Key Metric · Recommendation Intelligence Layer

Buyer Intent Coverage
Own more of the buyer journey.

The share of a category's buyer intents for which a brand appears in AI recommendations at all.

Category Key MetricScale 0 to 100%Layer Recommendation Intelligence
Supplements
Weight Loss
Protein
Creatine
Electrolytes
Recovery
Sleep
Gut Health
Pre Workout
Magnesium
Omega 3
Vitamins
Energy
Collagen
22%
Coverage
11 / 50 buyer intents
What Is It

How much of the map do you actually own?

Buyer Intent Coverage is the percentage of the distinct buyer intents in a category for which a brand appears in AI recommendations at least once. A brand can hold strong Recommendation Share on a few prompts yet have low Coverage if it never surfaces for the rest. Coverage measures breadth across the Buyer Intent Graph, not depth on any single intent.

Why AI Cares

Recommendation Share can be inflated by dominating one or two prompts. Buyer Intent Coverage reveals how much of a category's actual demand a brand is even eligible to capture. Low coverage is hidden risk: whole clusters of buyers never see the brand.

Example

A supplement brand appears for searches like "best creatine" and "best pre workout" but never for the other 18 intents in its category. Its Buyer Intent Coverage is 10 percent, even if its share on those two prompts is high.

Section 2

Recommendation Share can lie.

Two stores. Similar-looking Share numbers hide a completely different reality once you count how many buyer intents each one actually reaches.

Store A Coverage
10%
Store B Coverage
71%
Section 3

Buyer territory.

Click a branch to mark it covered. Coverage is built one buyer intent at a time.

Running
Trail
Marathon
Beginners
Flat Feet
Recovery
Race Day
Shoes
Apparel
Injury
0 / 9
Branches covered
Section 4

Coverage grows.

Every piece of new content mapped to a real buyer question adds one more covered intent to the map.

2 / 14
January
6 / 14
March
10 / 14
June
Section 5

Which buyers never find you?

Click a missing intent to see what AI actually returns when that buyer asks.

Creatine
Protein
Recovery
Gut Health
No Recommendation Found
Sleep
No Recommendation Found
Women's Health
No Recommendation Found
Joint Pain
No Recommendation Found
Electrolytes
No Recommendation Found
Section 6

One category. Hundreds of buyers.

Orange intents are covered. Grey intents have never once returned this brand. This is what a category's demand actually looks like.

Coffee
Espresso
Cold Brew
French Press
Office
Travel
Budget
Organic
Dark Roast
Light Roast
Gift
Subscription
Beans
Grinder
Latte
Cappuccino
Section 7

Recommendation Share vs Buyer Intent Coverage.

Recommendation ShareHow often AI picks you.
Buyer Intent CoverageHow many different buyers can even discover you.
Share
Depth
Coverage
Breadth
Section 8

Coverage expansion.

Watch each new piece of content unlock the next percentage point. No manual step needed, this one plays itself.

FAQ
Buying Guide
Comparison
Category Page
4%
Buyer Intent Coverage
Section 9
You aren't losing rankings.
You're missing buyers that never meet your brand.
Total Buyer Intent Graph · 50 intents
8 orange covered · 42 grey never mentioned
Section 10

Build coverage.

Click each content type in order. Watch the matching buyer intent light up and Coverage climb.

Create FAQ
Comparison page
Buying guide
Use Cases
Sensitive Skin
Alternatives
Beginners
Marathon
41%
Buyer Intent Coverage
The Flagship View
Buyer Intent Universe.
Best budget supplement stackStatusNot CoveredPotential buyersHigh
Best pre workout no crashStatusCoveredPotential buyersHigh
Best vitamins for recoveryStatusNot CoveredPotential buyersMedium
Best supplements for runnersStatusNot CoveredPotential buyersHigh
Best magnesium for sleepStatusNot CoveredPotential buyersLow
Best creatine for beginnersStatusCoveredPotential buyersMedium
18%
Buyer Intent Coverage
9 / 50 buyer territories owned
FAQ

Questions about Buyer Intent Coverage

What is Buyer Intent Coverage?
Buyer Intent Coverage is the percentage of the distinct buyer intents in a category for which a brand appears in AI recommendations at least once. It measures breadth across the Buyer Intent Graph, not depth on any single intent.
How is Buyer Intent Coverage different from Recommendation Share?
Recommendation Share measures how often you win a given prompt. Coverage measures how many different prompts you are even eligible to win. A brand can dominate two intents and still have single-digit Coverage across the category.
Why does low Coverage matter if my Share is high?
High Share on a few prompts is hidden risk. Whole clusters of buyers searching adjacent intents never see the brand at all, because AI never had a reason to mention it for those queries.
What increases Buyer Intent Coverage?
New content mapped to specific uncovered intents: FAQs, buying guides, comparison pages, category pages, and reviews. Each piece that answers a distinct buyer question can unlock a new intent on the map.
Is 100 percent Coverage realistic?
Rarely, and it is not the goal. The goal is owning the intents that carry real buyer volume and commercial value, not every theoretical query a category could produce.

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