> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.get3rd.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Overview & Leaderboard

> Read the Overview dashboard and Leaderboard with confidence — headline KPIs, model and topic breakdowns, and the full competitive field at a glance.

**Overview** is your home base — the summary of everything else that happens in the platform, and the place to check what's changed and what needs a reaction. The **Leaderboard** is the competitive view. Together they answer "how are we doing?" and "against whom?"

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## The Overview, top to bottom

<Steps>
  <Step title="Your configuration summary">
    The top of the page shows what's being monitored: your markets, models, prompt count, and how many answers came back in the period — e.g. "234 prompts, 1,178 answers over the last week." It's your sanity check that the engine is running at the scale you expect.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Headline KPIs — total and per prompt tier">
    Total visibility, plus the split by **Must-Win**, **Core**, and **Foundational** prompts. The tiers mirror the purchase funnel — Must-Win is where users are closest to a decision, Foundational is broad research — so a strong total driven by Foundational prompts while Must-Win lags is a warning, not a win.
  </Step>

  <Step title="The competitive field">
    Visibility in isolation is abstract; the brands comparison makes it concrete. See who's ahead, who's behind, and who you're actually fighting — often a two-horse race at the top with a gap to the rest.
  </Step>

  <Step title="The model breakdown">
    The same story per AI model. A brand can be strong in ChatGPT and nearly invisible in Google's AI Mode — the aggregate hides this, the breakdown shows it, and a weak model is a natural target for a focused task.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Development over time">
    Switch the period from a week to a month or more to see how visibility has actually developed — trend direction beats any single day's number.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Citation share">
    When a model answers, it runs web searches behind the scenes — typically visiting 5–25 pages — and 3RD captures which sources it used. Your citation share is the fraction of all those sources that are *your* pages. A share of 1.3% means roughly 1 in 100 sources is yours — a clear signal to invest in [content](/drivers/content) that answers your prompts, and in [crawlability](/drivers/crawlability) so models can access it.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Brand sentiment">
    Every response is analyzed for positive and negative phrasing. You'll see the key phrases AI uses about you — "innovative footwear, sustainable materials" — and can click through to the exact responses. Negative phrases can usually be traced back to a citation source, which turns a vague reputation problem into a concrete outreach target.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Recommended tasks">
    High-impact tasks 3RD believes will move your visibility — e.g. a content-coverage task for a prompt where you have no matching page, complete with a content brief and the **fan-out queries** (the keywords models actually search with) to weave into the piece. Accept a task and it lands on your [Task Management](/actions/task-management) board.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Topics breakdown">
    Visibility per topic with period-over-period change — e.g. sportswear at 60%, kidswear at 47% and down 7. Click into any topic to find where the real problem is (sometimes one market drags the whole number down). Focus on **Must-Win prompts with low visibility**, not the topics you've already won.
  </Step>

  <Step title="Team activity and recent events">
    Who completed which tasks, which reports went to stakeholders — plus **recent events**: 3RD monitors your sitemap, and newly published pages appear here so you can start tracking them.
  </Step>
</Steps>

## The Leaderboard: six views of the competitive field

The Leaderboard is more than a single brand ranking — it gives you six distinct views of the field, each answering a different competitive question:

| View               | Answers                                                          |
| ------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Models**         | Who wins in ChatGPT vs. Gemini vs. Perplexity?                   |
| **Topics**         | Who owns each subject area you track?                            |
| **Audiences**      | Who does AI recommend to an enterprise buyer vs. a solo founder? |
| **Markets**        | Who leads in each geography + language?                          |
| **Sentiment**      | Who does AI speak most favorably about?                          |
| **Citation Share** | Whose content is AI actually learning from?                      |

Each view drills down, so you can go from "we're losing the German market" to the specific topics and prompts where it's happening.

<Tip>
  The single most useful Leaderboard view: **Must-Win prompts in your top market**. You may be #1 overall but #5 where it commercially matters — that second number is the fight to pick.
</Tip>

## From reading to acting

1. **Overview** — spot a gap or a trend change
2. **[Conversations](/results/conversations)** — read the actual answers to understand what's happening
3. **[Diagnostics](/drivers/diagnostics)** — get the root cause
4. **[Playbooks](/actions/playbooks)** — turn it into a prioritized plan
5. Back to **Overview** — measure whether it worked

## Related

* [Rank](/metrics/rank) — how the Leaderboard ordering is computed
* [Citation Share](/metrics/citation-share) — the metric behind the citation panel