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What Vercatus does

People now ask an AI assistant before they search, and the answer names a few brands. Vercatus shows you why AI recommends your competitors, gives you the exact changes to be recommended instead, and reads whether each one moved the answers.

It answers four questions, and every screen in the app exists to answer one of them:

  1. How visible am I? Your Answer Share: of the AI answers your market gets on your topics, the share that name or cite you, with its range, next to your competitors on the same scale.
  2. Why does AI pick them? For every topic and every competitor: the pages the engines read, the searches they run, what they know without searching, and what each engine says about you.
  3. What should I change? Plays: one specific change each, on your site or elsewhere on the web, with the evidence behind it, an expected gain, a how-to with a draft, and a check that it shipped.
  4. Did it work? A verdict on every shipped play: whether your Answer Share on its topics moved against the topics you left alone.

The four questions walks through them in the app.

One loop

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The app’s destinations follow the loop in order:

Topics → Answer Share → Why → Plays → Verdicts, with Learn underneath.

  • Topics and AI demand: what your market asks AI, as clusters of questions, each with an estimate of how many AI conversations it gets.
  • The poll asks those questions of the answer engines all day, and Answer Share counts who the answers name.
  • Why explains each gap through Sources, Search, Memory and the Engine Briefs.
  • Plays turn the evidence into changes, ranked by expected gain.
  • Verdicts say whether each shipped play worked, and how strong the evidence is.
  • Vercatus Intelligence learns from every verdict and from changes it observes across the web, and sets the expected gain of the next play.

Underneath the loop, the site audit reads your own pages as each AI crawler receives them. Its findings become evidence on the plays that fix your pages, and site-wide hygiene becomes Foundations.

What it is not

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Vercatus is not a rank tracker or a list of prompts to watch. A count of mentions tells you where you stand; it does not tell you what to change or whether the change worked. Vercatus changes the answer and reads whether it moved.

It does not publish for you. Every play’s draft is yours to edit and send, and Vercatus never contacts an editor, a reviewer or a platform on your behalf.

Where to go next

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