
How to Score Citation Share: The 5-Component Formula
The share of AI-generated answers across a defined prompt set in which a brand appears. Five components, weighted. The only metric that matters.

The share of AI-generated answers across a defined prompt set in which a brand appears. Five components, weighted. The only metric that matters.

GEO is a discipline, not a tactic. Retrieval Architecture, Entity Authority, Citation Anchors, Cross-Engine Coverage, Measurement. The full operating system.

GEO is the discipline of becoming the answer inside ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, and Google AI Overviews. The complete definition.

Five reputation management cases that defined the discipline across four decades — Tylenol 1982, Domino's 2009, Old Spice 2010, Patagonia ongoing, NVIDIA 2022–2026. The arc from press-cycle defense to AI engine citation.

Lottery is the most under-discovered gambling category. EPR's full coverage — state lotteries, courier wars, iLottery, AOR cycles, and the AI visibility shift.

The vocabulary of AI Communications, defined. Fifteen terms — GEO, AEO, LLMO, Citation Share, Retrieval Anchor, Knowledge Graph, Entity SEO, and the rest of the working vocabulary every communications team now needs. Cluster 1 of The Communications Dictionary.

The EPR GEO Scorecard measures Citation Share — how AI engines cite the brands buyers ask about. Five-dimension formula. 750 audits per volume. Quarterly. Auditable.

Mike Heller, CEO of Talent Resources, on the second volume of the AI Casting Index with 5W AI Communications: the chatbox doesn't count followers — it checks a documented record. MrBeast and Alix Earle cracked the top ten by building one.

Haute Living's Seth Semilof on The AI Luxury 25: when five rival AI engines independently agree on which luxury houses carry authority, the agreement itself is the finding.

Answer engines — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Google AI Overviews — now answer most early-stage buyer research. The pillar on how they decide which brands get cited.