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Why does AI pick one name and not another?

Decision Drivers are the 25 factors that determine whether an AI engine names, cites or recommends you — from entity clarity and source authority through to sentiment, local trust and whether your channels are connected at all. ceeme measures them separately, ties every driver to concrete fixes, and states per driver what is not measured while a source or connection is missing.

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Which 25 drivers are they?

Here are all 25, with one sentence on what gets measured underneath each. The names are English and stay that way — they are the names in the code and the ones you will see again in the report.

What AI weighsWhat ceeme measures underneath
AI visibilityhow often an engine names you, and where in the answer
Citation strengthhow often your page is the source, not just the name
Source authoritythe standing of the sources that name you
Entity claritywhether schema, sameAs and Wikidata make you unambiguous
Entity confusionhow often you get mixed up with a namesake
Hallucination riskinvented and outdated facts about you, counted by type
Share of voiceyour share of the same answers as your competitor
Query intent coveragewhether you are present from orientation through to buying
Query variants coveragethe sub-questions from the query fan-out you are missing
Competitor driftwho is rising and where you are losing ground
Channel readinesswhether your profiles are complete and alive
Public social signalswhat is publicly out there about you, and whether it moves
Community signalswhat forums and groups are saying about you
Reputation riskmisquotes, sliding reviews and where they come from
Sentiment / framingthe role you get cast in — the cheap one, the safe one, the fast one
Design trustwhether your site earns trust from someone who hesitates
Content usefulnessthin pages, missing expertise, stale text
Conversion readinesswhere a visitor drops out before asking anything
Retention readinesswhether people come back, and what stops them
Proof densityhow much proof sits on your own site
Local trustGBP, reviews and whether your details match everywhere
Governance riskwho may publish what, and whether it can be undone
Compliance / deontology riskclaims your sector does not allow you to make
Regional relevancewhether you score the same in one region as in the next
Connector readinesswhich connections are live, and what stays dark without them

What do you not measure?

Everything public we measure from day one: your site, your profiles, your reviews, the sources an engine fetches. What we cannot read from that is what happens after the answer — whether someone clicked through, called or bought. Connect your analytics and we measure that too; leave it unconnected and that one driver stays an estimate.

How do I steer on this without guessing?

By starting from the finding and not from the driver. A measurement yields not a number but a sentence — “you are called the cheap option” — with underneath it the sources the engine fetched. The driver then says which kind of fix applies, and the source says where.

Frequently asked questions

Are Decision Drivers different per engine?

The list is the same, the weight is not. Every engine leans differently on sources, freshness and structure, so we measure per engine and per market which factors carry there. A single average across engines would hide exactly the engine where you are losing.

Is this the same as SEO ranking factors?

No. Ranking factors decide your place in a list; Decision Drivers decide whether your name ends up in one answer. Some overlap — schema, speed, authority — but there are factors SEO does not know, such as whether an engine confuses you with a namesake or which role it casts you in.

Do I get to see all 25 drivers?

You get the drivers that belong to your profile, and the rest are listed as dormant with the reason. No web shop means no cart analysis; no connected analytics means conversion readiness shows up greyed out rather than at zero. Grey and zero are two different things.

Can I steer on this without guessing?

Yes, because every driver hangs on concrete fixes and every fix on a source. You do not get “improve your authority” but the page that caused the framing, with what needs to change there and why. As long as that source stands, the engine keeps repeating it.

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