Every conclusion should trace back to its sampling conditions and its raw evidence.
This note covers one cycle of GEO monitoring, from freezing scope and designing prompts through controlled-browser collection, screenshot evidence and source review to re-measurement. Each platform uses 50 prompts every 72 hours; each prompt is executed once per platform by default.
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Workflow
Six steps that leave a checkable record
Freeze the scope: confirm the brand entity, website, products, markets, languages, competitors and the goal of this cycle.
Build the prompt map: freeze 50 prompts per platform: 44 unbranded discovery/comparison questions and 6 branded fact checks.
Collect on a fixed browser cycle: follow the normal consumer product-page path every 72 hours and execute each prompt once per platform by default, retaining platform, entry point, time, region, language and session conditions.
Archive the raw evidence: keep the answer text, page screenshot, mention position, cited URLs, source records and anomalies — not just a summary.
Compute on a fixed basis: use one consistent denominator, de-duplication rule and missing-value rule within a report, and keep observation separate from interpretation.
Act and re-measure: give each issue an owner, an acceptance standard and a re-check date, then compare on exactly the same basis.
Core metrics
Metrics, not a mysterious overall score
Mention rate
The share of valid in-scope answers containing the target brand or a verified alias.
Recommendation position
Whether the brand appears as a candidate or a suggestion, kept with its context. This is not a platform’s official ranking.
Factual accuracy
Verifiable claims in an answer compared item by item against confirmed facts, excluding statements that cannot be judged.
Citation coverage
Whether an answer gives a resolvable source, separated into official, independent third party, competitor, aggregator and wrong-entity.
Source diversity
Sources de-duplicated by resolvable domain, to show the shape of the source mix rather than treating citation count as quality.
Like-for-like change
A difference is read as a trend only when scope, prompts, execution conditions and metric version are all comparable.
Evidence levels
Every claim states what it rests on
Independently verified: an applicable regulatory, certification, inspection or other independent source matches on entity, product, time and scope.
Officially published: observed on the brand’s own channels, and worded accordingly — “published on the company website” or “stated by the company”.
Client-confirmed: confirmed explicitly by the client. Usable in the project’s fact base, never presented as independent third-party proof.
Unverified claim: carried as a question to be checked, never written into a conclusion or a prompt as unqualified fact.
Limits and uncertainty
A sample observation is not the truth about a platform
Generative AI output can change with time, location, language, account, session history, model version and plain randomness. Citation panels can also change, collapse or become unavailable. So a report describes what was observed within a stated sampling scope. It is not extrapolated to whole-platform coverage, and it promises no fixed ranking, indexing, traffic or revenue.