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Software buying now begins with a category question, and the answer is a shortlist of three to five names. If you are not on it, the rest of your funnel never runs — the buyer never reaches the comparison page you optimised, because the comparison already happened. OG01 measures the two things that decide whether a system can put you on that list: whether your company and product resolve to one entity, and whether anyone other than you associates that entity with the category.

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The buying problem

The evaluation moved upstream of your website

The traditional SaaS funnel assumed the buyer arrives, reads, compares and decides. What increasingly happens is that the comparison is done before arrival, in a conversation with an assistant, using sources the buyer never names and you were never asked about. By the time anyone visits your site, the shortlist exists and you are either on it or you are the tab that was never opened.

This is why SaaS teams with excellent content marketing can watch demo requests fall without any metric explaining it. Nothing on the site got worse. The site simply stopped being the place where the decision narrows.

The risk that is specific to you

When the product outgrows the company

SaaS has a naming pattern almost no other sector shares: the product becomes better known than the legal entity behind it, and sometimes better known than the brand. Coverage, integrations, review platforms and community discussion all reference the product; the company is described thinly or not at all. To a system, that is two adjacent entities with partial information about each — and a competitor whose company and product are the same word resolves cleanly at no effort.

A second, quieter risk: your documentation frequently contains the best explanations you have ever written, and it lives on a subdomain, behind a docs framework, sometimes rendered entirely client-side. The clearest answers your company has produced can be the least retrievable pages you own.

The evidence example to expect
The finding SaaS teams react to is the prompt transcript: the actual category questions asked, and which companies were named in response. Not an estimate of visibility — the text of the answers, with your absence or your description in them. It is unusually hard to argue with, and unusually uncomfortable when a competitor is described more precisely than you would describe them yourself.
Who buys it

Demand generation, usually under pressure

This is bought by VPs of marketing and demand-generation leads, and the context is normally a pipeline conversation rather than an SEO one. The useful property of an external reading in that room is that it is not produced by the team being asked to explain the numbers, and it places the company on the same scale as named competitors.

Founders buy it too, generally after hearing an assistant describe their category and not recognising the shortlist.

Fix and prove

Unify the entity, then earn the category association

  • Resolve company and product. Decide which is the primary entity and make every record agree — site, profiles, listings, structured data. Fast, structural, and usually the single largest movement in a rescore.
  • Make the documentation retrievable. Your docs answer real questions better than your marketing pages do. Getting that content into a form a retrieval request receives converts an existing asset rather than commissioning a new one.
  • State the category plainly. Many SaaS sites describe an outcome and never name the category a buyer is searching. If your pages never say what kind of software this is, a system has to infer it.
  • Earn third-party association. The slowest item, and the one that most changes shortlists: independent sources describing you in category terms.

Rescore against your release cadence. SaaS sites change constantly, so a rescore taken at an arbitrary moment mixes remediation with whatever shipped that fortnight. Anchoring the second reading to a comparable point in a release cycle keeps the comparison about the work.

Ecommerce brands → Professional services → US market context → The reading with competitor comparison → How the measurement is bounded →
Questions

SaaS questions

Should we score our marketing site or our docs subdomain?
Score the marketing domain first, because that is the entity buyers are choosing between. Expect the docs subdomain to appear as a finding rather than as a separate reading: documentation that is excellent and unretrievable is one of the most common patterns in this sector, and it shows up as a readiness gap on the primary domain's story.
Our product name is stronger than our company name. Is that a problem?
Only if the two are not clearly linked. A well-known product is an asset; a well-known product whose relationship to its company is undocumented is two half-described entities. The fix is not renaming anything — it is making every record state the relationship, so a system has one thing to be confident about instead of two things to hedge between.
Can you tell us which prompts we appear in?
The deeper reading includes prompts run against assistants and what came back, including which companies were named. That is a record of what happened at that moment rather than a ranking, and it is reported as such — results vary between runs and no measurement platform can present them as stable positions.
We are pre-revenue with little third-party coverage. Is this too early?
The entity work is worth doing early and costs almost nothing to get right at the start, compared with correcting it after three years of inconsistent records. The corroboration side genuinely takes time and coverage you may not have yet, so expect the reading to tell you that plainly rather than inventing a shortcut.
How does this differ from what our SEO agency already does?
Most SEO work targets position on a results page. This targets whether a system is confident enough to name you in an answer, which depends on entity resolution, corroboration and retrievability rather than on ranking alone. The two overlap and are not the same, which is why a site can rank well for its category and be absent from category answers.
When should a SaaS company rescore?
At a comparable point in a release cycle rather than a fixed number of weeks. SaaS sites change frequently, so an arbitrary second reading measures remediation plus whatever else shipped. Anchoring to the cycle keeps the before-and-after about the work.
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