Definition

Cadence

Cadence is the frequency at which a prompt set is resampled — daily, weekly or monthly — and it directly determines both credit consumption and how quickly change is detectable.

Daily cadence on a small head-term set usually beats monthly cadence on a large set, because change detection depends on having enough observations either side of an event.

Match cadence to decision speed: if nobody acts on the data weekly, weekly collection is a cost without a purpose.

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Credit Data freshness n-sampling

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All terms

AEO (Answer Engine Optimisation)GEO (Generative Engine Optimisation)AI Overviews AI Mode Citation share n-sampling Query fan-out Grounding Share of voice (AI)Extraction success rate Surface Answer engine Citation Brand mention Mention rate Confidence interval Statistical significance Citation volatility Non-determinism Reproducibility Identity-free collection Personalisation Locale Residential proxy Bot detection Collection cost Credit Evidence retention Audit trail Parser version Canary prompt Data freshness Prompt set Head term Long-tail query Competitive set llms.txt robots.txt AI crawler Training crawler Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG)Hallucination Answer box Featured snippet Zero-click search Entity Entity salience Knowledge graph Structured data JSON-LD schema.org FAQ schema Answer-first content Chunk Embedding Semantic search Prompt injection Market coverage Sentiment analysis Position tracking White-label data