Monitor asks the engines the real, high-intent questions your customers ask (“best sustainable leather boots under £150?”) on a schedule, and extracts the answer's anatomy: who's named and in what order, which sources were cited, and how the answer was produced.
That last part is the diagnostic that matters — the pathway split. If the engine retrieved your page and still didn't name you, that's fixable in Optimise. If it answered from training memory, the fix is off-site authority — that's Influence. If we can't tell, we say “unknown” rather than guess.
Monitor is built as an honest instrument: results are labelled estimated or live-verified, a measured zero is never confused with “couldn't measure”, and movement is reported as correlation, not causation. Measurement you'd bet a budget on has to earn it.
Grounded in your real distribution
Monitor knows which retailers and marketplaces actually stock you, confirmed by you rather than guessed from a directory, so it never routes work toward shelves you're not on — and can tell you when a stockist you are on is winning citations you're not getting.
An evidence log behind every number
Each result keeps the raw engine response it came from. When Monitor says a competitor was cited, you can read the actual answer. Measurement you can audit, not a score you have to take on faith.