ELI RESEARCH
AI search by buyer stage: discovery, comparison and decision
Best tools and pricing questions are different buying moments.
Buyer-stage analysis awaiting benchmark release.
RELEASE STANDARD
Methodology is publishable before findings are.
Eli can publish the question universe, schema, definitions and quality controls before a benchmark release. It will only publish an aggregate when the underlying observations are complete, reviewable and described with their coverage and limitations. Until then, this page makes no performance, ranking or customer-outcome claim.
Stage taxonomy
Discovery asks categories/tools; comparison asks alternatives/trade-offs; decision asks pricing, implementation, integrations, security and ROI. These are hypotheses until data confirms them.
Future analysis
When verified data exists, compare recommendation/citation rate, source type, engine overlap and stability by stage.
Website implication
Discovery needs category/fit, comparison trade-offs/proof and decision implementation/pricing/action; connect visibility to destination experience.
FAQ
Questions about the research design and release boundary.
What stages?
Discovery, comparison and decision commercial question classes.
Branded prompts?
Report separately.
Decision more valuable?
Potentially, but measure downstream.
Multiple stages?
Classify carefully or exclude ambiguity.
How conversion?
Maps question to evidence/action.
CONNECT YOUR WEBSITE
Map your buyer questions by stage
Eli groups prompts by buyer stage to measure whether recommendation behavior, citations and source types change between discovery, comparison and decision-stage questions.
Map your buyer questions by stage