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Understanding Competitors

Use this article to learn how competitor benchmarking works inside Search Party and how it helps you measure your AI visibility relative to the market.

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Written by Brandon Brown
Updated over 2 weeks ago

How Competitor Benchmarking Works

Search Party provides robust competitor benchmarking against the prompts you care about. Competitors are analyzed across multiple filters such as prompt tags, providers, and other criteria you define.

The platform surfaces your top competitors for the prompts you are tracking, along with your share of voice. Share of voice is a visibility metric that reflects your relative market share in AI-driven responses.

Key features include:

  • Stack-ranked competitor list: See which competitors dominate the prompts you’re analyzing

  • Trend analysis: Track how competitor visibility shifts over time to identify gains or losses in share of voice

  • Competitive sets by provider: Break down competitor performance across major LLMs and foundation models, including Claude, Meta, Microsoft Copilot, Perplexity, X, and Google

  • Provider visibility matrix: A grid showing how each competitor is represented across providers, giving a multi-dimensional view of the landscape

Key Benefits

  • Transparency into which competitors dominate AI responses for your priority prompts

  • Benchmarking tools to measure whether your brand is gaining or losing ground over time

  • Cross-provider view of how visibility differs between models and ecosystems

Common Use Cases

  • Marketing teams: Evaluate where your competitors are winning share of voice and adjust campaigns accordingly

  • Product teams: Identify if certain features or positioning statements give competitors an edge in AI responses

  • Executives: Monitor high-level competitive dynamics across providers to guide strategy and resource allocation

Why It Matters

In traditional search, ranking positions determined visibility. In the AI era, answers shape perception. Understanding how you show up relative to competitors is essential for maintaining visibility and relevance. Competitor benchmarking in Search Party makes this dynamic measurable and actionable.

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