Use case · Competitive gap
Close the gap with the competitors the AIs recommend
An engine that recommends a rival is leaning on pages you can name. Epovest turns a basket of your competitors into the list of places that corroborate them, marks on each whether you are there, and gives the gap what it was missing: an order of work, and dates.
Views from the app. Your figures replace the sample at the first survey.
Why them and not you? Read it as a list of places
An engine reaches for the names it can corroborate: behind a recommendation stand the pages that carry it. The gap between a rival and you is that difference, and it reads: a Competitor Scan asks your engine about each name of the basket, keeps every page the answers cite, and groups them into places, each marked with whether your name is on it. What comes back is not an impression of being behind, it is the list of the places doing the work, ranked by how much of your market each one carries.
What you measure
The places that corroborate them
Every page the engine cites about the basket, grouped by domain and ranked by how many of the names each place covers: cited about one, an article; cited about all, a crossroads of your market.
Where your name is missing
Each place says whether your name is on it. The ones that carry several names of the basket and none of yours are the gap, one line each.
The weight of each place
Every place carries its AI Authority and its way in: which absence weighs most on the engine you want to move, and the move that takes you there.
The gap over time
Your share of voice next to those same names, check after check, and every mention you earn dated: the distance stops being an impression and becomes a curve.
The recipe
How to close a competitive gap with Epovest
The full working guide for this use: a basket of rivals turned into the places that corroborate them, the absences sorted into a work file, one errand per place, each earned mention recorded as dated proof, and the distance re-read on the scoreboard.
The basket: the names the engines actually reach for
Three to five companies of your market, each with its website: the domain is what tells two companies with the same name apart.
Put in the basket the names the answers actually return, not the ones you had in mind: if you run a ranking tracker, its scoreboard names them; otherwise start from the names your buyers compare you with. The scan derives four questions per company, asked in the language of the market, and shows every one before anything is spent: reword them, untick the ones you do not need. The rival is not the subject here, it is the instrument: what you are buying is the map of your market's places, provoked through the names already on it.
Read the map: coverage first, weight second
The scan reads a few minutes after you arm it: every cited page kept, grouped into places, ranked by how many of the basket each covers, then by AI Authority.
1 The crossroads
The places cited about most of the basket carry the market itself: comparisons, directories, the trade press. On each of them, one column matters here: your name is on it, or not yet.
2 The gap, line by line
Keep the places that cover several rivals and none of you, and sort them by the AI Authority of the engine you want to move: that order is your work order, heaviest absence first.
One quest per place to enter
Each place says the move that takes you there: open your page, join the conversation, pitch the editor, file the listing.
Target a page and it lands in your quest file, named after its place. Work the file one errand at a time, the way a position is actually worked: a listing filed here, a comparison entered there, an editor answered. Quests holds the queue, so a week away loses nothing: the file says where the work resumes.
Each mention earned becomes a dated proof
The day a place publishes you, record the page as a corroboration, with its date and its request channel.
A corroboration is your side of the map: the page where your name now stands, kept as dated proof. Arm weekly monitoring on the ones that carry weight: if your line drops out of a comparison or the passage changes, you know it the same week. And every source a scan surfaces enters your Atlas with its AI Authority: the map you provoked through the rivals is now yours.
Re-read the distance on the scoreboard
A gap closes on measures, not on memories: the same names, the same prompts, check after check.
Keep a tracker running with those rivals as keywords: your citation rate reads next to theirs, engine by engine, and each earned mention becomes an annotation on the curve the day you date it in the Logbook. Set the monthly rescan: each pass widens the map, and the places you entered now read with your name on them. What moved after an errand is your proof; what did not move is your next quest.
Worked example
Two rivals ahead on ChatGPT
A scan on four names of the market, on ChatGPT, in the market's language. It returns thirty-one places; nine cover at least three of the basket, and four of those nine carry you nowhere. Four quests, heaviest AI Authority first: a comparison entered, a directory listing filed, two editors pitched. Three weeks later two pages are live, recorded as corroborations, dated in the Logbook, monitoring armed. The next checks say whether the engine follows, and the monthly rescan keeps the two remaining absences in sight.
With your AI assistant
Your AI assistant runs this recipe with you
Connect Epovest to the assistant you already use, one-click connector or API key. It creates trackers, reads the results and keeps the registers with you; a payment only ever happens with your approval.
The instruction to give it
Connect to Epovest and run a competitor scan on [rival one], [rival two] and [rival three], on [engine]. When it reads, list the places that cover at least two of them where my name is missing, ranked by AI Authority, and open one quest per place with its way in.
$0.10
per prompt, per engine, per check
Pricing
Whatever you configure, the unit does not change. Your total shows live in the configurator before anything runs; you start whenever you want, from a $10 top-up. No subscription: only the checks that run are debited.
Your rivals move, the map follows
Change the basket and arm a new scan when the field changes: each scan keeps its date, so last quarter's map stays readable next to this one's. The monthly rescan widens the list rather than refreshing it: what one pass found, the next one keeps.
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