Quoting your figures

The four conditions

• Name the edition and its date. A figure belongs to the month it was measured in. Say “in the September 2026 edition of The Named Index” and a reader can go and look; the same sentence without the month is not checkable, and next month it is wrong.
• Link the method. namedindex.com/method, or the edition page the figure is printed on. Someone who wants to know what the number counts should be one click from finding out.
• Quote the figure as we printed it. Don’t round it, don’t recompute it, and don’t convert it into something we never published — a rank is not a percentage, and a visibility score is not a market share.
• Don’t describe being named as a rating, a ranking of quality, an award, an endorsement, or an assessment of any product. It is none of those, and we have not evaluated a single product in the index. That rules out #1, best, top-rated, leader, award, certified, approved and recommended — and any other phrasing that carries the same meaning. Eight words read as though anything outside them is fine; what the condition stops is the representation, and those are only how it usually arrives. We measure how often AI systems name a vendor when buyers ask a buying question, and that is all it is.

That is the whole list. All four are the conditions in our terms, which is the authoritative wording; this page explains them. The last two matter more for a vendor quoting their own number, because you are the one whose reader will assume the number says something about the product. It doesn’t. It says what AI systems answered.

Here is a sentence that is always fine. Put your own percentage where the italics are, and paste the rest of it exactly as it stands: Named in your % of answers in the September 2026 edition of The Named Index (method: namedindex.com/method).

Which figures

Any figure we print about you on a page you can open — your row on an edition page, or the figures on a page we sent you directly. If you cannot point a reader at somewhere a number is published, it is not one to quote, and that is a rule we hold ourselves to before we ask it of anyone else.

The count is free and it is on your page. Quote it as often as you like, on your own site, in a deck, in a tender. What is not published — and so is not a figure a reader could check — is the list of questions behind it: which ones you were absent from, who won them, and what to do about it. That is what we sell.

Quoting us changes nothing about how you are measured

There is no badge, no seal, no certification and no approval process — not free, not paid, not planned.

We do not review, approve or sign off a vendor’s copy before it goes out, and we would not want to: we measure the companies in the index, and a measurer who also vets the marketing is on both sides of the measurement. Quote us or don’t. The questions, the engines and the scoring are fixed before an edition runs, and every vendor is measured the same way whether they have ever heard of us or not.

Appearing in the index is not something a vendor opts into, so it cannot imply a relationship. Position cannot be purchased and is never altered for a client. Clients are named in the methodology of each edition published during the engagement and for twelve months after it ends; where a genuine legal or contractual restriction prevents naming one, that edition gives the number withheld instead. The full disclosure is on the method page.

If a quote goes wrong

We will ask for a correction. That is all, and it is more often our sentence that was unclear than anyone’s bad faith.

It works the other way too. If you think a figure about your company is wrong, write to corrections@namedindex.com with the edition and the vendor name, and we re-check it against the stored answers. If we got it wrong we say so on the edition it affects, with the figures as first published beside the figures now. We do not quietly edit a published edition.

Why this page exists

Because a figure quoted without its month or its method stops being evidence, and the index is only worth something as evidence. The care costs you two extra clauses in a sentence. It costs you nothing else, and it never will.