Flagship Research
Own the yearly read on your industry that media, regulators, and AI engines quote
Flagship Research is research your company owns and publishes every year: one study of your industry, on a stated method, with figures journalists, regulators, and AI engines can quote in a sentence. It is hosted on your own site as the original, crawlable record, so every outlet that quotes a figure has a page of yours to cite, and every AI answer that repeats it can trace it back to you.
A yearly read your industry quotes as its own
Most companies publish opinions. A few publish the numbers their industry argues about. Flagship Research is one study your company owns, run every year on the same method, so each edition can be read against the last. Journalists quote it when they write about your market, regulators and inquiries cite it, and AI engines repeat its figures when a buyer asks what is happening in your industry. Each time, your name travels with the number.
Hosted on your own site, as the original record
The study lives on your own site, as a crawlable page that opens on its findings, with the method, sample, and date beside every figure. Coverage then links to a source you own rather than to a summary on someone else's site. That is the difference between being quoted and being the source: when an engine traces a figure back, it reaches you.
Built to be cited, not only read
Every edition is designed around the questions buyers, journalists, and regulators already ask. We set the method with you, collect the data through a reputable panel or your own records, check every figure, and write findings an engine can quote in one sentence. Then we release it to the outlets your market's AI answers already read, brief the analysts and peak bodies who will cite it, and cut the findings for every channel you own.
We publish flagship research ourselves
Our own AI Authority Index is the model: original research on our own site, with its method published, which the sites the engines cite can quote with our name on it. The AI Authority Index is a public measure of which companies AI engines name and recommend, published one market at a time on one stated method. It is the tactic we recommend, run on ourselves, and the example we point clients to.
- A research question your market argues about and nobody yet measures
- A method you own, stated in full, and repeated every year
- Data collected through a reputable panel, your own records, or both
- Findings written to be quoted in one sentence, each with its sample and date
- A crawlable report page on your own site that holds every figure
- A media release and data cuts placed with the outlets your market's AI answers read
- Briefings for the analysts, peak bodies, and regulators who will cite it
- CRISP measurement before the launch and after it, on the same questions
One study a year, quoted for the rest of it
- The question: What your market argues about and nobody yet measures
- The method: Stated in full, repeatable, and owned by you
- The report on your site: The original record, every figure dated and crawlable
- The coverage: Released to the outlets your market's AI answers read
- The citation: Quoted by media, regulators, and AI engines, with your name
What Flagship Research moves on CRISP
CRISP is Third Hemisphere's proprietary technology and methodology, built upon the most cutting edge global standards and research.
Flagship Research moves Influence first, and also Source, Presence, and Consensus.
- Influence. Do trusted third parties back what is said about you? The publications, analysts, and bodies the engines cite quote your figures, so the sources that decide your market's answers carry your name.
- Source. Can AI read and trust your own site? The report lives on your own site, so when an engine cites one of its figures, the page it cites is yours.
- Presence. Do they mention you when buyers don't name you? Coverage of each edition puts your name into more of the answers buyers read about your market.
- Consensus. Do the engines agree about you? One dated set of figures, quoted the same way everywhere, gives every engine the same account of you.
Where the work moves you on the Star Chart
The Star Chart places each company on two measures. Presence, across, is the share of answers that name it; Reputation, up, is whether the engines recommend it for its benefits or caution against it. Six cells name where it stands.
- AI Famous: Named in 30 percent of answers or more, and recommended for its benefits more often than cautioned against.
- Rising Star: Named in 15 to 29 percent of answers, and recommended for its benefits more often than cautioned against when it is.
- Cult Favourite: Named in under 15 percent of answers, and recommended for its benefits in the answers that reach it.
- AI Infamous: Named in 30 percent of answers or more, and cautioned against more often than recommended.
- Bad Press: Named in 15 to 29 percent of answers, and cautioned against more often than recommended.
- Off the Guest List: Named in under 15 percent of answers, and cautioned against more often than recommended when it is.
- Off the Guest List: Rarely named, and cautioned against when it is.
- Cult Favourite: Recommended by the few answers that reach it.
- Rising Star: Named more often, and still recommended.
- AI Famous: Named by default, and recommended for its benefits.
How CRISP works. The AI Authority Index. See where you sit today, free.
How we build Flagship Research
- Measure CRISP shows which questions your market's AI answers lean on figures for, and which sources those figures come from. The study is aimed at the gap.
- Design We set the question, the method, and the sample with you, so the study is defensible to a journalist and repeatable next year.
- Publish The report goes live on your site first, as the original record: findings first, method and date beside every figure.
- Place We release it to the outlets the engines read, brief the analysts and bodies who will cite it, and cut it for every channel you own.
- Re-measure We ask the same questions again after the launch, so you see whether the engines now quote you.
Who this is for
- Companies whose market's AI answers lean on statistics nobody in the market owns
- Leaders who want to be the source journalists call when their industry's numbers move
- Listed and late-stage companies that need a credible, recurring reason to be in the news
- Firms whose competitors are named in AI answers on the strength of their published data
What this delivers
Quoted by Name
Every figure carries your company's name into coverage, submissions, and the answers AI engines give.
A Source You Own
The original record sits on your own site, so citations lead back to you rather than to a summary elsewhere.
A Reason to Return
One method, run every year, gives journalists and engines a dated series to come back to.
What is flagship research?
A study your company owns and publishes every year on the same method: one read on your industry, with figures journalists, regulators, and AI engines can quote. Flagship Research is the design, the data, the report on your site, and the work of getting it cited.
Why host the research on our own site?
Because the original record is what gets cited. When the full report, its method, and every figure sit on a crawlable page you own, coverage links to you, and an AI engine that traces a figure back reaches your site rather than a summary on someone else's.
Which CRISP factors does Flagship Research move?
Flagship Research moves Influence first, and also Source, Presence, and Consensus. CRISP is Third Hemisphere's proprietary technology and methodology, built upon the most cutting edge global standards and research, and it scores how AI engines treat a company on five factors, so the movement is measured on the same questions before and after the work.
Is research a company publishes about its own industry credible?
It is when the method, the sample, the date, and who paid for it are stated beside the findings. We design every study to survive a sceptical journalist, and we publish the method in full so anyone can check it.
Do you publish research like this yourselves?
Yes. Our own AI Authority Index is the model: original research on our own site, with its method published, which the sites the engines cite can quote with our name on it. It measures which companies AI engines name and recommend, one market at a time, on one stated method.
What does Flagship Research cost?
It is scoped from the method and the data source a study needs, and from what CRISP shows your market's answers lean on, so the price follows the study rather than a rate card. Book a discovery call and we will scope it with you.