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Find the buyer questions competitors answer before you do.

We assess 24 high-intent buyer questions across Google, AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity and Gemini—then show where you are absent, which competitors and sources shape the answer, and what to build first.

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Executive decision brief from the Pathlight AI search benchmark worked example.Open the executive decision briefFrom the 9-page worked report

What the report makes visible

Every answer is tied to a commercial decision.

Instead of a visibility score, you get the buyer question, the answer they see, the evidence behind it and the first move that changes it.

01 / SHORTLIST

Which alternative should we choose?

Record who gets recommended, why they fit and the source pattern shaping the comparison answer.

02 / RISK

Can this work for our team?

Expose the missing implementation, migration, integration and ownership proof before a buyer is asked to talk.

03 / FIT

Who is this actually for?

Check whether your category, use case and differentiators survive across every answer surface.

04 / ACTION

What should the team build first?

Turn the evidence into a 90-day build order with dependencies and exact questions to recheck.

Open the real deliverable

A report your team can use in the room.

Every recommendation keeps the buyer question, answer state, winning source, evidence gap and first move in the same decision record.

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Executive decision brief from the Pathlight AI search benchmark worked example.02 / Executive decision briefThe commercial constraint, before the content plan.Buyer-question and intent map page from the Pathlight AI search benchmark sample report.03 / Buyer-question auditThe high-intent questions closest to a shortlist.Priority queue page from the Pathlight AI search benchmark sample report.07 / Priority queueThe actions, dependencies and rechecks that follow.

REPORT CONTENTS / 09 PAGES

  1. 01Cover + scope
  2. 02Executive decision brief
  3. 03Buyer-question & intent map
  4. 04Answer-engine presence
  5. 05Competitor + source patterns
  6. 06Evidence and entity gaps
  7. 07Priority queue
  8. 0890-day action plan
  9. 09Measurement + recheck plan

This worked example uses a fictional B2B SaaS company. Client reports retain the dated query, answer-surface capture, response and cited-source record for every observation.

Five working days, end to end

From category context to a useful build order.

  1. DAY 01

    Set the decision set

    Define the category, buyer, commercial moments and three named competitors that make the question set useful.

  2. DAYS 02–03

    Capture answers and sources

    Run the same questions across the answer surfaces buyers use and record the response, citation and source pattern.

  3. DAY 04

    Find the evidence gap

    Separate direct mention, recommendation context, cited proof and the owned evidence needed to move each answer.

  4. DAY 05

    Return the build order

    Deliver the question map, findings, dependencies, 90-day plan and exact questions used for the recheck.

Get the evidence first

Know what to build before you commit a quarter.

Your free report includes the buyer questions that matter, answer captures across five surfaces, competitor and source patterns, specific evidence gaps and a 90-day build order.

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