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    Answer Ownership

    Answer Ownership: the 5-stage citation chain

    Answer Ownership shows which AI answers you own. An owned answer is one that cites your domain with a link, not one that only mentions you. For every prompt it walks the 5-stage chain from retrieval to citation and points to the stage where you drop out.

    Stages tracked
    5
    Owned answer
    Cited
    A link, not a mention
    Evidence
    Saved
    From stored runs
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    The five stages

    • Candidate: is the page retrievable?
    • Fetch: does the agent get a 200?
    • Read: is the text in the HTML?
    • Survive: do key sentences make it into the read?
    • Cite: does the answer link you?

    Why a citation, not a mention

    A mention without a link sends no buyer to your site and gives the model no source to return to. Owned answers are the metric that tracks real recommendations.

    FAQ

    Questions people ask

    What counts as an owned answer?

    A Prompt Bench answer that cites your domain with a link.

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    Updated 2026-10-13. Sources: Bull AI Labs probe runs, saved per diagnosis · bullai.tech/methodology

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