The Delta Quadrant
Every school placed by what AI remembers (model memory) against what AI finds when it searches (live retrieval). Bubble size is mention volume. Tap any school to focus it; switch Layer or Platform to move the field.
AI already has an answer for the MBA search. Here is where TCU Neeley stands, and how to climb.
Two layers of AI visibility: what the models remember, and what they cite when they search live.
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Blended leaderboard
Memory and retrieval for every school; blended is the weighted headline (w_p 0.32 / w_g 0.68). Tap a school to focus it across the whole index.
Head-to-head, honestly measured
When AI compares two schools, the naive answer is mostly an artifact of which is named first. We ask every matchup both ways; the number to trust is order-balanced. Toggle to watch the correction.
Matchups (first school's balanced win rate)
Citation battleground
Attribute association
Which decision factors the models frame each school on (share of its mentions). Darker = stronger. The sharpest signal: UTD owns 'geography', while Rice owns 'rankings'. Tap a school to focus its row.
| School | Rankings | Employment | ROI | Format | Entrep. | Culture | Geography | Faith/Values | Exec Ed | Energy | Tuition | Alumni |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UT Austin McCombs | 48% | 17% | 16% | 95% | ||||||||
| Rice Jones | 48% | 64% | 17% | |||||||||
| SMU Cox | 30% | 16% | 63% | 28% | ||||||||
| Texas A&M Mays | 25% | 20% | 17% | 99% | 17% | 24% | ||||||
| UTD Jindal | 30% | 40% | 100% | |||||||||
| Emory Goizueta | 31% | 38% | 19% | 25% | ||||||||
| Vanderbilt Owen | 21% | 29% | 36% | 21% | ||||||||
| TCU Neeley | 22% | 16% | 53% | 22% | 19% | |||||||
| Baylor Hankamer | 22% | 24% | 53% | 33% | 45% | 31% | 22% | |||||
| Notre Dame Mendoza | 50% | 50% | ||||||||||
| UH Bauer | 29% | 29% | 86% | 19% | ||||||||
| Texas Tech Rawls | 25% | 58% | 100% | |||||||||
| Texas State McCoy | 47% | 27% | 100% | |||||||||
| Tulane Freeman | 50% | 50% | 25% | 25% | 25% |
Search fan-out
One question quietly becomes many. These are the hidden sub-searches the models run on their own to answer a category question, the content brief they wrote themselves: rankings and outcomes dominate.
Most frequent sub-queries
Citation flow
Read left to right: the kind of question on the left, the source AI cited on the right. Aggregators and a broad long tail dominate; school sites are a thin slice.
Citation sources & page types
Across all citations, only 35% point to school sites and 20% to aggregators. Of the school pages that are cited, the mix skews to programs and homepages over rankings and outcomes.
Citation sources by side
Cited school page types
Google AI Overviews
An AI Overview appears on 71% of the 87 category keywords, the highest-volume AI surface. Even Google's own AI leans on third parties over the schools, the same pattern as the chat engines above: schools are cited mostly on their own names, and on non-branded discovery queries citations concentrate on a few. Tap to focus.