Glossary

Every Rivarise term defined in one place, from citation rate to share of answer.

Every Rivarise term in one place.

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AEO: Answer engine optimization. Making a brand more likely to be cited inside AI-generated answers, as distinct from ranking in a list of links.
Answer position: When you are cited, how early you appear relative to other brands named in the same answer. Reported as an average rank, where lower is better.
Answer text: The complete response an engine returned for a check, stored in full and readable in Results. Every other metric is derived from it.
Check: One prompt submitted to one engine at one time. Check volume is prompts multiplied by engines on every run.
Citation: A reference to your tracked domain in an answer, whether as a link, a listed source, or a brand mention in the prose. A mention without a link still counts.
Citation rate: Checks with a citation divided by checks completed, over the selected range. Shown on the dashboard as the Visibility Score.
Competitor: A rival domain you add so its citations are tracked alongside yours. Adding one consumes no prompt quota.

Domain: A site Rivarise looks for in answers. Matching is on the registrable domain, so subdomains and paths are covered by one entry.
Engine: One of the nine AI systems Rivarise queries. See The nine AI engines.
Engine drift: An engine materially changing its answer about you without any change on your side, usually after a model update. Detectable as an alert from the Growth plan.
Fix suggestion: A generated recommendation raised when a citation rate drops by more than 15 percent, categorized as Content Gap, Authority Signals, Brand Mentions or Structured Data.
History window: How long results are retained: 7 days on Free, 30 on Starter, 90 on Growth, unlimited on Business and Agency.
Intent: The label on a prompt: Problem Aware, Solution Aware, Comparison, Brand Specific or Competitor. Used for grouping, not for how the question is asked.

PPS: Prompt Performance Score. A 0 to 100 figure weighting citation rate 50 percent, answer position 20 percent, sentiment 20 percent and consistency 10 percent.
Prompt: A question Rivarise asks the engines on your behalf, written as a person would actually ask it rather than as a keyword.
Proxy engine: An engine measured through the closest available model from the same provider family, used where no public consumer API exists. Labelled in the application.
Run: One scheduled pass in which every active prompt is submitted to every engine on your plan. Daily on paid plans, weekly on Free.
Sentiment: Whether a citation describes you positively, neutrally or negatively. Available from Starter.
Share of answer: The proportion of checks in which a given brand was cited, used to rank you against tracked competitors.
Visibility Rank: Your position against tracked competitors by citation rate over the selected range.
Visibility Score: The dashboard name for your citation rate as a percentage.
Workspace: The tenant that owns your domains, prompts, results, billing and team. Every record is scoped to exactly one workspace at the database layer.