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Sentiment

How favourably a chat speaks about your brand, scored 0–100.

Sentiment is how favourably a chat speaks about the brand, scored 0–100.

ScoreReads as
0Hostile
50A neutral mention — named, not praised or criticised
100A strong endorsement

The figure shown is the average over the chats that named the brand. Chats that did not name it are not in the denominator: a chat that ignored you is a visibility problem, not a sentiment of zero.

An unscored chat shows a dash

Not a 50. This distinction is deliberate and worth understanding, because the two look the same on a chart and mean opposite things:

  • 50 is a real reading — the chat named you neutrally.
  • — means the chat has not been scored.

Averaging an unscored chat in as 50 would drag every real score toward the middle and make a well-liked brand look ordinary.

How to read it

Read the chats, not just the number. Sentiment is the metric where the aggregate is least useful on its own. A 71 average can be a hundred bland mentions or fifty warm ones and fifty hostile ones, and the second is an emergency. Sentiment is available per prompt on the Prompts table, which is where you find the questions dragging it down.

Compare against the field, not against 100. Models are not effusive. A category where the leader averages 76 is not a category where 76 is a bad score. The Rankings table puts your score next to everyone else’s for exactly this reason.

The Rankings table with a sentiment column, showing scores in the seventies and eighties across brands.
Sentiment in context: the spread across the field is the scale that matters.

Where a low score usually comes from

Rarely from a model disliking you. Usually from a chat repeating a criticism it read somewhere — a comparison page, a forum thread, a review with a caveat in it. Sources is where you find which page it was reading.