to know which sources matter in your market · You want a number you can follow over time

It makes less sense if

You want an immediate traffic increase · Nobody in your market talks about this yet, on media or in forums · There is no decision to take from the data · You only want a PDF for a presentation

Your first step is the entry measurement

We send you the entry measurement: where your brand appears in AI answers and who appears instead. If the gap matters, we choose the next step together. If it does not, we tell you.

Your measurement within 4 working days · No commitment

Want to put your company forward for the measurement programme, or are you an agency interested in the partner programme? Write to [email protected].

Frequently asked questions

What does MINDCEPTION do, in one sentence?

It measures how often your brand is named and recommended when your customers ask AI questions, compares you with your competitors, explains why the gap exists and states what would reduce it.

What is the difference between the entry measurement and the full audit?

The entry measurement is a snapshot: it shows where the brand appears and where it does not, using a reduced set of questions. The full audit widens the sample, analyses competitors, explains the causes, lists the sources AI cites and produces a written 3-6 month plan. The full audit is currently in calibration: it is not on sale and has no public price.

What do I receive each month with monitoring?

The same measurement repeated with the same method, the trend over time, the competitor comparison and a reading of the data. If there is no movement after three months, we say so and stop.

How long before a result shows?

Measurable movement takes 3-6 months: earned press, recognition of the brand as an entity, sources that AI cites. The first changes appear in the monthly trend, not in a week.

What does the first step cost?

The entry measurement has no cost and no commitment: 5 questions, 4 platforms, 3 brands. The full audit and monthly monitoring are in calibration: we are working with a limited number of companies before fixing formats and prices. Companies in this phase pay nothing for the first step and help us calibrate the method.