AI exposure
How are AI recommendation exposure and crawler collection different?
Recommendation exposure is closer to commercial opportunity; crawler collection is closer to asset collection and server-load risk.
AI recommendation exposure means a model answer mentions a brand, product, page URL, or source in response to real or sampled buyer questions. It is closer to a new AI-search acquisition position. AI crawler collection means GPTBot, Bytespider, ClaudeBot, or similar crawlers request product, category, or content pages. That may represent indexing, browsing, or training collection, and it has a different commercial meaning. PteroAI separates exposure, AI referral, active mention checks, and crawler collection while explaining evidence strength and data range.