AI Authority Check

Glossary

AI Authority Check™

A free report from Third Hemisphere™ on any one company. It reads the company's market's answers and the company's own site, scores all five factors, and places the company on the Star Chart™.

What it tells a buyer or a marketer

The Check answers one question for a marketer: when buyers in my market ask AI engines for help, does my company come up, and is it put forward or cautioned against? It shows where the company sits in its market, who the engines name in its place, and which buyer questions it is missing from.

It is a snapshot, read from evidence already collected for the market plus a few questions about the company by name, so it gives a direction to act on. A full diagnosis is what the Blueprint is for.

How it relates to the AI Authority Index™

The Check reads the same market answers the Index is built from, and places the company on the same Star Chart, so a company can see where it would sit beside the companies the Index publishes. Where a factor cannot be measured from the market's answers and the site, the Check reads it indicatively, says what produced it, and calls its total an Initial CRISP™ score.

In a market Third Hemisphere already measures, the result comes back in about two minutes. A market not yet measured is measured for the company, and the report follows by email.

What moves the result

The result moves with the market's answers and with the company's own site. A site an engine can reach, read, and quote improves Source on the next Check, and the factors read from the market move when the next wave of answers is collected.

Related terms

The Check is the free way into the same measurement the AI Authority Index publishes. It scores the five CRISP factors, reads Source from a live site crawl, and marks any factor it reads indicatively. The AI Authority Blueprint™ is the full report that follows it, for a company that wants every factor measured on its own questions.

See also

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Questions

Is the AI Authority Check free?

Yes. The Check is free, and it takes about two minutes in a market Third Hemisphere already measures.

What does the Check measure?

It scores all five CRISP factors, Consensus, Reputation, Influence, Source, and Presence, and places the company on the Star Chart.

How is the Check different from the Blueprint?

The Check is a snapshot from the market's answers and a live read of the site. The Blueprint asks the engines about the company by name, checks what they say against facts confirmed with the company, and sets out a plan.

Defined facts

  • Defined by Third Hemisphere Pty Ltd (ABN 60 616 085 673).
  • First published by Third Hemisphere on 10 September 2026.
  • Last updated 18 October 2026.

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