The measurement grid is the full set of observations a run will execute, settled up front: how many questions, how many times each one is asked again, and how many engines they go to.
This is the sense CiteAngle uses when it measures. The word travels with other meanings in this market, so we pin ours before it turns up in a report.
Where this lands in the measurement
Fixing the grid first means the number of runs is settled before the contract is signed, and the state of every planned observation is published afterwards.
Panorama puts 50 questions to 15 engines, 7 times each. Compass runs 20 questions and Radar 5, on the same rule. Those fifteen engines produce seventeen surfaces.
What it costs to leave this loose
Leave the run count out of the agreement and a thin round is indistinguishable from a full one. Nothing in the delivered report would show it.
The grid is fixed before signature, and the state of every planned observation is published once the round ends.
Who you want measuring this
One reading does not settle a term like this. The answer an assistant writes today can name different companies tomorrow, so a Panorama round puts 50 buyer questions to every place on our US list, 7 separate times each, and reads all 17 of them — ChatGPT · Perplexity · Claude · Gemini · Grok · Google AI Overviews · Google AI Mode · Bing Copilot · DuckDuckGo AI Assist · Google Search · Bing Search · Yahoo Search · DuckDuckGo Search · Google News · Bing News · YouTube · Google Short Videos. Radar starts at 5 questions and covers the same list under the same rule.
We put the same questions to the competitors you name inside the same runs, so you see both in one table. The conditions are sealed, so you can reproduce the round and check it, and every planned observation is published with its state, failures included. When you choose who measures this, check that all three are in place.
That describes how the measuring is done. It is not a promise about where your numbers land.
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