Skyword Introduces Category Authority IndexTM to Help Marketers Measure Authority in AI Search
PushButton AI Team ·
Skyword Introduces Category Authority IndexTM to Help Marketers Measure Authority in AI Search
Your competitors aren't just ranking on Google anymore. AI is deciding who gets mentioned — and who gets ignored.
You didn't buy that $200/month tool to collect digital dust. You wanted results. And
Your competitors aren't just ranking on Google anymore. AI is deciding who gets mentioned — and who gets ignored.
You didn't buy that $200/month tool to collect digital dust. You wanted results. And when nothing changed, it felt like a personal failure. It wasn't. You were sold a solution without a strategy.
Here's what's actually shifting right now:
AI tools like ChatGPT and Perplexity are becoming the first stop for buying decisions. When someone asks "who's the best [your industry] company in [your city]," AI answers from what it's learned — not always from Google rankings.
A new measurement framework called Category Authority Index tracks four signals: how often AI mentions your brand, how it describes you, and whether it cites you as a credible source. Think of it as your AI reputation score.
The practical move? Google your own business using ChatGPT or Perplexity right now. Ask it who the top providers are in your category. See if you show up. See how you're described.
That 10-minute exercise costs nothing. It tells you exactly where you stand before spending a single dollar on any solution.
What's one AI tool you've tried that your team actually stopped using within 90 days — and why do you think it failed?
CAI combines four signals to show how a brand is surfacing, being cited and being described by AI in category conversations based on the collections ...
