What Does AI Know About My Brand?
What Does AI Know About My Brand?
AI systems form their understanding of a brand from multiple sources — the brand's own website, third-party mentions, knowledge graph entries (Google's Knowledge Graph, and emerging equivalents), and patterns compressed into model weights during training. This understanding includes entities, claims, relationships, and topical associations. The resulting representation determines how AI answers questions about the brand, whether it gets recommended, and how accurately it's described. Most of these sources are outside direct control — but the brand's own website should be the primary, authoritative source of truth. If the website doesn't clearly and consistently express its entities, claims, and relationships, AI systems will fill the gaps from third-party sources or not represent the brand at all.
Site Intelligence in QueryBurst extracts this same structured representation from a website — entities, claims, relationships, topics — making visible what AI can learn from the site's own content, and where gaps leave the brand's AI representation to others.
What the Pipeline Produces
Site Intelligence extracts five layers of structured data from your content:
| Layer | Description |
|---|---|
| Entities | People, organisations, products, concepts, locations, and events mentioned across the site |
| Statements | Subject–predicate–object triples expressing relationships (e.g. "Company → founded in → 2015") |
| Topics | Thematic clusters of related entities that define the site's subject matter |
| Claims | Factual assertions, opinions, and claims made in the content — verifiable or not |
| Questions | Question-style headings that signal FAQ-type content to AI systems |
These layers power every subtab within the Intelligence section, as well as Entity Flow, Entity Analysis (page-level), and the verification tools.
How It Works
Two-Stage Extraction
- Stage 1 — Primary Entity Pass: A lightweight pass over each page's title and meta description identifies the primary entity (the main subject of the page).
- Stage 2 — Full Extraction: A deeper pass over the page content uses the primary entity as context to extract all entities, relationships (triples), summaries, target queries, and claims.
Post-Processing
After extraction:
- Entities are deduplicated using embedding similarity and automated review
- Entity prominence scores are computed based on mention frequency, page coverage, and internal linking
- Topic clusters are formed by grouping semantically similar entities
- Missing internal links between related pages are identified
Subtabs
Site Intelligence contains seven subtabs, each providing a different view of the extracted data:
| Subtab | What It Shows |
|---|---|
| Knowledge Graph | The main entity table — every entity profile with statements, reinforcement, focus ratings, prominence scores, and linking gaps. Includes the Entity Universe scatter plot and Dedup Groups panel. |
| Graph Explorer | Interactive hop-by-hop navigation through entity relationships, with degree distance and personalised PageRank. |
| Topics & Focus | Topical concentration score, semantic link alignment score, topic ring map, redundant page detection, and linking opportunity analysis. |
| Facts & Claims | Every claim extracted from the site, filterable by type (claim, fact, opinion, statement), searchable by keyword or semantic query, with inline verification. |
| Questions | All question-format headings across the site — the patterns AI models look for when generating answers. |
| Comparison Pages | Brand and product mentions extracted from roundup and comparison content, with positioning and co-occurrence data. |
| Architecture | Interactive treemap of the site's URL structure showing content distribution across folders. |
Key Metrics
| Metric | Description | Healthy Range |
|---|---|---|
| Entity profiles | Total unique entities extracted | Depends on site size |
| Statements | Total subject–predicate–object triples | More = richer knowledge |
| Reinforced | Entities mentioned on more than one page | Higher = stronger signal |
| Topical Focus | How tightly content clusters around core themes (0–100) | 60+ |
| Semantic Link Alignment | How well internal links match semantic similarity (0–100) | 60+ |
| Dedup groups | Entity name variants detected | Fewer = cleaner |
How Intelligence Connects to Other Reports
Site Intelligence data feeds into several other areas of QueryBurst:
- Entity Flow — Uses entity prominence and linking data to score structural support
- Entity Analysis (page-level) — Shows per-page entity extraction plotted against the site-wide entity universe
- Page Overview — Displays AI-extracted summary, claims, and target queries for individual pages
- Claim Verification / Fact Verification — Uses extracted claims as the dataset to verify against
- Answer Spy — Extracted entities and claims provide context for AI recommendation criteria analysis
Frequently Asked Questions
What does AI actually "know" about my brand?
AI systems form their understanding of a brand from multiple sources: the brand's own website content, third-party mentions (reviews, news articles, directories), knowledge graph entries (Google's Knowledge Graph, and emerging equivalents from other providers), and patterns compressed into model weights during training. The result is a composite representation — entities, claims, relationships, and topical associations — that determines how AI answers questions about the brand, whether it recommends the brand, and how accurately it describes it.
Does AI literally build a knowledge graph from my website?
Not exactly. During pre-training, models compress patterns from vast amounts of text into statistical weights — they don't store a structured graph. However, Google maintains an explicit Knowledge Graph, and other providers are building similar structured representations. At query time, retrieval systems (RAG) extract and summarise content from live web pages. The end effect is similar: AI systems have a structured understanding of entities and relationships, even if the internal mechanism varies. Site Intelligence shows what that structure looks like when extracted from your content.
Why does my own website matter if AI also uses other sources?
Your website is the one source you fully control. Third-party sources may be outdated, inaccurate, or missing entirely. If your site doesn't clearly express your entities, claims, and relationships, AI systems will either fill the gaps from whatever third-party content they find — or leave your brand underrepresented. A well-structured site acts as the primary authoritative signal that anchors AI's understanding, even when other sources contribute.
Can I influence what AI knows about my brand at the pre-training level?
Not directly for models that have already been trained — their weights are fixed. But future training runs incorporate updated web content, and retrieval-augmented systems (used by ChatGPT, Perplexity, Google AI Overview, and others) pull live content at query time. Improving your website's entity coverage, claim clarity, and structural linking has an immediate effect on retrieval-based AI answers and a longer-term effect on pre-trained knowledge as models are updated.