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Generative-engine desk · citations · authority gaps

How close to the ceiling?

The SEO Desk is the generative-engine desk for scriptmasterlabs.com. It tracks the queries AI engines actually ground on, the share of citations SML holds on each one, and the gaps between where the site is and where the ceiling is. Measured, not vibes.

The baseline, straight

Bing AI Performance, three months to October 12, 2026: 172 citations — and the entire cited presence rides on one grounding query, “payment networks supporting x402 protocol,” at 26.67% share. The citations pile up on news pages. The money page, /verdict-protocol, is uncited. Real, but not good enough — that is the number this desk exists to move.

The desk’s recommendations were enacted the day it was built: six of seven findings shipped and live-verified on October 14, 2026. The seventh — a “dilution” claim — was put to the owner and held: every business line stays represented under SML.

172 → 300+
Total citations · 30-day target
26.67% → 40%+
Share on the money query · target
1 → 15
Grounding queries · target

What the desk watches

01Citation share
Who gets cited when a buyer asks Copilot or ChatGPT a question in the lane — and what share of that answer is SML.
02Grounding queries
The exact question shapes engines ground on. One deep query is a foothold, not a position. Fifteen is a position.
03Authority gaps
Questions where the answer exists only in SML’s first-party measurements — settlement receipts, live endpoint tests, screen-log backtests — so an engine answering has to cite the source.
04Entity fracture
One company, one canonical story, on every surface an engine reads — no split hosts, no stale counts, no orphaned listings.

The desk

The desk reads the same public evidence anyone can check. Its baseline is re-measured on the Mon+Thu authority watch; the targets above either move or the desk says why they didn’t.