RunOctopus shows three different scores in different places: AI Visibility, Authority and AI-Readiness. Each measures something different, and this page explains which is which.
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You'll see three different scores around RunOctopus. They aren't the same score shown differently; each one measures a different thing. This page explains what each one means so you know which to watch.
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You'll run into three different scores as you use RunOctopus, and it's a completely fair question to ask why there isn't one. Each one measures a genuinely different thing, and once you know which is which, they tell you more together than any single number could on its own.
AI Visibility Score
Where you'll see it: your main dashboard.
What it measures: how often AI search, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, is recommending your store right now. Think of it like a credit score for AI visibility, the higher it climbs, the more often AI is mentioning you when someone asks for a recommendation in your space.
Authority Score (also shown as "The Score")
Where you'll see it: as "The Score" on your content dashboard and on your billing page.
What it measures: how much authority your content itself has built up, how well it's positioned in search, how strong it looks, how well past moves have paid off, and more. It's the health check for your content specifically, separate from how visible your store is across AI search overall.
If you're brand new and don't have much history yet, you may see a stage name instead of a number at all, something like "Emerging" or "Compounding" rather than a 0-to-100 figure, that's expected too, and it fills in as I learn more about your store.
AI-Readiness Score
Where you'll see it: Schema Audit.
What it measures: something more technical and specific than the other two, how legible your site's code is to AI search right now. It's high when your pages carry complete, correct schema markup (the hidden labels that tell AI exactly what a page is), and low when they don't. Think of it as "can AI even read my pages properly," separate from "is AI recommending me." If it's low, that's not something you need to fix yourself, Schema Audit shows you exactly where the gaps are and I fill them.
If a score looks low
None of these numbers are meant to be perfect on day one, and a low reading almost never means something's broken. Content authority builds as I run more cycles and learn more about your store, and schema gaps get fixed automatically once Schema Audit finds them. If a number ever looks stuck rather than slowly moving, ask me in chat and I'll check what's holding it back, but low and early are two very different things, don't read one as the other.
The short version
- AI Visibility Score — how visible are you across AI search, overall, right now.
- Authority Score / The Score — how much authority your content itself has built up.
- AI-Readiness Score — can AI technically read your pages correctly.
They're not competing with each other, they're three different angles on the same goal: your store really getting found and recommended by AI search.
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