The parts and their roles
| Part | Input and operation | Output and limit |
|---|---|---|
| Business context | The customer supplies the business identity, offer, audience, and goal. | The agent gets a basis for decisions. Missing context limits its interpretation. |
| Visibility platform | The platform collects answers and applies its stated analysis rules. | It supplies saved answers, dates, question context, and available analysis. Collection and analysis can fail. |
| Customer's agent | The agent requests relevant records and compares them with the business goal to select supported actions. | It forms a strategy and selects supported tasks. Missing evidence stays unresolved. |
| Connected tools | Tools execute the agent's authorized requests, such as updating an owned page. | They return a result or an error. A connection to visibility data does not grant publishing access. |
| Follow-up measurement | Later observations use the same question, AI app, market, and stated counting rules. | They show observed differences. A difference alone does not establish its cause. |
An illustrative case
Consider a fictional scheduling-software business. It wants buyers to understand that it supports shared team calendars.
This example contains no customer measurement or recorded agent result.
A mention names the business. A description says something about it. A citation links to a source.
- The agent requests saved answers to the business's question about team scheduling software. It keeps each answer's date, AI app, and market.
- It reads the full answers and available analysis. It separates references to this business from references to unrelated businesses with similar names.
- It compares the answers with the business's current calendar page. If the page omits a supported feature, it drafts an explanation of that feature.
- If a connected publishing tool and customer permission allow the change, it updates the owned page. Otherwise, it reports the missing access and leaves the page unchanged.
- It compares later equivalent observations. It reports mentions, descriptions, and citations separately, without claiming that the edit caused any change.
If the answers name the scheduling business, that supports examining how AI describes its calendar feature.
If they name an unrelated business with the same name, those references stay separate. They do not establish that buyers see the scheduling business.
An unresolved identity stays unresolved. It is not evidence of either presence or absence.
Where the work can stop
Unavailable answers limit the analysis. A tool error means that the requested action did not complete.
Missing publishing permission prevents publication. An agent must not report a draft as a published change.
The agent can revise its strategy when later evidence supports a different choice.
The process needs a recorded action and a later observation to assess progress.