The ARDI™ Platform

The operating system for
AI recommendation & discovery.

Four pillars that measure where you stand, name the state you are in, and give your team the tools to move it. This is the full ARDI™ platform.

See what those answers actually look like, and run your own brand through it, on the ARDI™ Intelligence Platform.

The platform

One platform. Four pillars. Four tools.

Four pillars that diagnose, measure, track, and protect. Four tools that change the answer. Put them together, and the number moves every month.

The intelligence · four pillars
01 · Diagnose
Snapshot
Where do you stand today?
02 · Measure
Authority
How much authority does AI give you?
03 · Track
Signal
What patterns emerge over time?
04 · Protect
Sentinel
How is AI representing your brand?
The execution · four tools
Organic

ARDI™ Content Engine

Publishes into the exact questions where AI isn’t recommending you yet.

Paid

ARDI™ Intent Marketing

Campaigns built from your discovery gaps, scored before a dollar moves.

Trust

ARDI™ Review Intelligence

Your reviews as an AI trust signal, monitored and strengthened.

Authority

ARDI™ Citation Presence

The third-party sources AI trusts, mapped, so you see where you’re cited and where you’re not.

Movement
AI recommendation growth
Targeted client opportunities
Where you land

Four states. AI recommends one.

Two questions plot every brand: does AI cite you, and does AI recommend you? Where they cross is your state, and the dashed line is the only path that ends in Full Authority.

AI RECOMMENDS YOU AI CITES YOU Unconverted Authority Invisible Borrowed Authority Full Authority
Most brands start here
InvisibleNeither cited nor recommended
Unconverted AuthorityCited, not recommended
Borrowed AuthorityRecommended, not cited
Full AuthorityCited and recommended
The measurement

Measured, not guessed.

Your state is a score, not an opinion, built from a locked, cross-comparable baseline, then delivered as a board-ready index.

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baseline observations, 50 prompts across 40 metros
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AI surfaces, from ChatGPT to Google AI Overviews
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paths, live web search and what AI already knows
ARDI™ Authority IndexSample
Brand
Brand X
Borrowed Authority
47/100
Composite ARDI™ Score
Authority State
Full
Borrowed
Unconverted
Invisible

AI recommends Brand X but does not cite it. Recommendation without proof, exposed to displacement.

90-Day Roadmap
Days 1-30Entity Foundation
31-60Content Authority
61-90Citation Amplification
Recommendation Heat Map
Think
Disc.
Dec.
ChatGPT
Gemini
Perplexity
Copilot
Competitive Displacement
Brand X28%
Rival A41%
Rival B19%

Four slices of an index that runs more than fifty pages. The full report adds per-model VSP scoring and the misattribution catalog.

The execution

The half that changes the answer.

Every other platform hands you findings and leaves. ARDI™ closes the gaps its own measurement finds, run by our team or yours. Each month the intelligence updates and the tools go back to work: measure, move, re-measure. This is where the number moves, and why ARDI™ is an operating system, not a report.

Organic

ARDI™ Content Engine

The posts, profiles, and on-brand content, published against the exact questions where AI is not recommending you yet, so the models learn to.

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Paid

ARDI™ Intent Marketing

Campaigns on Google, Meta, and more, built from your discovery gaps and scored for readiness before a dollar moves.

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Trust

ARDI™ Review Intelligence

Your reviews as an AI trust signal, monitored, with responses that strengthen exactly what the models read about you.

Explore ARDI™ Review Intelligence →
Authority

ARDI™ Citation Presence

The third-party sources AI already trusts, mapped for your category. See where the models cite you, where they cite competitors instead, and which authority gaps matter most to close.

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The framework underneath

How AI actually decides.

Every pillar is built on one model of how AI chooses who to recommend. UACR™: the path a brand travels from unknown to the answer.

UUnderstand

Does AI know what you are?

AAssociate

The right category and needs?

CCite

Do trusted sources back you?

RRecommend

Does it name you as the answer?

Questions

The questions buyers ask.

How is ARDI™ different from SEO?

SEO decides where you rank on a page of links. ARDI™ works on whether AI names you as the answer. Different layers, and ARDI covers both: the foundational SEO that keeps you findable in traditional search, and the recommendation layer above it that decides who AI picks.

How is it different from an AEO or AI-visibility tool?

Those tools measure whether AI mentions you, then stop. ARDI™ measures whether AI recommends you, then closes the gaps with the ARDI™ Content Engine, Intent Marketing, Review Intelligence, and Citation Presence. Measurement plus execution, in one accountable engagement.

How fast do brands see movement?

Most brands see measurable movement in AI recommendation within the first 30 to 90 days, depending on category and starting Authority State. ARDI™ re-audits continuously, so the movement is visible.

Which AI surfaces does ARDI™ cover?

Seven: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, Microsoft Copilot, and Google AI Overviews.

What does an engagement deliver?

Two things: the intelligence, a composite ARDI™ score, your Authority State, a per-model breakdown, a displacement analysis, and a 90-day roadmap, and the execution to act on it, the ARDI™ Content Engine, Intent Marketing, Review Intelligence, and Citation Presence, run by our team or yours.

Find out which state your brand is in.

The free ARDI™ QuickScore names your Authority State in ten minutes. No pitch deck.

Or see how ARDI™ compares to other platforms and what an engagement costs on the pricing page.