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The Standard

Glossary

Action path​

The machine-detectable route from an assistant answer to a user-completable next step, such as call, book, reserve, order, request quote, or directions.

AI agent visibility​

The ability of a business to be found, understood, cited, recommended, and acted on by AI assistants.

Answerability​

The degree to which a buyer question can be answered directly from a clear, self-contained, attributable passage.

Citation confidence​

The degree to which an assistant's claim about a business is supported by a credible, relevant, verifiable source.

Cited​

An outcome state where an assistant uses a source to support a claim about the business.

Crawler access​

The degree to which search and assistant crawlers can reach, render, discover, and refresh key business pages.

Earned Agent Citation​

The outcome where an assistant names, cites, or recommends a business because public evidence supports it.

Entity resolution​

The process of deciding whether multiple records refer to the same real-world business, location, practitioner, department, or brand.

Freshness​

The degree to which entity facts, evidence, indexes, and assistant answers reflect the current business reality.

Mentioned​

An outcome state where the business appears in an answer or result but may not be cited or recommended.

NAP​

Name, address, and phone. In AgentFound docs, the broader profile consistency set often includes NAP plus hours, category, services, URL, and descriptions.

Profile consistency​

The degree to which public sources agree on a business's identity and operating facts.

An outcome state where the assistant includes the business as a suitable option for the user's prompt.

Structured data​

Machine-readable schema.org markup, usually JSON-LD, that describes business facts and relationships.

The nine signals​

The signal families AgentFound uses to diagnose why a business is or is not found, cited, recommended, and actionable in assistant answers.