HIGH SALIENCE / CATEGORY SALIENCE BRIEF
The Category Salience Brief · $750
The Category Salience Brief
The Category Salience Brief is an AI visibility audit for software categories: who owns your category in Google and AI search, which sources shape it, and where the opening is. For B2B software companies past $5M ARR and other category leaders with established demand.
$750, credited in full against an engagement signed within 60 days.
Delivered in 5 business days.
21 published teardowns, 2,100 coded answers, open CC BY 4.0 dataset on GitHub and Hugging Face
01What We Examine
What does the Category Salience Brief cover?
The Category Salience Brief covers real buyer queries, inspected by hand, and the answers Google and the major AI surfaces return to them, not dashboard averages. Category salience, as defined by High Salience, an AI search and SEO agency, is how consistently a brand is found, cited and recommended across the search results, AI answers and third-party sources that shape a buying category.
15 to 25 commercial queries
The questions your buyers actually ask: category, comparison, alternative and recommendation intent, inspected by hand across surfaces.
3 to 5 competitors
The brands currently holding the ground you want. We measure their presence with the same instruments we apply to yours.
Google + major AI surfaces
Google Search, including classic results, AI Overviews and AI Mode where available, plus ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity, sampled in the same window so the comparison holds. Claude and Copilot are added where commercially relevant.
For every query we log:
- Brand appearance and recommendation frequency
- Organic coverage and the URLs and pages surfaced
- Cited domains and recurring third-party sources
- Competitor share across surfaces
- Context and sentiment of each recommendation
- Obvious structural gaps in retrievability
02What You Receive
What is included in the brief: three to five pages, verdict first
Each Category Salience Brief runs three to five pages and opens with the verdict, as in the illustrative sample below.
"Acme has enough existing authority to compete for category leadership, but Competitor A and Competitor B currently control the third-party sources and commercial query clusters feeding both conventional and AI search."
Then the evidence behind the verdict. Then the three intervention points we'd attack first, and what each is worth.
Not a 74-page automated audit. Not a sales deck with your logo on it. A brief you could act on with or without us.
- 01VERDICT
- 02MARKET MAP
- 03SOURCE GAP
- 04INTERVENTIONS
- 05COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITY
03Investment
How much does the Category Salience Brief cost?
The Category Salience Brief costs $750. Sign an engagement within 60 days of delivery and the $750 is credited in full against the first month. Don't, and you keep a brief you can act on with or without us. The 60-day credit window applies to Briefs delivered through March 31, 2027.
The brief is invoiced once we confirm your category is a fit. Nothing is charged for a request we decline.
This is consulting, not a lead magnet. Fifteen to twenty-five queries inspected by hand across Google and the major AI surfaces is real work, and pricing it keeps the brief honest: we're paid to find out what's true about your category, not to sell you a program. Buy intelligence before you buy execution.
04Request
Request your Category Salience Brief
Requests for a Category Salience Brief are checked for fit before anything is invoiced.