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The PRISM Framework

A practical model for thinking about visibility in AI-powered search systems. Five pillars that describe how brands, people, and sources earn their place in an answer layer.

Prominence

How often a brand, person, or source is surfaced across trusted contexts.

Relevance

How closely content maps to the concepts, entities, and tasks users care about.

Intent

How well a source satisfies the real job behind the query or conversation.

Structure

How clearly information is organized for retrieval, citation, and synthesis.

Measurement

How visibility is tracked when rankings are no longer the only useful signal.

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