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Time to fix: 1–2 hours per page."]})]}),e.jsxs("div",{className:"bg-white border border-[#E4DAC6] rounded-2xl p-6 shadow-2xs",children:[e.jsx("div",{className:"flex items-center gap-2 mb-2",children:e.jsx("span",{className:"font-mono text-xs font-bold text-purple-700 bg-purple-50 px-2 py-0.5 rounded uppercase",children:"Issue 04 · 94% of Brands · Commercial Impact"})}),e.jsx("h3",{className:"font-serif text-lg sm:text-xl font-bold text-[#171310] mb-2",children:"Revenue Attribution Blindness & Missing Dark-AI Tracking"}),e.jsx("p",{className:"text-sm sm:text-base text-[#4c4235] leading-relaxed mb-3",children:"B2B marketing and RevOps leaders have zero pipeline visibility into deals influenced by AI search engines. Because traffic from ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Gemini arrives with stripped referrers, masked UTMs, or results in zero-click brand decisions, growth teams cannot connect AI share of voice with pipeline velocity or closed-won ARR."}),e.jsxs("div",{className:"bg-[#f7f2e7] p-3 rounded-lg border border-[#ebdcc5] font-mono text-xs text-[#171310]",children:[e.jsx("strong",{className:"text-[#B4562A]",children:"⚡ The Fix:"}),' Deploy multi-touch AI citation telemetry, self-reported onboarding attribution ("How did you first hear about us?"), and reverse-prompt brand monitoring (via ThriveStack citedby) to bridge AI visibility directly into your CRM revenue pipeline. Time to fix: 1–2 days.']})]})]})]}),e.jsx("div",{className:"bg-[#171310] text-[#f2ecdc] rounded-2xl p-6 sm:p-8 border-2 border-[#B4562A] shadow-md",children:e.jsxs("div",{className:"flex flex-col md:flex-row items-start md:items-center justify-between gap-6",children:[e.jsxs("div",{className:"space-y-2",children:[e.jsx("span",{className:"font-mono text-xs font-bold uppercase tracking-widest text-[#E8A57F] bg-[#B4562A]/20 px-2.5 py-1 rounded",children:"Actionable Playbooks & Tools"}),e.jsx("h3",{className:"font-serif text-xl sm:text-2xl font-bold text-white",children:"Audit, Fix, and Outperform in AI Search"}),e.jsx("p",{className:"text-sm text-[#cdbfa8] leading-relaxed max-w-xl",children:"Implement the technical fixes detailed above or compare tools to track and optimize your AI share of voice:"})]}),e.jsxs("div",{className:"flex flex-col sm:flex-row gap-3 w-full md:w-auto shrink-0",children:[e.jsxs(n,{to:"/research/aeo-guide",className:"inline-flex items-center justify-center gap-2 px-5 py-2.5 bg-[#ea580c] hover:bg-[#c2410c] text-white rounded-xl text-xs font-mono font-bold uppercase tracking-wider transition-all shadow-sm",children:[e.jsx(k,{className:"w-4 h-4"})," 30-Min AEO Guide"]}),e.jsxs(n,{to:"/research/ai-visibility-tools-landscape-2026",className:"inline-flex items-center justify-center gap-2 px-5 py-2.5 bg-[#F2ECDC] hover:bg-white text-[#171310] rounded-xl text-xs font-mono font-bold uppercase tracking-wider transition-all",children:[e.jsx(C,{className:"w-4 h-4 text-[#ea580c]"})," 50+ Vendors Compared"]})]})]})}),e.jsxs("section",{id:"vendor-landscape",className:"bg-white border border-[#

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