Research & measurement
See what is happening.
LLM Authority Index measures how companies, competitors, sources, and industries appear across AI search environments.
INDEPENDENT THINKING. CONNECTED BUSINESSES.
EST. 2023 / UNITED STATES
Research. Intelligence. What’s next.
Building digital businesses
for an AI-driven world.
Data, research, marketing, and digital publishing.
Connected by a clearer view of how the world discovers.
◎ Research & measurement⌘ Strategy & implementation▧ Publishing & technology
The company behind the portfolio
One company.
Multiple perspectives.
A shared direction.
Get to know 3D Chess Media 3D Chess Media, LLC develops and operates digital businesses focused on artificial intelligence search, market intelligence, digital publishing, customer acquisition, and data-driven research.
Our portfolio includes AI search measurement and consulting businesses, as well as a growing portfolio of category-specific research properties designed to study how consumers and businesses research, compare, and choose products and services.
At the center of our work are two flagship businesses:
LLM Authority Index, our AI search intelligence and measurement platform.
CiteWorks Studio, our AI search strategy and implementation business.
Together with The 3D Chess Media Portfolio, these businesses allow us to study emerging digital discovery from several perspectives: measurement, implementation, publishing, consumer research, and commercial application.
AI search intelligenceDigital researchPublishingMarketingCustomer acquisitionTechnology
Our flagship businesses
Two disciplines. One connected perspective.01 / RESEARCH & MEASUREMENT
LLM Authority IndexMeasure the AI search market.
LLM Authority Index is an AI search intelligence, research, and measurement platform focused on understanding how companies appear across generative AI and modern search environments.
The platform studies questions such as:
- Which companies are recommended by AI systems?
- Which competitors dominate high-intent buyer questions?
- Which websites and sources are being cited?
- Which companies receive top recommendation positions?
- Where do major AI platforms agree or disagree?
- How does brand visibility change over time?
- Which sources appear to influence AI-generated recommendations?
- Where is a company gaining or losing ground against competitors?
LLM Authority Index develops industry benchmarks, company-level visibility research, citation datasets, competitive intelligence, prompt-level analysis, and longitudinal measurement designed to help organizations understand how AI systems represent their markets.
The objective is not simply to count brand mentions.
It is to understand whether AI systems are moving buyers toward a company, toward its competitors, or toward neither.
02 / STRATEGY & IMPLEMENTATION
CiteWorks StudioTurn intelligence
into opportunity.
CiteWorks Studio works with companies seeking to improve their visibility across AI-driven discovery environments.
Its work focuses on the conditions that can influence whether a company is understood, retrieved, cited, compared, and recommended when prospective customers ask AI systems commercially important questions.
CiteWorks Studio services can include:
- AI search visibility strategy
- Generative Engine Optimization
- Answer Engine Optimization
- AI citation strategy
- Citation architecture
- Entity clarity
- Competitive AI visibility analysis
- High-intent prompt research
- Source ecosystem strategy
- Content architecture
- Technical SEO
- Digital authority development
- Brand positioning for AI search
Where LLM Authority Index helps answer:
What is happening?
CiteWorks Studio focuses on:
What should we do about it?
Research & publishing
The 3D Chess
Media Portfolio.
3D Chess Media operates a growing portfolio of category-specific digital research properties.
Many of these properties use structured research, comparative analysis, cross-platform AI research, subject-matter review where appropriate, and transparent methodologies to examine how products, companies, and services are evaluated within specific markets.
Each property is independently focused on its own subject area while benefiting from the broader research, publishing, technology, and data experience within 3D Chess Media.
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Measure what
actually happened.
Digital discovery is changing. Our approach stays grounded in what can be observed: how companies appear, how that visibility changes, and whether it moves a buyer closer to a decision.
Strategy & implementation
Turn evidence into action.
CiteWorks Studio helps organizations improve the conditions that influence AI visibility, citations, recommendations, and competitive positioning.
Owned publishing & research
Study real buyer journeys.
Our portfolio of category-specific research properties studies how products, companies, and services are evaluated in real consumer and business markets.
Research identifies what is happening. Measurement makes change visible. Strategy helps companies respond.
The changing search environment
Discovery is moving from lists of links to direct answers.
For decades, digital discovery was dominated by search engines returning lists of links. Now, consumers and business buyers increasingly ask AI systems which company to choose, how options compare, and what they should know before they buy.
AI systems can help determine:
- Which brands enter consideration
- Which competitors appear beside them
- Which sources buyers see
- How companies are described
- Who receives a recommendation—or never enters the answer
What we measure next
From visibility to buyer consideration.
A company can be visible without being influential. A website can be cited without its company being recommended. A brand can appear frequently while still ranking behind competitors.
We study the point where discovery becomes consideration—and where consideration becomes commercial opportunity. That means measuring not only whether a company appears, but how, where, and why it appears; which competitors appear beside it; and whether the answer plausibly advances the company toward a buyer’s decision.
Built by operators
Built on experience.
Focused on what’s next.
3D Chess Media brings together decades of hands-on work across digital publishing, customer acquisition, search, content, technology, operations, and business development.
That experience shapes how we build today: measure carefully, connect research to commercial outcomes, and develop durable businesses for an AI-mediated discovery environment.
LeadershipMeet Mark B. Huntley, J.D.
Mark B. Huntley, J.D.
Mark B. Huntley, J.D. is an entrepreneur, marketing executive, digital publisher, and AI-search researcher whose career has focused on building businesses and customer-acquisition systems.
His current work centers on how AI systems discover, retrieve, cite, compare, frame, rank, and recommend companies during commercially important buyer decisions.
Mark leads the strategy behind LLM Authority Index and CiteWorks Studio and is involved in the development of The 3D Chess Media Portfolio.
3D Chess Media works with companies, technology providers, publishers, research organizations, data partners, software developers, affiliate partners, and other organizations where our businesses and capabilities overlap.
For AI search strategy and implementation:
For AI search measurement, benchmarking, and research:
For corporate, strategic partnership, portfolio, or business-development inquiries:
Let’s build what’s next
Better questions.
New possibilities.
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