Named and cited are not the same

An AI assistant can include your business in an answer without linking to your website. It can also use your website to explain a topic without recommending your business. Those are two different results, and each points to different work.

Logres checks them separately as Visibility and Authority.

Visibility asks whether you make the list

Visibility shows how often and how prominently your business appeared in the saved recommendation answers included in a check.

A lower result can mean that your business appeared rarely, appeared low in a list, or appeared inconsistently. It does not mean that every customer or every assistant will miss your business. It describes only the answers that were saved for that check.

Authority asks whether your website helps answer the question

Authority shows how often an assistant linked to your own public pages while answering buyer questions about choosing, comparing, or understanding a service.

This is not the same as domain authority, backlinks, or a search ranking. It simply shows whether your website appeared among the source links in the saved answers where links were available.

The difference tells you where to look

• Named but not cited: Your business appears, but your own pages are not helping explain the choice. Review whether the site clearly answers the questions buyers ask.
• Cited but not named: Your pages help explain the topic, but your business does not make the recommendation list. Review how clearly the site connects that useful information to your services and market.
• Neither: Start by reviewing the saved answers, your site, and the outside sources that appear. Prioritize the clearest gaps instead of guessing.

Combining these results into one score would hide the useful part. Separate readings show whether the problem is appearing in the answer, supporting the answer, or both.

Common questions

Can one result be high while the other is low?

Yes. A business can be well known but rarely cited, or its pages can be useful without the business being recommended. That is why Logres keeps the two results apart.

Is Authority an SEO score?

No. It does not rate links or search rankings. It checks whether an assistant showed your own pages as sources in the answers included in the check.

Which result matters more?

They answer different questions. Visibility asks whether buyers see your business as an option. Authority asks whether your own material helps shape the answer. The saved answers show which gap deserves attention first.

Named and cited

NamedBusiness appearsVisibilityWas it included?

CitedSource is usedAuthorityWas it supported?

BothAppears + supportsStronger evidenceInspect the passage

Research notes

Sources worth reading alongside this note

These primary or first-party sources give more context for the ideas in this article. They do not prove anything about a Logres client or individual result.

1. 01

   Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework 1.0

   NIST

   A practical vocabulary for governing, mapping, measuring, and managing AI systems.

2. 02

   Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks

   Lewis et al., arXiv

   Foundational research on retrieving explicit sources alongside model memory.

3. 03

   Introduction to structured data markup

   Google Search Central

   Google's documentation on making entities and page meaning machine-readable.

This guide is for information only. Logres checks AI answers for an agreed list of questions on a specific date. It cannot promise that an assistant will name, link to, or recommend a business later, and it does not predict rankings, traffic, leads, or revenue.