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    The ERA Scorecard: our own AI visibility, published

    Most agencies that sell AI visibility never publish their own. This page does. Every week we run a fixed set of buyer-intent prompts against ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok, and record whether Smart Money Media is mentioned — wins, misses, and the competitors that surface instead.

    This is the same measurement we run for clients, pointed at ourselves. Numbers below are pulled live from our tracking database — not curated screenshots.

    Current scorecard

    13.8%
    Overall mention rate
    95% CI 7.2–24.9%
    58
    Engine responses recorded
    Error-free runs
    13
    Prompts tracked
    Buyer-intent queries
    4
    Engines tested
    ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok
    Smart Money Media mention rate by AI engine on tracked buyer-intent prompts
    EngineResponsesMentionsMention rate95% CI
    Gemini (Google)14214.3%4.0–39.9%
    Grok (xAI)14214.3%4.0–39.9%
    Perplexity14214.3%4.0–39.9%
    ChatGPT (OpenAI)16212.5%3.5–36.0%

    Tracking window: August 4, 2026 – August 25, 2026. Page data generated .

    Who the engines name instead

    • edelman · 11
    • weber shandwick · 7
    • 5wpr · 5
    • walker sands · 3
    • prnewswire · 3
    • businesswire · 3
    • prowly · 2
    • prweb · 2
    • fleishmanhillard · 1
    • walkersands · 1
    • einpresswire · 1

    Most-cited domains in these answers

    • support.google.com · 17
    • reddit.com · 13
    • linkedin.com · 10
    • youtube.com · 8
    • smartmoneymedia.org · 8
    • help.openai.com · 6
    • reverbico.com · 4
    • f6s.com · 4
    • forbes.com · 4
    • openpr.com · 4
    • contently.com · 4
    • developers.google.com · 3

    How this is measured

    • A fixed set of buyer-intent prompts (the kind a prospect would actually type) runs on a weekly schedule against each engine's API with no brand priming in the system prompt.
    • Each response is scored with word-boundary matching on "Smart Money Media" and its variants, and competitor names are extracted from the same text.
    • Runs that error out are excluded rather than counted as misses, so the denominator is successful responses only.
    • Mention rates carry Wilson 95% confidence intervals; at low run counts those intervals are wide, and we show them rather than hide them.

    Limitations

    This is a small, ongoing tracking panel — not a large-sample study. Sample sizes per engine are modest, engine model versions change without notice, API responses can differ from what a logged-in consumer sees in the chat UI, and results are specific to our prompt set. Treat every number as directional. For a larger designed study, see The Reference Authority Report.

    Why we publish our misses

    Engineering Reference Authority is a long game: engines cite what they have absorbed, and absorption lags publication. Showing the gap while we close it is more useful to a buyer than a screenshot of a single lucky answer — and it is the same honest baseline we give clients on day one.

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    Press-ready citation kit

    This study is licensed CC BY 4.0. Quote it, chart it, or re-run it — attribution to Smart Money Media and a link back to the study is all we ask. Everything below is copy-and-paste ready.

    Pull-quote-ready findings

    • Self-published measurement

      “Smart Money Media publishes a live scorecard of its own AI visibility — running a fixed set of buyer-intent prompts weekly against ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and Grok and reporting every miss alongside every mention.”

    • Why misses are published

      “Engines cite what they have already absorbed, so absorption lags publication. Showing the gap while it closes is more useful to a buyer than a screenshot of one lucky answer.”

    • Method

      “Each response is scored with word-boundary brand matching, errored runs are excluded from the denominator, and mention rates are reported with Wilson 95% confidence intervals.”

    Attribution & citation

    In-article attribution line
    According to The ERA Scorecard: Smart Money Media's own AI visibility, original research published by Smart Money Media (https://smartmoneymedia.org/research/era-scorecard).
    Formal citation
    Smart Money Media. (2026). The ERA Scorecard: Smart Money Media's own AI visibility. Smart Money Media. https://smartmoneymedia.org/research/era-scorecard
    HTML credit
    <p>Source: <a href="https://smartmoneymedia.org/research/era-scorecard">The ERA Scorecard: Smart Money Media's own AI visibility</a> — Smart Money Media</p>